Amazon’s Kindle Makes Buying E-Books Easy, Reading Them Hard  —  Companies have failed for many years to produce a successful electronic reader, a dedicated device that would do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music — allow you to carry around large numbers of titles and enjoy them in a convenient way.

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.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7)  —  Last week we shipped Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5.  This release is a big one for .NET, and delivers a ton of new capabilities and improvements for web, client, office and mobile development.  —  Over the next few months we’ll …

Source:   ScottGu’s Blog
Author:   Scott […]

Why You Can’t Get Your Hands on a Wii  —  Brace yourself for another cranky Christmas, when hopeful children get up early only to discover there’s no Wii under the tree.  —  The Nintendo console’s broad appeal — and a maxed-out supply chain that can’t be ramped up to meet holiday demands …

Source:   Wired […]

‘Bot Roast II’ Nets 8 Individuals  —  Second Phase of Ongoing Cyber Investigation Reveals More Than $20 Million in Economic Loss and More Than One Million Victimized Computers.  Public Urged To Take Precaution.  —  The FBI today announced the results of the second phase of its continuing investigation …

Source:   Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Verizon Selects LTE As 4G Wireless Broadband Direction  —  Technology Platform to be Trialed in 2008  —  BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon today announced plans to develop and deploy its fourth generation mobile broadband network using LTE - Long Term Evolution - the technology developed within …

Source:   Verizon
Link:   http://news.vzw.com/news/2007/11/pr2007-11-29.html

Apple to Unveil Faster IPhone, AT&T’s Stephenson Says  —  Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said.  —  The device will operate …

Source:   Bloomberg
Author:   Crayton Harrison
Link:   http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid…

Straight Out Of Left Field: Google Experimenting With Digg Style Voting On Search Results  —  If you saw this one coming, give yourself a very large prize.  Google is experimenting with Digg style voting features on search results that allow users to vote up or bury search results they see.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
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Microsoft Challenges the iPod (Again)  —  Don’t look now, but Microsoft might finally be getting the hang of hardware.  —  The company’s overall track record for designing gadgets is pretty awful.  Remember the Smart Display?  The Spot Watch?  The Ultra-Mobile PC?  The original Zune?

Source:   New York Times
Author:   David Pogue
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/technology…

P2P Traffic Is Booming, BitTorrent The Dominant Protocol  —  Ipoque, a German based company that specializes in developing bandwidth managing solutions for Universities and ISPs concludes this from data they gathered between August and September 2007.  In total, over 3 Petabytes …

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-traffic-still-booming…

Google Digg-Style Experiment  —  Google Experimental is currently running an experiment that allows some selected users to “influence [the] search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results.”  —  On a result page, you can choose move a search result to the top by clicking …

Source:   Googlified
Author:   Haochi
Link:   http://googlified.com/2007google-digg-style…