What Do You Get When You Mix Kurt Cobain's Suicide Letter

Well if Google had been around when Kurt was contemplating suicide, he may still be here. Interesting experiment nevertheless....

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Intel proudly shows off snooping tech

AMT can effectively snoop on what's inside your PC. The principle is simple. Details about a VPro or Centrino based PC are saved into non-volatile memory. But, scarily, this information can be read even if the machine's power switch is in the 'off' position.

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Lenovo to recall 500,000 notebooks for battery woes

Recall makes Lenovo the fourth major PC manufacturer to haul notebooks back due to battery issues.

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Yahoo! has acquired JumpCut

The online video market is incredibly hot right now, and it might get even hotter with the news of Yahoo's purchase of Jumpcut. Read more on their corporate blog.

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Suzuki Unveils Fuel Cell Electric Wheelchair

Suzuki has developed "MIO," an electric wheelchair with a fuel cell unit. It has been designed based on Suzuki's previous electric wheelchair "Senior Car" operable with a handlebar. It is a motor-driven wheelchair that runs on electricity generated by the fuel cell unit.

You can read more about it here.

How much money should you be making? Use Salary Search to find out

Salary Search is a easy-to-use search engine that gives salary information for you particular occupation in any region or city that you identify. You can even compare the same job salary in different cities. Digg's favorite tech journalist Walt Mossberg calls it "Simply a one-stop shop for job seekers."

You can read more about it here.

Revision3 now online!

YESSS! The Broken here we come.

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GTA player imprisoned for life mixing up game and reality

Games ruin real lifes. Commiting virtual violent crimes lowered the barrier to bloodshed. One man played "Grand Theft Auto" by day, robbed and murdered by night -- now imprisoned for life by jury in Oakland. Analysis here.

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The Ultimate Digg Poll

12 questions that every Digger wants to know. Age, browser, OS, how you digg, how you contribute to digg, ad blocker, time you spend on digg + more.

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The dream app we have all been waiting for?

In a word: yes. This is as close to my dream application for college students as I think I am going to find. The note taking feature is solid with everything you would expect and a little more, and features such as RSS feeds and iCal support just top it off.

You can read more about it here.

Preview of the Revision3 flash player?

Browsing around this new company, I found a page featuring Revision3's new flash player. Are they going to be doing streaming on the new site? If so, it's about time!

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Company touts a podcast search engine

HearHere is claiming to have a working search engine that can find things within Podcasts. Currently they're testing the search on their own podcasts, but plan on releasing the search to the public before the end of the year

You can read more about it here.

$10 Million in Venture Capital to Help Wallop Build Social Network

Wallop, the social networking startup that was spun out of Microsoft Research Labs earlier this year, has landed $10 million in venture capital that it will use to create a new competitor to MySpace, Friendster and Facebook.

You can read more about it here.

Tom's Hardware Turns 10 Years Old Today

Today, Tom's Hardware Guide turns ten years old. Over the years, the site has gone from being a simple hobbyist site for hardware enthusiasts to a media business that reaches out across the globe, appearing in 11 languages, on three continents, and reaching an audience of over 10 million unique visitors a month.

You can read more about it here.

Getting DUGG: An Analysis

Forever Geek blogger writes about his articles that were DUGG to the frontpage, provides his analysis on the few times he's been DUGG, and gives his opinion on DIGG democracy.

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FCC Clears Tyrannic AT

"The AT&T-BellSouth merger will create the world's single largest telecommunications company and cost $67 billion to complete." The FCC has just undone years of progress. The FCC, promoting competition and "consumer choice" as always: no choice at all!

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Google: How we approach content

Protecting content owners? rights, respecting their wishes, helping to reward them for their creative endeavors ? these are the primary principles that guide Google?s approach. We believe it?s the best way to make the world?s information universally accessible and useful.

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Revision3 Launch Party Photos

Photos from Tuesday's massive launch party for Revision3 at Mighty in San Francisco. Special guests from Tiki Bar TV, Ask A Ninja, French Maid TV and many others flew in just for this special occasion.

You can read more about it here.

Find Google related images

For example, when you search for bmw the result shows images of Honda, Ford, Audi, Mazda and so on. Here are some more sample searches.

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Revision3 Party Photos

I just got back from the Revision3 Party at the Mighty club, and here are some pictures I took with Alex, Kevin, Lala, Heather, and Johnny Johnny. First 2 hours of the party featured an open bar. The party continued with a short demo of the upcoming Revision3 website along with new shows about to premiere, including the the rebirth of The Broken.

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New DVD could end format war

Britain-based New Medium Enterprises (NME) said on Tuesday it had solved a technical production problem that makes it possible to produce a cheap multiple-layer DVD disk containing one film in different, competing formats.

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Sony's Vaio UX, with 32GB of Solid State Disk

Sony continues kickin' out the updates on the VAIO UX lineup with a new 32GB Solid State Disk option for those tempted to drop Yen in Japan. And tempted they will be since the larger capacity SSD brings sufficient capacity for XP and MS Office without the heat and vibration associated with the current 40GB hard disk.

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The Broken Episode 4 Is Done!

David Prager Proclaims On TWiT, "Its Done, Its Done, Its Done!". Looks Like The Two+ Year Wait Will Finally Be Over.

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Revision3 Fall Lineup Revealed!

Scroll down a bit and you'll see a list of shows Revision3 has planned for this fall, including 2 brand new shows called PixelPerfect and and Mysteries of Science Explained. Check it out!

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The X Prize looks inward

The X Prize Foundation is most famous for funding a race among private ventures that ultimately resulted in a series of successful suborbital flights.

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Intel works on 'touchable holograms'

In a hospital in Houston, two surgeons appear to be performing a difficult procedure on a cardiac patient. In fact, only one of the doctors in the room is real. The other is a replica-a lifelike physical model whose shape, appearance and movements precisely mimic those of a specialist in Tokyo who is performing the actual work.

You can read more about it here.

WordPress.com VIP Hosting Program Goes Public for $250/mo

Based on their experience with folks like Anousheh Ansari, Scoble, Om Malik?s Web Worker Daily, and other high-profille and high-traffic bloggers using WordPress, WordPress has put together something called "VIP Hosting" You may be a good candidate for VIP hosting if, for example, you get more than 100,000 pageviews a month and have $250/mo.

You can read more about it here.

Tech buzzwords say all the wrong things

Our industry is addicted to bullshit buzzwords. Everyone?s always implementing or enabling or optimizing or leveraging. There are endless value streams, efficiencies, solutions, infrastructures, and enterprises. But people who abuse buzzwords don?t sound smart. They sound like they are trying to sound smart. Big difference.

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The Catch-22 of Web 2.0

Mike Rundle discusses ironic and funny circumstances about the Web 2.0 industry. He discusses how companies are given millions but they need more, how people want to start a software company but they cannot code, and how experts such as Michael Arrington created web 2.0 companies that are failing.

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The too-much-information age

What craters Mr. Jukuri's day is deciding if, when and how to respond to his normal email. "Now that anyone can email me about anything, they seem to," he says. "Every single 'Forward' I've ever gotten fits into that category" of everything and anything, he says. The hail of email has gotten so bad that he created a folder called "Limbo"

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Do you have the messiest computer setup?

Geeks are messy, there is no avoiding it. But do you have what it takes to be the messiest geek ever?

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New technology could nip DVD format war in the bud

The format war around next generation DVDs may be over before it has begun, thanks to a breakthrough from a British media technology company.

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Selective focus may give drone aircraft eagle eyes

A trick that allows animals to focus on distant objects without losing a wider perspective could one day give drone aircraft sharper vision. Now, a computer by Nova Sensors "detection tracking algorithm" to identify windows of interest within a picture, applying tricks such as motion-tracking, tonal analysis and facial recognition.

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Wikipedia tells naked girl to get lost

A hilarious tale of Wikipedia users driving away a naked woman because they couldn't believe she was real.

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Relationship websites bring undateables to the forefront

The Internet lets people search billions of Web pages in a fraction of a second and instantaneously tap information around the globe. One thing it couldn't do: Find Brian Wolf a girlfriend.

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How to: Shave costs on your Phone, TV

You like chatting online and you spend too much time on YouTube. You're addicted to your cellphone. And what's a Sunday night without HBO? But even if you're tied to your Internet, phone and TV services, you can still find ways to pay less for them.

You can read more about it here.

Web 2.0 venture capital increasing, but real success hard to find

ost of the Web 2.0 deals this year have been early-round investments, providing funds for companies with little more than a theoretical business plan and a vague promise of future profits. However, seven later-stage deals have been completed in the past six months, compared to zero Web 2.0 late rounds in the previous three years.

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CBS.com uses "Netcast" instead of "Podcast" like Leo Laporte

CBS.com uses now has "netcasts" instead of podcasts. Is this because of the recent lawsuits from Apple

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Del.icio.us reports 1 million users - post Yahoo! growth tops all of Digg

Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter just posted to the del.icio.us blog that the service has registered its 1 millionth user. Schachter says that number has more than tripled in the last 9 months. The company was acquired by Yahoo! ten months ago, in December of 2005.

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Hands-off my Slingbox, my podcasts and my Tivo; The EFF's Gwen Hinze

The EFF's Gwen Hinze on the WIPO treaty, YouTube, Podcasting and the dark future of a world in which everything broadcast gets a foreboding world-wide copyright. The end of fair use

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Sirius launches Internet Radio service

While Sirius indeed offers free internet listening to its current subscribers (albeit at 32kbps), the company is hoping the 48kbps offered in the pay version -- dubbed SIR -- will tempt users to write a slightly larger check each month for the enhanced online content.

You can read more about it here.

Survey says: Gamers want rumble

according to a survey conduced by the research firm Ipsos, this omission may cost Sony market share in the next-generation console wars.

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Lime Wire Sues RIAA for Antitrust Violations

In Arista v. Lime Wire, in Manhattan federal court, Lime Wire has filed its answer and interposed counterclaims against the RIAA for antitrust violations, consumer fraud, and other misconduct, alleging that the big music labels have been conspiring to destroy competition in digital music.

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"Symantec Slams Firefox Again" - Inquirer

Either Symantec is trying to drum up business again, in prelude to its forthcoming deminse thanks to Vista, or there are really more vulnerabilities in Firefox now than last year. IE also had an increase, according to Symantec. To fix a vulnerability, it takes MS an average of 9 days, while Firefox akes 1, and Safari 5. Opera? What's that?

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"Choose your own adventure" books meet Internet group wisdom

Users submit ideas for where the plot should go, and the top two are voted on. Basicly you read a book chapter by chapter and influence where the story goes. Cool concept.

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Control the NES R.O.B. with your PC

his latest mod, that makes Nintendo's Robotic Operating Buddy or (R.O.B. for short) controllable via a Linux PC, makes no claim to functionality: basically a guy called Fred managed to get R.O.B. to follow commands sent to it from his Linux box -- kind of the opposite of what R.O.B. is used to doing: interacting with a NES deck.

You can read more about it here.

Awesome ipod Interview Apple with Kevin Steve Jobs Rose Mac, 9-23-06 M$ Win

title says it all

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Messages that go `poof' after sending them

A hallmark of "Mission: Impossible" was the message that would self-destruct after a spy played it. Now a startup communications company promises that same level of secrecy with a Web-based messaging system designed to leave no traces.

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Here is finally someone who deserves the RIAAs attention.

How dumb is this guy? It is amazing what some people post on Craigslist. "I am not looking to take the files from you, just make a copy of your music collection. " ~ "This is a serious offer from someone that wants to expand their music collection without going through the P2P sites or paying 99 cents a song." A whopping 11 gigs, Any Takers?

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Suck it G4! Your favorite show is beat by a podcast!

G4's favorite show, "Attack of the Show" is beat out in search results by everyone's favorite podcast, Diggnation. Its kinda sad that a TV show is beat out by a internet show, but I guess this only shows the power of the internet media.

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Sony offers up interactive DVR advertisements

Since advertisers -- and broadcasting companies -- aren't exactly fond of folks cruising through those ads while watching a recorded show through their DVR, and can't seem to get legislation to make it illegal passed just yet, a few companies have resorted to clever tactics to get those spots viewed.

You can read more about it here.

Podcast with Om Malik and Robert Scoble

Companies mentioned include Digg, Facebook, Myspace, Skype, PicksPal, TechMeme, Jajah, Scrapblog, Rebtel, Hullo and GrandCentral.Episode 12 of TalkCrunch features Robert Scoble, Om Malik and Michael Arrington. They speak for just over an hour about their favorite startups and the hot news this week in tech.

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Google wants to pay you to improve Google usability

You will have the opportunity to work on products of all types: web sites like Google search and AdWords, web applications like Gmail and Google Maps, client applications like Picasa and Google Earth, and mobile services like Google SMS. You will use a range of methods, working closely with UI designers and product teams to define new products.

You can read more about it here.

Cable VoIP calls clearer than landlines?

Keynote Systems, a globally respected internet and communication testing company, has completed a ridiculously thorough investigation on the true audio quality that can be had using VoIP (within American borders), and the results are quite intriguing.

You can read more about it here.

AOL to Reorganize

AOL plans to undergo a massive internal restructuring, both to realign its business units to reflect its new focus on advertising and to create a nimbler organization, according to a company-wide internal memo from Jonathan Miller, AOL's chairman and CEO

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Why Click Fraud Is Growing on the Web

Click fraud most commonly happens when renegade partners, who get a portion of the fees earned by a search engine each time a paid link is clicked, deliberately generate excessive clicks with no chance that any of the clicks will result in a sale for the business that is paying for them

You can read more about it here.

Lighting technology: The light bulb is synonymous with invention

How long does it take to change a light bulb? The answer is 131 years. That is the amount of time that will have elapsed between when Thomas Edison first demonstrated his incandescent light bulb, and 2010, when semiconductor-based light-emitting diodes are expected to have made significant inroads into general illumination.

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Counting the Years, One Device at a Time

At 26, I'm still pretty close to that prime age demographic -- you know, the one that marketing and advertising teams see as the cutting-edge consumer, the one that every technology company wants to reach.

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Web 2.0: $262.3 Million Invested in First Half of the Year

Venture capitalists' enthusiasm about Web 2.0 start-ups was underscored by a newly published report that found investments in those companies hit $262.3 million in the first half of this year -- more than the $199.2 million invested in this area during all of last year

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Xbox still hopes to storm Japan

Microsoft is still determined to crack the Japanese market, Xbox boss Peter Moore has told BBC News.

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Boy Genius drops shots of the BlackBerry 8800!

Shots of the BlackBerry 8800!

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Geek, Poke and Laugh at Web 2.0

check out Geek And Poke. Geek And Poke offers a nearly daily cartoon focusing on clowning web 2.0, podcasting and blogging concepts. Many of the cartoons are time or event sensitive so anyone with their fingers on the pulse of the web 2.0 movement should find them clever.

You can read more about it here.

Can RIAA sue for songs they never verified by downloading from you?

Preclusion Motion Filed in UMG v. Lindor; Lindor Says RIAA Cannot Introduce Songs into Lawsuit if it Has Not Produced Song Files

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Not Just Third World Nations Banning Skype; Universities Get On Board Too

It looks like it's not just third world countries with government-backed telephone monopolies to protect that are banning VoIP. Some universities are getting in on the game as well. San Jose State University, just down the road from Skype's parent company eBay, has apparently decided to block all Skype use on campus.

You can read more about it here.

PlayStation 3 To Play Oldies

The new PlayStation 3 console will be able to play existing Sony videogames downloaded over a network, Sony Computer Entertainment President Ken Kutaragi told an industry conference in Tokyo on Friday.

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Breaking news:Patricia Dunn done at HP

Succumbing to pressure from a spiraling controversy over a media leak investigation, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s embattled chairwoman abruptly stepped down Friday (Sept. 22)Patricia Dunn had said previously she would abandon the role of chair, but remain a member of the board, next January.

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A Cassette Deck for the PC

The PlusDeck 2c is a full-logic cassette deck for your PC. Use it to archive your old cassette tapes of 80s hair bands into digital media files for playback on your PC

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HyperDragging

Sony's new invention. Drag&Drop anwhere you want.

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Leo Laporte "Person of the Year in Podcasting"

Leo Laporte, creator of "This Week in Tech" (TWiT) and the twit.tv podcast network will be honored as "Person of the Year in Podcasting" as voted on by the Podcast & Portable Media Expo committee. The winners will be recognized at a special reception on Friday, September 29, 2006 at 5 p.m. at the Ontario, CA Marriott.

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Ceramic Battery: Internal Combustion Replacement?

EEStore is working on a revolutionary new kind of "battery". The most significant benefit would be its efficiency: a car powered by the EEStor unit could run on the equivalent of 45 cents per gallon, driving 500 miles on $9 worth of electricity after just five minutes to charge.

You can read more about it here.

DL.tv Gets a Face lift!

Checkout the site, much nicer then the old one!

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Fry's Electronics finally own frys.com

My favorite electronics store has finally gained ownership of frys.com, which, for the longest time was just a Fry's ISP site. All purchases went through outpost.com (which is still up as a duplicate of frys.com). Its just nice to see that they have their site up now!

You can read more about it here.

jUploadr - A photo uploader for Linux, Mac and Windows

jUploadr is a cross platform, cross-site Photo uploader. Currently it runs on Windows Linux and OS X and supports both Flickr and Zooomr. It allows you to set all properties of a photo before you upload it. It also supports batch editing, so you can make short work of uploading a bunch of files.

You can read more about it here.

Conroe-L, the brains behind Apple's iTV?

Back in May, we mentioned the emergence of Intel roadmaps featuring the mysterious Conroe-L, a single-core processor from Intel aimed at the very lowest end of the PC market. Even though Conroe-L is based on the Conroe/Merom microarchitecture that powers the Core 2 Duo line

You can read more about it here.

Sling to launch Slingbox Tuner, AV, Pro

It apparently slipped beneath our FCC-radar, but a posting on Sling Community shows some interesting developments according to FCC filings. Sling Media's apparently planning at least three new devices (here, here, and here), the Tuner, AV, and Pro.

You can read more about it here.

A few thousand science fiction magazines (interactive)

This is cool. it's a random colelction of covers from the visual index of science fiction cover art. move the mouse over the covers to see more information, click to see the cover full-size. covers are arranged horizontally by time, and vertically by average hue.

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0wnz0red by Cory Doctorow

Programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick. [This is an awesome short story. It's a little dated but if you've never read it before, like me, it's worth checking out.]

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Digg Founders Plot Internet TV Takeover

The Wired News office received an invitation to attend a special event next Tuesday, September 26 hosted by Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose of Digg.com and David Prager of Revision3. There's going to be an announcement at the event about Digg and Rev3's plans for a new internet TV venture.

You can read more about it here.

Woot responds to MSI theft accusations

Woot makes initial response in regards to the accusations from MSI alledging they sold a truck load of stolen GeForce 7900GS video cards.

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More Pentium 4 price cuts coming

The largest price cut goes to the Pentium 4 631, which runs at 3.0GHz, has 2MB of L2 cache, and an 800MHz FSB. It will sell for $69 in quantities of 1,000?a 58 percent reduction. The Pentium 4 641, clocked at 3.2GHz, but with the same cache and FSB, will go for $74; the 3.4Ghz Pentium 4 651 will sell for $84.

You can read more about it here.

IE Exploit: Could Soon Be Used By 10,000-plus Sites

The unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer that created a stir Tuesday may be exploited by 10,000 or more malicious Web sites if all their owners update to the newest version of the WebAttacker exploit kit, a security researcher said Wednesday.

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Oct 3 - Day Against DRM - Get your FREE sticker packs delivered!

When the UK Government's All Party Internet Group reported on DRM, they made a number of recomendations, #1 was to call for "Extensive Labeling" of all DRM products. DefectiveByDesign are sending out free label and sticker packs in time for Oct 3rd. Also, join the action at kick-off events planned for New York and London on Saturday Sept 30.

You can read more about it here.

Simply Search Every Video Site

ScoopVid.com launched today, developed using Open Source code, allows users to search almost every possible video site on the web in a nice ajax format.

You can read more about it here.

How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic

Links and traffic...Who wants some?The number of excellent resources that have come out since the beginning of the year on attracting links and building traffic has really mushroomed. Plus there are some timeless classics that are still very relevant today...

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Online guitar archive shut down. Freedom of speech? What's that?

Any guitarist who has ever used the internet knows Olga.net was an amazing resource for budding musicians. It has been shut down. Why? ?Copyright Infringement? Why else?

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The Google Goal Of Indexing 100 Billion Web Pages

Yes, 100 Billion Web Pages (think Dr. Evil). Google started out with an index size of around 24 million web pages in 1996. By August of 2000, Google had managed to quadruple their index size to approximately one billion web pages. In September of 2003, Google's front-page boasted an index of 3.3 billion web pages...

You can read more about it here.

Study: 37% of all emails sent by office workers are personal

The average office now sends 3,840 emails from work every year - the equivalent of 158,064 messages over a typical working lifetime. Almost half of workers admitted they email the person sitting next to them to avoid making verbal contact. Yet a nosey one in five Brits uses email just to gossip to desk buddies about work colleagues.

You can read more about it here.

7 out of 10 developers use open source, are you one of the 3 who don't?

IDC surveyed 5000 developers in 116 countries and discovered that open source is used by 71% of them and -- perhaps more surprisingly -- is used in 54% of their production environments.

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MIT developing an "engine on a chip" to beat the battery

The new "engine on a chip" technology builds all the traditional parts of a gas-turbine engine using silicon, allowing for utterly tiny, reliable and efficient components. The turbine blades spin at 20,000 revolutions per second, and the mini-generator produces 10 watts of power once up and running.

You can read more about it here.

Fiber Optic Solar Lighting

"Sunlight is the standard for lighting. It's what our eyes are adapted to, it's absolutely free, and it is the light we are most comfortable with. A range of companies are now producing systems for capturing sunlight and transmitting it into the interior of a building with fiber optic cables..."

You can read more about it here.

Web 2.0 Winners and Losers

After digging through the most awesome examples of next-generation web services on the net -- and the most useless -- we've compiled this list of the best and worst.

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Digg adds new section! (Screenshot)

Well...hopefully. One thing I've always found frustrating about the 'Popular Stories' vs 'Upcoming Stories' tabs/sections is that it's an all or nothing approach. I've often pined for a middle-ground that I can access w/ one click. If you feel the same way, digg it so that the folks at digg will listen.

You can read more about it here.

How To Write Proofs

Proofs are the heart of mathematics. If you are a math major, then you must come to terms with proofs--you must be able to read, understand and write them. What is the secret? What magic do you need to know? The short answer is: there is no secret, no mystery, no magic.

You can read more about it here.

"Super Datacenters"... the 21st century pyramids?

Will super datacenters built by the likes of Google, Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft evolve into more intelligent hubs, dispensing advice and ordering our lives?

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The Bootless PC and Terabytes on a Dime

Imagine a PC with instantaneous boot up or storing 10TB of data -- 10,000 gigabytes -- on a device the size of a dime with data-transfer rates unhampered by any latency. Systems using nanotechnology could do away with disk drives as well as the boot-up process.

You can read more about it here.

"Smart buildings" include IP phones, touch screen to control lights

Residents of this upscale property on the Upper East Side of Manhattan can use an IP telephone and touch screen to control lighting, play music and raise the temperature in their units. That's because the complex runs a single IP-based network for building-management systems and IT.

You can read more about it here.

15 Ways to Master your Inbox

If you spend a lot of time dealing with the Web, chances are you have a cluttered inbox. Sometimes just deleting and archiving messages isn?t enough. So our crew of Mac experts offered up 15 ways to master your inbox and eliminate spam

You can read more about it here.

Chuck D lays down the law on DRM

The rapper, who was a founding member of hip-hop group Public Enemy and now runs a content service, told delegates at the Mobile Content World conference in London that he had always looked at technology as "Something you can apply to a better world if you stay on top of it and don't let it stay on top of you".

You can read more about it here.

The WordPress Podcast Episode 6

Akismet rumors, lots of new and updated plug-ins, listener mail. Vety good one, for all of you who uses wordpress.

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Google just sent an email to Writely users. Release from Google very soon??

Check link for image of the email. Google and Writely merged quite a while ago, and they're just now alerting users that they're merging Google and Writely accounts. Something probably coming out of the GooglePlex very soon.

You can read more about it here.

Motorola to buy Symbol Technologies for $3.9 bln

Motorola Inc. on Tuesday said it agreed to buy Symbol Technologies Inc. for about $3.9 billion in cash to expand its enterprise capabilities. The acquisition is expected to close in late 2006 or early 2007.

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Funny Office Slang

A funny guide to business terminology for people who work in an office.

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Screenshots of Google

It seems to be that Google is testing a new design. Here are some screenshots of Google's new search page design and layout.

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FCC spectrum auction ends after 161 rounds

We're sure that you've been following the FCC's blow-by-blow coverage of the AWS (Advanced Wireless Services) spectrum auction as closely as you would the "So You Think You Can Dance" competition, but just in case you've been busy for the last 161 rounds of bidding, we're here to let you know that the results are in......

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Why Not One Hundred MPG?

So the question remains: Could manufacturers deliver a practical car that a typical American family could use as daily transportation, getting 100 mpg or better on every single trip? We asked some of the most inventive engineering minds in the country. We looked at designs, materials and drivetrains. The answer? Yes, it can be done.

You can read more about it here.

Banned by Wikipedia for Adding CSS Naked Day within 15 Minutes

I just was recently banned for trying to add our geek holiday of CSS Naked Day of April 5th! All within 5 minutes of the topic creation, it was deleted. My account also having been referenced to another user by IP, I was autoblocked. Upon editing my talk page I was banned indefinately for vandalism. All for one page No wonder why a co-founder left!

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Lockheed whistleblower posts second YouTube video

Michael De Kort, who blew the whistle last month about Lockheed Martin compromising the security of Coast Guard vessels in a YouTube video has posted a second video where he gives an update on the situation and responds to some of the criticisms that have been thrown at him.

You can read more about it here.

Why YouTube's Best Deal Will Be Its Death

YouTube's new deal with Warner Music looks like the dot-com's salvation, but it could be its downfall.

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PicksPal Could Disrupt Sports Betting Markets

"Tom Jessiman, the founder of PicksPal, stumbled onto something that could change the way we predict sporting event outcomes. And it could therefore have a big impact on sports betting markets."

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Allchin to developers: Get ready for Vista!

"Windows Vista: Now is the Time!" Allchin takes the time to reassure developers that Vista is still on schedule for delivery to business customers by the end of the year and to the general public some time in January 2007, barring "any unforeseen quality issues such as bugs around data corruption, resiliency, or security."

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Poll: Americans don't want net neutrality

(or maybe they don't know what it is)A nationwide survey of 800 registered voters is being touted by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation because it purports to show that Americans are not interested in net neutrality legislation.

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Defining Web 3.0

"I bet this Wikipedia article will radically change over time: Web 3.0 is a term that has been coined to describe the Semantic Web which aims to ?organize the world?s information? using a declarative ontological language such as OWL."

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PeakStream unveils multicore and CPU/GPU programming solution

Today marks the official launch of PeakStream, a software start-up that has been operating in stealth mode for over a year now while developing a new type of software platform aimed at making multiprocessor systems easier to program

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Why Google Loves The Little Guys

What really excites Schmidt, and where he's putting some of brainy Google's best minds, are the smallest things of all: virtual golf games, flight simulators and hotties in a security box.

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Students warned to be wary of Wikipedia

News article talking Credibility of wikipedia and why everyone everyone who uses it should do it with caution.

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Google ads to hit the movie theaters

Google ponders the idea of having ads display during movies and in return letting people watch movies for free.

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33% of iPod owners are 'stealing' music on the net

A third of iPod owners are downloading illegally, a major study has found. "Free activity - both legal and otherwise - significantly outweighs paid activity," said Mark Mulligan, vice president at JupiterResearch, which carried out the study.

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30 Days of DRM: 30 Things You Can Do

"Michael Geist has been listing reasons why Canadians should be alarmed at Canada's proposed new copyright law, which will bring the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Canada's lawbooks. Today, Geist has posted a list of thirty things you can do to fight Bill C-60 in Canada." via boingboing

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Why Warner Music is coming to YouTube

Warner has done more than just "seen the light"; the music behemoth has had a full-blown, Damascus Road-style conversion when it comes to the Internet. Giving music videos away?

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Age of the Average Netscape User (vs. Digg users)

Here's a first look at the age of the average Netscape.com user, compared to that of the average digg user. The difference in the average age of the two communities leads us to believe that because of their differing interests, perhaps both sites can co-exist, and that social bookmarking doesn't have to be a zero-sum game.

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Cisco Exec: Windows Vista is Scary

Bob Gleichauf, the chief technology officer in Cisco Systems's security technology group, has raised concerns that integrating Vista into a complex IT infrastructure could present problems.

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Three's company: Warner patents all-in-one hybrid disc

Most studios have already picked a side in the HD DVD / Blu-ray war, but for the few still contemplating a near suicidal attempt at a simultaneous DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray release, there's help on the way. A pair of Warner engineers have been working on a way to get all three formats to hold hands on a single disc

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Digg Into the Past of Digg 1998-2005

Wow! You have to check this link out! is it possible that Digg was actually born at 1998??Digg Records??

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Next Mac Office to be released in July of 2007

"The good news is that the next version of Mac Office has completed the transition to Xcode, according to Mary Starman, group product manager for the MacBU. The bad news is the projected release date for Mac Office. "Typically we release about 6-8 months after Windows Office."

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DiggNotify Beta - Know when people are digging your stories!

DiggNotify notifies you whenever a person diggs one of your last 15 submitted stories. It'll show you how many diggs you have, who dugg it, and you can click on the notification to open up a page to the story. Small application and it minimizes to tray. Still in beta, ideas for improvement are appreciated. Screen shots & download provided. Digg on!

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Google and Apple 'in video talks'

Technology giants Google and Apple are in discussions over video content for the computer firm's recently announced iTV device, say reports.

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Buy a Zune at Walmart...Soon

Walmart has started promoting Zunes in their online store.

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In-flight Broadband Inches Skyward

AC BidCo LLC won a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) auction earlier this year for 3MHz of radio spectrum to be used for in-flight communications services. The company's affiliate, AirCell Inc., said Wednesday its offer of Wi-Fi hotspots and other services on airliners should get off the ground commercially in early 2008.

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Microsoft Demands Web Site Owners Take Down FairUse4WM

Last month, Ars reported that Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) digital rights management protection had been cracked, and a program called FairUse4WM had been written that would strip DRM data from purchased audio files.

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Don't like ads? Stop clicking them

Do you click on advertisements in search engine result pages? If no, you might begin seeing less ads than you normally would. Barry Schwartz talks about a post on WebmasterWorld forum that explains how Google begun removing "top of the page" ads for users who don't click them.

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The other Digg - Is it legal?

Digg.lv is a virtual clone of the Digg.com intellectual property and is using the same name. Should Digg.com take action against Digg.lv?

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Penn

Title says it all.

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A Video Business Model Ready to Move Beyond Beta

VIDEO mania is in full swing. Amazon is finally doing movie downloads. Apple is touting a new wireless gizmo to beam movies from laptops to TV screens. NBC is introducing a video syndication service that might pit it against Google and Yahoo, and it?s joining the other big networks in putting its shows online for free with advertising.

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Hosting Services from the Googleplex?

In need of some weekend speculation? Might a transferred domain be a clue to what might be coming from the Googleplex. If it is, look for some type of web hosting to possibly be coming very soon. Surprise? No, not really. Why? Read on and speculate.

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$500 Million NYC Wi-fi Network by Northrop

Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a $500 million contract to build a wireless network to allow computer access anywhere in the city. Northrop was chosen over Motorola after both companies completed a 6 month, $2.7 million test. Sadly, this taxpayer-funded system will be for government use only.

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MSN Live debuts *AJAX* Image Search Engine

Do a Image Search in the new MSN Live Search Engine & have Access to ZOOM and Save to Scratchpad and Image Feeback features. The Layout is quite attractive - but resource demanding

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Day Around Town With the 20" Notebook (Pics)

Walk around town with a giant notebook. The looks they get are priceless.

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Citizendium: Larry Sanger's Wikipedia 2.0

One of the two original creators of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, today announced that he will start his own project called Citizendium. Registered users will be able to edit as "authors" but there will also be "editors" who have more authority because of their background as specialists in a certain field.

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Universal Studios Boss Deals Blu-ray death Blow

In what could be a telling moment in the high definition format war, a high level executive from a major movie studio has publicly come out in favour of the HD DVD format, developed by Toshiba and backed by Microsoft.

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HUGE Amount Of Image Generators

Over 100 Generators. Check it out.

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Hanging with the in-crowd

The Economist has a great piece on corporate social networking: Big media firms and investors are cosying up to social-networking websites

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Teen Rescued After Sending Text Message

A text message sent by a kidnapped 14-year-old to her mother led to her rescue Saturday, when police found her in a hand-dug, booby-trapped bunker.

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Google to create NYC Googleplex

"Google is now said to be opening a second larger and more strategic operations and data center in lower Manhattan"

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Why You Should Delete Your MySpace Page

Here are a few simple reasons why you should reconsider having a MySpace page. Although geared towards young professionals, the tips apply to anyone who might apply for a new job in the future.

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Zune plus Xbox 360 may give Microsoft the edge

Howls of protest from some Xbox 360 owners about my article "Apple iTV a stab in the heart for Microsoft" tell me that much of what the upcoming iTV promises is already here in the Xbox 360 if you simply connect the optional US$99 802.11a-g wireless networking adapter.

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Top 10 Most Stressful Professions

According to 33 News abc survy IT experts are more likely to suffer from stress than any other professional , A staggering 97 percent of people working in IT claim to find their life at work stressful on a daily basis.The poll revealed that IT professionals say it is difficult to get the work done when managers are constantly on their backs.

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Co-founder Forks Wikipedia

Larry Sanger, first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, plans to fork the project. In Berlin he announced the start of Citizendium ? the citizen's compendium. Main differences: no anonymous editing, and experts will rule the project.

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DivX set to go public next week

DivX, the video-compression company that went from public enemy No. 1 in Hollywood to a trusted partner, will hold a public offering next week.

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Lilo has died.

Lilo, Freenode admin, has died, according to a global message to all freenode members.

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Rob Levin AKA Lilo of Freenode Dead

Tragically the death of freenode's founder, Rob Levin, known to many on the network as "lilo" was announced earlier this evening by staff members via a notice: "[Global Notice] On the 12th September Rob Levin, known to many as Freenode's lilo, was hit by a car while riding his bike. He suffered head injuries and passed away on the 16th

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Microsoft nastygrams site for hosting FairUse4WM

"I refuse to take down this file until they can prove to me they own the copyright to this file (yeah right....) or a court system makes me. If the line is not drawn in the sand here, then they will keep bullying everyone around." Our hats go off to you, sir.

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ThinkPad explodes at LAX, ignites bomb scare

In a time when you're not even allowed to say the word "bomb" in an airport (hey, it's for good reason), it's got to be like, really freaking embarrassing to have to run up the jetway at full speed, shoving other passengers out of the way as your flaming laptop explodes on the ground

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Oct 3rd - Zune DRM!

We see the stories everyday and we know DRM sucks. But us knowing isn't enough so it's time to take action. DefectiveByDesign have opened the gates for "Oct 3rd - Day Against DRM". Add your action now and get others to join you, or join others in their actions (meat space and virtual)... Oct 3rd, does your mother know?

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Are CableCards Doomed?

Alan headed out to CEDIA in an effort to see how manufacturers are responding to the entire CableCard situation, and determined that interest is less than stellar for a few reasons:1. Consumers are either unaware or not all that interested in the technology2. Cable companies are making it difficult for consumers to get CableCards because...

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Walmart preparing to offer movie downloads

Reports are coming out that Walmart is gearing up to offer movie downloads in the coming months. The impact of the move on pricing could be big; Walmart sells almost half of the physical DVDs bought in the US and the company could be a major player in the increasingly crowded movies-on-demand space.

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German Web Music Store Uses Watermarks, Not DRM

A German company is offering MP3 files for download, unencumbered by digital rights management (DRM). Instead, Akuma discourages copying by adding a unique "watermark" to each download.

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The Role Of Tags In Social Bookmarking

Tags have become a staple of web 2.0 sites, and especially social bookmarking sites, as they allow a user to sift through large amounts of information and locate exactly what the user is looking for, very efficiently. Here's a look at how to use tags, and the advantages of tags over the more traditional, predefined categories.

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del.icio.us turns 3 today. Happy Birthday!!!

Del.icio.us is three years old today! It's started making friends and will hopefully be out of diapers soon. For those of you in the Bay Area, we're planning a birthday bash for early October - keep an eye out!

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PC World Names MySpace the #1 Worst Site on the Net!

MySpace (surprisingly) tops the list!

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Top 10 Vehicles Owned by Billionaires

If your pockets were as deep as Bill Gates? what would you drive? A new Porsche or a seven-year-old one? Each year, Forbes magazine compiles a list of the world?s wealthiest people. Now, ForbesAutos.com gives you a look at the vehicles driven by the billionaires at the top of the 2006 list.

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10 Most Beautiful Cars of All Time

Here is an interesting list of the 10 most beautiful cars of all time. Which ones are your favorites - odltimers or modern cars?

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10 Programming Languages You Should Learn Right Now

Knowing a handful of programming languages is seen by many as a harbor in a job market storm, solid skills that will be marketable.

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Web 2.0 Statistics and Trends

"PornoTube Breaks into Alexa Top 300 within 2 Months" was promoted to the homepage about 12:30 pm, 9/4/2006. Includes browser versions, screen resolutions, platform versions, connection speed, network location, java enabled and screen colors.

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Silicon Valley's Golden Past Tarnished by the Latest Probes

Silicon Valley has long been the stuff of dreams, a place where gawky entrepreneurs create billion-dollar companies in their garages, their innovations sometimes bending the rules but forever changing the way we live. But lately, it seems, the valley has shifted from a shiny beacon of capitalism's promise into a shadowy target for investigators.

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Zune's Viral DRM Violates Creative Commons License

Yesterday Microsoft revealed that Zune's highly touted wireless file sharing will infect otherwise unprotected audio files with proprietary DRM. If users are sharing songs that are covered by a Creative Commons license, this would be a clear violation of that license.

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Digg: Kevin Rose talks 'The Real Deal' in exclusive interview

Exclusive interview with Kevin Rose in "The Real Deal? CEO interview series at Digital Micro-Markets Blog.

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Why Digg is bad for your blog

Yeah, everyone salivates over going from 100 hits a day to 10K hits a day but what happens when your CTR goes from 5% to 0.005%! Why you see your advertising revenue drop to the floor! Diggers may bring in the hits, but they don't bring in the clicks!

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Police confiscate 40,000 bootlegged discs and scores of burners

The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, both of which helped police, said authorities uncovered among the largest CD burning labs and movie pirating labs in the country.

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Apple iTunes 7 Draws Complaints

Problems posted on Apple discussion forums include sound distortion, songs skipping, 3-second delays in playing tunes, and lost tracks. The company hasn't yet responded to or commented on these issues.

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Entertainment Industry: wiretap the net!

"The entertainment industry has proposed that ISPs should be forced by law to monitor all customers' communications for copyright infringement, charging for anything that might be a copyrighted work."

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Digg.com: How old is the average digg user?

Digg bashers first line of offense is that diggs users are young, and comments are often very childish and obnoxious. (Ironically a childish comment to make) But what is the average age of a digg user?

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Virgin bans Dell, Apple batteries on flights

Hoo boy, the fun just doesn't end with this little Sony/Dell/Apple battery fiasco, does it? Virgin Atlantic is now the third airline to take issue with Sony's exploding batteries, and is playing it safe by requiring the removal of batteries from all Inspiron, Latitude, iBook, PowerBook, MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops

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The Sexy Sonos-Rhapsody Lovechild

Sonos today announced that the latest version of their home music devices now support streaming music from Rhapsody. We have previously written about Sonos and a couple of weeks ago we spent some time with the two founders of the company talking about the future direction of the company..

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Browser Wars: The Saga Continues

Ever since Netscape took on Mosaic in 1994, companies have been duking it out for domination in the browser marketplace. We relive the biggest and best of the great browser battles.

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QTFairUse6 unDRM for latest iTunes

mwahahaha

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Who are the Hacker Bloggers? A Who's Who of Bloggers

But please note: this is not meant to be a complete list. It's just a quick scamper through the hacker blogosphere, and doesn't even begin to address the broader issue of whether those that do blog are doing it in the right way.

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Area 51: Hype vs. Reality

The new construction at Groom Lake must mean something, he figures. And then there are those "obvious... significant gaps in the military's known aviation arsenal -- gaps that the Pentagon can reasonably be assumed to be actively, if quietly, trying to fill."

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Mike Arrington's Secrets of Web 2.0 Success

TechCrunch's Mike Arrington talks about some of his favorite websites. Nope, no digg.

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10 Things You Didn't Know About RSS

FeedBurner's Steve Olechowski just gave a talk called "10 Things You Didn't Know About RSS."

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Divorce Court: Rocketboom Stars To Go At It

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron hasn't given up the fight with recently fired-or-quit news anchor Amanda Congdon over the 49% stake she claims to still hold in the popular video blog. In fact, a week ago, Drew said he's taking her to court.

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What Apple Can Do to Trump Vista

As I?ve said before, I?ve yet to install any of the Vista builds on my PC, and that?s not because I?m trying to make some sort of a statement. Instead, I want to make sure that my first experience with the OS is the best one possible so that I can make proper judgment.

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Great Firewall of The U.S.? AT

Someone was redirected to go.com when trying to access The Pirate Bay. Running traceroute, it looks as if AT&T/Global Crossing may be intentionally causing it to be redirected to another website.

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Lonelygirl15 speaks.....Finally

And she says

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Torrent Site Goes 2.0

Been a long time user of Snarf-It and now that they've gone to version 2.0 of their code thought I'd share it. It indexes virtually every other torrent site on the web, has no popups or scamware (rare these days) and is pretty fast considering all the graphics and goodies in there. Check it out.

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NYTimes: LonelyGirl Revealed

"The woman who plays lonelygirl15, whose first-person videos are among the most-viewed on the clip-sharing Web site YouTube, has been identified as Jessica Rose, a twentyish resident of New Zealand and Los Angeles and a graduate of the New York Film Academy."

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