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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft offers its take on CapGemini-Google deal — Microsoft has been noticeably quiet whenever we bloggers/press folk ask them for comments on Google various announcements. Today's CapGemini-Google partnership to sell Google Apps Premier Edition (GAPE) must have struck a nerve …
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One Microsoft Way, BetaNews, WSJ.com, WinExtra, Google Operating System, mathewingram.com/work, Mashable!, Technovia and Microsoft News Tracker
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Microsoft Issues 10 Reasons Why Enterprises Shouldn't Use Google Apps — Up till now, Microsoft has been very quiet about the nascent Web Office threat from Google. But today, in response to the news that IT systems consultancy CapGemini has partnered with Google to sell Google Apps Premier Edition …
Dorion Carroll / The Technorati Weblog:
Introducing Technorati Topics — Technorati collects millions of blog posts every day — too many for the average human being to even try to track. As a Technorati power user, I've been fascinated by just how much I can find out using Technorati Search. If you're like me and you know how to construct …
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Technorati Launches New Topics Feature - Taking on Techmeme? — Blog search engine Technorati today announced a new feature: topics. Topics is a river-of-news style aggregator of posts from top blogs in the areas of Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, and Life.
Brian Briggs / BBspot:
Jobs Offers Apple Lisa Early Adopters Store Credit — Cupertino, CA - Early adopters of the iPhone weren't the only ones receiving in-store credit from Steve Jobs. In an overlooked announcement, Jobs said that early adopters of the Apple Lisa would be receiving a $7000 in-store credit.
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CrunchGear, Forever Geek, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, The iPhone Blog, SurfBits and Digg
Nick / Rough Type:
Adblock Plus: what would Jesus do? — I'm deep in a quandary. A couple of days ago, after calling Adblock Plus "the nuclear plug-in," I actually went nuclear. I downloaded the sucker and started using it. I was seduced by Noam Cohen's description of the almost Zenlike sense of peace …
Scott Kirsner / Boston Globe:
Why Facebook went west — Turned down by a local venture capitalist, two Harvard students look to Silicon Valley for funding instead. The result: Boston misses out on an online phenomenon worth up to $6 billion. — In April of 2004, two Harvard undergrads walked into the Charles Hotel for a meeting with a venture capitalist.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook to take over Stanford classroom — Facebook, already bulging out of its headquarters in downtown Palo Alto, is now infiltrating Stanford University — A new course, called Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook will be offered this fall in Stanford's computer science department.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Yahoo feeds Trojan-laced ads to MySpace and PhotoBucket users — 'High risk creative' on out of control web — A Yahoo-owned advertising network became the unwitting ally of cyber crooks after it spewed millions of Trojan-laced banner ads on MySpace, PhotoBucket and other websites.
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Josh Miller / Rev2.org:
Meebo Just Learned a New Trick — Meebo.com, the finest way to communicate with friends and family via the internet, has just announced that it will be sporting a long-requested feature. You can now seamlessly transfer files to your IM buddies, on meebo or off meebo, regardless …
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Michael Dell: Changing the economics of SMB storage — Company founder and CEO Michael Dell was in San Francisco today, conducting a global Webcast "town hall meeting" focused on how his company is removing cost and complexity from storage solutions for the "under-served" market of small- and medium-sized businesses.
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Bloomberg:
In 3 Months, iPhone Sales Top a Million — Apple Inc. has sold its millionth iPhone less than three months after the device's debut, allaying investor concerns that demand had slowed. — Last week, the company, which had set out to sell a million iPhones by the end of this month …
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo's Cautious Course — How Now 'Sacred Cow'? — Lack of Major Overhaul Poses Test — Investors who have grown impatient with Yahoo Inc. may have to wait awhile longer to see any pop in its stock. — The Internet company replaced its chief executive in June and this summer kicked off …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
HD video: iPhone unlocked on camera from start to finish — Ok, here it is, the first time on camera you've seen a real iPhone software SIM unlocked from start to finish (and not done with the demo app iPhoneSIMfree sent out last week). The last iPhoneSIMfree unlock video we had only showed …
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DailyTech, Hardware 2.0, TechSpot News, mocoNews.net, Engadget Mobile, greg hughes, Gadget Lab and Digg
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
A Few Mahalo Updates and Questions — This discussion is about four topics related to Mahalo (and the general Internet): — Is Mahalo a clone of Hakia Gallery? — Corporate social tool usage — Where does Mahalo get their high Alexa ranking from? — Positive employee feedback and encouragement from management
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R-ADAG in talks to buy out Seventymm — Bangalore-based Seventymm is the largest online movie rental service in India, offering access to more than 15,000 titles across multiple languages — P.R. Sanjai — Mumbai: In its bid to expand its footprint in the entertainment business …
