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Nwhite / Windows Vista Team Blog:
It's Official: Windows Vista RC1 Is Complete — This just in: Platforms and Services Co-President Jim Allchin has just now posted an announcement that RC1 is complete on the TechBeta/TAP site (note that it's password-protected). We're reproducing the text here so that you all can see his comments.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Phishing expedition at heart of AT&T hacking — When AT&T said in a press release this week that "unauthorized persons illegally hacked into a computer system and accessed personal data" from thousands of DSL customers, it wasn't telling the whole story. — Internal company documents show …
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Image Labeler — Google released the Google Image Labeler game. The idea is that you will be labeling images along with a random partner, in real-time. When you both find the same keywords, you score points and advance to the next round. A high-score table shows who scored the most points.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Images Labeler: Google's Challenge To Flickr? — Google Blogoscoped spotted the Google Image Labeler game, designed to help Google improve its image search results through tagging. It feels like a catch-up game with human-powered efforts that Yahoo is embracing via Flickr …
Loud Thinking:
Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky — Joel Spolsky is a good writer. I've thoroughly enjoyed many of his pieces. Language Wars is not one of them. Actually, let me recant that. It's not entirely true. I did enjoy his latest piece on one level.
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Language Wars — An old friend emailed me to ask: … Ah, an excellent question, simultaneously impossible to answer and very easy to answer! — Sorry, I should stop speaking in riddles. A while ago I wrote an article called Lord Palmerston on Programming in which I claimed …
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Wal-Mart and Apple Battle for Turf — The retail behemoth isn't happy about the iPod maker's plans to offer movie downloads through iTunes. Has Wal-Mart met its match? — The guy from Bentonville, Ark., surely isn't on any of Hollywood's leading man lists.
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Arik Hesseldahl / BusinessWeek Online:Exclusive: Movie Downloads on iTunes By Mid-September
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Jo Best / CNET News.com:
Samsung claims to have cracked 4G — Samsung is claiming to have cracked 4G, while most of the mobile industry couldn't tell you what it is yet. — The electronics giant planned to demonstrate the high-speed technology at the Samsung 4G Forum, which runs through Friday on Jeju Island, South Korea.
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Reuters:
Brazil judge orders Google to disclose users' data —Text+SAO PAULO, Brazil, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge has ordered the local office of Web search company Google (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) to disclose the data of users of Google's social networking site Orkut accused of crimes like racism or child pornography.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
It's the small things at Google that impress — I visited the Googleplex for the third time yesterday. I'm still thinking through what I learned that was different from prior trips. More later (they didn't have me sign an NDA, so I can share whatever I learned with you …
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CNET News.com:
Intel expected to cut thousands of jobs — update Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini is expected to announce a massive layoff as soon as Tuesday that could eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs, CNET News.com has learned. — The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker, having suffered several …
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AppleInsider:
Intel's Merom to power Apple's next-gen iMacs — Apple Computer in September plans to unveil a new line of iMac computers with faster processors and a little surprise to boot, AppleInsider has learned. — It will be the third time the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has introduced upgrades …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Breaking: MySpace to Sell Music From 3 Million Bands — In a direct challenge to Apple's iTunes, MySpace has announced its intention to sell songs from the 3 million unsigned bands on MySpace.com. Even more surprising: the songs will be sold as unprotected MP3s, free from DRM.
Daniel Lyons / Forbes:
The New Barbarians — Free software. Bargain chips. The always-on Internet. Today's tech giants are in danger. But the next big boom has already begun. — William Coleman doesn't need to make another fortune in high-tech. He is 58 years old and—twice—has earned more than enough money to retire.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
From Google to Kaboodle — That's Courtney Hohne, PR manager at Google (she's pulling some of the hard-to-come-by Google stickers out of her bag to give to me, gotta love a PR person who hands out swag. I promptly stuck one on my tripod). — Her claim to fame?
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Samsung Q1P UMPC adds a missing link: HSDPA — Two short weeks ago we heard about the Samsung Q1-SSD with flash drive and the Q1b which will sport a Via processor. Get ready for the Q1P, which will also have a Via CPU but adds HDSPA connectivity. The announcement just hit at the IFA show …
Shelley / The Bb Gun:
What will work — Both Tara Hunt and The Head Lemur have written on the Office 2.0 conference and the fact that of the 53 speakers, only one is a woman. Exactly one. — This isn't a conference on esoteric technology where the participants rush out and say, 'There are no women who do X', whatever 'X' is.
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nortel.com:
NORTEL ADVANCES BUSINESS STRATEGY WITH PROPOSED SALE OF UMTS ACCESS BUSINESS TO ALCATEL — REFINES FOCUS ON NEXT-GENERATION MOBILITY — TORONTO - Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT] announced that it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding for the sale of its UMTS access business to Alcatel …
