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The leak is apparently real

This afternoon, news sites are abuzz with rumors that some or all the source code for Windows NT and 2000 leaked out onto the Internet.
I find it hard to believe that source code would leak. After all, companies put source code under lock and key, typically with no outside access available. [...]

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How many emails has your spam filter picked with with ‘hello’ as the subject in the past few weeks… I can’t even count that high, it’s so many. As I clear things up, I can’t help but think of the episode in Seinfeld when Uncle Leo gets arrested shoplifting. It’s the same one [...]

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We just saw an amazing car chase on the news…
The story broke through live and we watched the chase for about 15 minutes (the whole chase was about 25 minutes). The driver who turned out to be an older looking man, was wanted for aggravated assault and decided to run. The guy [...]

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Ed Hardy has had an intensive education on the next version of the Palm OS at the PalmSource Conference and he now brings us his first impressions. [Brighthand]
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Seems like a very nice frame… though as you might expect it’s also pretty expensive.
PhotoVu LLC on Thursday introduced the PhotoVu PV1900, a custom-made 19-inch wireless digital picture frame. The device is used to display digital photography in homes or businesses, mounted on a wall like a regular picture frame and capable of retrieving [...]

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By this Friday, all offers for AT&T Wireless must be made. There have been a ton of reports on who’s doing what, so we’ve compiled the best from the last few weeks to get you up to speed: [MobileTracker]
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The company’s failure to capitalize on the digital revolution in entertainment is a key factor in the company’s vulnerability to the hostile takeover bid by cable giant Comcast. [CNET News.com - Entertainment & Media]
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Nokia certainly seems to get it…have to see what future developments lie in Symbian now that they really control it.

A few notes on keynote by Pertti Korhonen “Life Goes Mobile” CTO Nokia Corporation
Three themes: Differences between PC and Mobile, moving to a p2p medium, importance of open standards and user creativity.
Differences between PC and [...]

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This is very cool stuff from the Mouse.
Ross Mayfield explains how Disney is using RSS enclosures. [Scripting News]
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I was literally thinking about this today in the shower… so weird to be on the same page!
Is the shower or bathroom one of your most productive places in terms of idea generation? Never sure how to best capture new concepts? Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools recommends using a dive slate… [Fast Company Now]
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Whoa Whoa Whoa!
Comcast has made a bid to merge with Walt Disney in a stock swap that the world’s largest cable operator said values Disney at $54.1 billion. The merger is hinged on broadband synergies, according to the statement released by Comcast. Comcast said the combination would create the world’s No. 1 entertainment and communications [...]

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Via [infoSync]
This is out of control…
Some kid figured out a way to back up a PS game as a pure ISO file and serve it over wifi to a PocketPC … there he plays the game with a PS emulator. pretty sick. I can’t imagine that the battery on a PPC lasts very [...]

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There are some fairly significant new features in the next version of the Palm OS. But there are some equally significant things that haven’t been changed. And there’s one change that Mac OS X users aren’t going to like. [Brighthand]
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Audible has released new AudibleReady devices that allow Mac OS X users running iTunes 4 to download and listen to audiobooks, audio editions of newspapers, magazines and more onto audio-enabled handhelds from palmOne and Sony running Palm OS 5… [MacMinute]
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OS 6 devices are going to be packing a nice punch! This enhanced graphics chip along with teh BeOS multimedia capabilities should make for a very capable handheld.
PalmSource and NVIDIA today announced plans to enhance the graphics
acceleration in Palm Powered smart mobile devices running Palm OS Cobalt
and Palm OS Garnet. NVIDIA will bring their [...]

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It’s finally available….
palmOne today announced that the award-winning Treo 600 smartphone is now available to T-Mobile USA customers. The phone can now be ordered online and at retail, with a limited time upgrade discount available to previous Treo owners. [PalmInfocenter]
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The big news for this year’s PalmSource Developer’s Conference, which starts today, is expected to be the release of all the details of the next version of the Palm OS. [Brighthand]
All good things lie ahead… include threading for mulit-tasking (get your email in the background…), protected memory (so it won’t crash while doing this), roaming [...]

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The Clie TH55 is Sony’s first model that offers a HVGA screen in a handheld with the traditional tablet design. It also includes a camera and Wi-Fi, though not Bluetooth. Brighthand’s Ed Hardy brings us this review. [Brighthand]
Looks good… Larger than the T3, but apparently with better batter life. No bluetooth, [...]

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Timing sounds right for a Palm OS 6 release…
A new article has been published which confirms and earlier PalmInfocenter story about Sony planning to use Organic LED display technology in a future handheld. The report claims Sony has developed a new OLED display to be used in a yet unnamed PDA line sometime in the [...]

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Seems Nokia phones are more likely to be susectible, but there are plenty of Sony Ericsson phones in the list as well.
While the hype over “bluejacking” via Bluetooth connections was quite overblown compared to what could be done with it, now security folks are warning about “bluesnarfing”. Apparently, there’s a security flaw that would [...]

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