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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Showing Our Thanks to Windows 7 Beta Testers.... Last week, I blogged that members of the Windows Technical Beta Program would not be receiving a complimentary copy of Windows 7. Normally I hate to be wrong but in this case, I'm stoked that I am. — To show our appreciation …
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Jon Fortt / Brainstorm Tech:
Bartz and Ballmer on the Yahoo/Microsoft search pact — Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer pose for the cameras after doing a search deal. Image: Yahoo — Soon after Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) announced their search deal on July 29, I spoke with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz …
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Stephen Lawson / PC World:Microsoft-Yahoo Deal May Hurt Competition, Google Exec Says
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Saul Hansell / Bits:In Search, Microsoft's Gain Is Not Google's Loss
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The Official Google Blog:
I now pronounce you monetized: a YouTube video case study — (Cross-posted from the YouTube Biz Blog) — Last week the world watched in wonder as Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz's wedding party transformed a familiar and predictable tradition into something spontaneous and just flat-out fun.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
WSJ: Apple going to CES 2010. Reality: Nope. — This week Gary Shapiro, chief exec of of the CEA (the trade group which puts on CES, and, full disclosure, for which I sometimes consult) held a private dinner with journalists in San Francisco. According to Dow Jones / WSJ reporter Ben Charny …
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Ben Charny / Digits:
Will Apple CEO Headline CES '10? — Correction: It is not clear whether Apple will attend the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. This post previously stated that Apple would attend. Those snubbed by Apple CEO Steve Jobs take heart. He won't return calls from Gary Shapiro …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Ordered To Close In The Netherlands — In an Amsterdam court last week, BREIN's lawyer argued that The Pirate Bay is responsible for millions of copyright infringements every day, and that the site should therefore be blocked to visitors from The Netherlands.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:Dutch Court Sides With Anti-Piracy Group; Says Pirate Bay Must …
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Victor Keegan / Guardian:
Virtual worlds are getting a second life — We haven't heard much recently about so-called virtual worlds such as Second Life, in which you move around with your own avatar. Critics must be hoping they have disappeared up their own ether. Actually, they are booming.
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Andrew Brandt / Technologizer:
Your GSM Phone is (Probably) Vulnerable to Malicious Text Messages — Virtually all GSM phones (such as Apple's iPhone) and GSM wireless operators (such as AT&T and T-Mobile) on the planet appear to be vulnerable to attacks using specially crafted SMS text messages discovered by security researchers Zane Lackey and Luis Miras.
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David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
Take Back the Beep Campaign — Last week, in The Times and on my blog, I've been ranting about one particularly blatant money-grab by U.S. cellphone carriers: the mandatory 15-second voicemail instructions. — Suppose you call my cell to leave me a message. First you hear my own voice: “Hi, it's David Pogue.
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Paul Boutin / VentureBeat:
Developers beware: Apple undermines my6sense app launch — Developing apps for the iPhone can be a profitable business, but Apple's review and approval process is still a black box. Apple's intractable system can foil an app's launch, as happened today for Israeli company my6sense.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Motorola: Android device launches get us back in the smartphone game — Updated: Motorola's Sanjay Jha, co-CEO and head of the company's mobile device unit, says that new Android-based smartphones are on track for the holidays. Jha added that Motorola is planning a barrage of Android-based devices …
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Newsgator Shuts Down Its Online Feed Reader — NewsGator, the company behind the popular FeedDemon and NetNewsWire feed readers, just announced that it will shut down the NewsGator Online Reader on August 31, 2009. The company will provide users with instructions on how to migrate to Google Reader.
John Letzing / MarketWatch:
What's to become of Microsoft's answer to the iPod? — The Zune faces steep sales declines, low market share ahead of update — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Microsoft Corp.'s quarterly earnings report last week featured a number of grim statistics, including a relatively overlooked …
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Motorola Sholes Android phone headed for Verizon? — On the lookout for the Motorola / Android / Verizon trifecta, we dug up some handset renders over at motofan.ru that seem to fit the bill quite well, thank you. According to the site, “Sholes” is a 3.7-inch (480 x 854) …
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TMZ.com:
Steve Jobs — Big Man on Campus ... Again — Steve Jobs is back to an Apple a day — and we've got the proof. — TMZ obtained this photo of the Apple co-founder leaving company headquarters in Cupertino, California around 3:00 PM today. — It's the first time we've seen Jobs …
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Jonny Evans / 9 to 5 Mac:
Apple boosts Time Capsule capacity to 2TB — Apple has quietly upgraded its Time Capsule product, introducing a new higher capacity model, but kept prices unchanged. — The new Time Capsule is available with a 2TB capacity - more than enough to support wireless back-up for multiple Macs.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
AT&T sees big increase in Wi-Fi connections following iPhone 3.0 — AT&T saw nearly 15 million users connect to its Wi-Fi network last quarter — a 41 percent increase over the previous quarter — thanks, in part, to the release of iPhone 3.0, which allowed auto-authentication on the wireless carrier's 20,000 hotspots.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nintendo's sales and profits plummet in June quarter — Nintendo has defied gravity during the recession, seeing strong sales and profit growth that have been the envy of the industry. But in its first fiscal quarter that ended June 30, the company saw a sales drop 40 percent and profits fall 60.6 percent.
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MacNN:
Stunning Nano-Phone Surfaces in Patent — A belated US Patent via an Australian filing mysteriously surfaced this month revealing a stunning nano-phone concept in development at Apple. The design involves a very sophisticated yet complicated dual-surface user interface.
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Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
MI5 website breached by hacker — MI5 has closed up a flaw on its website that could have opened up visitors to malicious attacks, the UK intelligence agency said. — The website suffered a cross-site scripting vulnerability that could have allowed hackers to inject code into the site …
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