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Ruchi Sanghvi / blog.facebook.com:
Facebook Gets a Facelift — You've probably noticed that Facebook looks different today. We've added two cool features: News Feed, which appears on your homepage, and Mini-Feed, which appears in each person's profile. — News Feed highlights what's happening in your social circles on Facebook.
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Mark Zuckerberg / blog.facebook.com:
Calm down. Breathe. We hear you. — We've been getting a lot of feedback about Mini-Feed and News Feed. We think they are great products, but we know that many of you are not immediate fans, and have found them overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see too much about them.
Frank Gruber / Somewhat Frank:
FACEBOOK REDESIGN ANGERS STUDENTS OVER INVADED PRIVACY — Facebook launched a redesign today (September 5, 2006) which changed the layout of the homepage and introduced a few new features. The Facebook redesign introduced, "News Feed" which on the surface appears to be an excellent feature.
David A. Kaplan / Newsweek:
Intrigue in High Places — To catch a leaker, Hewlett-Packard's chairwoman spied on the home phone records of its board of directors — Paul Sakuma / AP (left); Eric Risberg / AP — The confrontation at Hewlett-Packard started innocently enough. Last January, the online technology …
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The Smoking Gun:
Hewlett-Packard Targeted Board In Leak Probe — Resigned director says company fraudulently obtained phone records — In a remarkable bit of corporate cloak and dagger, Hewlett-Packard launched a probe of its own board of directors in a bid to determine who was responsible for a media leak earlier …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Google to Offer Print-Archives Searches — Google plans to announce on Wednesday that it is offering a service that will permit Internet users to search through the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and uncover material that in some cases dates back more than 200 years.
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search — News and history junkies take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads of articles not previously available via the search engine.
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AppleInsider:
Apple cell phone is real and ready for production - analyst — Analysts for American Technology Research on Tuesday encourage investors to get aggressive in purchasing shares of Apple Computer prior to the launch of the company's much rumored iPod cell phone, which it says is likely to revolutionize the handset industry.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Silicon Valley to Receive Free Wi-Fi — A consortium of technology companies, including I.B.M. and Cisco Systems, announced plans Tuesday for a vast wireless network that would provide free Internet access to big portions of Silicon Valley and the surrounding region as early as next year.
Elliot Noss / The Tucows Blog:
Why We Bought Kiko.com — On August 26th, 2006, Tucows was the winning bidder in the widely discussed (Techmeme, digg.com, Stowe Boyd) eBay auction of the web-based calendar application Kiko. — Why Did We Buy Kiko? — While there are a lot of little reasons, I'll cover a few of them in a moment …
Ben Fritz / Variety:
Amazon, Apple click pix — Pair prep a digital duel — The digital movie business is about to get a shot in the arm from the Internet's two biggest media retailers. — Amazon.com will launch its movie download service later this week, numerous sources confirmed, while Apple will start selling films on Tuesday as part of iTunes.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Google Instant Intranet — Google has an upcoming Personalized Start Page for Enterprise, according to some sleuthing done by Garrett Rogers and Scott Smith at Google Blogoscoped. Here's an example Dell start page and the official help page. — The Personalized Start Page …
Intel:
Intel Announces Restructuring — Expects to Reduce Costs and Operating Expenses by $2 Billion in 2007, by $3 Billion in 2008 — Intel today announced plans for restructuring following an analysis of the company's structure and efficiency. As a result of the restructuring …
Business Week:
Attention, Shoplifters — With $30 billion in theft, there's a revolution in surveillance systems — There are 6 million video cameras mounted in stores across the U.S., according to market researcher J.P. Freeman Co. Their unblinking eyes are everywhere, watching exits and peering down aisles.
