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Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work:
Gates to leave MSFT — ho hum — "Gates leaving Microsoft" makes for a nice headline, and plenty of speculation and commentary over at techmeme, but it doesn't really bear any relationship to reality. For one thing, Bill isn't leaving his "day-to-day role" (whatever that really is) …
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New York Times:
Gates to Cede Software Reins — REDMOND, Wash., June 15 — Three decades after he started Microsoft with the dream of placing a personal computer in every home and business, Bill Gates said Thursday that he would leave his day-to-day role there in two years.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack Under Way — Microsoft June 15 confirmed that a new, undocumented flaw in its widely used Excel spreadsheet program was being used in an attack against an unnamed target. — The company's warning comes less than a month after a code-execution hole …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
DSL strikes a chord with frugal shoppers — A new kind of digital divide is emerging in the U.S. broadband market. — On one side are middle-income and price-sensitive households, which tend to favor DSL service offered by phone companies. On the other are more affluent families …
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Riya unleashing API to integrate its visual search into apps — Riya CEO Munjal Shah has been blogging about his company's shift in strategy, moving from a focus on face recognition to visual Web search (see also my post from May 16 and recent posts from Mike Arrington and Matt Marshall, among others).
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Politicos mull action against patent system abusers — WASHINGTON—U.S. politicians appeared sympathetic on Thursday to tech companies' cries for help combating what are commonly called "patent trolls"—companies that supposedly hold patents for no reason other than coaxing inflated settlements out of wealthy corporations.
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Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Microsoft developing a rival to Apple's iPod — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said on Friday.
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Engadget, TechEffect, paidContent.org, AAPL - Blogging Stocks, Bink.nu, Valleywag and Microsoft News Tracker
Chris Pirillo:
Gnomedex Keynote: Senator John Edwards — Just when you thought Gnomedex couldn't get any better, Senator John Edwards signs on as our Keynote. The senator is a long-standing supporter of technology - including podcasting and blogging. Every year, we wonder how we're going to top ourselves.
Paul Mutton / Netcraft:
PayPal Security Flaw allows Identity Theft — A security flaw in the PayPal web site is being actively exploited by fraudsters to steal credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to PayPal users. The issue was reported to Netcraft today via our anti-phishing toolbar.
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Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
Where 2.0 Gives the World Meaning — SAN JOSE, California (37°19'58.28"N 121°53'22.00"W ) — At O'Reilly Media's Where 2.0 conference this week, an odd mix of people gathered and gawked at a tiny spy plane mounted on a display table. Some wore the understated ties of government bureaucrats …
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Live Favorites:
Live Favorites - Beta No More! — Live Favorites V1 is Released! — We, the Live Favorites Team, are happy to announce that as of today Live Favorites is officially released as a V1 product... Beta No more! — A little while ago we put into production our final V1 service and web site.
Edge Online:
A BUG'S LIFE — Is it still worth hunting bugs for a living - at the risk of being treated like an insect - for your break in the videogame industry? — "You are not playing games." While researching the life and times of the modern-day games tester for this article …
Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front:
Announcing Software Patent of the Week — As regular readers of TLF know, I'm not a big fan of software patents. The more I learn about them, the more I'm amazed at the sheer scope of the problem. Every month, thousands of new software patents are issued.
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twice.com:
CyberHome DVD Recorders Seized — San Jose, Calif. — A task force of local, state and federal agencies seized more than 20,000 CyberHome-brand DVD recorders that allegedly use Philips patents without a license. — CyberHome U.S.A. of Fremont, Calif., markets DVD players, DVD recorders, portable DVD players and a handful of LCD TVs.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Online threats outpacing law crackdowns — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Authorities are cracking down on phishing and botnets, but the threats are advancing instead of diminishing, two law enforcement officials said. — Cybercrooks are organizing better and moving to more sophisticated tactics …
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Joe McKendrick / Service-Oriented Architecture:
Five minutes to develop an application? Way too slow — Would you entrust your enterprise operations to an application built in five minutes? (Okay, ten minutes, counting testing and quality assurance.) — IBM just posted a release pertaining to a keynote speech by Rod Smith …
