The newswires come, as always, with gifts of Gold, Frankincense and Murder. But a few technological gems shine amid the endless pageant of woe:
The End Of The VCR Era [Yahoo! Techweb]
Expecting a glib summation? A simple "good riddance" will have to suffice.
"SNL" gives Cingular a ring [Reuters]
Cingular Wireless subscribers to get phone-delivered clips of the show that just isn't as funny as it used to be.
Ericsson to buy Redback Networks for $2.1 billion [Reuters]
The deal will "help telecommunications carriers lower costs and upgrade their networks." Gripping, visceral journalism.
YouTube to meet Japan media on copyright protest [Reuters]
Following complaints from Japanese media companies upset at YouTube's essential nature, the Google-owned firm plans to add a message in Japanese asking users not to upload copyrighted content, a move sure to immediately and irrevocably crush casual piracy at the media-sharing network.
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