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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's Full Memo to the Troops About New Reorg — Here is the full memo Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent out to the troops about the big changes in its organization, including the departure of Platforms and Services Division President Kevin Johnson, in which he addresses Apple, Yahoo, Google and more:
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Latest Web Stumble: Kevin Johnson Out — Kevin Johnson (pictured here), the point person for Microsoft's failed bid to buy Yahoo, is leaving the company to run Juniper Networks. — As the president of its Platforms and Services Division, the smooth Johnson has been trying …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Reorganization of Windows and Online Services Business — Platforms & Services Division to Split Into Two Groups and Report to CEO Steve Ballmer. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that the Platforms & Services Division (PSD) will be split into two groups …
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Search Engine Journal, The Register, Guardian Unlimited, New York Times, Startup Meme, WebProNews, LiveSide and TechCrunch
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft's Johnson Heads to Juniper — The head of Microsoft Corp.'s online business, who led the company's bid to buy Yahoo Inc., is leaving the software giant to run Juniper Networks Inc., according to people familiar with the situation. — The departure of Kevin Johnson …
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TechCrunch, Tech Tracks, ChannelWeb Complete Feed, Tech Trader Daily, Microsoft News Tracker, Tech Ticker, Valleywag and Pulse 2.0
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft splits its Platforms & Services unit in two
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:Exit One Kevin Johnson
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Microsoft Watch, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Real Dan Lyons Web Site and Associated Press
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Facebook Connect Matters & Why it Will Win — Facebook kicked off their second annual developer conference in San Francisco this afternoon with a keynote by founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The overproduced keynote with too many words repeatedly incessantly, seemed like a lullaby sung by a nanny in language alien to yours.
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Dick / Identity 2.0:
Facebook Connect - fatal blow for OpenID? — At F8 today, Facebook rolled out their Facebook Connect platform. With a small amount of code, other sites can integrate the Facebook identity system into their site. The keynote reminded me of early days of Microsoft as they rallied developers …
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
What ‘Facebook Connect’ Means for Corporate Websites — I'm here in SF at the F8 developer conference sponsored by Facebook. While the primary thrust of F8 Facebook announcements was for developers, I mentally translate what this means for web strategists at brands at Fortune 5000s.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:Facebook Announces “Great Apps” …
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Industry Standard, Stay N\' Alive, Facebook Press Releases, Mashable!, TechCrunch, eWeek and metarand
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Apple's MobileMe Is Far Too Flawed To Be Reliable — People who work for large corporations are used to having their email, contacts and calendar appointments synchronized instantly among their various computers and smart phones. But average consumers haven't had an easy way to do that.
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Nigel Morris / The Independent:
Music industry to tax downloaders — £30 ‘licence fee’ set to revolutionise illegal file-sharing — Internet users could face an annual charge of up to £30 to download music, under plans to be unveiled today that aim to tackle illegal file-sharing.
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BBC:Net firms in music pirates deal
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TorrentFreak, The Register, broadstuff, Tech Confidential, Listening Post and ringtonia.com
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Qualcomm, Nokia Reach Deal to End Fight Over Patents — Qualcomm Inc. and Nokia Corp. said they agreed to end their legal battles, a deal that could bring big benefits to both companies and affect other players in the cellphone industry. — The companies didn't disclose financial details of the settlement.
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Attack code published for DNS flaw — The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. — Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool.
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Top Muffin:
3G iPhone Availability — DISCLAIMER: This page uses data from Apple's site that is retrieved every 15 minutes. — However, it does appear that Apple only updates the data every night at midnight PDT. — I strongly advise calling your local Apple store to check inventory before visiting said store.
Creative:
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
A Xobni Executive Leaves The Red-Hot Startup. But Why? — Xobni, the Y Combinator email startup that turned down an acquisition offer from Microsoft earlier this year, has just lost its VP Engineering and first employee, Gabor Cselle. Cselle joined the company in March 2007 …
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Chad Bray / Wall Street Journal:
Redlasso Sued Over Web Clips — NEW YORK — NBC Universal Inc., Fox News Network LLC and Fox Television Stations Inc. sued Redlasso Inc. on Wednesday, alleging the Web site is improperly making available video clips of their copyrighted programming. — The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court …
CBC News:
Bell's internet throttling is like reading people's mail, ISPs say — Bell Canada Inc.'s slowing of internet speeds is the equivalent of the post office opening people's mail and deciding when they should get their letters, a group of small service providers have said in their final volley at the company.
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
The Difference Between Google Knol & Wikipedia Encyclopedia — Google today introduced Knol, a Wikipedia style encyclopedia that anyone can edit but with some major differences: — a) Wikipedia has one page per topic but that limit is relaxed on Google Knol - multiple authors can write on the same topic at different places.
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AndyDickinson.net, Journalistopia, Lifehacker, Bleeding Edge, Mashable! and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Announcing trueSpace for Virtual Earth 3D Development — Today is a big day. BIG DAY. — As you'll recall, several months ago we acquired Caligari because of their advanced 3D toolset - trueSpace (among other assets). I've always felt sketchy about other 3D freeware …
