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USA Today:
Wii game system rolls out on Nov. 19 — The final pieces of this fall's video game battle fall into position today as Nintendo announces that its new Wii home system will sell for $250 — half the price of Sony's cheapest PlayStation 3 — and launch Nov. 19, two days after the PS3.
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Seth Schiesel / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Nintendo gets Wii ready for holidays — Company plans to put console on market Nov. 19 — In a move that may allow Nintendo of Japan to take advantage of stumbles by its main rival, the company plans to announce today that it will release its new Wii video-game console in North and South America …
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Kotaku:
Wii Dated And Priced For North America — November 19th. $250. That's what North American gamers have been waiting to hear. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is running a New York Times story dated September 14th. There will be over more than 25 titles available for the Wii this year …
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Live at Nintendo's NYC Wii press conference — Yeah, so we already know most, if not all, of the gory details, but we're here live in New York for Nintendo's US press conference for the Wii anyway. We'll have updates on the regular, stay tuned! — 9:20AM EST - Perrin Kaplan is on stage doing an introduction.
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Kotaku:
Wii Launch And Price Details For Japan — Today in Tokyo, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata delivered what Japanese gamers had been waiting for: Wii pricing and a launch date. The next-gen Nintendo machine will retail for 25,000 yen (US $ 212.50) and will hit store shelves on Monday, December 2nd.
Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Mo' money to build a bigger Dogster niche — A year ago (give or take 10 days) I wrote about Dogster Inc. - the maker of the highly popular dogster.com and catster.com - turning profitable, an unusual fate among Web 2.0 companies. It was still a very small business, but gave co-founders Ted Rheingold …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Dogster raises $1M to expand — Woof! — but it's not about the dogs — About a year ago, Dogster, the social networking site for dogs, made some eyebrow-raising news: It had turned profitable. — Now Dogster has raised a round of $1 million from a group of accomplished "angel" investors, to help it step on the gas.
Michael Geist / Michael Geist's Blog:
The Missing Sony Exhibit — The Canadian Sony rootkit class action settlement heads to court next week amid mounting questions about the deal. The EFF calls attention to a number of missing provisions, including no security reviews and no ongoing obligations to provide uninstallers for the rootkit.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
News Corp.: Entertainment going mobile — LOS ANGELES—A day after his company bought a controlling stake in ring tone giant Jamba, News Corp.'s president and chief operating officer said the time for partnering with the mobile industry to distribute entertainment content is now.
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Associated Press:
Princeton professor raises alarm over electronic voting, hacks test machine — TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Princeton University computer science professor added new fuel Wednesday to claims that electronic voting machines used across much of the country are vulnerable to hacking that could alter vote totals or disable machines.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Smartpox - Create and Share Mobile Codes — Smartpox, which is currently in beta, is a social site that allows users to share URLs, email addresses and phone numbers in the real world. The data is converted into a "smartpox code" (aka QR code) which can appear on posters, stickers, business cards and other real-world items.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Showtime: The Big Picture — Apple came into yesterday's "Showtime" special event with an awfully high set of expectations to meet. First, the entire show pretty much had to be about movies — adding major motion pictures to the iPod Music Store, providing them in a high-enough quality format …
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Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
Associated Press, MSNBC Video to Support Macs, Firefox — There is nothing more frustrating for Macintosh users or those who use the Firefox browser than going to a video site and hitting a wall demanding Windows and the Internet Explorer browser. But when the Associated Press' Online Video Network …
Phone Scoop:
HTC Libra To Support EVDO Rev. A — At the CTIA show in LA this week, a new Windows Mobile device from HTC was revealed and HTC executives confirmed several key details about the device. The phone, code-named Libra has both a traditional numeric keypad and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Philanthropy Google's Way: Not the Usual — The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. — But unlike most charities …
Tim Greene / Network World:
Regulation could stifle video over 'Net, says VON speaker — As video on the Internet takes hold, proponents of the technology should beware the potentially stifling effects of government regulation, warned the keynote speaker at the 10th anniversary VON show in Boston Tuesday.
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
Ten Must-Read Details on the New iPods — Last Update: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 — We've already received dozens of questions regarding Apple's all-new lineup of iPods - the "enhanced fifth-generation" iPod (with video), the "second-generation" iPod nano, and the "second-generation" iPod shuffle.
web.intuit.com:
Intuit and Google Forge Alliance — Combines the Power of QuickBooks with Google's Reach to Help — Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) and Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) announced today a strategic alliance designed to help millions of small businesses promote themselves online using a variety …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Yahoo! Mail Beta Release - Exclusive Podcast With Ethan Diamond — Today Yahoo is releasing the new Ajax-powered version of Yahoo Mail to all users in the US and across 18 international markets. Previously Yahoo Mail Beta (as it is known) was only available to a relatively small group of people.
Nina Shapiro / Seattle Weekly:
Coming Zune — Once again, Microsoft is chasing Apple in the hipster hardware game. Will it make sweet music this time? — "Wicked!" exclaims Richard Winn, as he stands on Seattle Center's Broad Street Lawn during Bumbershoot, expressing appreciation for the French band Nouvelle Vague.
