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2:45 AM ET, November 9, 2006

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Microsoft:
Q&A: Microsoft Windows Vista Released to Manufacturing  —  As Windows Vista hits the Release to Manufacturing milestone, Microsoft looks back at what it took to build the most heavily tested, highest quality and most secure operating system in the company's history.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft: Vista is ready to roll  —  update After five years and many twists and turns, Microsoft on Wednesday said that development of Windows Vista is complete.  —  Windows chief Jim Allchin said Microsoft signed off on the code less than an hour ago.  "It's rock solid and we're ready to ship.
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista releases to manufacturing  —  Great news!  Today we're announcing the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Vista.  —  Yes, you read it right — development of Windows Vista is complete.  —  Want proof?  Watch this video and hear it from Jim Allchin himself.
Rory / Channel 9:
Jim Allchin: It's time - Windows Vista RTM  —  Charles Torre had the pleasure of speaking with Jim Allchin recently about Windows Vista going RTM.I don't think there's much else to say about it - just watch the video
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
'Skypecasts' coming to your blog soon  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Internet telephony provider Skype plans to offer bloggers and others the ability to hold audio chats in the next version of its Net telephone product, co-founder Niklas Zennström said Tuesday night at the Web 2.0 Summit here.
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Martin LaMonica / Webware.com:
OLD MEDIA ADJUSTS TO MATURING WEB
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:   More from the Web 2.0 Summit  —  Yesterday's Web 2. Summit included …
RADAR:
APPLE DITCHES 'MAC GUY' IN NEW ADS  —  Apple's "I'm a Mac" campaign is almost perfect: It's funny, memorable, and efficiently lays out the advantages of Macs over PCs.  Its only defect: Virtually everyone who watches it comes away liking the "PC guy" while wanting to push the "Mac guy" under a bus.
Andrew / zBiz.TV:
How do I get my company profiled on TechCrunch?  Mike Arrington chats with Guy Kawasaki  —  Click To Play  —  How do I get Mike Arrington to profile my company on TechCrunch?  How do I get his attention in the first place?  —  The answers to these questions and more were explored …
Discussion: Scobleizer
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Guy Kawasaki / How to Change the World:
How to Get in TechCrunch  —  Here's a video of my interview …
Discussion: MYBLOG by Ouriel
Scott Kessler / Business Week:
Old Media and New Media: Friends, Not Foes  —  Search and advertising services from Google and Yahoo! are helping traditional media companies extend their content online and generate revenue  —  If content is king, then its queen is making money.  This marriage of substance and sales …
Discussion: PaidContent
Apple:
Apple Unveils New MacBook With Intel Core 2 Duo Processors  —  Apple® today unveiled its new line of MacBook™ consumer notebooks that now include Intel Core 2 Duo processors.  Just one-inch thin, the new MacBooks are up to 25 percent faster than the previous generation and feature …
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Social Networking by the Numbers  —  Some interesting figures from social networking company executives here at the Web 2.0 Summit.  Cyworld and MySpace are, more than ever, heads and shoulders above the competition.  —  SK Communications CEO Hyun-Oh Yoo reports Cyworld has 20 million subscribers in Korea …
Red Herring:
Atari Founder Likes Xbox360, Disses PS3  —  Chuck E. Cheese, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on the latest round of the console wars, and bringing food and games together... again.  —  Even if you only have a passing familiarity with the gaming industry, you've probably heard of Nolan Bushnell.
Discussion: Joystiq, Kotaku and digg
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google CEO denies rumor of YouTube legal reserve  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on Tuesday denied a widely circulated rumor that his company had set aside $500 million to settle copyright claims by media companies …
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Rumsfeld resignation summarized in Mac OSX screenshot  —  Created by BoingBoing reader Brian Topping.  Previously: Rumsfeld to resign.  Who is Bob Gates?  Link, and more.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Bezos banks on Amazon's utility services  —  Chief Amazon Jeff Bezos was first on stage on the second day the Web 2.0 Summit.  Bezos pitched Amazon's compute and storage services, EC2 and S3, in the cloud, which grew out of what it took to run Amazon's shopping business.
 
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Nick / Rough Type:
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Muhammad Saleem / The Mu Life:
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Josh Bancroft / TinyScreenfuls.com:
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
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broadbandreports.com:
A Democratic House's Impact on Telecom
Discussion: Techdirt and dailywireless.org
Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
AOL Acquires Financial News & Info Search Technology Firm Relegence …
Mike / Techdirt:
When You Quote The Inventor Of The Web Out Of Context, He Fights Back On The Web
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
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Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Official Wal-Mart launch details
Discussion: Go Nintendo and digg
Jess Smee / Guardian:
Second Life gets its first tabloid
Hitwise US:
Social Networking Sites Recover from September Decline, Facebook visits up 16%
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen at Web 2.0 Summit
Discussion: JD on EP
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Justice FTW: Eriksson pleads guilty, gets three years and a one-way plane ticket
Discussion: MobHappy
Ryan Saghir / Orbitcast:
New Sirius InV Plug-and-Play Receiver
William Patry / The Patry Copyright Blog:
What the Election May Mean for Copyright
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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