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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype Now Means Business, Friends The SIP World — Skype, a division of beleaguered eBay, is going corporate. The company today announced that it will play nice with corporate PBX systems that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). According to The Wall Street Journal …
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, CNET News, Between the Lines, Computerworld, Disruptive Telephony, Alec Saunders SquawkBox, Skype Blogs, vnunet, Network World, Reuters, TheNextWeb.com and Sidecut Reports, Thanks:omfut
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Chaim / About Skype:
Skype opens up to corporate SIP communications — New beta program brings Skype voice calling to SIP-based PBX systems — LUXEMBOURG, March 23, 2009 — Skype today announced the beta version of Skype For SIP for Business users. SIP, short for Session Initiation Protocol …
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
The Future of Twitter: Social CRM — Twitter has multiple business models to choose from — I get asked over and over: “How do you think Twitter will monetize? What's their business model?” While it's clear their already experimenting with ‘house’ ads, ads that promote features of their service …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com lets you answer customer complaints on Twitter — Most people on popular microblogging site Twitter (which just turned three) have probably seen customer service-type queries from other users — questions about how to make a product work, or complaints that it's broken.
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ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, Between the Lines, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Data Center Knowledge, TechCrunchIT, GMSV, The Equity Kicker, TECH.BLORGE.com, TheNextWeb.com, The Social and Micro Persuasion, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Media Giants Want to Top Google Results — Argue That Professional Sources Should Be More Recognized Than Blogs — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their expensive professional content within the search engine's undifferentiated slush of results.
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HipMojo.com, MediaMemo, Gawker, the Econsultancy blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, The Blog Herald and The Noisy Channel, Thanks:atul
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers' Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers — The danger of storing your data in the cloud, part n. VC-backed online backup and storage provider Carbonite has lost data of 7,500+ customers who relied on the company to keep their files safe, The Boston Globe unveiled over the weekend.
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Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Mag:
Samsung N110 — Samsung's updated 10-inch netbook continues to beat the competition with an improved touchpad and more than 7 hours of battery life. — Price as Reviewed: $469.00 — Review Contents: — The Samsung NC10 rose to the top of our favorite-netbooks list when it first hit …
Felix Salmon / Portfolio:
The NYT's Blogophobia — What's with the sudden blogophobia at the NYT? Between Craig Whitney's astonishingly tone-deaf memo on how to write a blog, and the legal department's heavy-handed nastygram trying to shut down Apartment Therapy, it seems that one of the most web-savvy media companies …
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Rivals Say I.B.M. Stifles Competition to Mainframes — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — I.B.M. has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, services and financing related to the machines.
Dan Freedman / BBC:
Users criticise Facebook update — More than a million people have now voted against changes to the social networking site Facebook. — The new look site puts more focus on status updates and has been likened to one of its rivals Twitter. — Users have voted overwhelmingly …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft readies its Web platform 2.0 — Last fall, Microsoft rolled out version 1 of its installer for its Web-platform stack of software. At Mix '09 last week, the company refreshed the installer in the form of a new beta for Web Platform Installer 2.0 and a new gallery of third-party Web apps.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Bigfoot Networks launches second-generation gaming network card — Bigfoot Networks is launching the second-generation of its gaming network card for PCs to deal with the problem of lag. — Lag is the problem gamers see when they're getting ready to blast someone in a multiplayer combat game …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
iPhone game developer Ngmoco raises second round of funding — The iPhone game publisher Ngmoco is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a second round of funding — in its ninth month as a company. — The funding — led by Norwest Venture Partners and put together in a matter of weeks …
