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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5 — Yesterday a select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries attended a highly confidential meeting at Google's headquarters in Mountain View to discuss the company's upcoming plans to address the "Facebook issue."
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Google to Envelope All Knowledge on November 5th, 2007 — Michael Arrington has convinced several high level sources to disclose discussion at a top secret Google meeting where the company discussed plans to release on November 5th a new set of APIs. Those APIs will make access to the data …
CommsDay:
Google plans new undersea "Unity" cable across Pacific — Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day has learned. — The Unity cable has been under development for several months, with a group of carriers …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
GoogleNET Going Global — More than 15 months ago, Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt publicly admitted that he wanted to build an infrastructure for what would be a global $100 billion company. Given that the search giant's revenues are projected to reach just over $30 billion by the end of this decade …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Has Google Plans to Lay a Pacific Cable? — Google may be the ultimate do-it-yourself company. From the start, Google's sense of its own engineering superiority, combined with a tightwad sensibility, led it to build its own servers. It writes is own operating systems.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:New From Google Labs: 'Google Undersea Data Cable'
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Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
PirateBay Fires a Broadside of Complaints to Police — A blog post on the site by administrator brokep states that they have been going through the emails from the recent MediaDefender leak, and have obtained proof, from them, that they are being targeted by several companies.
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Bkp / The Pirate Bay:
TPB files charges against media companies — Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we've been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Internet Celebrity Doesn't Translate: Amanda Congdon Let Go By ABC — Amanda Congdon, best known as the original host of Rocketboom, has been let go by ABCNews.com. — ABCNews.com said in a statement: … During her time at ABCNews.com Congdon did a number of projects, including …
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David Haskin / Computerworld:
Usability test: Does iPhone match the hype? — Users try out the iPhone, HTC Touch and the Nokia N95 — We all know that in the technology world, the hype about new products often doesn't match reality. So it's fair to ask: Is the iPhone as good as its hype?
Nick / Rough Type:
The week that Big Software shattered — For the last decade or so, the world of enterprise software, which I'll define as the programs that larger companies use to automate their basic processes, has been fairly monolithic and fairly predictable. Companies installed complex ERP-style systems …
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Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Citigroup Customer Data Leaked on LimeWire — Citgroup has confirmed that it's investigating a data breach involving the names, Social Security numbers and credit information of 5,208 customers leaked by an employee of its ABN Amro Mortgage Group unit onto the LimeWire peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
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Ina Fried / ZDNet:
Microsoft leaks its own search plans — A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an event next week where the company was slated to unveil the changes to reporters. — The changes to the search product, which were demonstrated …
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PR Newswire:
DEMOfall 07 Conference Releases List of Participating Demonstrators — DEMOfall 07 Logo. Event produced by Network World Events & Executive Forums. (PRNewsFoto/NETWORK WORLD EVENTS) — SOUTHBOROUGH, MA UNITED STATES — 69 Innovations to Debut at Conference
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
The XP alternative for Vista PCs — update While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers to offer a "downgrade" option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP. — The program applies …
David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
The open source advantage: Firefox's leaky dam gets more fingers, yours could be one. — Yesterday, among other things, I ranted about how my Firefox was grinding to a halt. About the only pattern I noticed is that I can some times revive my system if I close the instance of Firefox …
