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October 3, 2006

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1. News: Software Activists to Target Apple in Anti-DRM Protests

2. Slide Show: Google Goes to Gotham: The New York Googleplex

3. News: Group Policy Gets New Windows: Microsoft Buys DesktopStandard

4. News: HP Says No Battery Recall Necessary

5. News: Robert Scoble: There Is Life After Microsoft

6. Review: Mandriva Linux Whiffs

7. Opinion: DRM May Mean Strange Anti-Apple Bedfellows

8. New 1TB Desktop External HD Goes for $500

9. Blog: The Million-Dollar Programmer

10. Morning Coffee: It's Hard to Build Things That Take Care of Themselves

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News and Views

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1. News: Software Activists to Target Apple in Anti-DRM Protests

Members of DefectiveByDesign.org, a campaign by the

Free Software Foundation, are set to descend on flagship

Apple stores in New York and London to protest the company's

embrace of digital rights management technology.

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2. Slide Show: Google Goes to Gotham: The New York Googleplex

They say the neon lights are bright at Google's new Big Apple

offices. Get ready Madison Avenue: Google can make it anywhere.

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3. News: Group Policy Gets New Windows: Microsoft Buys DesktopStandard

The acquisition of the group policy-based enterprise desktop

management product developer is designed to help customers

leverage the value of policy-based management and their

investments in Active Directory.

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4. News: HP Says No Battery Recall Necessary

HP says it will not issue a recall, despite efforts by several of

its competitors to replace millions of notebook PC battery packs.

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5. News: Robert Scoble: There Is Life After Microsoft

By blogging for the world's largest software company, he

changed the way companies communicate with the world

and became an industry celebrity in the process. Now

Robert Scoble is ready to talk about what he learned inside

the belly of the beast.

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6. Review: Mandriva Linux Whiffs

Corporate Server 4 has ambitious plans for Xen, OpenVZ

and VMware, but other Linux distros offer more mature

integration.

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Slide Show: Mandriva's Linux Corporate Server 4

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7. Opinion: DRM May Mean Strange Anti-Apple Bedfellows

It's hunting season on Apple's iTunes and iPod juggernaut.

That may make for some strange bedfellows.

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8. New 1TB Desktop External HD Goes for $500

How low in price--and high in capacity--will storage devices get?

A new external drive can store up to 1.5TB of data and

files for $1K.

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9. Blog: The Million-Dollar Programmer

Netflix is offering $1 million to anyone who can improve

their recommendation software. Think you have what

it takes?

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10. Morning Coffee: It's Hard to Build Things That Take Care of Themselves

Monday's news item on cellular phone device security

brings to mind the long and rarely proud history of devices

that try to take an active part in preventing their own misuse.

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