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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:   Microsoft to release .Net as Shared Source
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Reveals .Net Source Code
Discussion: InfoWorld
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft's Open-Source Trap for Mono
Discussion: Microsoft Watch
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:   Microsoft Open Sourcing .NET
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
First-Gen Zune Getting All The New Features: This is How You Treat Your Customers  —  The first generation 30GB Zune—which 1.2 million of you already purchased—is getting all the new Zune's features.  All.  Sure, the new Zune is more of a half step forward than a completely new design.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Zune vs. iPod specification smackdown  —  The new Zunes are official so let's get to it: a spec-by-spec scrap between Redmond's new Zunes and Cupertino's formidable iPod foe.  Unfortunately, Microsoft failed to mention the all important battery performance of their new gear in addition to a few other minor details.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
'Zune' Means Always Having to Say You're Sorry  —  No wonder expectations for Microsoft's Zune run so low-the company encourages them.  Touting the newest iteration of Microsoft's digital music player in an interview yesterday with the New York Times, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates …
Discussion: Ars Technica
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Microsoft Sings a New Zune  —  It's hard to imagine anyone reading the reports of the second generation of Microsoft's Zune audio player and deciding it should go at the top of their Christmas wish list.  —  Sure, Microsoft will sell some.  They have global distribution …
Joanna Stern / Mobile Technology News:
Exclusive: Zune Tattoo Guy Sounds Off on New Players
Discussion: CrunchGear
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Wireless: What the new Zunes will and won't do
Discussion: Berlind's Testbed
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
TechCrunch to Sell to CNET for $100+ Million?  —  Analyst Doug McIntyre at 24/7 Wall St doesn't have specific thoughts on the valuation, but he makes a persuasive case about why TechCrunch and other big blogs will eventually be bought for big numbers by big media.
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
Wow.  We're worth $100 million!  —  Not a day after I trash Henry Blodget for touting Google stock at $2,000 a share he write a post titled "TechCrunch to Sell to CNET for $100+ Million?"  —  So first of all I owe Blodget a big apology.  The guy is bright, insightful and dead on with his valuation predictions.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Reality check: CNET and TechCrunch  —  Pardon the interruption in our regular programming for some inside techland.  Henry Blodget is suggesting that CNET could acquire my friend Mike Arrington's TechCrunch sites for $100 million on the heels of analyst Douglas McIntyre's post explaining …
Discussion: John Furrier
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
CNET to buy TechCrunch — why not?
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Amazon's Dynamo  —  In two weeks we'll present a paper on the Dynamo technology at SOSP, the prestigious biannual Operating Systems conference.  Dynamo is internal technology developed at Amazon to address the need for an incrementally scalable, highly-available key-value storage system.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Inside Amazon's dynamo
Discussion: Insider Chatter
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Apple reportedly considering Intel platform for iPhone  —  Apple reportedly is considering adopting Intel's Moorestown MID (mobile Internet device) platform processor in a new iPhone, according to OEM sources.  —  Intel revealed a Moorestown-based MID product with functions similar …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Netvibes Launches Corporate Startpages - Will Companies Go For It?  —  Netvibes, the French startpage near the top of the startpage market, is launching a new service this morning called Netvibes Premium Universes.  The service allows companies to offer Netvibes functionality (reading feeds …
Rachel Konrad / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Fake Jobs plans real publicity tour  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The "Fake Steve Jobs" blogger who jealously guarded his anonymity for nearly a year will soon embark on a publicity tour to tout his forthcoming book.  —  Forbes magazine editor Dan Lyons had intended to publish "oPtion$: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs" under a pseudonym.
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Verizon unveils iPhone rival  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless unveiled three new cell phones on Wednesday for the holiday season, including a high-end handset named Voyager that will compete with Apple Inc's iPhone.  —  The Voyager, made by LG Electronics, trumps the iPhone by offering faster wireless Web access.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Microsoft posts more Vista pre-SP1 'wonder patches'  —  Whilst Service Pack 1 is still expected to be the major update to Windows Vista fixing the widespread bugs and issues, at the same time Microsoft is not holding back on these reliability updates I'd like to call 'wonder patches' which seems …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Verizon's LG Voyager heads up newly official fall lineup  —  Verizon isn't kidding around this fall, with four new fashionable phones, a couple of which might divert a few iPhone dollars from archrival AT&T. It's those exact four that Engadget Mobile got the scoop on last weekend, the Juke, Pearl, Venus and Voyager.
Greg Sandoval / Webware.com:
UC BERKELEY FIRST TO POST FULL LECTURES TO YOUTUBE  —  YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley.  —  The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun posting entire course lectures on the Web's No.1 video-sharing site.  —  Berkeley officials claimed in a statement …
Discussion: blognation, Valleywag and Mashable!
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
NBC chief urges all-hands assault on piracy  —  WASHINGTON—Copyright holders are "losing the battle" against piracy, at the expense of economic security and public health, and will never prevail unless a wide swath of governments and industries gets proactive, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker said Wednesday.
 
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Kindle Edition e-books appear on Amazon — reader launch imminent
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Live customer service going the way of the dodo bird
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The Verizon Warning
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Seven Steps to Graphing Your Facebook Strategy
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Camera sums up your life for marketers
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
StopBadware: Trusted Web sites are being hacked and don't even know it
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Source: iPhone "SDK" will remain web-based for the foreseeable future
Discussion: Gizmodo and Macsimum News
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Bigger, better photos of the Vii, the cheaper, crappier Wii
Discussion: Forever Geek
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA anti-P2P campaign a real money pit, according to testimony
Antonio Regalado / Wall Street Journal:
Google Cuts Ads From Orkut Service
Bill Ray / The Register:
Palm admits new OS 18 months away
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It's a Database. It's a Spreadsheet. It's Zoho DB.
 

 
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