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Microsoft:
Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability — New interoperability principles and actions will increase openness of key products. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices …
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InfoWorld:
Update: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source — In a major turnaround for Microsoft, the company Thursday promised “greater transparency” in its development and business practices, outlining a new strategy to provide more access to APIs and previously proprietary protocols …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft pledges (yet again) that it wants to be interoperable
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CNET News.com, Electronista, Web Worker Daily, Tech Tracks, eWeek, Download Squad, 451 CAOS Theory and The Open Road
Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog:
Welcome to the bigger, better, faster SkyDrive! — We know it's been mighty quiet on the SkyDrive blog, but we've been hard at work on a new version that we're proud to announce today! — You've made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you want SkyDrive where you are.
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Webware.com, TechCrunch, Channel 10, All about Microsoft, Digital Inspiration, Bink.nu, CyberNet, jkOnTheRun and LiveSide
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Windows Live SkyDrive to offer 5gb free storage? — Thanks to tipster (tips*at*liveside*dot*net) Liam, it looks like we're about to see a significant upgrade to the online storage feature from Windows Live, SkyDrive, to 5gb free: — We've called for an increase in the storage capacity …
Suzanne Tindal / CNET News.com:
Microsoft: Vista SP1 will break these programs — Microsoft has published a list of programs that will not work or that will suffer from reduced functionality after the installation of Vista Service Pack 1. — The list of programs consists mostly of security applications, such as Trend Micro Internet Security 2008.
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AppleInsider:
Mega Apple filing details next-gen ‘multi-touch input surface’ — The latest patent filing from Apple Inc. hints at a next-generation multi-touch ‘surface’ that would combine typing, pointing, scrolling, and handwriting capabilities into a single ergonomic design aimed at replacing traditional input devices …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Disk encryption: Can you trust it? — Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. — In a paper (PDF) published Thursday that could prompt …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Chumby Is Open, but Not for Business — I find Chumby fascinating for a lot of reasons. Meant to replace a clock radio, it is a $179 device with a Wi-Fi connection, a 3.5 inch touch screen and a squishy leather case. It displays various widgets with information pulled off the Internet …
Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
Sprint will make WiMAX an open platform with an SDK and open APIs — From its conception, WiMAX has been engineered to be an open platform for mobile broadband Internet. When you talk to any of the executives and business professionals from the big vendors in the WiMAX ecosystem …
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Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain — THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination — pasty, geeky, male — has failed to live up to his reputation. — Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) …
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Mary Hodder / Napsterization:The NY Times on Girl Geeks: They are Fashion, Not Technology
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Ask.com Binoculars Adds Compete.com Stats — Ask.com has announced that they have added site statistics from Compete.com to the binoculars feature in the search results. Now, instead of just getting a site preview, you also get estimated visitor stats, site rank, a line chart to plot …
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Inside AdSense:
Fueling creativity in online video - with AdSense for video beta — We know that publishers are quickly adding video to their sites and looking for ways to earn additional revenue. If this sounds like you, look no further than AdSense for video, our solution for qualifying publishers.
Knowledge@Wharton:
Steve Wozniak on Apple, Steve Jobs and the Value of a Good Prank — Steve Wozniak, or “Woz” as he is commonly called, is best known for co-founding Apple along with high school friend Steve Jobs. But Wozniak didn't set out to establish one of the world's most influential computer companies.
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MacUser
Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch, Peaking, Etc. — A lot of people write a lot of stuff that's pretty negative about TechCrunch. Since I don't actually do an ego monitor, we miss most of it. But every once in a while something bubbles up and I see it. Usually I don't respond because it just encourages more of the same.
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TechCrunch UK, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, broadstuff, Deep Jive Interests and Furrier.org
comScore:
comScore Releases January 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. January 2008 saw Americans conduct more than 10 billion core searches …
Michael Cabanatuan / San Francisco Chronicle:
Muni's ‘Connected Bus’ is about to go online — The bus of the future has arrived in San Francisco, and while it doesn't drive itself, fly over crowded intersections or necessarily even arrive on time, it does offer free Wi-Fi access, touch-screen maps on the walls and connecting transit information.
Long Tran / Yanko Design:
Trendy People Need This Phone — The Edge phone is designed for the style conscious fashionistas. The name has nothing to do with data speed. In fact we don't even know what this phone is capable of because as with all fashion phones, looks rein supreme and the Edge phone makes sure you notice with its glowing glass keyboard.
