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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tags IE 7 'high priority' update — Microsoft plans to automatically push Internet Explorer 7 to Windows XP users when the browser update is ready later this year. — IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a "high priority" update via Automatic Updates in Windows XP …
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IE7 to be distributed via Automatic Updates! — As we get close to the final availability of Internet Explorer 7, I want to provide an update on our distribution plans. To help our customers become more secure and up-to-date, we will distribute IE7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates …
Mary Jo Foley / Microsoft Watch:
Microsoft to Push IE 7.0 via Automatic Updates — When its latest stand-alone browser ships in Q4, Microsoft plans to use its patch-distribution mechanism as its primary delivery vehicle. But businesses will be able to control distribution via a Microsoft-provided blocking tool.
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
THE BACKLASH, CHAPTER 1 — I'll take it as a compliment that I now warrant a proper Wall Street Journal takedown for crimes of...well, I'm not quite sure what the crimes are. But Lee Gomes has tried mightily to find flaws with the Long Tail theory and deserves a response of some sort.
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Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
It May Be a Long Time Before the Long Tail Is Wagging the Web — Wired Magazine editor Chris Anderson's hot, new best seller, "The Long Tail," is causing a sensation with its eye-opening claims about the way the Web is rewriting the rules of commerce. But I've looked at some of the same data …
Joseph S. Enoch / consumeraffairs.com:
Verizon Limits Its "Unlimited" Wireless Broadband Service — Verizon Wireless proudly boasts that its wireless "BroadbandAccess" service is "unlimited." But Verizon's definition of unlimited may not match consumers' expectations, as those who use the service extensively quickly learn.
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LAist
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Mike / Techdirt:
Limited Unlimited Doubletalk: Unlimited Data For Limited Types Of Data — The story of bogus "unlimited" services, especially from Verizon Wireless who has been offering extremely limited EVDO wireless service which they advertise as "unlimited," isn't new at all.
John Oates / The Register:
India rejects One Laptop Per Child — India has decided against getting involved in Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child scheme - which aims to provide kids in developing countries with a simple $100 machine. — The success of the project depends on support, and big orders, from governments.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
AlwaysOn: YouTube wants to stay independent — During a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit 2006, YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley was asked by moderator Kara Swisher about disparaging comments Bill Gates made about his service at the D conference. "Speaking about competiton and Gates …
Staci / paidContent.org:
New Video Deals: PBS On Google Video & Download To Own; MSN's "Arrested Development" — Jaded as we may be with the constant cavalcade of online video deals, today's inbox contains some worth noting including PBS downloads for sale and and an ad-supported syndicated sitcom for MSN:
Jasmine France / CNET News.com:
Sony NW-S205 (2GB) — Overview Series info User Opinions Compare — CNET editor's take — To the lack of surprise of most industry professionals, who generally put more stock in Apple's ability to keep secrets than in Sony's, the Japanese consumer electronics giant fessed up to having a unique …
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Merom MacBooks for the holidays — It's pretty easy to deduce that Merom, Intel's successor to the Yonah (a.k.a. Core Duo) chip, will find its way into a speed-bumped MacBook Pro. The question is when. — Intel will be announcing the Core 2 Duo chips at a press event tomorrow (Thursday) …
Nick Wilson / Performancing.com:
3 Ways to Immediately Increase Search Engine Traffic — Amongst the commercial blogosphere there is huge interest in the dark, and mysterious art of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. There shouldn't be. Not because paying attention to Search traffic is bad, or that wanting to rank higher …
Robin Good / Robin Good's Latest News:
Watch TV Back Home And Call Any Phone Number Around The World With The New Sightspeed 5 — Today Sightspeed will release a new version of its excellent video conferencing software, which not only allows PC, Mac and Linux-based users to communicate with video and audio for free …
Tysonhy / tysonhy.com:
Another Person's Thoughts On This So-Called "Deal" — I am a fellow digger on the #1 social news site digg.com and it also came to my attention of this whole idea of Jason Calacanis paying top news site contributors to be a writer for his own site is just plain sad and wrong.
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Anil Dash, Micro Persuasion, ben barren, Newsome.Org, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and Mathew Ingram
f-secure.com:
Netscape.com hacked — While we were drafting a weblog post on XSS and Social Networking sites, our man Miguel pointed us to Netscape.com. — Netscape.com has been hacked via a persistent Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in their newly launched Digg-like news service.
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Rebtel Makes International Calling Cheap and Easy — Sweden-based Rebtel have launched a product that will allow users to dial any international number at the cost of a local call. It works by having the two ends of the call use local connections (over low-cost local calls) …
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O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Apple admitting, repairing laptop whining and discoloration problems — Always the good corporate citizen — well, maybe not always — Apple has finally fessed up to both the MacBook discoloration and MacBook Pro whining issues that have been plaguing customers since the notebooks were released …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
