Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project  —  Electronic Arts announced yesterday plans to donate the original version of the SimCity computer game to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project so that it can be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries on OLPC’s XO laptop.

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Ryan Paul
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Update: Russian hacker gang vanishes day after moving to China  —  Infamous Russian Business Network may be breaking into smaller bits  —  The shadowy hacker and malware hosting network that only recently fled Russia to set up operations in China has now pulled the plug there and vanished yet again, researchers said late Friday.

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Blogworld  —  I am watching as the blogging world crucifies me for not attending Blogworld in Las Vegas this week.  —  Here is why I didn’t attend Blogworld in Las Vegas this week:  —  I never agreed to attend the conference.  —  I would really appreciate it if the organizers of Blogworld would post something […]

Northeastern sues Google over patent  —  University, Waltham license holder say they own technology  —  A law firm told patent holder Northeastern and license holder Jarg Corp. that Google was using their technology.  (Barry Chin/Globe Staff/File 2004)  —  Text size - +

Source:   Boston Globe
Author:   Hiawatha Bray
Link:   http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles…

F.C.C. Planning Rules to Open Cable Market  —  The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to impose significant new regulations to open the cable television market to independent programmers and rival video services after determining that cable companies have become too dominant in the industry, senior commission officials said.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Stephen Labaton
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That’s Your AIM in My GTalk  —  It is amazing that we still have major instant messaging platforms that don’t talk to one another.  Yahoo and Microsoft got their two systems to work with each other more than a year ago, but AOL is still working on interoperability issues with those two.

Source:   TechCrunch
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Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up  —  A couple of weeks ago, Edelman marketing strategist Steve Rubel declared the Web 2.0 world to be skunk drunk on its own Kool Aid.  But I’ve seen signs of sobriety recently.  Kleiner Perkins has said no more Web 2.0 startups.

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Anne Zelenka
Link:   http://gigaom.com/2007/11/09/web-20-manages-to-sober…