Office 2007 sp1 ready for download today  —  Today sp1 ships. hurray.  It’s not up there yet but should be later today.  Also the kb articles for each patch don’t seem to be live at this moment but should also appear later on today.  —  Looking down the list of fixes, here are some that […]

Amazon.com Enhances Payment Options with Bill Me Later  —  SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced it has signed an agreement with Bill Me Later, Inc., a leading provider of alternative payment technologies, to make the Bill Me Later payment option available on the Amazon.com website.

Source:   Business Wire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071211/20071211005292.html

Plaxo Offers Pulse Plugin For Outlook  —  Plaxo has announced a new plugin that brings Plaxo Pulse to Microsoft Outlook.  —  Plaxo is claiming the new service is “historic;” its an extremely long stretch but this isn’t to say that the functionality isn’t interesting.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/11/plaxo-offers…

RIAA: Those CD rips of yours are still “unauthorized”  —  Those MP3 and AAC files that you’ve ripped from your CD collection are still “unauthorized copies” in the eyes of the recording industry.  In a brief filed late last week, the RIAA said that the MP3 files on a PC owned by a file-sharing defendant […]

RIAA Argues That MP3s From CDs Are Unauthorized  —  The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them.  We are not responsible for them in any way.  —  OK, here is the deal… I just bought over $200 worth of music on CD and I absolutely guarantee …

Source:   Slashdot: Your Rights […]

Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home  —  BELLEVUE, Washington — Tom Van Baak’s spare upstairs bedroom looks like a cross between the control center of a remote polar outpost and the inner sanctum of a Victorian mad scientist.  In reality, it’s a home-built lab dedicated to the study of time.

Source:   Wired […]

Smut vid outfit sues PornoTube  —  The Register Desktop Support Seminar - Live & Online 11th December (10am PST)  —  A major producer of adult videos yesterday filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court against YouTube clone PornoTube for “allowing its users to post videos that include copyrighted material”.

Source:   The Register
Author:   Lester […]

Some Conversations have shifted to Twitter  —  Twitter is one of the top referrers of traffic to my blog, over 2000 referrers from twitter to my blog in the last 30 days…there’s something happening there.  —  I’ve also noticed and increase of new users over the past 30 days, feel free to add me as […]

NBC Jumps Into SanDisk’s Fanfare TV Download Service [Digital Downloads]  —  NBC Jumps Into SanDisk’s Fanfare TV Download Service  —  Though you can no longer buy episodes of “The Office,” “Heroes” or “30 Rock” on iTunes, you will be able to purchase them in January from SanDisk’s Fanfare service.

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Wilson Rothman
Link:   […]

Latitude XT Details  —  Lots of folks have been waiting for us to release more details on the Latitude XT Tablet PC.  My first brief post about it has received more than 400 comments and has gone on to become the #1 most viewed post in Direct2Dell’s history.

Source:   Direct2Dell
Author:   Lionel Menchaca
Link:   http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/10…