RossCode Weekly #031 - 01.04.2006

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Previously on RCW - 1:14
Big screen to small screen in 10 days?(#030)
Sony settles rootkit class action suit?(#025)
Nielsen expects for PVR ratings Jan. 4th?(#030)
A fourth NTP patent rejected?(#022)
Treo 700w arrives?(#020)
Yahoo adds vidcasts to podcast service?(#022)

News & Views - 6:40
Intel Inside no more: Leap Ahead
Typo Squatters gaming Google Adsense
Google turns 7
More Google / AOL details
aol.google.com works
Reuters allows bloggers to use?video feeds
Spam list sued for being too stringent
Viacom splits in two

The Cold Wars - 12:21
ABC News to be be webcast
Disney adds more content to iTunes
NBC promises to add content to iTunes
XM adds voice control
Music industry facing probes of price fixing
Technorati adds new features
Yahoo launches Open Shortcuts
AOL expands LinkToPC beta
Opera chooses Google as search partner
Dell bundling Firefox with new computers

The Grapevine -?20:10
AT&T to buy EchoStar?
Microsoft tried to buy Yahoo for $80,000,000,000
RIM pushing for Flight Mode addition to mobile devices

Odds & Ends?- 23:56
Google's 2005 Zeitgeist
TiVo practical joke
Guess Vista's launch date, and you get to go to the launch!
Yahoo to launch tech reality show online

Bonehead of the Week - 27:35
Victims mistakenly told prisoners were released
UK Police can't get computers to share info until 2010!
Using text messages to sell drugs
Steal a phone and lead the cops to you

Next Time - 30:34
CES starts Thursday!
DirecTV to announce partnership to mobilize content
Starz to offer portable movie download service
Motorola's iRadio
Google PC? Google OS?
No Google PC
Skype and Panasonic team up
Scientific Atlantic to offer Direct-To-DVD set top box
Quick Hits?
Microsoft Media Center to support regular and HD programming on DirecTV

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