Friday, October 12, 2007

Comcast Starts Rolling Out TiVo Boxes (Digital Trends)

It's been more than two years' coming, but Comcast is finally beginning to deploy set-top cable boxes employing TiVo DVR technology.

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Universal Music Takes on iTunes (BusinessWeek)

Universal chief Doug Morris is enlisting other big music players for a service to challenge the Jobs juggernaut.

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Internet growing at record pace, Apache losing ground quickly (TG Daily)

The Internet is growing on a faster rate than ever before and is quickly approaching a size of 150 million websites, according to survey results released by Netcraft. Apache remains the most popular software running web servers, but it is surrendering market shares to Microsoft and Google at a dramatic rate.

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Technologies We're Glad Are Dead (CIO.com)

It's easy to cry over the products we loved and lost. But let's take time to appreciate the many ways in which technology really has improved, and the many geeky things we no longer need to worry about.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Open borders sought for virtual worlds (Reuters)

Interoperability is emerging as a key goal of the nascent virtual world industry, which attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in investment on the hopes that video-game graphics and rich 3-D environments will supplant flat Web pages.

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Adobe Acrobat, Reader vulnerable to hacks (CNET News.com)

Adobe Systems, whose software is used by millions of people to read documents sent over the Internet, said some of its programs contain a flaw that makes personal computers vulnerable to attack.

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