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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Well, well, Dell — So Dell is starting a blog. — Ha. Heh. Ho ho ho. — It's a blog in content management system name only. — The subtitle is "direct conversations with Dell" but this is as much a conversation as yelling at a brick wall. There is not one link there.
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Andrew Lark:
Dell Launches Blog — Dell is out of the gate with a corporate blog... Like every corporate blog it is looking for a voice and will probably take time to find one. It's a little corporatey - but then its a corporate blog. The bloggerati just need to get over every blog coming …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Dell joins the bloggy Web — Oh, oh, this is becoming a trend. A human being on Dell's Web site? Calling Jeff Jarvis, calling Jeff Jarvis! Oh, he already chimed in. Steve Rubel did too and says the same thing. — What did I tell Nestle when someone asked "how do you start?" — Listen.
Nick / Rough Type:
Dell's unorthodox blog — A few days ago, Dell quietly launched a corporate blog, called one2one. Mixing words and video, it's designed to let various Dell employees talk about Dell products and services - and to share their enthusiasm for the company with customers.
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Between the Lines
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Dell Starts Corporate Blog, But Fails to Address Critical Issues — Dell, yes, as in Dell Hell, has launched a corporate weblog called one2one. According to PR Week, the Dell blog will be authored by multiple employees. It includes video and text, del.icio.us and digg seeding tools but no full-text feeds.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bebo Shuns $550 Million Acquisition Offer — San Francisco based social network Bebo, which recently raised $15 million from Benchmark Capital, rejected a £300 million ($552 million) acquisition offer from British Telecom Group "a few weeks ago", according to an insider on the transaction.
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Internet Marketing News …, Socialtwister 2.0, Download Squad, Social Degree, Screenwerk, Damien Mulley and Ken McGuire
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:Bebo Turns Down £300M — Bebo, the popular social network …
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Associated Press:
Gates: Vista likely to be ready in January — Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available — CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Windows Vista, would be ready in January.
Mark Ward / BBC:
Microsoft shuts down Windows 98 — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Microsoft is urging an estimated 70 million users of Windows 98 to upgrade as it ends support for the software. — From 11 July, Microsoft will no longer help users over the phone with any problems they have with the ageing operating system.
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CNET News.com:
BitTorrent inks licensing deal with studios — BitTorrent is lining up entertainment companies as it prepares to sell downloads of feature films, TV shows and other video entertainment. — The San Francisco-based file-sharing company announced on Monday that it has signed licensing deals …
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Nate Mook / BetaNews:
Firefox Usage Passes 15 Percent in US — Mozilla's Firefox browser continues to post gains in market share, according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com, while usage of Internet Explorer has fallen more than 2 percent since May. Opera, meanwhile, has surpassed 1 percent market share worldwide.
Mike / Techdirt:
Universal Service Tax On VoIP Will Actually Hold Back Universal Service — from the nice-work-FCC dept — Daniel Berninger continues to write some of the sharpest pieces on what's going on with the telco industry these days. In the past, he'd written up great pieces explaining …
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Oliver / MobileCrunch:
Sulake Corp Oy Nets EUR 6 Million to Mobilize Habbo Hotel for Japanese Teens — Venture Wire is reporting that Helsinki based Sulake Corp. Oy has received a third round of funding this one totalling 6 million Euro ($7.6 million USD) to mobiliize Habbo Hotel, a game famously popular with Japanese teens.
New York Times:
Google to Put a Research Center in Michigan — ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 10 — Google plans to build an office and research center here that will have up to 1,000 employees, people who had been briefed on the plan said Monday night. — The announcement is set to be made Tuesday morning …
Shawn Andrich / Gamers With Jobs Press Pass:
Hellgate: London Source Code Stolen? — Reliable sources have indicated that the Flagship Studios network has been hacked and the source code for Hellgate: London has been stolen. I contacted the Flagship head cheese Bill Roper directly for comment and he has indicated that while they have heard …
about.skype.com:
Skype Announces Free International Calls with 'Skype Days of Summer' Offer — U.S. and Canadian Skype Users Can Make Free International SkypeOut Calls to the United Kingdom, Mexico and Japan for Three July Weekends — SAN JOSE, Calif.—July 10, 2006—Skype®, the global Internet communications company …
BBC:
Industry to stop 'music cheats' — The recorded music industry's trade group has asked internet service providers (ISPs) to freeze the accounts of customers who illegally fileshare. — The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has written to Tiscali and Cable & Wireless asking them to suspend 59 accounts for "illegal filesharing".
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