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HP's first 13.3-inch Pavilion vs. the competition
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:34:18 -0700
HP is shipping its first laptop with a 13.3-inch widescreen display. The HP Pavilion dv3500t series is already available on HP's site starting at $1,000, and a slightly higher-end configuration, the dv3520nr, is available for pre-order at Best Buy for $1,200. Other sites have reported that this model will be...
A new mystery: What's Microsoft got up its Office Live sleeve?
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:22:06 -0700
It sounds like Microsoft has yet another Professional Developers Conference PDC announcement percolating -- beyond the Windows 7, Oslo, cloud OS (Red Dog/Zurich) and Mesh Platform stuff about which the company already has been dropping hints. by Mary Jo Foley
Google talks efficient data centers
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:18:32 -0700
Google is known as a search titan, but its real business is running data centers. On Wednesday, Google handed out a few key tips as it touted its data center efficiency and sustainability efforts. In a blog post, Google's senior vice president of operations Urs Hölzle outlined...
Apple strikes back against Psystar, asks for counterclaim to be dismissed
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:17:23 -0700
Apple has hit back against claims made by Mac-clone maker Psystar that the company is operating in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act and will be asking the U.S. District Court judge to dismiss to dismiss the counterclaim. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Microsoft HealthVault offers the nickel tour
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:08:55 -0700
Nolan insists that "third party applications" will be what get HealthVault over the top, and it's in making those available that he hopes the system will prove its value. by Dana Blankenhorn
Student Technology Day: "Windows Cloud" revealed
Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:47:18 -0700
Steve Ballmer was next door in the Queen Elizabeth Hall talking to the TechNet/TechEd people about Office Live, and mentioning that there would be a major announcement at the PDC on the 27th October. Once he finished there, he popped next door and told us a similar thing. ...

 

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:CluelessCat? - Thanks to a (previously) little-known company called Digital Convergence, we now have our latest attack on the right to program. [Linux Weekly News]
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A scanner darkly - Can Wired's CueCat giveaway turn us into a nation of bar-code-reading clerks? [Salon.com]

Barcode Maker Responds After Forcing Drivers Offline - Digital Convergence responds to the flak that they've taken after demanding that several developers take drivers offline that work with their CueCat barcode reader. [Slashdot]
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404 Cat and Mouse Games - A little of this convergence stuff goes a long way. Face it, when media outlets as dissimilar as Parade (that magazine supplement in your Sunday newspaper) and Slashdot.org (News for nerds. Stuff that matters.) start covering the same stories, maybe it's time to head out for Idaho. [Dr. Dobb's Journal]
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CueCat At It Again - . Michael Rothwell (the author of Foocat) wrote in to tell us that our friends at Digital Convergence are not giving up on their quest to defend their 3rd grader calibre encryption of their intellectual property. [Slashdot]
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CueCat Goes After Online Barcode Database - Just noted that CueCat is going for this year's Useless Legal Action Beanie by going after www.upcdatabase.com, a site that is storing UPC codes and allows people to look them up. [Slashdot]
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CueCat PAM Module for Linux - The pam_cuecat module reads decoded bar codes from /dev/scanners/cuecat, looks up the username:barcode_type:barcode line in /etc/cuecatpasswd, and returns whether or not this user has been authenticated.

CueCat Rollout Proceeds Amid Debate - Bar codes for Internet scanners called CueCats made their latest debut in print Sunday in The Dallas Morning News, even as the creators of this new technology grapple with concerns about privacy and ease of use. [Washington Post]

Digital Convergence Changes EULA, and Gets Cracked - Apparently Digital Convergence has changed their EULA. This EULA has been modified to include the CueCat reader in an attempt to shutdown those tinkering with their cats. [Slashdot]
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Here's a Digit for You - [Dallas Observer]
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Killing your CueCat - A humorous protest of Digital Convergence's CueCat product featuring satirical parodies of ads and their license agreement plus alternate uses/gratuitous destruction of the controversial barcode scanner.
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More on the :CueCat - The :CueCat is a classic example of a broken business model. One can no longer (if, indeed, one ever could) put out a piece of hardware with the expectation that people will not seek to improve its operation with new software. [Linux Weekly News]
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404 Perl and :CueCat Help You Roll Your Own Data Capture - By Brent Michalski.
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Privacy Concerns and The CueCat - About the serial number and how to remove it. [Slashdot]
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404 Surfing Off the Page - Forbes magazine last week shipped its 810,000 subscribers a new computer gadget it hopes will turn its pages into a new form of hyperlink to the Internet, as part of an experiment aimed at bridging the divide between old and new media. [Washington Post]

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag - Finally, I want to add my voice to the cacophony (cat-ophony?) of complaints, grouses, and amazement at the proliferation of the :CueCat from Digital Convergence. [Byte]

The Clause of the CueCat/Legal Language Could Shut Down Hardware Tinkerers - This unimpressive little gadget has recently become the heart of a controversy involving independent software developers. The outcome could potentially set a new precedent in how consumers control and use the products they bring home. [SF Gate]

404 Turning CueCat Into a Cool Cat - If you build it, someone will inevitably hack it. In the computer business, most manufacturers object when hordes of spotty teenagers tinker with their products. [Wired]

Why the world needs reverse engineers - People engaged in reverse engineering are a check on the ability of companies to invade our privacy without our knowledge. [ZDNet]
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Will privacy kill the CueCat? - Concerns about its data-collection practices threaten Digital:Convergence's plans to roll out 50 million of the bar-code scanners by 2002. [ZDNet]
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