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Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:
Microsoft says Office unfazed by Google threat — SEATTLE (Reuters) - One of the two new heads of Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Office software team downplayed the threat from Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) Web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications, saying they are unlikely to appeal to corporate customers.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Microsoft vs Google Heats Up — I know, a predictable (almost tabloid-y) blog headline. But in this case, there really is some interesting back and forth going on between Microsoft and Google currently - especially with regards to office software. — Firstly Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote …
CNET News.com:
Top ten girl geeks — Charles Babbage may have invented the programmable computer, but it was Ada Byron (later Ada Lovelace) who is widely credited with writing the first real program for it. She translated Luigi Menabrea's notes on Babbage's machine from Italian, and added her own ideas …
info-svc.com:
CIS Finds Flaws in Firefox v2 Password Manager — Chapin Information Services (CIS) has discovered a new flaw in the Mozilla Firefox web browser that exposes saved passwords to clever attackers. — Given the new nature of this type of attack, CIS has named this a Reverse Cross-Site Request (RCSR) vulnerability.
Auren Hoffman / VentureBeat:
Why big high tech companies are losing the talent war — [Disclosure: Auren works at Rapleaf, a startup, and is thus biased towards startups.] — Big companies are losing their "A" players and they're struggling to attract "B" players. In an industry where everything is about people …
Sam Sethi / TechCrunch UK & Ireland:
Million dollar MacBook!? — Last night was the Internet People event with Robert Loch. I turned up with Paul Walsh from Segala where earlier we had debated about what is Web 3.0? Basically we concluded that it's the Semantic Web with technologies like RDF, Microformats …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The difference between TechCrunch and Valleywag — Dave Winer defends Nick Denton and Valleywag today. — Me? I see it a bit differently. I don't see that Valleywag has noticeably changed its stripes. Yeah, so far they haven't followed anyone into a bathroom and that is an improvement over the old Valleywag — if it holds.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Filling Pantries Without a Middleman — A few years back, the online grocery business was just about the perfect symbol of the dot-com bust. — A company called Webvan had gone public in 1999, promising to reinvent the $500 billion supermarket industry — retail's largest sector …
Jensenh / Jensen Harris:
Licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface — For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?" — On one hand, it's an immensely satisfying question to hear, because it means …
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Vanderwal / Personal InfoCloud:
Following Friends Across Walled Gardens — Phil Gyford makes his plea for a single social network sign-on or as it was stated last week by Jeremy Keith on Twitter, "portable social network with XFN". — The single sign-on is an often heard request these days.
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
CBS says YouTube is helping ratings — It's been a month since CBS began its partnership with YouTube, and the network has uploaded 300 videos. Since that time, the clips have racked up a total of 29.2 million views for an average of 857,000 views a day. Many of the clips are from CBS' Late Show …
Hitwise US:
Google v. Yahoo! Predicting the Intercept — I came across Ben Charny's article that cited Citigroup's (Mark Mahaney) prediction that Google would overtake Yahoo! to be the top Internet property some time in 2007. I decided to pull the chart below on market share of visits to the top twenty properties …
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Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:Google dominates, MSN Search sinks
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Mike / Techdirt:
CBS Recognizes That You Must (And You Can) Compete With Free — from the recognizing-the-inevitable dept — Earlier this week we were surprised, but happy, to see folks at CBS apparently realizing that putting videos online for free helped them by getting more viewers interested in their TV shows …
J Mark Lytle / Digital World Tokyo:
Citibank Singapore debuts biometric fingerprint payment system — Citibank Singapore is offering a new way for credit-card holders to make payments — using their fingerprints instead of credit cards. — Citibank this month began rolling out biometric payment systems in Singapore …
Chris Kohler / Game|Life:
Genji's Game-Killing Bug — So PlayStation 3 reviewers got an email this afternoon with helpful tips for Genji, straight from the development team. That's a real interesting coincidence, because I was playing Genji when I got that email and I was coming up with some tips of my own for the development team.
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Is Mesh a Problem for MuniFi? — The CEO of Israeli WiFi software equipment company InspiAir, Tamir Galili, says the inherent limitations of WiFi mesh technology are behind some of the slow MuniFi rollouts in U.S. cities — a lot of the test pilots that these cities are doing are failing, and mesh is just not suitable, he says.
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Hitwise US:
Recipe Sites Embrace User Generated Content, Video, RSS — Every year at Hitwise we see huge Thanksgiving- and Christmas-related spikes in visits to the Food & Beverage - Lifestyle & Reference category as dinner hosts plan their holiday gatherings. In 2005, visits to the category increased …
Joe / Techdirt:
Get Paid To Surf Schemes Just As Sleazy The Second Time Around — from the everything-2.0 dept — Recently, when a new "get paid to surf the net" service came out, we immediately had a feeling of deja vu, as it sounded just like many ridiculous schemes that came out during the last bubble.
Ren Reynolds / Terra Nova:
There's nothing 'just' about Monopoly money — TN readers must hear the phrase 'But it's just monopoly money' all the time. This seems to pre-suppose that Monopoly money is not worth anything, but it is. 1 Monopoly Dollar is worth about US$ 0.000231176 (if my sums are correct). — Phaa!
