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MSDN Blogs:
Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now — Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie. — We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Releases Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP — Enhanced security technologies, new experiences enable customers to browse the Web with confidence and ease. — Microsoft Corp. today released to the public Windows® Internet Explorer® 7 for Windows XP …
Apple:
Apple Reports Preliminary Fourth Quarter Results — Ships Record 1.61 Million Macs — Apple® today announced preliminary financial results for its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter ended September 30, 2006. These preliminary results may be subject to significant adjustment as a result of a likely restatement of historical results.
New York Times:
Music Companies Grab a Share of the YouTube Sale — YouTube's young founders may have been the biggest beneficiaries of last week's $1.65 billion deal with Google, but they have some unexpected bedfellows — old-line media companies that had been considered YouTube's biggest legal threat.
Davis / Davis Freeberg's Digital Connection:
San Francisco Local Politics Derail Free WiFi Project — San Francisco land of the nuts and fruits. I can only say that because I live here and consider many of them my close friends, but if you were a fly on the wall at last night's EarthLink Google WiFi meeting you would know what I mean.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
AllOfMP3 loses Visa account, switching to ad-supported — AllofMP3, the notorious Russian music-selling site, has lost its Visa account and says it will switch to giving away free, ad-supported music. The site claims that its activities are legal under Russian law.
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CRN Breaking News:
Vista, Office 2007 To Launch in NY After Thanksgiving — Microsoft plans post-Turkey-Day kickoff in the Big Apple. — 6:26 PM EDT Tue. — The long-touted Microsoft Vista/Office 2007 tandem launch is on for the last week in November in New York, sources said. This event will focus on business usage and scenarios.
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Wall Street Journal:
Record Labels Turn Piracy Into a Marketing Opportunity — A video clip from Jay-Z's live concert in June at Radio City Music Hall is popping up on all sorts of illicit music-sharing hotspots. But Jay-Z isn't upset. — That's because the rapper, at the request of Coca-Cola Co. …
TrustedReviews:
Touchscreen iPod Comes This December — Touchscreen iPod Comes This December — The iPod/iPhone rumour mill is something so clouded that as TR News Ed I made the executive decision to circumvent the vast majority of it a long time ago, but yesterday I had a conversation with an extremely well informed exec which I'm going to share.
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Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants:
Ms. Dewey: Taking cute too far — If you haven't seen Ms. Dewey, you will probably be hearing about her. She's trying to kill the memory of Jeeves, who you formerly asked. She's also a disaster as far as UI goes. — Built in Flash, Ms. Dewey is an antropomorphized search page that features …
Philiplinden / Official Linden Blog:
1,000,000 residents = Happy! Crushing Signup Load = Sad! — Congratulations to the whole SL community and all of us at Linden Lab on reaching 1 Million residents signed up!! Second Life is growing because together we are all building content, welcoming new people, expanding the community, and adding new capabilities to the system.
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
BusinessWeek looks to web in battle for readers — For the editor-in-chief of the world's biggest business magazine, one goal is paramount: keeping his title on the "must read" list. — "You don't want to be a discretionary read, that is too dangerous," says Stephen Adler …
Alexbarnett / alexbarnett.net blog:
Support tagging — Christopher Carfi threw out a interesting idea yesterday... The post Christopher refers to by Shel is here. It's classic blogger behaviour: I have a problem and hopefully one of my readers can help me out. — I do this from time to time myself and it works. Many do this.
Patrick Barnard / TMCnet:
LiveJournal Adds Gizmo, Letting Users Make Free VoIP Calls — For months, maybe even years now you've been reading about how click-to-call VoIP services are gradually being integrated into Web sites to facilitate peer-to-peer voice communications between users.
Paul F. Roberts / InfoWorld:
Microsoft: Excuses on iPod virus not credible — Redmond virus scanning expert offers to help clean up iPod mess — Security and quality assurance experts reacted negatively to Apple Computer's efforts Tuesday to blame manufacturing problems that resulted in iPod MP3 players shipping …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube Could Be Hit By European TV Rules — YouTube and other video-sharing sites may have to be licensed like TV if a European Commission proposal isn't stopped. Even worse: video bloggers posting clips to their personal sites may have to seek a license to operate a "television-like service".
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI director wants ISPs to track users — FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers' online activities, a move that anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in Washington next year.
Phil Windley's Technometria:
When You Pick Your Tools, Pick Those That Can Build Tools — This morning I was listening to Karl Fugel talk about tools developers need and thought about Doug Kaye. Here's why... Yesterday Doug sent out a note to a few friends asking what editor they used to writing code on OS X …
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