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Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It's A Social Network! — Microsoft's Live.com portal will change significantly this evening. No longer will it be a simple search engine with a few other services bolted on. It's now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and content from around the web.
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Windows Live Gets More Lively — Microsoft is building on principles first articulated in 2005. In Washington, D.C., I remember meeting several MSN product managers who laid out a simple but profound approach: Connect people to whom they know. Recognizing that most blogs and photo shares …
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Microsoft Introduces Updated Windows Live Services — Leading Web companies work with Microsoft to simplify life online with e-mail, messaging, photo and file sharing, and more. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the next generation of Windows Live, an integrated set of online services …
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Microsoft's New Photo Sharing Service: Live Photos
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The VC model is broken — These days, the more you talk to folks about Silicon Valley's venture capital industry, the more negative the message is becoming. — And for good reason. There's no more patience. Last time, circa 2001, the entire VC industry got a “get-out-jail-free card” after the Internet bubble burst.
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Extremely literal boss demotes editor to columnist — In the wake of his apocalyptic predictions for the online-advertising market, Nick Denton, the owner of Valleywag publisher Gawker Media, read my offhand quip about how I would soon be writing Valleywag as a column for Gizmodo or Gawker …
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Google's SEO Starter Guide — Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, “What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?” There are lots of possible answers to this question, and a wealth of search engine optimization information on the web …
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AMD introduces 45nm quad-core “Shanghai” Opteron processors — Today AMD announces 45nm quad-core Opteron processors, codenamed “Shanghai” designed to deliver superior virtualization experience, performance and power efficiency. — The touted highlights of these new pieces of silicon are many and varied:
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Your school chum's not asking about you: Classmates.com sued — “Your former classmates are trying to contact you! Upgrade now to see their messages!” That's the pitch many of us have seen from Classmates.com as a lure to pony up for a subscription. At least one former customer …
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Verizon announces BlackBerry Storm release date, November 21st, $199 — At least y'all will have to wait less, not longer, right? We're finally allowed to publish what the BlackBerry world has been waiting for — the official release date for the BlackBerry Storm. November 21st is the date that shall live in infamy.
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Our next update — Six months ago, we announced our last update to SkyDrive right here on the SkyDrive team blog. Although we've been pretty hush-hush since then, the team has been working diligently to bring you new features and improvements across SkyDrive and the rest of Windows Live based directly on your feedback.
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Gullible Twitter users hand over their usernames and passwords - did you get your Twitterank yet?! — Mana from the heavens for cloud sceptics - on a day a lot of professional photographers lost all their images due to the failure of photo hosting site Digital Railroad which went under …
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Some follow up... Thanks to everyone who posted a comment to the previous entry.
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Intel's dire warning — In a surprise announcement, Intel (INTC) said Wednesday that its gloomy fourth quarter forecast wasn't nearly gloomy enough. Instead of pulling in between $10.1 billion and $10.9 billion in sales, the chip giant expects closer to a dreadful $9 billion.
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Spam Volumes Drop by Two-Thirds After Firm Goes Offline — The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide plummeted on Tuesday after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations engaged in spam activity was taken offline.
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Apple may launch most aggressive Black Friday sale yet — With Black Friday sale information from rival PC vendors beginning to leak online, experts at Barclays Capital say they expect Apple to counter the promotions with a more aggressive than usual one-day sale, offering deep discounts on a number of Mac models.
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Is Apple Building A Search Engine? — We've received multiple (if thin) reports that Apple is working on a search engine of some sort. — At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple's Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard …
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Valve Tried to Trick Half Life 2 Hacker Into Fake Job Interview — After the secret source code for its then-unreleased shooter Half Life 2showed up on BitTorrent in 2003, gamemaker Valve Software cooked up an elaborate ruse with the FBI targeting the German hacker suspected in the leak …
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Google Site Search lets you index pages faster — Google Site Search is giving site owners even more control with a new feature called On-Demand Indexing. Now you can add pages to your site's search index with literally the push of a button. — As the name implies, Site Search is Google's search tool for individual web sites.
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Best Buy Gets Hit by Spending Slump — Investors flee after the retailer's executives say they don't know how gloomy this holiday season will be — Best Buy (BBY) terrified investors on Nov. 12 with bad news indeed. The electronics retailer said it sees consumers sharply cutting back their spending.
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Napster Judge Calls for Major Copyright Reform — Judge Miriam Hall Patel, who presided over the case that killed off original Napster, proposed a bold plan Monday to reform copyright for the digital age by creating a new public/private organization with authority over the licensing and enforcement of copyright.
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Microsoft-backed Sabi launches cool drawing game for kids — Kids educational programs haven't been the most exciting market for game makers. But Microsoft is announcing today that it has backed Sabi, a spin-out with an educational game dubbed Itza Bitza that features a novel drawing technology.
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Nokia's half QWERTY device, Wahoo, headed for AT&T gets pictured; Sorry Charlie! — Well, what do we have here? It seems as if it's a never before seen Nokia handset! We don't have a name to call it other than the internal codename, “Wahoo”, but what we can do is recap some of the specs of the device for you...