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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Rolls Out Personal Health Records — Microsoft is starting its long-anticipated drive into the consumer health care market by offering free personal health records on the Web and pursuing a strategy that borrows from the company's successful formula in personal computer software.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Web 3.0, the official definition. — Some folks have been asking me for the clear definition of the term Web 3.0. — Web 3.0 is defined as the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform.
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Fred / A VC:
Web 3.0 Nonsense — Jason Calacanis defines web 3.0 as Mahalo.com, predictably. — I don't like the term web 2.0 and I sure hope we don't perpetuate this nonsensical versioning much further. — What's coming is the programmable web, the semantic web, and the social web.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Calacanis: Web 3.0 is whatever I say it is — Humpty Dumpty: "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." — Alice: "The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things." — You have to hand it to Jason Calacanis …
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AppleInsider:
Apple announcements brewing for late October [updated] — Apple Inc. has begun preparatory measures for significant announcements to take place during the last full week of October, AppleInsider has been told. — While sources have requested that we not go into detail regarding …
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Leopard poised to leap last weekend in October — Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard remains on track for an October release on or around October 26, sources report. — That date, the last Friday of the month, is similar to the release date of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, which had been said would debut …
Martin Varsavsky:
Introducing the BT FON Community — Yes, you read it correctly: BT stands for British Telecom!!! — Ever since we started building FON, the largest WiFi community in the world, I have been explaining how FON is great for telcos and ISPs. BT, one of the world's leading and most innovative telcos …
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Larry Magid / New York Times:
The Next Leap for Linux — LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day. It also runs the TiVo digital video recorder, the Motorola Razr cellphone and countless other electronic devices. — But why would anyone want to use Linux, an open-source operating system, to run a PC?
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Feds pull the domain name plug on State of California — (InfoWorld) - The Federal government pulled the plug on the ca.gov Web domain used by the State of California on Tuesday, setting into motion a chain of events that threatened to grind government business to a standstill within the state.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
In Facebook, Investing in a Theory — The Facebook frenzy is spreading. — Thousands of software developers are creating features for Facebook, the rapidly growing social network, many hoping to strike it rich alongside Facebook's own employees. — Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif. …
Reuters:
Google says closing gap with China rival — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Web search leader Google Inc said on Thursday it is closing the gap with rival Baidu in China, after years of trying to increase market share in the world's second-largest Internet arena. — Google has gained more market share …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free — 2007 is turning out to be a terrible year for the music industry. Or rather, a terrible year for the the music labels. — The DRM walls are crumbling. Music CD sales continue to plummet rather alarmingly.
Fred / A VC:
The Fiction of 20% — It's a "given" in the venture business that in order to compensate a venture firm for all the time and energy they are going to put into a particular investment, they need to own at least 20% of the company and ideally 30%. — I hear it all the time.
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Apple Fixes QuickTime for Windows Glitch — Attackers can slip past Windows system defenses due to a flaw in Apple's QuickTime for Windows media player. — Attackers can slip past Windows system defenses due to a flaw in the way Apple's QuickTime for Windows handles URLs in the "qtnext" field in QTL files—i.e., media link files.
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Macworld:
Toshiba shows soon-to-launch HD DVD recorders — Martyn Williams, IDG News Service - MacCentral — Toshiba is showing three yet-to-be-launched HD DVD recorders at this week's Ceatec show in Japan. — A main feature of all three players is the ability to transcode in real-time an off …
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Live Search Maps: the best is yet to come — We haven't talked much about the changes coming to Live Search Maps, for a couple of reasons. The first and foremost, of course, is that its not live yet, and it's kind of hard to talk about the changes without being able to see them (and use them).
IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 7 Update — Almost a year ago, we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. Since then, IE7 is well on its way to becoming the most used browser in the world, and we've seen lots of evidence that IE7 makes it safer and easier to accomplish everyday tasks online.
