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Gavriella Schuster / The Windows Blog:
Guidance on Windows Deployments for Business Customers — Hi, I'm Gavriella; welcome to the new Windows for your Business Blog. — Let me introduce myself: I'm a member of the Windows Product Management team and have been at Microsoft for 13 years. For the last two and a half …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Vista or Windows 7? Just get rid of XP, Microsoft tells users — Microsoft's latest Windows deployment guidance for business users has morphed from the overly simplistic “Don't wait for Windows 7.” — The company's new corporate advice is more nuanced and more dependent on where users are currently in their deployment cycles.
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Palm CEO Ed Colligan Talks Pre with Investors — We're listening to Ed Colligan talk to investors about the state of Palm and what some of their plans are going forward. Some interesting tidbits: — There will be no more PalmOS devices released by Palm (excepting the Centro getting released on other carriers).
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Facebook appraisal pegs company's value at $3.7B — Facebook Inc. quickly concluded it wasn't worth anywhere near the $15 billion market value implied in a 2007 investment made by Microsoft Corp., according to confidential information obtained Wednesday from court documents.
AppleInsider:
Apple prepping iTunes Replay on-demand video service — Apple is believed to be wrapping up a new feature in iTunes 8 that will allow users to stream their iTunes video purchases directly from the company's servers for playback anywhere, anytime without eating up local storage.
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VentureBeat, The iPhone Blog, MacRumors, Ars Technica, CNET News, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Webomatica and Macsimum News
Tweet. Meet. Give.:
Tweet. Meet. Give. — On 12 February 2009 175+ cities around the world will be hosting Twestivals which bring together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity: water. — Join us by: — Attending one of the events detailed on the city sites listed on this page.
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
BOSS Update: Open Monetization, Pricing, Structured Data, and More — Today, we're announcing a handful of new features for Yahoo! Search BOSS as well as important updates on our terms of service and pricing. — Three New Features — Perhaps the most important component …
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Christopher Wren / Social Web Blog:
A social bar for your site — Labels: Google Friend Connect, new features — While it's easy to add social features to your site with Google Friend Connect, you may have been wondering where to put all of the great gadgets. You need your users to sign in, to interact with your site …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, RotorBlog.com, Webware.com, AppScout, The Social Times, Mashable! and Social Media News, Thanks:atul
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Pierre Omidyar's New Ginx Looks Like a Dud — Remember that link I shared on Twitter yesterday? What if I told you I had a new tool that would help you find it again...and all it would cost was 1 year of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's time? That would be insane, would it not?
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Electronista:
First NVIDIA Ion system a desktop, due in spring — NVIDIA at a press conference in Taiwan today provided early details of launch plans for the first systems based on its Ion platform. The company's mainboard chipset manager Drew Henry says the first system based on the architecture …
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Gizmodo, TheAppleBlog, InfoWorld, TechSpot, Digits, Neowin.net, Engadget and Computerworld
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Diddit launches surprisingly addictive activity guide — The development team behind search company Inktomi is launching a new service tonight called Diddit, which functions as both an activity guide and a way to share stories and accomplishments. — Diddit is a bit like business-rating services …
Paul McIntyre / Sydney Morning Herald:
MySpace founder concedes social network defeat — THE co-founder of News Corp's MySpace has thrown in the towel in the global battle against Facebook, predicting the social networking site will forever play second fiddle to its younger upstart. — Facebook and MySpace between …
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DealBook:
Sirius XM Holds Talks With Liberty Media — Liberty Media, the media company controlled by John C. Malone, is in preliminary talks with the satellite radio giant Sirius XM Radio, people briefed on the negotiations told DealBook. — A deal between Liberty and Sirius XM could throw a wrench …
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Bill Harwood / CNET News:
U.S. and Russian satellites collide — In an unprecedented space collision, a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite ran into each other Tuesday above northern Siberia, creating a cloud of wreckage, officials said today.
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft to Hire Yahoo Vice President Larry Heck to Bolster Search Engine — Feb. 11 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. hired Yahoo! Inc. executive Larry Heck, bolstering its Internet-search expertise as the software maker tries to catch market leader Google Inc.
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
IBM to tap Amazon Web Services — One of the key questions for Amazon.com's cloud computing business is whether it can move beyond its early adopter base of web startups to bring in large enterprise customers. Today, Amazon took a major step that direction with a wide-ranging partnership deal with IBM.
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The Inudian:
Never Share Your Twitter Password Again — Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! — A few hours ago Twitter's OAuth private beta was launched and Inuda was one of the lucky 150 users to be chosen to test it. OAuth is an open protocol that allows secure API authorisation in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New Tweetdeck Out Tomorrow, Here's What It Will Include — We got our hands on the new version of popular Twitter desktop app Tweetdeck that will be delivered to all users tomorrow and we're pretty excited about what's been added. — If you've never used Tweetdeck, it's …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Book Settlement Site Is Up; Paying Authors $60 Per Scanned Book — Last October, Google signed a $125 million settlement with the Author's Guild to pay authors for copyrighted works it has scanned and made available on the Web through its Google Book Search project.
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Samsung delays launch of Android phone — Samsung has delayed the release of its first mobile phone based on Google's Android operating system until the second half of this year. — There had been speculation that Samsung, which recently leapfrogged Nokia to become market leader in the UK …
Mscorp / Microsoft On The Issues:
Ballmer to Congress: Act Now on Stimulus Agreement — House and Senate lawmakers moved with impressive speed today to forge a final agreement on a $789 billion stimulus package designed to help revive the struggling U.S. economy. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who has been a vocal proponent …
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Know Your Rights: Does the Kindle 2's text-to-speech infringe authors' copyrights? — Know Your Rights is Engadget's technology law series, written by our own totally punk ex-copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we'll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in this brave new world.
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Gearlog, CrunchGear, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Macworld, Tech Beat and GartenBlog
Eric A. Taub / Gadgetwise:
Another Manufacturer Drops Plasma — Whether the rumors that Pioneer plans to pull out of the plasma TV business prove true or not, one other maker of flat panel TVs has left plasma behind: Vizio. — The five-year-old company, which originally made a name for itself selling lower-cost plasma and LCD TVs …
Jennifer Chappell / PreCentral.net:
Sprint Showing Pre's Specs on Website — Forum member bommarkm has just noticed that Sprint has updated their website to now show the Palm Pre's specs. — These specs are on Palm's website, but haven't been on Sprint's site until now, so let's hope that this is a sign that the Pre will be released soon.
Jonathan Thaw / Bloomberg:
Facebook Plans to Offer More Social-Networking Features via Mobile Phones — Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc., operator of the world's largest social-networking site, is working to offer more services on mobile phones from manufacturers such as Nokia Oyj, Apple Inc. and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Cisco's Shopping List: EMC? VMware? Sun? NetApp? — While we're all waiting for the economy to recovery, let's play a round of the hot new game, “Who Wants Cisco To Make Them A Millionaire?” — That's been a popular game this week, actually. Kicking off the action, Cisco (CSCO) …
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