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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft looks to ‘Mojave’ to revive Vista's image — REDMOND, Wash.—After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's skeptics. — Spurred by an e-mail from someone deep in the marketing ranks …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:Microsoft CEO backs Web spending, “done” with Yahoo
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft confirms IE 8 will ship this year
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple's MobileMess — Two weeks ago, Apple launched MobileMe, the successor to its.Mac service, which costs $100 a year. Among other benefits, it can keep multiple Macs, PCs and iPhones in sync. E-mail, calendars and address books are wirelessly kept up to date. Very cool idea.
Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
Apple beta testing iPhone 2.1 firmware, adding more GPS features — We just got word that Apple has released a beta version of iPhone OS 2.1 to developers. Along with the 2.1 firmware, a new version of the iPhone SDK has been seeded as well, but the new SDK can't be used for submitting applications to the App Store at the moment.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Live Search Coming To Facebook — When Microsoft made its investment in Facebook I always had thought that Live Search would come to the site, together with search monetization. Later it appeared that search wasn't part of the deal. Facebook's competitors all have web search …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Day After: Looking At How Well Knol Pages Rank On Google — We've been assured that just because content sits on Google's Knol site, it won't gain any ranking authority from being part of the Knol domain. OK, so a day after Knol has launched, how's that holding up?
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Hasbro Notches Triple-Word Score Against Scrabulous With ‘Lawsuit’ — UPDATED — Looking to cut down its main competition and most high profile copycat in the growing market for social gaming, Hasbro has sued the two Indian brothers behind the popular Web game Scrabulous …
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Techdirt, L.A. Times Tech Blog, paidContent.org, Profy.Com, CrunchGear, The Trademark Blog and VentureBeat
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL To Shutter A Slew Of Products, EVP Kevin Conroy's Future Uncertain — Update: Full text of email is here. — While researching the AOL blogs budget cuts story this afternoon we stumbled on a much bigger story unfolding at AOL. The company is planning to shut down a number of non-performing products …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Full Text Of AOL Email: XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile And Bluestring To Shut Down — Below is the full text of the email AOL EVP Kevin Conroy sent out to staff on July 14, outlining the reorganization of his product groups and announcing the “sunsetting” of XDrive, AOL Pictures, MyMobile and Bluestring.
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Andrew D. Smith / Dallas Morning News:
Blockbuster adds Movielink's video downloads to Web site — asmith@dallasnews.com — Nearly a year after purchasing the video-download firm Movielink, Dallas-based Blockbuster Inc. has integrated the service into its Web site and invited 500 customers to test it.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Blockbuster remembers it bought Movielink for a reason
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Steve Ballmer: Killing Apple and Google With Kindness? — BoomTown is flatly fascinated by the rather incredible memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer penned to his troops yesterday, with news of the reorganization of its massive Platforms and Services Division and the departure of its president, Kevin Johnson.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zimbra Releases Version 3 Of Open Source Email Client, And It's Awesome — Yahoo's Zimbra launches version 3 of its open source desktop email client this morning that is designed to compete with Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mac Mail, etc. This is a new iteration of their browser-based offline product announced in March 2007.
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Mike Morse / Zimbra :: Blog:Zimbra Desktop Beta 3's New Features
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PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, Yahoo!, webmonkey, Download.com editors, BetaNews and ReadWriteWeb
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Final Days of DRM: Yahoo Music Store Closing, Will Eat Your Purchased Music — Digital Rights Management technology is dying, it's becoming understood that hobbling tunes to enforce scarcity isn't the best way to monetize the music business online. What about all the suckers who bought DRM laden music in recent years, though?
Microsoft:
Microsoft to Acquire DATAllegro — Leaders in data warehousing team to provide large-scale business intelligence solutions. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it intends to acquire DATAllegro Inc., a provider of breakthrough data warehouse appliances.
Eran / Open Web Foundation:
Announcing the Open Web Foundation — Open Web Foundation — The Open Web Foundation is an attempt to create a home for community-driven specifications. Following the open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation, the foundation is aimed at building a lightweight framework …
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Fast Wonder Blog, Scott Kveton, FactoryCity, Joi Ito's Web, Skype Journal and The Real McCrea
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Juniper: Enterprise demand strong; Johnson hired to scale up — Current Juniper CEO Scott Kriens delivered strong quarter results, said enterprise demand was solid and outlined the primary reason Kevin Johnson was hired as his replacement: He knows how to scale.
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Zune phone really in the works at Microsoft? — The success of the iPhone, both the original and the recently released 3G model, has fueled rumors that Microsoft is working internally on a similar phone built on the Zune audio player. The Zune player has failed to compete against the iPod family …
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One Microsoft Way, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, TECH.BLORGE.com, Boy Genius Report, The iPhone Blog, InformationWeek and WMExperts
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos — Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Punishes Community Managers and Causes Follower Counts to Drop — Did you notice a big drop in your Twitter follower numbers yesterday? It seems that the Twitter team recently decided to step up their Twitter spammer detection …
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Webware.com, Web Strategy, Chuqui 3.0, SheGeeks, WebProNews, TwitterStars.com, Stop Twitter Spam, Bloggers Blog, Startup Meme, Geek News Central and VentureBeat
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Complaining Bloggers Have a Cable Company's Ear — PHILADELPHIA — Brandon Dilbeck, 20, a student at the University of Washington, was complaining recently on his blog, Brandon Notices, about Comcast's practice of posting ads in its on-screen programming guide. — He assumed he was writing for his own benefit.
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Kaminsky (finally) provides DNS flaw details — In his first public comments since his Domain Name System (DNS) cache poisoning flaw was made public, Dan Kaminsky said in a conference call on Thursday he doesn't want to parse who said what when. He just wants everyone to understand that they must patch their systems now.
Gmail Blog:
Making security easier — From the day we launched, Gmail has supported something called https. Https keeps your mail encrypted as it travels between your web browser and our servers, so someone sharing your favorite coffee shop's public wifi can't read it.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google creates a new market and wreaks havoc on another — When they first announced it, I was certain Knol was simply a way for Google steal some of the attention away from Wikia search — and I'm still sure that's what was actually happening. Google doesn't normally pre-announce applications months in advance.
