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Wall Street Journal:
Is Microsoft Driving Innovation Or Playing Catch-Up With Rivals? — Microsoft Corp. has put a mountain of money behind its Xbox 360 videogame system and is making another big bet on its Zune digital music player. And after years of research, the company Thursday set in motion …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Is Microsoft driving innovation? — The Wall Street Journal asks "Is Microsoft Driving Innovation or Playing Catch-up with Rivals?" People tend to confuse invention with innovation, as the WSJ has here. They use the words interchangeably, but they are very different.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
MPAA Kills Anti-Pretexting Bill — A tough California bill that would have prohibited companies and individuals from using deceptive "pretexting" ruses to steal private information about consumers was killed after determined lobbying by the motion picture industry, Wired News has learned.
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Better Living through Software, IP Democracy, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Cathode Tan, Boing Boing, digg and Slashdot
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Heather Green / Blogspotting:
Shawn Fanning To Launch Rupture, an Online Gaming Community — Shawn Fanning of Napster fame says he plans within the next month or so to launch Rupture, a virtual social community for online gamers. He raised seed money from a group of investors, including Ron Conway and Joi Ito.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Imminent Demise of the Page View — Underneath the Internet advertising economy is a key metric that dictates how properties are valued and how online media is bought and sold - the page view. While it's not the only way to measure the health of a site (time spent and unique users are among the others), it's still very popular.
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Publishing 2.0, ProBlogger Blog Tips, SearchViews, A View from the Isle, Connecting the Dots, Adrants and Blogging Pro
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Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:Rich Internet Applications are killing the page view metric
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JD on EP
George Ou:
AMD Quad FX slaughtered by a single Intel CPU — All the reviews are in for AMD's new "4×4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming more than twice the electricity. We basically see two FX-74 3. GHz processors …
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IEBlog:
IE6 and IE7 Running on a Single Machine — Many of you have asked how to run IE6 and IE7 in a side by side environment. As Chris Wilson blogged about early this year, it's unfortunately not so easy to do. There are workarounds, but they are unsupported and don't necessarily work the same …
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All about Microsoft, CyberNet Technology News, Neowin.net, JD on EP, SitePoint Blogs and Slashdot
Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front:
The Journal Fails to Do Its Homework — Neat! The Wall Street Journal appears to have cited my DMCA paper in today's editorial. (It's behind a paywall, unfortunately) Unfortunately, although I always appreciate seeing my work cited, it doesn't look like they read read it very carefully:
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Reuters:
Sirius CEO sees live TV in cars in 2007 — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (SIRI.O: Quote, Profile, Research) expects to offer a live television service in cars by late 2007, and deals with content providers may be set as early as January, Chief Executive Mel Karmazin said on Thursday.
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
Ilium Software considers UMPC/Tablet PC owners in development of eWallet 5.0 — There are a few very good choice for electronic wallet applications that you can install and use on your mobile devices, but my personal favorite has been Ilium Software's eWallet.
Jon's Radio:
A conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google digitization project — My guest for this week's podcast is John Wilkin. He's the director of the University of Michigan Library's technology department, and coordinator of the library's joint digitization project with Google.
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
MySpace Is in Talks on China Entry — Wife of News Corp.'s Murdoch — Would Play Role in Venture; — Competition, Hurdles Loom — News Corp.'s MySpace.com is in talks to bring the social-networking site to China with Boston technology trade publisher International Data Group's Chinese venture arm …
Associated Press:
New rules compel firms to track e-mails — WASHINGTON - U.S. companies will need to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees thanks to new federal rules that go into effect Friday, legal experts say.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Google Mondrian: web-based code review and storage — Guido van Rossum unveiled his first Google project, Mondrian, tonight during a Python tech talk at the Google campus in Mountain View. Mondrian is a web-based code review system built on top of a Perforce and BigTable backend with a Python-powered front-end.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Amazon Web Service Coming: "SDS" — Update: The reference to SDS has been removed from the Amazon site linked to below. The original text is saved at the bottom of this post. — A new and unannouced Amazon Web Service to be called "SDS" is referenced on this Amazon web page discussing customer YouOS …
Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:
Archive this, but do it right, Jeff Ubois warns — This is a different kind of show for the ScobleShow, one where we talk about an issue that we should think about — in this case whether companies who are scanning books and other information ...
