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Steve Hamm / Business Week:
IBM's Social Networking Push — With collaboration software called Lotus Connections, Big Blue competes with Microsoft as Web 2.0 expands into the business world — In the earlier days of computing, innovations that were created for corporations gradually seeped into consumer products.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:IBM Launches Enterprise Social Networking Suite; Microsoft Helpfully …
John Fontana / Network World:Lotus sets social networking tools, collaboration updates as focus for '07
Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
German, French groups want open iTunes — OSLO, Norway - German and French consumer groups have joined a Nordic-led drive to force Apple Inc. to make its iTunes online store compatible with digital music players made by rival companies, a Norwegian official said Monday.
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Matt / WordPress Development Blog:
WordPress 2.1 Ella — On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 "Ella", named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here's a sampling of what's in the new version:
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David Flynn / APC:
Vista Service Pack 1 is coming — Reckon you won't upgrade to Vista until the first service pack is released? That's looking likely to be the second half of this year, according to Microsoft's latest email blast. — The company has put out a call for "customers and partners (to) …
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Steve Wiseman / IntelliAdmin.com:The 5 sins of Vista — Since Vista was released to MSDN subscribers …
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Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
Blu-Ray DRM Cracked — The plaintext exploit used to partially crack HD-DVD a couple of weeks ago was brought to bear on Blu-Ray by the same gents this weekend—and it worked a treat. — "We need to kick DRM in the butt!" declares the sigfile of Doom9 forum poster Janvitos, launching his inspection of the format.
Nate Mook / BetaNews:
22% of Windows Installs Non-Genuine — Microsoft disclosed Monday that over one in five Windows installations were deemed non-genuine through the company's Windows Genuine Advantage program, which requires users to validate their operating system before downloading updates from the company.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Find Out If Your Social Security or Credit Card Numbers are on the Internet — Silicon Valley based Trusted ID, which launched IDFreeze last year to help protect people from identity theft, released their second product this evening - Stolen ID Search. — Type a social security …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing' — In this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion — the concept of saving messages for delivery in decades, centuries or more. — The project, dubbed …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
MySpace sues Spam King — You'll never guess what for... MySpace.com has sued self-proclaimed spam king Scott Richter for allegedly using compromised user accounts to send millions unsolicited ads touting ringtones, polo shirts among other things. — We were surprised - nay shocked - when we heard the identity of the defendant.
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Cracking Down on Mixtape CDs — Not long before Christmas, Jeff Baker, the chief of police of Morrow, Ga., a small town just south of Atlanta, and one of his officers were walking through a local shopping mall when they happened to pass a kiosk hawking rap music CDs. One in particular caught their attention.
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch Referral Traffic — In response to a couple of inquiries, here are the top 11 sources of TechCrunch traffic in December 2006 (via Google Analytics): — Digg remains a very important site for overall TechCrunch traffic. I'm surprised by how much traffic BBC and TechMeme sends our way.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The healthcare "revolution" — controlling your records, insurance — A bevy of start-ups are emerging to give people new ways to liberate them from the control of powerful health insurance companies — it's about time. — Typically, you go to a doctor, and the doctor keeps your records on file and you can't access them.
Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music — As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to take.
Josh Pigford / The Apple Blog:
Note Taking Application Faceoff — Whether you're writing a simple article for a blog, piecing together the next blockbuster hit, or penning a 500 page romance novel, there are quite a few options for helping you get all of that information organized and drafted.
Matt Asay / Open Sources:
Ubuntu founder doesn't "get" enterprise Linux — OK, that's not really true. Mark is a sharp guy, and gets open source as well, indeed, better, than most. But he's completely wrong on his criticism of Red Hat (which Greg of the Fedora Project shoots down). His basic point?
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