Filed under: Portable Audio Back by popular demand, it’s the Walmart DRM servers! You heard right — just days after Wally World announced its plans to turn the screw on its digital rights management servers, we’re now being shown a big “just kidding.” According to an e-mail (posted in full after the break) sent out to previous downloaders, the mega-corp be leaving things as-is for the foreseeable future, and it’s all because of “feedback from the customers.” In other words, those actions it urged you to take late last month are no longer required, though we’d still back those tracks up on CD just in case.

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Walmart has a change of heart, decides to maintain DRM servers

Yesterday Sequoia Capital and Ron Conway communicated with their portfolio companies to guide them through troubled times.

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Benchmark Capital Advises Startups To Conserve Capital, Look For Opportunities

Despite Microsoft denying any plans to develop a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360 at least a million times now, rumors are surfacing that the company’s already made one and just needs to decide on a release date.

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Unlikely Rumor Says Microsoft Contracting Toshiba Venture For Xbox 360 Blu-Ray Drive [Rumor]

Ars Technica did an in-depth investigation into the numbers behind the war against piracy and found that Congress might as well be telling people counterfeit goods cost the economy eleventy billion zillion, for all the truth behind its figures. The oft invoked $250 billion and 750,000 jobs lost because of intellectual property theft have been repeated for over a decade, with virtually no research to back it up. It’s not just industry groups like the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition that’s quoting them either.

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Numbers Behind the War on Piracy Could Be Completely Bogus [War On Piracy]

Filed under: Ask Engadget , Displays Tim from Australia sent in a question via our super-sophisticated submission method (that’d be e-mailing one in to ask at engadget dawt com ) regarding e-readers, and given that Sony just pushed out a new one of its own, we found this one particularly timely: “I’m starting a PhD next year and I’m looking to get an e-book reader so I can read PDFs of journal articles on the bus. It would have to be readable in direct sunlight and have a display large enough to read pages of about 400 to 500 words. Stylishness would also be nice

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Ask Engadget: What’s the best e-book reader?

Apparently the laser alarm clock idea, where you stop your clock’s incessant ringing by shooting a bullseye with a laser gun, was popular enough to warrant a second coming. Bandai will be releasing its new version, titled Gun O’ Clock, on November 15th in Japan. Gun O’Clock lacks the little man from the original, but features two wake-up modes: Normal and Hard.

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New Laser Alarm Clock Features Normal, Hard Modes [Wake Up And Die]

With the economy slipping closer to rock bottom every day now, many of us are going to have to start cutting back on our day-to-day expenditures. Cue Voice2Insight’s The Expense Tracker , an online expense tracking system that makes entering every transaction as easy as calling a phone number and saying a few words. Most expense trackers require users to input their daily transactions from their computers, which is time consuming and requires an impressive memory (or very organized receipts)

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Wallet Feeling A Little Light? Check Out The Expense Tracker

The first Consumer Electronics Live will be held this Cotober here in Manila. Slated to happen between October 24 and 26, 2008, CEL Manila will showcase the latest products in the tech industry — from digital imaging, audio/video, computing, home entertainment, mobile, wireless and automotive industry

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Consumer Electronics Live! Manila 2008

Private equity fund Mithras Capital, which holds 1.9 million shares of Yahoo (about 0.14%), will propose to Microsoft that they buy Yahoo at $22 per share, Reuters reports . Microsoft would then unload Yahoo’s Asian assets adn non-search businesses, take $3 billion worth of cost savings and some tax benefits, and end up with Yahoo’s search business for $10.3 billion. Microsoft is obviously thrilled to see this kind of corporate chaos at Yahoo, although they are unlikely to even respond to the proposal.

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Yahoo Shareholder Asks Microsoft To Re-Bid At $22. Good Luck With That.

Filed under: Cellphones We tell ya, these unboxers are really stepping up their game of late. Easily topping that trunk lid episode we saw back in July, this Nokia N85 unboxing sees one N85 film another N85’s initial escape from cardboard purgatory…

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Nokia’s N85 films rooftop unboxing of another N85