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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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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.
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Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
Universal sues video-sharing websites — Universal Music, the world's largest record company, has launched the established media industry's first legal action against user-generated internet sites in the wake of its distribution deal last week with YouTube, the most popular video-sharing website.
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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. …
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Apple Sells Infected iPods, Blames Microsoft — Apple posted a notice that 1% of video iPods shipped after September 12 of this year went out with a little present: the RavMonE.exe worm, which spreads via removable media. Apparently, one of the computers at the contract manufacturer was infected, and it just spread from there.
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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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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus, Gizmodo, TechEffect, F-Secure Antivirus …, Digital Music News, CrunchGear, SeekingAlpha CE Stocks, The Tech Report, Daring Fireball, The Apple Blog, GottaBeMobile.com, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Geek News Central, Davis Freeberg's Digital …, Gearlog, jkOnTheRun, The Blogging Times and digg
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 …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ask.com Using Paid Search On Google As Promotion — I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Ask.com Advertises on Google.com To Promote Search Quality of Engine. A search on Raccoon brings up an AdWords ad that is marketing Ask.com's search results.
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.
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.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Performancing launches ad network for bloggers — Performancing, home of the "jobs for bloggers" board and the much loved Firefox blogging plug-in, has added an ad network to its family of services. Performancing Partners is accepting bloggers and advertisers now.
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Screenshots of SlingPlayer for the Mac — We've mentioned that Sling Media, the makers of the TV streaming Slingbox, are planning on a late October/early November release for the OS X version of SlingPlayer. SlingPlayer is the client that allows you to watch TV streamed from the SlingBox …
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".
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Website Optimizer — You can now apply to become a beta tester for Google's new Website Optimizer program. The Website Optimizer allows you to optimize your landing pages - those pages that users reach when they click your site within e.g. organic search results or AdWords - for better conversions.
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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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Dodgeball goes Gauth, reveals GOOG's masterplan to p0wn your ass — Don't say I didn't warn you, but now when you try to log into your favorite neighborhood spyware, you'll be greeted by a prompt to login with either your old skool Dodgeball account credentials or your Gauth account …
