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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy — Exclusive Google has stunned the server world by acquiring superstar start-up PeakStream, The Register can confirm. — PeakStream's website and phone lines mysteriously crashed yesterday, indicating that the software maker was struggling to pay its bill or had been gobbled.
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Anildash / Movable Type News:
Movable Type 4 Beta: We're On A Mission — If you're reading this blog, you probably know a lot about Movable Type. It's the power bloggers' tool, made by people who just wanted to make a good, flexible blogging application. Over half a decade, it's grown into a platform that even enterprises …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown — Movable Type has just released version 4.0 and reversed a decision that nearly killed MT 3.0 and led to the rise of WordPress — MT 4.0, currently in beta, will be released in open source later this year. (See Read/WriteWeb coverage.)
caminobrowser.org:
Camino 1.5 Release Notes — After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.5. This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.
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Inside AdSense:
Policy updates — and it's not even Thursday! — After our many weeks of policy posts on Thursdays, you're probably intimately familiar with all of our program policies. So we can imagine your surprise when you woke up today, got your morning coffee, and settled in for your daily re-read of the policies …
Apple:
Apple Updates MacBook Pro — Latest Intel Core 2 Duo Processors, Memory Up to 4GB and Higher Performance Graphics Across the Line — Apple® today updated its MacBook® Pro line of notebooks with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, memory up to 4GB, and high-speed graphics in a stunning …
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Engadget, TechBlog, Computerworld, Cult of Mac, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, The Mac Observer, MacUser, The Apple Core, Gadget Lab, jkOnTheRun, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, ITWire, Digital Trends, Podcasting News, 9 to 5 Mac, Blackfriars' Marketing, PaulStamatiou.com, Forever Geek, :Ben Metcalfe Blog, Apple Gazette, O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog and michael parekh on IT
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Katy Dormer / Google:
Salesforce.com and Google Form Strategic Global Alliance — Two industry leading platforms come together to allow companies to acquire customers, run more efficiently and thrive — Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the market and technology leader in on-demand business services, and Google …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:Google and Salesforce Tightly Integrate Adwords Products
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Tony Long / Wired News:
June 5, 1977: From a Little Apple a Mighty Industry Grows — 1977: The Apple II, the world's first "practical" personal computer, goes on sale. — The Apple II is the computer that made Apple a driving force in a new industry. The company's original computer bore little resemblance …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Intel, Asus Announce $199 'Eee PC' — TAIPEI — Asus and Intel have teamed up to develop a $199 notebook PC, the companies announced here on Tuesday. — In a keynote address given by Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel and chief marketing and sales officer, Jonney Shih …
Fareastgizmos.com:
Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 presented — Stephane Bret, director of Porsche Design Mobile Group, holds a Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 in Essen June 4, 2007. The Porsche Design Group and Sagem Communication are presenting the first Porsche Design Mobile Phone, the P'9521, at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen.
Will Watts / The Register:
Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional — Who said you could improve our software? — What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? — Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach.
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, has a new Address and Signature Card — As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we've been migrating our crawler, Yahoo! Slurp, over to the new domain at crawl.yahoo.net. As of today, the transition is complete and all machines crawling as Slurp are now in crawl.yahoo.net.
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel updates compilers for multicore era — Intel has announced major updates for its C++ and Fortran tools, updates that are aimed at making it easier for programmers to exploit thread-level and data-level parallelism in multicore processors. On the data parallelism side …
Niels Provos / Google Online Security Blog:
Web Server Software and Malware — In this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads. — We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server …
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Frank Caron / Ars Technica:
Microsoft to unify MSN, Xbox and Zune with Ignition music platform — Once upon a time, Microsoft proposed a huge network of media, music and gaming that would span multiple devices: Windows computers, Xbox game consoles, and even Zune media players. It was quite the proposal …
