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Jon's Radio:
A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft — For today's podcast I decided to interview myself about my upcoming new gig. It's a short episode, under six minutes, and the transcript follows. — Note: I actually meant to push this to the server later today …
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Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's weblog:
My soon-to-be favorite Microsoft blogger — Jon Udell is leaving his job at InfoWorld and joining Microsoft in January. — He may see this as a change of employment, but I believe Microsoft has just acqhired a media brand. I feel certain that no media investment bankers were involved …
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The Blogging Times
Jeff Sandquist:
Jon Udell is leaving InfoWorld and Joining My Team At Microsoft — You know those secrets that you just want to tell everyone about, but can't? I've had one of those for the last couple of months. — I guess it was back in October my good friend Mr. John Montgomery sent me a note saying …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
H.P. Will Pay $14.5 Million to Settle Suit — Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that it would pay $14.5 million to settle a lawsuit by the California attorney general over the company's use of private detectives to obtain private phone records of board members and journalists.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Washington uses new spyware law, gets $1 million settlement
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google tunes into radio ads — Google is allowing some of its existing online marketers to use its automated advertising system to broadcast ads on radio stations around the United States, the company said on Thursday. — The beta test of Google Audio Ads is the result of the integration …
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Scott Gilbertson / Wired News:
BitTorrent's Move From PCs to TVs — If the thought of having BitTorrent, the world's most famous file-swapping software, available on your set-top box to download high-definition movies from major Hollywood studios seems far-fetched, you're not alone. — In an e-mail interview with Wired News …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Video Startup That May Never Launch — This is a rumor that just won't die: The major television networks are considering creating a new online video service joint venture to compete with YouTube. — We first heard about this when the Google-Youtube acquisition news broke, and wrote briefly about it here (see last paragraph).
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Techdirt, Mathew Ingram, The Next Net, Lost Remote, John Furrier, Search Marketing Gurus, BuzzMachine and Technically Speaking
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Do You Publish Full Text Feeds Or Partial RSS Feeds ? — Our blog has been in existence for over two years now but we always abstained from publishing full content RSS feeds for two selfish reasons (or you can call them fears) outlined below: — 1. Since RSS Subscribers get to read …
Thomas Christensen / DoCopenhagen:
Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006 — Here we go again... Our top 50 videos of 2005 was a huge success. This year we decided to do things a little bit differently. All the videos are from You Tube and can therefore be watched in the browser. If you want to download the videos to your computer …
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Listening Post
Tony Walsh / Clickable Culture:
Linden Lab Mutes Noted Agitator... Again — Another year, another muzzle placed on infamous Second Life celebrity Prokofy Neva by the virtual world's owner-operator Linden Lab. — Last year, Neva was banned from participation in the official Second Life discussion boards after stirring controversy …
Jeremy Crane / Compete Blog:
Sunnyvale and Mountain View...so close, yet so far — According to Google Maps Sunnyvale and Mountain View California are 3.0 miles apart. Oddly enough according to Yahoo Maps they are 2.9 miles apart. Yet despite the estimated mileage they both claim it takes 6 minutes to drive from Sunnyvale to Mountain View.
PR Newswire:
Citysearch Content Available Through Ask.com's AskCity — Citysearch's Content and Ask.com's Search Technology Create a Comprehensive Local Search Experience — WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Citysearch, an operating business of IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq …
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Screenwerk
James Bannan / APC:
Pirates crack Vista Activation Server — Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware. — Volume Activation 2.0 is one of the more controversial features of Vista …
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
A Wish List for the iPhone — If you're dreaming of a mobile phone that downloads and shares music, carries your files, and makes movies, why not put all your Apples in one basket — Let me go out on a limb here and say that Apple Computer will probably not launch a wireless phone of any kind early next year.
Yuval Kossovsky / Computerworld:
First look: A guided tour of Apple's Leopard Server OS — Look for Leopard to be 'an exciting release,' says Yuval Kossovsky — Recently, I had a chance to sit down with a few folks from Apple Computer Inc. who gave me a guided tour of Apple's upcoming server operating system …
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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification — As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being released, the products affected, the aggregate maximum severity and information about detection tools relevant to the update.
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TechBlog, Security Fix, M-Dollar, Donna's SecurityFlash, F-Secure Antivirus …, Neowin.net and Slashdot
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Yahoo & Facebook: Deal or No Deal? — Now that Yahoo has announced its reorg, many are wondering and speculating as to what the ailing Internet giant might do in terms of M&A. Put another way, will Yahoo rely on acquisitions to fix its problems and plug up its holes?
