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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
Apple Announces iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition — Portion of Proceeds Contributed to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS — Apple® today announced the iPod® nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition. (RED) was created by U2 lead singer, Bono and Bobby Shriver to engage business …
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Motorola:
Sprint Joins Motorola, (PRODUCT) RED™ and the Global Fund to Help Fight AIDS in Africa with Upcoming U.S. Availability of RED MOTORAZR™ — RED MOTORAZR on high-speed Power Vision network benefits (RED); offers exclusive Sprint content and live television channels
Microsoft:
Microsoft Says on Track to Release Windows Vista on Schedule — New operating system will be released in Europe and Korea on schedule, following "constructive dialogue" with competition authorities. — Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that it is on track to deliver Windows Vista&trade …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:No, there's no ban on virtual Vista
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Windows-Now.com, Download Squad, TechBlog, Engadget, Windows Vista Weblog and Paul's Down-Home Page
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
SOUR GRAPES: TIME TO SUETUBE? — Surprise: Time Warner is rattling copyright sabers (BoingBoing) over Google's acquisition of YouTube. Let's pull back and take a look at this, shall we? Time Warner not only owns a s**tload of content that is now playing on YouTube, it also owns AOL …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:Value is in the eyes of the beholder
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Mike / Techdirt:When Negotiating A Deal With YouTube, First Threaten To Sue Them...
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Mathew Ingram
Jane Martinson / Guardian:Google faces copyright fight over YouTube
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Download Squad, CNNMoney.com, PVR Wire, Mashable!, IP Democracy, Google Watch, Joe Duck, SEO Book.com, Screenwerk, Search Engine Watch Blog, IPcentral Weblog, GigaOM and DV Guru
Todd Weiss / Computerworld:
Could a 30-in. monitor help you do your job faster? — A French IT consultant says yes, but productivity experts disagree — October 10, 2006 (Computerworld) — Providing employees with 30-in. computer monitors can boost worker productivity at companies where 17- or 19-in. monitors are typically used …
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Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
TV Spectrum to Be Opened for Other Uses — The FCC agrees to give technology companies some access to the white space between channels for wireless devices. — WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday struck a compromise that would give technology companies some access …
Christian Zappone / CNNMoney.com:
Help! YouTube is killing my business! — An Ohio company's sales get 'killed' as YouTube surfers cripple utube.com, a pipe equipment seller's web site. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — One place where YouTube's success isn't being celebrated is in the offices of Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp. near Toledo, Ohio.
Murlocker / Urlocker On Disruption:
Sony's 3Ds: Downgraded, Delayed and Disrupted —What Went Wrong? — Sony Corp. was the great innovator in consumer electronics for 30 years, but you'd never know it reading the latest headlines or watching the stock: — Sony bonds Downgraded by Fitch in anticipation of further financial weakness
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Mark Evans
J Mark Lytle / Digital World Tokyo:
Fujitsu laptops also ditching hard drives for flash — Fujitsu will soon join two other major PC makers in putting on sale a portable computer that uses flash memory in place of the traditional hard-disk drive. — The company will offer a 16GB or 32GB flash memory disk as an option …
Michael Kanellos / ZDNet:
Transmeta hits Intel with patent suit … Having failed to beat Intel in the marketplace, Transmeta is turning to the courtroom — Transmeta, the chip designer that once tried to take on Intel in the notebook market, is suing Intel for patent infringement.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Mylo Freeloads On T-Mobile — Sony is starting to realize its WiFi-only Mylo might not make waves until more users have easy access to more WiFi-networks. To meet that need Sony announced a deal with T-Mobile that gives Mylo-users a year of free access to T-Mobile's WiFi hotspots …
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Josh Greenbaum / Enterprise Anti-matter:
The Future Of Software is Software — I just spent an hour catching up with IBM's latest briefing on the completion of its acquisition of MRO Software, and it reminded me how much the future of software is really more of the same. This sanity check comes at the end of a week that showcased …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Windows kernel protection expected to break soon — MONTREAL—PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later, a security expert said Thursday. — Hackers will break through the protection mechanism soon after Microsoft releases Windows Vista …
DickMcVengeance / Destructoid:
Jack Thompson Ruling! — While Niero is at the courthouse, he's asked me to blog this for you, so that we can get the information out as soon as humanly possible. — At 1:51, Niero called, saying that the judge will not prohibit the the sale of Bully. In the time that he played the game …
Kevin Dean / Microsoft Higher Education:
Internet Explorer 7 is coming ... Are you ready? — The final release of Internet Explorer 7 is fast approaching ... and I mean really fast ......and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it's available for download. Are your Web sites, extensions, and applications ready?
