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Thursday, February 03, 2005 |
Another big news day Tech news is pouring in via the RSS feeds. I hope you find something interesting today!
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Napster Goes Mobile. A new feature lets subscribers fill up their portable music players with as many songs as they want for 15 bucks a month. But will the technology seduce iPod lovers? By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
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Cell phone's for you...it's the judge. 44-year-old Aftab Ahmed was handed a groundbreaking sentence from the Ipswich Crown Court on Wednesday. But it's not the sentence itself that's been making headlines. It's the way the sentence was delivered: over Ahmed's mobile phone. [Missing Links] [CNET News.com]
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005 |
Area Codes Blur Boundaries. Calls can now be made from any area code no matter where the caller is actually located -- using cellular and internet phones. But doing business with pre-selected area codes has troublesome implications for some companies. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
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Monday, January 31, 2005 |
Lots of new news today There was lots of interesting new news today! Keep those excellent comments and summaries coming in!
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Passenger Screening, Take 10. The Transportation Security Administration continues to push for a centralized passenger-screening system, this time using a combination of airline passenger information, terrorist watch lists and junk-mail databases. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]
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Open Source Means Business. Slowly but surely, companies are bringing open-source software out of the data center, onto the desktop, and into their employees' daily routines. [Linux Pipeline]
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Time Warner Cable Plans To Carry AOL. Time Warner Cable plans to offer America Online's services and a customized version of its portal in a deal that's expected to boost the cable company's Internet business and expand AOL's advertising footprint. [InternetWeek]
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Euro PC makers shun 'reduced media' Windows. The European Commission is battling to ensure that a new, "reduced" version of Microsoft's Windows operating system will appear palatable to customers, but its efforts may be in vain: Most of Europe's biggest PC makers said they don't plan to offer the software anyway. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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The Revolution Will Be Podcasted. Philippe Boucher:
Thank you for providing a podcast of the weekly Democratic address. Where do you pick up the MP3? I asked the governor's staff where I could find it and they were unable to tell me.
I started this project after fruitlessly looking for an official source. As far as I can tell, my podcast is the first attempt to distribute and archive the opposition party's weekly response on the Web.
I pick up the audio from one of several streaming radio stations that run the speech each Saturday. One place you can hear it is C-Span Radio, which broadcasts the president's speech and the Democratic response beginning at around 2:50 p.m. Eastern.
A week after I began doing this in January, I received an e-mail from a staffer at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee who is working to set up a multimedia server for stuff like this.
I also have communicated with Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid's war room, a new "rapid-response" communications center for Senate Democrats that includes its own television and radio studio.
I've offered to help one of these groups produce regular podcasts, because it's frustrating watching Democrats struggle to get their message out without the bully pulpit of the White House, control of Congress, or its own house organ. [Workbench]
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