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Obama makes play for videogamers (AFP)AFP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has made a play for online videogamers, placing campaign advertisements in a series of popular titles from videogame giant Electronic Arts. Full text |
IBM confident on profit, looks to emerging markets (Reuters)
IBM profits up, 'confident' for year (AFP)
Review: `Max Payne' — the name says it all (AP)
IBM services and software sales up as hardware falls (Reuters)
US shifts Visa Waiver Program authorization to Internet (AFP)
Google Open About Kill Switch in Android Phones (NewsFactor)
No interest in Yahoo: Microsoft (AFP)
Nokia to make $2.29 billion payment to Qualcomm (Reuters)
Nokia profit below consensus, outlook soothes market (Reuters)
NewsFactor - On Thursday, the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to vote on a request by the National Music Publishers Association to increase the royalties paid to its members for online music sales. Artists are currently paid a royalty of nine cents and want the CRB to increase it to 15 cents. Full text
Reuters - Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are the questions the Slacker portable digital music player will have to answer when it hits U.S. stores this month in time for the lucrative holiday season. Full text
AP - Apple Inc. will no longer force iPhone software developers to sign a nondisclosure agreement that many had said was hampering their ability to work. Full text
AP - Could playing computer games enhance mental agility enough to turn people over 50 into better drivers? Allstate Corp. wants to find out, and if the answer is yes, it might offer insurance discounts to people who play the games. Full text
InfoWorld - Ross Mayfield??, founder of Socialtext, unveiled this week version 3.0 of his company's enterprise wiki, which promises to make the corporate directory a social networking tool for the workplace. Full text
CNET - Apple has decided to end the nondisclosure agreement attached to software that has already been released for the iPhone, in the latest sign that it is starting to take developer concerns to heart. Full text
AP - Congress has passed a bill intended to crack down on rogue online pharmacies that sell drugs without a valid prescription. Full text
CNET - For fans of the Electronic Arts franchise Command and Conquer looking forward to the spinoff game, Tiberium, I'm afraid I have some bad news. Full text
Reuters - IBM shares tumbled 6 percent on Wednesday, their biggest drop in three years, on concern the world's biggest computer services company's results missed Wall Street targets in the quarter that ended Sept 30. Full text
AP - Promises of the paperless office have been circulating ever since the first IBM clones started showing up on desks in the early 1980s. Yet we're still tied to printed documents and there's no sign that's going to change. Full text