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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft buys Windows utility software maker — update Microsoft on Tuesday said it has bought Winternals Software, a small maker of Windows utility programs, in a deal that the software maker hopes will add key technical talent to its operating system development team.
Discussion:
Jarrett House North, TechBlog, Neowin.net, Valleywag, Microsoft News Tracker, Randy Holloway Unfiltered and digg
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Microsoft Acquires Winternals Software — Company appoints operating systems kernel expert Mark Russinovich as technical fellow. — REDMOND, Wash. — July 18, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the acquisition of Winternals Software LP, a privately held company based in Austin …
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Nortel and Microsoft Form Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Transformation of Business Communications — Shared vision for unified communications to drive new growth opportunities for both companies. — REDMOND, WASH., and TORONTO—July 18, 2006—The convergence of the communications …
Discussion:
VoIP & Gadgets Blog, GigaOM, VoIP Now, Zoli's Blog, O'Reilly Emerging Telephony, Microsoft News Tracker and OnoTech
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Paying the top DIGG/REDDIT/Flickr/Newsvine users (or "$1,000 a month for doing what you're already doing.") — When Brian and I started Weblogs, Inc. the idea of paying bloggers—heck, even making money from blogging—was considered offensive to many. Blogging was, as the case was stated …
Oliver / MobileCrunch:
MoveDigital Means Movies on Your Mobile — Marshall from Techcrunch just tipped me off to some really big news for people with mobile devices...MoveDigital, a pioneering company that specializes in the movement storage and sharing of big files has just launched with new functionality …
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CNET News.com:
Symantec sees an Achilles' heel in Vista — Some of Microsoft's efforts to make Windows Vista its most stable and secure operating system ever could cause instability and new security flaws, according to a Symantec report. — Researchers at Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec examined …
The Consumerist:
AOL Retention Manual Revealed — In August of 2005, America Online settled with the office of NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over complaints about how arduous AOL made it to cancel service. In addition to a $1.25 million fine, AOL agreed to streamline the cancellation process and submit all calls for third-party review.
Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
No joy for Yahoo — World's No. 2 search engine reports results and guidance that disappoint investors; stock tumbles after-hours. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It looks like Yahoo! investors won't have any reason to yodel following the company's slightly disappointing second-quarter results …
cablevision.com:
Cablevision's Optimum Voice® Surpasses One Million Customers — Cable Industry's First Broadly-Deployed Competitive Voice-Over-Cable (VoIP) Service Has Already Attracted One-Third Of Cablevision's Cable Television Customers, And More Than Half Of Company's High-Speed Internet Customers
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Fractals of Change
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Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
Super-Asbos planned for cybercriminals … The Home Office is pushing for sweeping powers to ban suspected hackers from using the Internet, but security experts are concerned that civil liberties could be infringed — The Home Office wants to give the police and the courts sweeping new powers …
Mark Schumann / AdAge:
Full-Year 2005 Megabrands Report — Telecommunications Giants Lead the Pack — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Telecommunications giants pulled a trifecta in Advertising Age's ranking of the Top 200 Megabrands for 2005, not only claiming the top three spots by total media outlays but spending a heady $4 billion in doing so.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Sony's HDR-UX1 and HDR-SR1: Two AVCHD Camcorders — TiVo Confirms Series3 Testing, Hitting Retail "Soon" [Zatz Not Funny] — Sony's HDR-UX1 and HDR-SR1: Two AVCHD Camcorders — The HDR-UX1 and the HDR-SR1 are two camcorders from Sony that take advantage of the AVCHD format.
Saj / in.rediff.com:
Are Internet Service Providers blocking blogs? … What do you think about the story? — Sub: Wanted - World\'s largest IT destination need someone with common sense to create IT ACT — Seriously!! Long time back when IIT lad sold MMS, Baazee .com CEO flew from USA to help the Indian Cops and they arrested him, telling ...
mobileeurope.co.uk:
"ERR, I THINK IT'S A NOKIA" — 58% of mobile users don't know make and model of handset they own; indicates hinderance to advanced data services take-up … Accurate, real-time handset details enable operators to market relevant extra services with which the user's handset is actually compatible.
Discussion:
The Mobile Technology Weblog, textually.org, Darla Mack, Engadget Mobile and MocoNews.net
John Blossom / Shore Communications Inc.:
Can't Help Myself: AFP Content Still Picked up by Google News Through Syndication Channels — Macworld covers along with other IDG publications a "secret" that's been very public for months: in spite of action by Agence France-Presse against Google to remove AFP news from the Google News service …
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Google exec challenges Berners-Lee — A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence. — On Tuesday, Berners-Lee, the father of the Web and the current director of the World Wide Web Consortium …
Fred / A VC:
Where It's At In Music Discovery — People talk about Pandora and Last.fm as if they are the holy grail of music discovery. — Bob Lefsetz moans the loss of FM radio and drives around in his car listening to XM play 20 year old music and thinks XM is where it's at in digital music.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Vote for Bix (Or Not) — The easy availability of broadband and the sharp increase in the number of high-speed Internet users makes it a perfect time for entrepreneurs to experiment with content in general, and user generated content in particular, despite the lack of what could be sustainable business models.
Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:
Naked Conversations: A Long Tail Case Study? — Our book is ranked #575 on Amazon.com this morning. This is the highest it has ever been. A closer look at the publisher's retail numbers over the last 90 days, shows the book is doing what our publisher tells us— books do not usually do—come back from an oblivion trendline.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Tworl Connects Strangers via Instant Messaging — Tworl is an interesting, but potentially risky idea. The service, which is currently in limited beta, connects random users via IM. It's restricted to the AIM client for now, but support for Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk/Jabber and MSN Messenger is in the works - perhaps even Skype.
