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1:05 PM ET, March 23, 2009

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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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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 …
Peter Parkes / Skype for Business:
Skype For SIP now available in Beta
Discussion: InfoWorld and VoIP & Gadgets Blog
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple discontinues iPhone Bluetooth Headset [u]  —  Apple this weekend appears to have discontinued its iPhone Bluetooth Headset, a possible sign that the company could be planning to introduce an updated model alongside new iPhones a bit later this year or cede the market segment to third parties.
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers' Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers (Updated)  —  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.
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.
Discussion: Bits, CrunchGear and deal architect
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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:   Recommended reading  —  A brutal, ruthless monopolist resorts …
Mary Hayes Weier / InformationWeek:
Salesforce.com Offers Twitter Customer-Service App  —  Comcast, Dell, and others will use the app to find and help customers who've turned to their social networks to solve product problems.  —  Salesforce.com is announcing Monday a customer-relationship management application for Twitter.
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com lets you answer customer complaints on Twitter
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 …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Hulu Gains 10 Million Viewers In February, Now No. 4 Video Site In U.S.  —  Hulu jumped two spots to become the fourth largest video site in the U.S. in February, according to the latest data from comScore VideoMetrix.  Hulu drew an audience of 34.7 million people who watched 332.5 million video streams.
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld Blogs:
TomTom gets allies in Microsoft Linux patent lawsuit fight  —  When Microsoft first sued TomTom for patent violations in TomTom's Linux-powered navigation devices, I wasn't sure how much of a fight TomTom would put up.  Legally TomTom was between a rock and a hard place.
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PRWeb:
Open Invention Network Extends The Linux Ecosystem As TomTom Becomes Licensee
Discussion: Open Source and Engadget
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.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Vuze Integrates with iTunes, Xbox 360 and PS3  —  Over the past year, Vuze has been slowly transitioning to an all-in-one BitTorrent application where users can search, download and play videos from the Vuze network and other torrent sites.  The latest addition to the client takes yet another step forward.
Discussion: NewTeeVee and Softpedia News
Leena Rao / TechCrunchIT:
Ustream Launches Mobile Version of Watershed, Streaming Service For Enterprises  —  Live video startup Ustream has launched the mobile version of Watershed, its broadcasting platform for enterprises.  Watershed Mobile will let organizations stream video onto a variety of mobile devices, including the Nokia N95 phones.
Discussion: Mashable!
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.
Discussion: CloudAve and eWeek
PC World:
Play Xbox Games on Your Cell Phone  — Imagine playing what looks like an Xbox 360 game — on a $100 cell phone.  That, according to Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM, is exactly what could be possible as soon as winter 2009 with its new higher-end Mali-200 and Mali-400 processors.
Discussion: SlashGear and Electronista
John Kell / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Names New Marketing Chief  —  Yahoo Inc. named Elisa Steele to its newly created role of chief marketing officer on Monday, as the Internet giant looks to boost its brand.  —  Chief Executive Carol Bartz, who succeeded Jerry Yang in January, made the decision to re-establish the position …
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 …
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 …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes  —  In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing “Winter Wonderland,” and she posted it on YouTube.
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 …
Discussion: Obsessable and InformationWeek
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Obama administration sides with RIAA in P2P suit  —  The Obama administration has sided with the recording industry in a copyright lawsuit against an alleged peer-to-peer pirate, a move that echoes arguments previously made by the Bush administration.  —  A legal brief filed Sunday in a case …
 
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Oracle to acquire Relsys
Discussion: Computerworld
Elizabeth Holmes / Digits:
Business Week Jumps on Twitter Bandwagon
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Chris Keall / National Business Review:
Section 92A to be scrapped
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Iain Thomson / PC Authority:
Top 10 IT locations  —  From Silicon Valley to Station X during …
Discussion: Slashdot
Chris Williams / The Register:
BT names first 29 exchanges for fibre rollout
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
BBC: Botnet purchase experiment was in ‘public interest’
Austin Modine / The Register:
Eclipse to unwrap Swordfish in early April
Discussion: Eclipse News and eWeek
Terrence Russell / VentureBeat:
MyPunchbowl revamps birthday reminders
Discussion: CNET News
Felix Salmon / Portfolio:
The NYT's Blogophobia  —  What's with the sudden blogophobia at the NYT?
Discussion: The Noisy Channel
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
D.C. Homeless People Use Cellphones, Blogs and E-Mail to Stay on Top of Things
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