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11:50 AM ET, September 27, 2007

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Microsoft:
Microsoft Releases Updated Live Search Engine  —  Includes significant advancements in core technology and consumer experience.  —  Microsoft Corp. is releasing an update to Live Search (http://www.live.com) centered on improvements to core search technology and deeper advancements …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Highlights: Microsoft revamps its Live Search engine  —  Microsoft tonight unveiled the widely rumored revamp of its Live Search engine.  Here's a summary of the news:  — The company says it has made improvements in relevance, the measure of how closely the results match a searcher's intent.
Live Search:
Introducing...the new Live Search  —  This week we're excited to launch a major update to Live Search that's relevant, faster and easier to use.  Hundreds of us rolled up our sleeves and dug deep.  We pored over your feedback, analyzed the data and talked to thousands of users.  How major is this?
Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
Live Blogging: Microsoft Searchification Day 2007  —  I'm sitting at the Microsoft conference center for Searchification Day.  We're within walking distance from the Googleplex, where I was for Google Searchology Day just a few short months ago.  Searchology was all about Google's unveiling …
Discussion: Oilman
Miguel Helft / New York Times:   New-Look Search Sites Aim to Close Google Gap
Elinor Mills / Webware.com:
MICROSOFT PLAYS CATCH-UP ON SEARCH
Discussion: CNET News.com and Mashable!
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Picture this - LinkedIn adds profile photos  —  On Friday LinkedIn plans to allow profile photos on its business-focused social network, in a move which reflects its increasingly international focus.  —  It's taken four years for LinkedIn to add photos, when every other social network has done it forever.
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
LinkedIn finally adds user photos  —  On Friday, the social network for professionals, LinkedIn, will go live with its newest feature: User photos.  —  Why did it take four years to add a feature already offered by every other social network?  LinkedIn claims recent user requests for the feature drove the decision.
Adam Nash / The LinkedIn Blog:
A Photo is Worth a Thousand Words  —  We're excited to announce that starting tomorrow (Friday 28, 2007) LinkedIn members will have a new option available: the ability to add a professional photo to their profile.  —  Adding a profile photo is one of the most commonly requested features …
New York Times:
A Cellphone Without Borders  —  It's amazing the way the Internet keeps toppling traditional businesses.  Telegrams have gone away.  Music CD sales are tanking.  Newspapers are hurting.  —  One especially lucrative business, however, has somehow escaped the Internet's notice so far: international cellphone calls.
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Scott Dunn / Windows Secrets Newsletter:
Stealth Windows update prevents XP repair  —  A silent update that Microsoft deployed widely in July and August is preventing the "repair" feature of Windows XP from completing successfully.  —  Ever since the Redmond company's recent download of new support files for Windows Update …
Discussion: The Raw Feed
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Microsoft Stealth Update and Windows XP repair don't mix
Sharon Gaudin / InformationWeek:
Interview With A Convicted Hacker: Robert Moore Tells How He Broke Into Routers And Stole VoIP Services  —  On his way to federal prison, the 23-year-old hacker says breaking into computers at telecom companies and major corporations was "so easy a caveman could do it."
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Verizon Rejects Messages of Abortion Rights Group  —  Saying it had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon's mobile network available for a text-message program.
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Karl / dslreports.com:
Verizon Blocks Opt-In Pro-Choice SMS - 'Controversial & unsavory' insists company...
Discussion: Reuters
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:
Sprint says it won't subsidize WiMax hardware  —  Recommend article:  —  Chicago (IL) - Barry West, president of Sprint's Wimax unit "Xohm", said that Wimax customers will have to pay "full freight" for their Wimax cards, but will not be locked in long-term service contracts in return.
Discussion: dslreports.com and Gizmodo
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Pricing, service for Xohm WiMax to be 'around user needs'
Discussion: Ars Technica
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Birthday Logo: Nine Years Old  —  The Google home page is sporting the special logo above, celebrating the company's ninth birthday, with one of the Gs turned into a nine.  But wait?  Didn't Google just turn 10?  Google Is 10 Years Old?  Finding The Real Google Birthday …
Bob Vawter / Google Web Toolkit Blog:
GWT Application Development for the iPhone  —  In our not-so-humble opinions, we think that the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and the Apple iPhone are two very cool technologies.  Because we're all highfalutin computer-scientist types (as well as being irrepressibly geeky) we wanted to see what happens when you mix them together.
Discussion: 1FPS and TechCrunch
Shane Richmond / Telegraph Blogs:
Building an audience for your blog  —  What's the best way to draw a crowd?  —  If you start a blog on Blogger, WordPress or a similar service, it'll just be you, your mother and the tumbleweed for a few weeks at least.  So how do you build an audience?  —  A thread on the Authority Blogger Forum has been gathering responses.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Microsoft launches Internet TV for Windows Media Center  —  Microsoft is rolling out the public beta of Internet TV for Windows Vista Media Center today.  If you've got a machine running Windows Vista Home Premium or Windows Vista Ultimate, a new option should pop up inside of your media center interface, cleverly titled "Internet TV."
Discussion: Bits
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks  —  I've had it with all the hype about mobile being the next big thing — more to the point, I've had it with the mobile web.  Here are five reasons why the web on the go still has a long way to go.  —  1. Wireless carrier networks are SLOW
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David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Facebook CEO visits Seattle, Microsoft schemes
Discussion: The Browser
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Realizes That Criticizing A Trademark Is Not Trademark Infringement
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Islandoo cuts its TV ties to go open access
InfoWorld:
Panasonic plans new Toughbook laptops
Discussion: Engadget
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Explaining the Excel Bug
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Special Edition pink iPod shuffles turn up at Target stores (photos)
Victoria Shannon / International Herald Tribune:
The End User: Apple and Orange
Discussion: Apple 2.0 and 9 to 5 Mac
Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Open Source Developers Shun GPLv3, Survey Says
Discussion: Open Source
 Earlier Items: 
BBC:
Halo 3 sales top £84m in 24 hours
Discussion: Gadgetell
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
An Antitrust Analysis of GOOG-DCLK Deal: Search Ads Vs Contextual Ads Vs Display Ads
Kate Greene / Technology Review:
The Future of Computing, According to Intel
Erick Schonfeld / Business 2.0:
The startup king's new gig
privcom.gc.ca:
Report of an Investigation into the Security, Collection and Retention …
Discussion: The Register
nlpc.org:
Legal Watchdog Group Uncovers 300 Apparently Pirated Films Viewed …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Mark Twain's plans to compete with copyright "pirates" (in 1906)
HDM / Metasploit:
A root shell in my pocket (and maybe yours)
 

 
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