1. Datel sues Microsoft over Xbox cheating crackdown  permalink

Datel sues Microsoft over Xbox cheating crackdown
Blog.seattlepi.com

Datel Design & Development on Friday filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft after the software company locked out unauthorized Xbox 360 memory units.

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Datel sues Microsoft over Xbox cheating crackdown Report: Microsoft, publishers in talks for Bing news exclusivity   —  Microsoft reportedly is in talks with News Corp. and other publishers to pay for exclusive content indexing on Bing if they cut ties with Google. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch's anti-Google crusade has escalated in the past few weeks. He's threatening to take his news outlets' content off of Google, which indexes content from thousands of news ...

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Datel sues Microsoft over Xbox cheating crackdown While Microsoft Is Talking to Publishers, Paying Up to “Rent” Content for Bing to Thwart Google Is Unlikely   —  While it might be a dream of publishers–hard hit by the digital tsunami and blaming Google for the crisis–Microsoft is not likely to fork over the big bucks they’d need for exclusive indexing of their content.

2. Price War Brews Between Amazon and Wal-Mart  permalink

Price War Brews Between Amazon and Wal-Mart
BRAD STONE / NYT

For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart and Amazon are also fighting over the future of retailing.

3. Start Date Is Critical in Ponzi Plan  permalink

Start Date Is Critical in Ponzi Plan
DIANA / NYT

The trustee in the Madoff case, Irving H. Picard, has said that eligible losses in the fraud total just over $21 billion.

4. J. Gary Pretlow  permalink

J. Gary Pretlow
Assembly.state.ny.us

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5. IMEチームの日本語分析を紹介します。  permalink

Yoshiharu Sato / TechNet Blogs

こんにちは。 今回は、 IME チームでの日本語分析の一端について書いてみます。 とても嬉しいことに、たくさんのユーザーの皆様から、 Office IME 2007 を通じて、誤変換、登録登録などの情報をお送りいただいています。頂いた情報は最新語辞書の更新 [Link] や、

6. Buffalo now shipping SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external hard drive  permalink

Buffalo now shipping SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external hard drive
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget

Yes, you've heard it right, kids! Buffalo's wild'n'wooly USB 3.0 external hard drive (the HD-HXU3) is now shipping. Available in 1TB($200), 1.5TB ($250), and 2TB ($400) designations, the package includes Memeo AutoBackup and a one year warranty. It's also backwards compatible to USB 2.0, but never mind that -- the company is concurrently ...

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Buffalo now shipping SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external hard drive Samsung Intros 2TB STORY Station Plus External Hard Drive   —  Samsung introduced a 1.5TB STORY External HDD back in May, but with the proliferation of 2TB drives available now, the company is today issuing a roomier edition. The STORY Station Plus isn't just larger, though; it also adds an eSATA interface for faster transfers. In case you don't have an eSATA port, it also comes with a USB 2.0 port. Moreover,

7. IME2007の辞書更新サービス2009年11月版のお知らせ  permalink

Yoshiharu Sato / TechNet Blogs

IME2007用の最新語辞書および郵便番号辞書 2009年11月版がLiveされました。 以下のページからご利用ください。 最新語辞書2009年11月版 郵便番号辞書2009年11月版 最新語辞書には以下のような言葉が追加されています。 就規(しゅうき)、初月(しょげつ)、特表(

8. IME2010 パブリックベータ  permalink

Yoshiharu Sato / TechNet Blogs

Microsoft Office 2010のパブリックベータが公開されました。 以下から、ご入手いただけます。 これには、IME2010が含まれております。IME2007はSP2で、変換精度やスピードをチューンアップいたしました。IME2010は、それにさらに大幅なチューン

9. Ostendo now selling CRVD display directly; multiple CRVD display rig blows minds on video  permalink

Ostendo now selling CRVD display directly; multiple CRVD display rig blows minds on video
Nilay Patel / Engadget

We first saw Ostendo's crazy CRVD monitor at CES 2008 with Alienware branding , and then again at Macworld 2009 with an NEC label , but it looks like those were just flirtations: the monster 2880 x 900 quad-DLP display has been quietly on sale directly from the mothership since late August. Ostendo tell us most of the units sold have been for ...

10. Apple's Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process  permalink

Apple's Schiller Defends iPhone App Approval Process
Www.businessweek.com

In his first wide-ranging interview on the matter, the Apple senior vice-president explains his company's App Store vigilance—and why it sometimes loosens up

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11. End of the line for IBM's Cell  permalink

End of the line for IBM's Cell
Ars Technica

In an interview with Heise.de, IBM's VP of Deep Computing, David Turek, confirmed that the Cell processor has reached the end of the line. Turek then put a more positive spin on the news by stating the obvious truth that heterogeneous multiprocessors, of which Cell was the first mass-market example of, are here to stay, so insofar as IBM ...

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Will Roadrunner Be the Cell's Last Hurrah?   —  With all the recent hoopla about GPGPU acceleration in high performance computing, it's easy to forget that Roadrunner, the most powerful supercomputer in the world, is based on a different brand of accelerator. The machine at Los Alamos National Laboratory uses 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs hooked up to 6,480 AMD Opteron dual-core processors to ...

12. New Super Mario Bros. Wii Walkthrough is Live on Mahalo!  permalink

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Walkthrough is Live on Mahalo!
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis

The latest edition of the venerable “Super Mario” franchise is out on the Nintendo Wii, and Mahalo has the New Super Mario Bros. walkthrough in progress right now, complete with HD videos!

13. Klausner takes aim at RIM, Motorola over visual voicemail patents  permalink

Klausner takes aim at RIM, Motorola over visual voicemail patents
Donald Melanson / Engadget

It's been quite a few months since we've heard anything from Klausner Technologies , but it looks like the company has finally decided on its next set of targets that are allegedly infringing on its now infamous visual voicemail patents. As announced in a pair of expectedly terse press releases, Klausner says that both RIM and Motorola have now ...

14. MSNBC.com to manage @BreakingNews on Twitter  permalink

Blog.seattlepi.com

Through a partnership with BNO News, MSNBC.com will soon manage the popular @BreakingNews account on Twitter. While MSNBC.com itself has more than 41,000 followers on its breaking news Twitter account, @MSNBC_Breaking, @BreakingNews has more than 1.43 million followers. The partnership potentially ads more than 1 million eyes to MSNBC.com's ...

15. DIY iPhone Macro Lens Carousel  permalink

DIY iPhone Macro Lens Carousel
Www.wired.com

The first two iPhones had terrible cameras, something Apple fixed with the 3GS. Those of us who like to complain can still find fault with the lack of an optical zoom lens. Those who don’t just whine go out and fix this for themselves.

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16. Firefox outfoxes recession, Mozilla sees increased revenue  permalink

Firefox outfoxes recession, Mozilla sees increased revenue
Ars Technica

Mozilla has published its audited financial statements from 2008, reporting $78.6 million in revenue for the fiscal year—a five percent increase from 2007. Aside from a weakened investment portfolio, the browser maker has not been hit hard by the economic recession. Mozilla's organizational structure and governance model are a bit unusual. ...

17. Turkey, With Family Drama on the Side  permalink

Turkey, With Family Drama on the Side
TARA PARKER-POPE / NYT

Families gathering around the country this week for Thanksgiving dinner are bracing for the intense emotions of the holiday meal.

18. Seeds Across the Oceans  permalink

Cp / Charles Petzold

How do plants get from one land mass to another? Here's one plausible answer from a man who actually performed the necessary experiments: Living birds can hardly fail to be highly effective agents in the transportation of seeds. I could give many facts showing how frequently birds of many kinds are blown by gales to vast distances across the ...

19. Motherhood  permalink

Motherhood
Www.salon.com

When I heard about Maclaren's recent recall of one kabillion strollers, I assumed Gawker.com was playing an elaborate prank on Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood. After all, the online snarkosphere has made urban blood sport of mocking the Slope's (exaggerated) reputation as New York's -- if not the planet's -- epicenter of über-coddled ...

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20. Tim O'Reilly and the Cassandra act  permalink

Tim O'Reilly and the Cassandra act
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source

There are real threats O'Reilly didn't mention. ESPN, for instance.