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Citrix Systems:
Citrix to Enter Server and Desktop Virtualization Markets with Acquisition of XenSource — Combination of Citrix and XenSource Accelerates the Mainstreaming of Virtualization and Strengthens End-to-End Application Delivery Strategy — Citrix Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Citrix to buy virtualization company XenSource for $500 million — One day after a spectacular public offering of virtualization company VMWare, Citrix Software said that it intends to acquire open-source virtualization company XenSource for about $500 million.
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
Citrix to buy XenSource for $500 million; open-source company valuations skyrocketing (UPDATED) — Wow. The ink was barely dry on my critique of Tim O'Reilly's position on whether proprietary companies will buy up the open-source companies, and along comes the news that Citrix is buying XenSource.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Citrix + XenSource: Microsoft's worst nightmare or dream-come-true?
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Reuters:
Court acquits allofmp3.com site owner — MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) — A Russian court found the former boss of music download Web site www.allofmp3.com not guilty of breaching copyright on Wednesday in a case considered a crucial test of Russia's commitment to fighting piracy.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Former AllOfMP3 boss found "not guilty" in Russian court
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Management Shuffle at Facebook — They are not even public and already the corporate two-step is being danced at Facebook. One thing is clear: Founder Mark Zuckerberg (pictured left) is surely in charge at the hotter-than-Paris-Hilton social-networking site, as evidenced by a recent reshuffling of duties at the private company.
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Wei Wang / avertlabs.com:
More on the Yahoo! Messenger Webcam 0day.... Earlier today Karthik had blogged about details of a new zero day in Yahoo! Messenger being published on some security forums in China, we got a chance to dig a bit deeper into this and were able to reproduce the vulnerability on Yahoo! …
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Elizabeth Montalbano / InfoWorld:
Xandros expands Microsoft partnership — (InfoWorld) - Linux distributor Xandros is licensing messaging protocols from Microsoft as part of an expansion of the partnership the two companies forged in June. — Xandros, which offers desktop and server versions of Linux …
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Villu Arak / Skype Blogs:
Skype 2.7 for Mac beta is out — We've now released Skype 2.7 for Mac beta. With "beta" on the label, there may be some wrinkles, kinks and unsprayed bugs which we'll remove in time for a public release. With that in mind, feel free to download and play with it. — Here's what's new:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook + iPhone = UltraCool — A pairing of the two most hyped tech products of the year: Facebook released what is arguably the single best iPhone-customized website to date at iphone.facebook.com. Like the Netvibes iPhone site which launched late yesterday, it isn't much to look at in a normal browser.
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:FACEBOOK FOR IPHONE DOUBLES AS A MASSIVE PHONEBOOK
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Brett Tabke / PubCon Conference Blog:
PubCon Street Tips: Giving a Kick Ass Presentation — PubCon Street Tips on Giving Presentations : Investing in our Speakers — "According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. — This means to the average person …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace Dumps Limelight (LLNW) for Akamai (AKAM) — More troubles for content delivery network Limelight Networks (LLNW), via their 10-Q, filed yesterday. News Corp.'s MySpace has apparently dropped Limelight as its primary CDN, opting for larger rival Akamai Technologies.
Tami Abdollah / Los Angeles Times:
LAX outage is blamed on a single computer — City officials demand a full report on the U.S. Customs system failure and contingency plans. — U.S. Customs officials said Tuesday that they had traced the source of last weekend's system outage that left 17,000 international passengers stranded …
USA Today:
How many trees did your iPhone bill kill? — LOS ANGELES — Early adopters of Apple's iPhone are getting their first service bills from AT&T (ATT) — and some customers say they are so detailed they belong in libraries. — Justine Ezarik, a Pittsburgh graphic designer and active Internet blogger, got her first bill on Saturday.
Matt Kinsman / FOLIO:
Ziff Davis Won't Make Interest Payment Due Today — "This is the first step in the public, ugly dismantling of one of the most storied companies in our business," says an observer. — Ziff Davis Media Inc. announced that it is exploring options to restructure its debt …
Corey Boles / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Opposes Plan For Free Broadband — WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission is seeking to shut the door on a plan by a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to offer free wireless broadband Internet service everywhere in the U.S., the chief executive of the group said Wednesday.
