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Mscorp / Microsoft On The Issues:
Working to Fulfill our Legal Obligations in Europe for Windows 7 — Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — [Update to my original post earlier today below - I've added more historical context for readers who might be new to the issue - D.H.] — Earlier today CNET reported …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Europe to get Windows 7 sans browser — Microsoft plans to remove Internet Explorer from the versions of Windows 7 that it ships in Europe, CNET News has learned. — Reacting to antitrust concerns expressed by European regulators, Microsoft plans to offer a version in Europe that has the browser removed.
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
EU responds to Microsoft's browser move — The European Commission on Thursday responded with a mixed assessment of Microsoft's move to strip Internet Explorer out of European versions of Windows 7. — As first reported by CNET News, Microsoft has been telling PC makers of its plan …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile's Samsung Bigfoot — One of our trusty ninjas just hit us up with the above photo of Samsung's Bigfoot Android device slated to hit T-Mobile USA this summer. We've been told it will rock a 3 megapixel camera, be a UMTS/HSDPA device, and sport a 3.0″ capacitive AMOLED touch screen display.
The University of Michigan:
Analysis of the Green Dam Censorware System — Scott Wolchok, Randy Yao, and J. Alex Halderman — Computer Science and Engineering Division — The University of Michigan … Introduction — Accordingly to recent news reports (NYT, WSJ), the Chinese government has mandated that …
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Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:Green Dam definitively blocks political sites - and creates security breach
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Twitter Launches Verified Accounts — Twitter launched the first phase of its Verified Accounts program moments ago, meaning that celebrities, musicians, athletes, actors, public officials and public agencies on the service can now display a “verified account” button on their Twitter pages.
Aaron Wall / SEO Book.com:
What Does $14 Million Worth of PageRank Look Like? — From Hitwise: … Not to mention the link equity, eh? — Not a bad strategy there Systemax. That traffic is cheaper than AdWords, will pay for itself in less than a year, and since they are a corporation the Google rankings + traffic will stick.
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John Carney / Clusterstock:
Media Brawl Breaks Out Over Zipcar IPO Story (UPDATED) — Yesterday Bloomberg put out the story headlined “Zipcar Seeks IPO as Once 'Wacky Car-Sharing Gains.” — But now a fight has broken out about whether the company is actually seeking an IPO. — A spokesperson for the car-sharing rental company …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Scoble's Building 43 Launching Tonight With Practical Tips For Businesses Stuck In The 90's — Tonight sees the launch of Robert Scoble's newest project, Building43, an online community that he's building in partnership with web-hosting provider Rackspace (we're having them over to celebrate with us at our birthday party).
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
New screenshot gallery shows more polished Snow Leopard — A new and extensive screenshot gallery taken from the near feature-complete build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard distributed at this week's Apple developers conference shows off a more polished operating system nearing its final stretch of development.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder — A question which regularly pops up in the TorrentFreak mailbox is “How do hide myself online? How can I get free anonymous BitTorrent?” Our answer is usually something along the lines of “Free anonymous BitTorrent isn't really a reality right now.
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Celia McGee / New York Times:
Your Invitation Is Not in the Mail — IN Washington, the same week Barack Obama took office, a young staff member for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice enlisted Paperless Post, a new online stationery service, to help put together a going-away party for her boss.
Frank Ohlhorst / PC World:
Will Microsoft's Free Antivirus App be Worth the Price? — Microsoft is getting ready to offer Windows users a free antivirus product (code name Morro), something it should have built into one of its operating systems a long time ago. But, of course, Microsoft never makes things simple.
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Inside Twitter — An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World — Alex Cheng, Mark Evans, and Harshdeep Singh — → Appendix for reference with complete list of graphs — Over the past few months, Twitter has experienced explosive growth, attracting celebrity users such as Oprah …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Spear-Phishing Gang Resurfaces, Nets Big Catch — A prolific phishing gang known for using sophisticated and targeted e-mail attacks to siphon cash from small to mid-sized business bank accounts appears to be back in operation after more than a 5-month hiatus, security experts warn.
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Cable group turns net neutrality around over ISP access fees — Here's an issue that will probably keep the telecom lawyers growling at each other for just a decade or so. The American Cable Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to stop Internet video content providers …
Ina Fried / CNET News:
How Intuit managed to hold off Microsoft — The defeat of Microsoft Money at the hands of Intuit's Quicken marks a rare chapter in the annals of software history. — Intuit is one of the few companies to take Microsoft head-on on its home turf—packaged software—and come out on top.
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GamePolitics News:
Sen. Orrin Hatch Calls Pirate Bay Case a Win, Slams Canada Over Copyright Issues — Influential Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) referred to a Swedish court's recent conviction of the operators of file-sharing site The Pirate Bay as “important” and a “victory.” He also reiterated Congressional claims …
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Confusion expected as analog TV broadcasts end — NEW YORK (AP) — Starting in the morning and going into the night, TV stations across the U.S. planned to cut their analog signals Friday, ending a six-decade era for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service.
Alex Patriquin / Compete Blog:
Bing Attracts New Searchers, But So Far Only For a Trial — Unless you're completely new to the internet industry, or have been on vacation for the past two weeks, you've probably heard a lot about Bing, Microsoft's slick new search engine. — On June 1st, Microsoft officially launched Bing …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
YouTube Adds Facebook Connect — Talk about a big fish ... today YouTube announced that they are now supporting Facebook Connect. While there was a previous YouTube campaign which integrated Facebook Connect, this is the first official implementation. In a blog post on the Facebook developer blog …
Pui-Wing Tam / Digits:
More Ways to Sell Out of Your Startup Stock — Startup executives and employees haven't had it easy cashing out of their private company stock since the IPO and M&A markets, which typically provide “liquidity” and a route to riches, have been relatively moribund in recent years.
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
The many ways to access Wolfram Alpha — Say what you will about Wolfram Alpha, the creators are hard at work trying to drum up interest in the site. — On Tuesday, the WA crew launched a number of updates to its service, some of which I tested. Now the team's Thursday blog points you to the many …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Video game sales still in a slump versus a year ago — Video game sales fell for the third straight month in May. Even though the industry can't beat the extraordinary numbers it turned out a year ago, it's not quite time to panic. The recession is a drag, but the blockbusters for this year …
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Intel adds dual-core Celeron CPUs into ultra-thin notebook lineup — Intel recently added two dual-core CPUs into its CULV platform targeting entry-level ultra-thin notebooks - the Celeron 740 and SU2300, according to sources at notebook makers. — The Celeron 740 and SU2300 CPUs feature core frequencies …
