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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Peter Moore resigns as head of Xbox — It's hard to call the Xbox 360 anything but a success, but having missed some sales numbers, ringing up an extra unexpected $1b on the corporate card because of warranty issues, and still generally failing to make a profit, it looks like Peter Moore …
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:Microsoft Game Chief Moves to Electronic Arts
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Smaran / TorrentFreak:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows leaked to BitTorrent — We first got wind of this when two torrents of the book appeared on Demonoid.com. They became immensely popular with over a 1000 leechers and seeders each. But after some time were removed by either the uploader, or more likely …
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John McBride / Ars Technica:
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems — It's such a tremendously bad idea that it's almost bound to succeed. Microsoft has filed another patent, this one for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your hard drive to show you advertisements and …
comScore:
3 Out of 4 U.S. Internet Users Streamed Video Online in May — Average American Video Streamer Watched More than 2.5 Hours of Video Online — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its comScore Video Metrix report for May 2007 …
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Emmanuel Evita / Google:
Google Introduces Hosted Site Search for Small Businesses — New Google Custom Search Business Edition adds powerful site search at very low cost — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced Google Custom Search™ Business Edition, a simple and inexpensive way for small businesses to add Google search to their websites.
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Reports Second Quarter 2007 Financial Results — Revenues - $1,698 Million — Operating Income - $185 Million — Operating Income Before Depreciation, Amortization and Stock-Based Compensation Expense - $474 Million — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Yahoo to lay out strategic plan in next 100 days
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Business Wire:
Fisher Communications Expands Online Local News Strategy with Acquisition of Pegasus News — Neighborhood Content Site Opens New Opportunities for Reinforcing Fisher's Commitment to Local News — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—As part of its initiative to develop new online-only content …
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InfoSec Sellout / Information Security Sell Out:
Oh Look. An Apple WORM. — Yes, you read the title correct. — With a few hours work I have put together a proof of concept worm that works on Mac OS X (Intel). I need to get a hold of an older PPC Mac to test that platform but I suspect it will work just fine.
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Iljitsch van Beijnum / Infinite Loop:Anonymous blogger claims proof-of-concept Mac worm
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Reuters:
Steve Jobs tops list of online music "Powergeeks" — NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Steve Jobs, the father of the iPod, was on Tuesday crowned the undisputed king of the online music revolution by U.S. music magazine Blender, topping a list of the 25 most influential people in Web music.
Think Secret:
Save the date: August 7 for new iMac, iLife to emerge early? — Reliable sources have zeroed in further on the release date for Apple's revamped iMac since our last report, pointing to an announcement on August 7. Meanwhile, preliminary signs suggest Apple may be ready to release …
Michael Zema / pr.vonage.com:
Sunny Days Ahead For Sunrocket Customers — Vonage to Offer Number Transition and Discount Service for SunRocket Customers — Vonage, a leading provider of digital phone service, is offering a way for SunRocket customers to transition their phone number over to Vonage, and also receive the added benefit of two months free service**.
Business Wire:
Intel Second-Quarter Revenue $8.7 Billion — SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intel Corporation today announced second-quarter revenue of $8.7 billion, operating income of $1.35 billion, net income of $1.3 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 22 cents.
Fred / A VC:
Facebook Will Sit Tight, As It Should — At the iMeme panel last week I had the opportunity to sit next to Jim Breyer and watch him take some tough questions from Adam Lashinsky about why Facebook doesn't sell at the huge numbers that are being whispered in the blogs and on the street.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft starts priming the pump for Vista SP1 Preview — Microsoft is still on track to make a beta available later this week of what it's referring to as "Vista Service Pack 1 Preview," according to sources close to the company. — Microsoft is expected to provide certain testers …
