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Tim Gaden / APC:
The lock-out begins for Office Mac users — Microsoft hsa officially launched Office 2007, but that's bad news for Mac users. — Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 now all use different file formats: docx, xlsx and pptx. — Microsoft is calling these "Microsoft Office Open XML Formats" …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Open Document Format published as ISO standard — The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) finally published the Open Document Format (ODF) as an official standard last week after approving it as an international standard last May. The ODF file format—the XML-based open format for text …
Adam Knight / Mac Geekery:
How to View TiVo Recordings on Your Mac or iPod — You no longer need Windows. Now, it can all be done on your Mac. Everything from fetching the files from the TiVo to the decrypt and playback can be accomplished on the Mac side. This all due to some great work by the guys on the TiVo Decode and Galleon projects.
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Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
China Largely Silent on Telecom Strategy — If the world's telecommunications executives thought that bringing their industry's biggest trade show to China would spur Chinese officials into opening their vast market, they were wrong — at least so far. — Government officials have avoided using …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Swivel Aims To Become The Internet Archive For Data — Swivel Co-founders Dmitry Dimov and Brian Mulloy start off by describing their company as "YouTube for Data." That's a good start for someone trying to understand it, because the site allows users to upload data - any data - and display it to other users visually.
Nick / Rough Type:
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians — Tony Walsh has, as others do, some doubts about whether Second Life is sustainable as a business. But he also poses another question that I hadn't come across before: "Is Second Life sustainable ecologically?"
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Calacanis Takes Position at Sequoia Capital — Today at 7 am PST at the SES conference in Chicago, Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis will announce that he has joined Sequoia Capital as an EIA (Entrepreneur in Action). This comes just two and a half weeks after Jason announced his departure from AOL.
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Troubling '07 Forecast for the Old-Line Media but Not for the Online — THE first Monday in October is known in legal circles as the start of the Supreme Court term. Similarly, on Madison Avenue, the first Monday in December has become familiar as the kickoff of the advertising forecast season.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Zudeo: a high-def version of YouTube — Another day, another peer-to-peer file-swapping firm trying to go legit. This time it's Azureus, makers of one of the most popular BitTorrent clients on the Internet. The company has just launched its own video sharing site, dubbed Zudeo …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Introducing, NewTeeVee — Six months ago when we launched on this journey, my initial thoughts were launching three-to-five specialized blogs that were like satellites around Planet Broadband. Online video, gaming, data centers and virtual work - they were part of my larger vision of GigaOM network.
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Beet.TV, TechCrunch, NewTeeVee, IP Democracy, Susan Mernit's Blog, Mathew Ingram, Sramana Mitra on Strategy, The Next Net, MediaVidea and Ryan Stewart
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Microsoft looking to run Windows on OLPC — Educational laptop could get Windows as well as Linux — Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong on Saturday.
AMD:
AMD Drives Next Generation of Energy-Efficient Computing with 65nm Technology Transition — AMD continues track record of on-schedule process technology transitions with rapid conversion to 65nm — Launching the next generation of energy-efficient computing, AMD (NYSE: AMD) …
Joni Morse / RCR Wireless News:
Qualcomm wades deeper into MIMO with Airgo purchase — SAN DIEGO—Qualcomm Inc. apparently couldn't resist adding Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output technology to its already huge portfolio of wireless technology. — The behemoth chipmaker announced it is buying MIMO creator Airgo Networks Inc …
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Phone Scoop, CrunchGear, dailywireless.org, The Wireless Report and QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies
Ben Elgin / Business Week:
The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case — Why was a seemingly slam-dunk case against an alleged click-fraudster who attempted to extort Google quietly dismissed? — A detective novelist might call it The Mystery of the Vanishing Click-Fraud Case. — It began on Mar. 10, 2004 …
