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Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Open Facebook — They'll let anyone in to Facebook these days. — Once the exclusive online stomping grounds of college students, social networking site Facebook.com is throwing open the doors to rest of the world. The site is slated to announce in coming weeks that anyone can gain access to the site …
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Gavin O'Malley / AdAge:
Facebook to Adopt Open-Admissions Policy — As It Becomes Less Exclusive, Privacy Issues Remain After Member Protest — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Social network Facebook plans to completely ditch its admissions policy, welcoming anyone with internet access.
Microsoft:
Windows Live Services Reach Key Milestones — Live Search, Live.com and Live Local Search released from beta; Live Search to power search on MSN. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in 47 markets worldwide, and final availability …
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Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Microsoft to unveil new search engine — SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. plans Tuesday to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news) and Google Inc.
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Movie Downloads, Coming Soon to An IPod Near You — It is not a stretch to say that the iPod changed, and helped save, the music business. One in five Americans has owned one of Apple Computer Inc.'s sleek little iPods. Consumers have filled their iPods with more than 1 billion songs …
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Tom Krazit / ZDNet:
Apple taking iTunes to the movies? — When Apple raises the curtain on Tuesday's "special event," it will likely signal its deepest push yet into the living rooms of both Mac and PC users, according to a vast cadre of Apple watchers. — If the analysts and enthusiasts are on target …
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New York Times:
William B. Ziff Jr., 76, Builder of Magazine Empire, Dies — William B. Ziff Jr., a publishing executive who made publications like Car and Driver and PC Magazine must reading among hobbyists and computer enthusiasts, died Saturday at his home in Pawling, N.Y. He was 76.
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Leon Lazaroff / Bloomberg:
William Ziff, Who Built Ziff-Davis Empire, Dead at 76 (Update2) — Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) — William Ziff, who took a small family owned publishing firm and built it into two magazine empires, died Sept. 9 at the age of 76, a family spokesman said. — Ziff, chairman and chief executive officer …
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Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
"Atlas" 1.0 Naming and Roadmap — Over the last year we've been working hard on "Atlas". It has evolved, changed, and grown because of the amazing amount of feedback and early adoption that we've seen. We've had an unbelievable amount of interest and excitement around the product, with more than 250,000 downloads this year alone.
Tom's Hardware Guide:
Intel's Core 2 Quadro Kentsfield: Four Cores on a Rampage — Four On The Floor: Intel's Core 2 Quadro — There is a fascinating element to this combination of multiple processing cores, a fast architecture and even more performance: The new Core 2 Quadro processors are out to beat …
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Introduces the Next Generation of Nonvolatile Memory - PRAM — Seoul , Korea - September 11, 2006 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology solutions, announced that it has completed the first working prototype of what is expected …
Ageitgey / Uninnovate:
The Opposite of Amazon's Unbox: Democracy Player — Much has been said about the unreasonable limitations built into Amazon's Unbox video download service and other services like it. Democracy Player is something completely different. Instead of trying to shoehorn old business models …
Michael Totty / Wall Street Journal:
The Winners Are... Computer systems are notoriously finicky. They'll hum along just fine and then unaccountably slow down, freeze up or stop working altogether. Finding the cause of some unexplained problem is difficult and time-consuming, especially with complicated systems in real-life settings.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Amazon Kindle: meet Amazon's e-book reader — Oh, come now, like you thought the world's largest book retailer (online) — which just started peddling digital video under the Unbox brand — wasn't going to go head to head with Sony's Reader on an e-book device and service?
Fred Bierman / New York Times:
Are You Breaking Up? A Cellphone Original Comedy Is Calling — Television viewers may not know Donick Cary's name, but they've probably laughed at his jokes. — As a writer for "Late Show With David Letterman" from 1992 to 1997 and as a writer and producer for "The Simpsons," …
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New York Times:
Group Nears Record Deal for Chip Maker — A consortium of investment firms was near a deal late last night to acquire Freescale Semiconductor, a former unit of Motorola, for more than $16 billion, according to people briefed on the negotiations. The deal, if completed …
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