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7:10 PM ET, October 4, 2006

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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
For Vista, WGA gets tougher  —  For Windows Vista, Microsoft is rolling out a new version of its Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy program, complete with a new name: the Windows Software Protection Platform.  This time, they mean business.  —  Let's call it WGA Plus, shall we?
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Windows Vista has new Reduced Functionality Mode  —  Windows Vista will ship with anti-piracy technology that will lock down the OS if it has not been activated within 30 days of first use, Microsoft announced today.  If the OS is not activated, Windows will switch to a reduced functionality mode that will cripple the OS.
Discussion: Gearlog and Slashdot
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
What Microsoft still isn't saying about WGA and Volume Activation 2.0
Discussion: Under The Stairs
Black Voices:
You've got to see it to believe it  —  The new AOL OpenRide™ Beta software helps you do what you want online in fewer clicks and fewer hassles.  No more jumping from one window to the next - everything you need is right there the moment you need it.  —  OpenRide is more than just a browser.
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Ex-Head of H.P. Faces Charges  —  Patricia C. Dunn, the former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard, and four other people will be named in indictments expected to be filed by California's attorney general today in the spying case at the company, according to lawyers involved in the case.
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Lorraine Woellert / Business Week:
Indictments Sought in HP Case  —  California's Attorney General will seek charges against former chairwoman Dunn and others in the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal  —  California Attorney General Bill Lockyer will seek indictments today against former Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
WalMart's MySpace Clone Dead on Arrival  —  TheHub, WalMart's ill-fated attempt at building a social network for kool kidz who just happen to like shopping at Walmart, has gone offline.  The site, which was up for 10 weeks, tried to keep content wholesome, and featured profiles and videos from …
Brian Steinberg / Wall Street Journal:
Web-Video Spots Present Dilemma For Advertisers  —  Web video is a regular part of Dima Abelsky's routine.  The 19-year-old University of Georgia sophomore enjoys looking at sports reports and entertainment news, watching as many as seven to eight videos a day.
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Replacing my home backup server with Amazon's S3  —  Not too long ago, Amazon released their Simple Storage Service (or "S3" for short).  It provides a hosted storage platform which developers can build all sorts of applications on top of.  Smugmug, a popular photo sharing web site, is using it to store and host pictures.
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Eye-Fi heads to beta this month  —  It looks like those jonesing for some WiFi action on their digital camera (without, you know, actually buying a new one) won't have to wait much longer, as the much-buzzed-about Eye-Fi SD WiFi card is set to go into beta testing later this month.
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Our B5 Media Investment  —  Today we've closed a financing round with our co-lead, Brightspark Ventures into B5 media.  At first, I really wanted to just sit back and let the rocks fly and blogosphere go nuts with the who/what/why and the zillions of opinions.
Froosh / HipMojo.com:
YouTube IS Wildly Profitable - No Doubts About It  —  YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley is looking to pull a Google on the $75 billion TV ad industry by introducing contextual ads.  Hey, crazier things have happened, and if any one online video company can make it happen, it just might well be Steve Chen and Hurley's brainchild, YouTube.
Discussion: Rational rants and Clickety Clack
Official Google Blog:
The new Groups experience  —  Today, the Google Groups team launched a new beta version, available to anyone at groups-beta.google.com.  It may have been awhile since you thought of Groups as cool or sexy — if you ever did — but I couldn't have been more excited to work on the team responsible …
Kotaku:
Rumor: Gamestop Wii Kiosk To Require Credit Card?  —  We got an interesting insider email (via the notoriously reliable third-party source of an anonymous friend of an also anonymous manager) of what went down at the recent Gamestop manager's conference.  The details spilled …
Discussion: Go Nintendo and Aeropause
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The suits vs. the geeks  —  I'm sitting with a bunch of suits right now.  It's the Savvis Web 2.0 conference.  Almost all men.  A large percentage of whom are older than me.  This is NOT the YouTube generation.  Although they sure talk about it and talk about MySpace …
Kotaku:
Miyamoto On the Wii: "The Hardware Is Basically A GC."  —  Connect360: iTunes to your Xbox  —  Thanks to Kotakuite James for pointing the largely Mac loving editors of Kotaku in the direction of Connect360, a program that mashes-up iLife, Frontrow and your 360.  As the site explains..
 
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Heather Hopkins / Hitwise UK:
Bebo Closing the Gap with eBay as Most Searched for UK Brand
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Engadget commercial contest winners!
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Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Don't try to do interactive graphics with Ajax
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Randall Sullivan / Wired News:
Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Sharp squeezes 8.84 million pixels into 64-inch LCD
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Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Get your TV season pass with Democracy
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Your Name Here On Google's Home Page
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Amie Street Takes Innovative Music Model Into Beta
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Sponsored Search Comes to the Mobile Web
Davevr / Shell Blog:
Back in Black! Or rather, back OUT black!
Discussion: Neowin.net and Windows-Now.com
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Behind Google Q&A  —  Peter Norvig gave a talk at UC Berkeley on September 25.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Engagement Is a Euphemism For Measuring the ROI of Brand Advertising
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Toshiba shows off external, internal HD DVD drive prototypes
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and digg
Candace Lombardi / ZDNet:
Sony plans its own battery recall
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Will Low-Power Wibree Spec Replace Bluetooth?
Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Beguiling but Beware: AJAX, VoIP