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blongo2 — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:59:59 EST

•Google to broker print ads in newspapers [Reuters]
•Internet Explorer's Market Share Drops Slightly [TechWeb]
•Palm hit by patent suit [Reuters]
•PayPal Offering $20 in Holiday Rebates [Digital Trends]
•Comcast announces, then withdraws user-generated video sharing site [Ars Technica]

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Jason Chen — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:00:39 EST

•Vista licensing also limits benchmarking [InfoWorld]
•Google snaps up JotSpot [Ars Technica]
•Wired Digital Acquires Reddit [Wired]
•MySpace Acts To Halt Music Piracy [Broadband Reports]
•Sony woes deepen with PS3 launch numbers cut by 20 percent in Japan [Krunker]

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Travis Hudson — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:00:05 EDT

• Dell to offer AMD-powered laptops for less than $500 [Mobile Mag]
• HP loses VP of services [The Inquirer]
• Intel to close Cambridge research centre [The Register]
• AOL Patches Critical Browser Bug [TechWeb]
• Apple suspected of forcing Greenpeace out of MacExpo [AppleInsider]

Other Bits & Bytes

Travis Hudson — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:00:18 EDT

•$3B Spent Over Next 4 Years on Public Wi-Fi [Broadband Reports]
•Canadian Music Industry Says Downloading Declining [Slashdot]
•And now, the fate of the ATI brand: it lives! [Ars Technica]
•Creator of Comic 'Dilbert' hacks his brain to restore his speech [Boing Boing]
•Yahoo serves up new bookmarking tools [Lifehacker]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:00:26 EDT

•Opera browser comes to BlackBerry and Treo [Lifehacker]
•IP Theft Up In First Half Of Year: Report [Information Week]
•Blind web surfers sue Target for accessibility [TG Daily]
•BenQ posts huge Q3 loss [InfoWorld]
•Google offers personal searches [BBC]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 22:00:03 EDT

•Adobe picks up video software maker [CNet]
•Sony issues earnings warning due to battery recall and games loss [Krunker]
•eBay: Holding Firm on Earnings Report [Business Week]
•Study: More than 90 minutes of loud music harmful [iLounge]
•Time Warner Cable Will Play Solo [Business Week]

Other Bits and Bytes

Travis Hudson — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:05:16 EDT

•Microsoft hopes 7 is lucky number for IE [CNet]
•Apple 4Q profit rises 27 per cent, exceeds expectations, with iPod and Mac sales strong [Moreover]
•Music Industry Realizes P2P is Useful [Broadband Reports]
•McAfee Releases Free iPod Malware Removal Tool [Moreover]
•More than 16.5 square miles of flat panels produced in 2006 [Pheedo]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:00:40 EDT

•Intel hires in Israel [The Inquirer]
•Disney eliminating sugars and transfats from licensed food [Boing Boing]
•IBM claims Power 6 will double chip performance [The Inquirer]
•Scientists create new element [CNN Science]
•EA Closes Another Development Studio [Firing Squad]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:00:37 EDT

•Microsoft Vista stumbles at top digital show [The Inquirer]
•Yahoo's Pyramid Plan Crumbles [LA Times]
•Libya buys laptops for schoolchildren [CNN]
•Transmeta sues Intel claiming patent breach [Reuters]
•Apple MacBook owners organizing class action lawsuit [Apple Insider]

Other Bits & Bytes

Travis Hudson — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:00:55 EDT

•AMD CPU shortage looms [The Inquirer]
•Cnet Ceo Steps Down Amid Options Probe [International Business Times]
•Earth wobbles linked to extinctions [CNN Science]
•Apple's missing "Home on iPod" feature resurfaces in filing [Apple Insider]
•Former Novell CEO Ray Norda is dead [The Inquirer]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:00:21 EDT

•$10M prize for mapping human genomes [CNN-Science]
•Billions of Planets In Milky Way? [Slashdot]
•Fred Anderson resigns from Apple Board [TUAW]
•MS builds tougher piracy protection into Vista [The Register]
•RealNetworks Launches Rhapsody 4.0 [Moreover]

Other Bits and Bytes

Travis Hudson — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:00:56 EDT

• HP to open second India plant [InfoWorld]
• Plant Hybrids to Drive Biofuels [Wired]
• Foxconn to snaffle up Quanta [The Inquirer]
• Cisco, partner to tackle Wi-Fi interference [Inforworld[
• PS3 overheating claim rattles investors [The Register]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:00:40 EDT

•The EFF Is Angry, Wants TiVoToGo On S3 [ZATZ]
•Big bang theorists scoop Nobel prize for physics [New Scientist]
•HP's extensive outsourcing plans unveiled [The Inquirer]
•Siemens sets up $44M fund to retrain BenQ Mobile workers [InfoWorld]
•Swedish file sharing conviction overturned [Toronto Star]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:00:05 EDT

•HP's top lawyer falls on her sword [The Inquirer]
•Comcast video download store to be in WMV HD [HD Beat]
•Intel ships 40 million 65 nm processors [TG Daily}
•New York City may ban 'hazardous' trans fats [New Scientist]
•Retailers stocking limited amounts of HD DVD and Blu-ray titles [HD Beat]

Other Bits and Bytes

Travis Hudson — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:01:46 EDT

• Microsoft files lawsuit against DRM hackers [InfoWorld]
• Startup Claims 10-Layer, Multiformat Next-Gen DVD [Extremetech]
• Comcast blocks Google and YouTube on the East Coast [The Inquirer]
• First Zero-Gravity Surgery a Success [Slashdot]
• Intel proposes new power efficiency focused CPU benchmark [TG Daily]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:00:26 EDT

•The First (But Not Last!) AOL Search Records Lawsuit [Consumerist]
•AMD to counter Intel QX6700 with three new Athlon 64 FX CPUs [TG Daily]
•National Geographic committed to high-def [HD Beat]
•Ice the size of Texas melts in one year [New Scientist]
•Cisco jumps into enterprise video publishing [InfoWorld]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:00:05 EDT

•NASDAQ informs Dell of potential delisting [TG Daily]
•Yahoo 'to buy Facebook for $1bn' [BBC News]
•Apple forcing the MiniStore with iTunes 7 [The Unofficial Apple Weblog]
•'Grand Theft Auto' Fan Arrested For... Guess What? [Extremetech]
•Samsung exec pleads guilty in DRAM price fixing case [InfoWorld]

Other Bits and Bytes

Travis Hudson — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:00:51 EDT

• RealNetworks Launches Rhapsody DNA Platform [eHome Upgrade]
• Former Intel boss slams HP reshuffle [The Inquirer]
• RedOctane Sues Wireless Guitar Controller Manufacturer [Kotaku]
• Zune won't play MS DRM infected files [The Inquirer]
• iTunes nets $1M for Disney in a week [Info World]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:00:13 EDT

•Motorola to buy Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billioin [Reuters Technology]
•Canon recalls 800,000 desktop copiers in U.S. over fire hazard [Japan Today]
•Missed Call Marketing [Textually.org]
•Xerox develops MicroText - the font you can't see [Tech Digest]
•Zune won't play MS DRM infected files [The Inquirer]

Other Bits and Bytes

Jason Chen — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:00:42 EDT

•Bionic arm provides hope for amputees; Another step closer to the Million Dollar Man [CNN Technology]
•Microsoft Brings the Works Online[BusinessWeek]
•Astronomers find distant, fluffy world [CNN Science]
•New iTunes is a lemon [The Inquirer]
•Zune phone en route [Engadget]