Dell’s Latitude XT and XPS ONE make first public appearance  —  Dell fans, we’ve got some juicy meat for you to sink your teeth into.  During Michael Dell’s keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld today, the company unleashed (or at least demoed) its forthcoming all-in-one PC, creatively named the XPS One.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Joshua Topolsky
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Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows  —  Nearly half of enterprises have concrete plans to deploy Windows Vista, and 7 percent will have started by Dec. 31.  —  Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow over the next year …

Source:   eWEEK.com
Author:   Peter Galli
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Comcast Sued Over BitTorrent Blocking - UPDATED  —  A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company’s secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws …

Source:   Threat Level
Author:   Ryan Singel
Link:   http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/comcast-sued…

NewTeeVee: A Look At The Underlying Networks  —  Next up at NewTeeVee Live, a panel on underlying networks that carry Internet video, called “The Network Makerover.”  On the panel: Cisco’s (CSCO) Tony Bates; Akamai (AKAM) CTO Mike Afergan, Verizon’s (VZ) Jeff Harris, Hilmi Ozguc of Maven Networks and Grant van Rooyen of Level 3 (LVLT).

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WordPress Traffic Passes TypePad, Execs Getting Rich?  —  WordPress is now the No. 2 most-visited blog host, passing rival SixApart’s TypePad last month, according to the latest tally from Nielsen Online.  WordPress-hosted sites drew 11.4 million unique visitors last month …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Dan Frommer
Link:   http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/11/wordpress-traffic…

Announcement  —  1.8 million pages of federal case law to become freely available.  —  Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754.

Source:   public.resource.org
Link:   http://public.resource.org/case_law_announcement.html

Radio Google  —  Google’s phone plan begins a war with Verizon, Microsoft and the wishes of the feds.  —  Google’s November surprise will rattle the wireless industry for months.  On Nov. 5 the Mountain View, Calif. search giant announced that it had cobbled together an alliance …

Source:   Forbes
Author:   Quentin Hardy
Link:   http://members.forbes.com/forbes/2007/1126/048.html

Singing a New Zune  —  Microsoft’s Retooled Player Marks a Vast Improvement; However, It’s Still No iPod  —  November 14, 2007  —  by Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret  —  Last year, when Microsoft Corp. introduced its Zune music player to take on Apple’s iPod juggernaut, the software giant struck out.

Source:   The Mossberg Solution
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Ballmer Welcomes Google’s Android OS to “Microsoft’s World”  —  Ballmer has some more interesting insight into looking at the world through Microsoft-colored glasses.  —  At a recent Tokyo press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things to say about Google and its new Android OS …

Source:   DailyTech
Author:   Jason Mick
Link:   http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9642

‘Virtual theft’ leads to arrest  —  A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from “rooms” in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website.  —  The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money.

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7094764.stm