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Steve Hamm / Business Week:
IBM's Social Networking Push — With collaboration software called Lotus Connections, Big Blue competes with Microsoft as Web 2.0 expands into the business world — In the earlier days of computing, innovations that were created for corporations gradually seeped into consumer products.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:IBM Launches Enterprise Social Networking Suite; Microsoft Helpfully …
John Fontana / Network World:Lotus sets social networking tools, collaboration updates as focus for '07
Microsoft:Microsoft Makes It Easier for Organizations to Transition …
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David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Windows on the Mac changes everything — The kind of software sold by the formidable Parallels is transforming computing and challenging Steve Jobs, says Fortune's David Kirkpatrick. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — The lines between the Mac OS and Windows are starting to blur.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacUser, Infinite Loop, Download Squad, Blogging Stocks, Daily small biz tech news … and digg
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Paul Miller / Engadget:Parallels to turn it around, help Mac OS onto generic PC boxen
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Doug Mellgren / Associated Press:
German, French groups want open iTunes — OSLO, Norway - German and French consumer groups have joined a Nordic-led drive to force Apple Inc. to make its iTunes online store compatible with digital music players made by rival companies, a Norwegian official said Monday.
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Matt / WordPress Development Blog:
WordPress 2.1 Ella — On behalf of the WordPress.org community of commiters, contributers, and volunteers, I'm very proud to announce the immediate availability of WordPress 2.1 "Ella", named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald. Here's a sampling of what's in the new version:
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google to run video ads from BMG, Warner — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) said on Monday it would expand testing of its much-anticipated video advertising system by working with two major music labels to embed video ads on Web sites that make money running them.
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Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
Blu-Ray DRM Cracked — The plaintext exploit used to partially crack HD-DVD a couple of weeks ago was brought to bear on Blu-Ray by the same gents this weekend—and it worked a treat. — "We need to kick DRM in the butt!" declares the sigfile of Doom9 forum poster Janvitos, launching his inspection of the format.
Nate Mook / BetaNews:
22% of Windows Installs Non-Genuine — Microsoft disclosed Monday that over one in five Windows installations were deemed non-genuine through the company's Windows Genuine Advantage program, which requires users to validate their operating system before downloading updates from the company.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
MySpace sues Spam King — You'll never guess what for... MySpace.com has sued self-proclaimed spam king Scott Richter for allegedly using compromised user accounts to send millions unsolicited ads touting ringtones, polo shirts among other things. — We were surprised - nay shocked - when we heard the identity of the defendant.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Find Out If Your Social Security or Credit Card Numbers are on the Internet — Silicon Valley based Trusted ID, which launched IDFreeze last year to help protect people from identity theft, released their second product this evening - Stolen ID Search. — Type a social security …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Strike the Phrase "Social Media" from the Lexicon — With the democratization of media we've come to rely on a bunch of terms that are now completely unnecessary. These include "social media," "user generated content" and - my favorite - "consumer generated media." Do any of these matter any more?
Steve Wiseman / IntelliAdmin.com:
The 5 sins of Vista — Since Vista was released to MSDN subscribers back in November I have started using it on my primary development laptop. I would love to run it in a VMWare session while I am developing, but it is still not possible to get Areo Glass to run this way …
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APC, Brandon Live!, Good Morning Silicon Valley, All about Microsoft, Channel 9, Slashdot and digg
Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch Referral Traffic — In response to a couple of inquiries, here are the top 11 sources of TechCrunch traffic in December 2006 (via Google Analytics): — Digg remains a very important site for overall TechCrunch traffic. I'm surprised by how much traffic BBC and TechMeme sends our way.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
The healthcare "revolution" — controlling your records, insurance — A bevy of start-ups are emerging to give people new ways to liberate them from the control of powerful health insurance companies — it's about time. — Typically, you go to a doctor, and the doctor keeps your records on file and you can't access them.
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
E-mail from the grave? Microsoft seeks patent on 'immortal computing' — In this culture of instant information, some Microsoft Corp. researchers are pursuing a radical notion — the concept of saving messages for delivery in decades, centuries or more. — The project, dubbed …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Germany Gone Kaput? — Reader Michiel Ouwerkerk just dropped an email to say that Google Germany has disappeared. Sure enough, when I go there, I get a holding page from what looks to be hosting company Goneo: — The message reads (umlauts and other German punctuation omitted, sorry!)
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Falko / howtoforge.com:
Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data — Modify Your Partitions With GParted Without Losing Data — Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com> — This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data.
Chris Garrett / Performancing.com:
Performancing Partners to close — I'm sad to tell you that Partners has to close. While I have every faith it could have worked, it wasn't going to happen fast enough. Without more money invested it wasn't going to happen at all. — Any ads currently in the system will continue …
Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Record Labels Contemplate Unrestricted Digital Music — As even digital music revenue growth falters because of rampant file-sharing by consumers, the major record labels are moving closer to releasing music on the Internet with no copying restrictions — a step they once vowed never to take.
