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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Feds add two years to Microsoft antitrust deal — update The Justice Department is seeking to extend the term of its landmark antitrust settlement with Microsoft by two years, blaming Microsoft's slowness in providing technical documentation to rivals. — In a statement released Friday …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista search seems fair, regulators say — The U.S. government has given its thumbs-up to Microsoft's search box plans for Vista, shrugging off concerns raised recently by Google. — While criticizing Microsoft for its implementation of its existing antitrust accord …
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Better conversations — For months, a post by Tom Hespos and a related post has rolled around in my head. In my mind, having a someone doing engineering communication (reading blogs, participating in forums, answering questions at conferences or online) has helped Google to get good feedback …
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Adam / BLADAM:
I've joined Google — A couple of months ago, I became a Googler. Since my boss—Matt Cutts—has already so kindly introduced me on his blog, I feel this is probably a good time to say a few words about my new job — The short version: I'm honored, humbled, a bit nervous, and yes, very happy.
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Kevin Kelly / New York Times:
Scan This Book! — In several dozen nondescript office buildings around the world, thousands of hourly workers bend over table-top scanners and haul dusty books into high-tech scanning booths. They are assembling the universal library page by page. — The dream is an old one: to have in one place all knowledge, past and present.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Blogging vs Traditional Media - This time its personal — A blog is media. Its a platform to communicate that can reach anyone within reach of an internet connection. Ive been writing this blog for more than 2 years and that time has allowed me to recognize the difference between a blog …
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
MS VC Summit - A few notes — Don Dodge and Ed Sim both have written up Microsoft's VC Summit. — From Don's post, there is this snippet: … From Ed's post: … As you've probably read before, I try hard think about what's around the corner and go there first.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Back Up Your Blog — BackupMyBlog is a new service (in public beta) that will automatically back up blogs daily (I love the heavy use of green in the design). This is a much needed tool. Wordpress, which is what we use for all of the TechCrunch blogs, has this feature built in …
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Dell's World Isn't What It Used to Be — Dell is sharply reducing prices on its computers. — The tactic is classic, straight out of the playbook that made the company the world's largest computer maker. As overall demand for personal computers slows, lower your prices.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The 53,651 Debate — I wanted to add a comment to the discussion about whether 10,000 or 25,000 or 53,651 are a significant number of users for a web service. — It depends on how you look at it. Most bloggers would be very happy to have 10,000 readers, no matter how they got there.
David Kirkpatrick / CNN:
The Net's not-so-secret economy of crime — The people who want to rip you off are very polite with each other when they're buying and selling credit card numbers. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - Raze Software offers a product called CC2Bank 1.3, available in freeware form - if you like it, please pay for it.
Martyn Williams / Macworld:
Sony brings remote TV to Macs and mobiles — Sony Corp. plans to unveil new client software next week that will extend its LocationFree TV platform to Macintosh computers and a wider range of mobile devices. — LocationFree TV is a platform that streams a live video and audio signal from a base station to client devices.
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Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
An Interesting View on Apple and the iPod — I'm attending the Microsoft VC summit in California. Some interesting presentations and updates regarding various happenings around Microsoft. I've got some items that will be of interest to start ups which I will post about later.
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Music: More clues? — I received another email today from the person who wrote last week. He has some more information about Google Music — none of which I can confirm, but for what it's worth I wanted to pass it along to my readers. … None of these points surprise me, they all seem plausible and predictable.
W. David Gardner / InformationWeek:
Coming Soon: In-Flight VoIP Calling — An FCC frequency auction under way this week will likely pave the way for VoIP calls in-flight. — TechWeb.com — Like it or not, airline passengers in U.S. skies are likely to be listening to their fellow passengers talking on phones in a year or so.
