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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
No one is lining up for Windows Vista in San Francisco — Earlier tonight I attended a Windows Vista launch event in San Francisco and was surprised to find not a single person in line to buy the software less than an hour before launch. CompUSA stayed open late to provide hands-on demonstrations …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
A Lively Market, Legal and Not, for Software Bugs — Microsoft says its new operating system, Windows Vista, is the most secure in the company's history. Now the bounty hunters will test just how secure it is. — When its predecessor, Windows XP, was released five years ago …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
First the Wait for Microsoft Vista; Now the Marketing Barrage — Microsoft's power in the technology industry, some analysts insist, is waning. It faces a host of rivals from a reinvigorated Apple on the desktop to Web-based challengers like Google, delivering services and software online.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Experts: Don't buy Vista for the security — Windows Vista is a leap forward in terms of security, but few people who know the operating system say the advances are enough to justify an upgrade. — Microsoft officially launched Vista for consumers Tuesday.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Zoho Notebook Sneak Peak — Zoho continues to rock along, releasing new products every few weeks (see Zoho Wiki for example) that have turned their Ajax office suite into the best on the web, bar none. See here for all of our previous Zoho coverage.
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MacNN:
Apple pays $700,000 for bloggers' legal fees — Bloggers and online journalists have completed their final victory lap in a protracted fight against Apple. Earlier this month, a Santa Clara County Court ordered Apple to pay the legal fees associated with the defense of subpoenas issued …
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J. Angelo Racoma / The Blog Herald:Apple Compensates Bloggers For $700,000 In Legal Fees
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Kim Zetter / Wired News:
I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI — By the time David Thomas eased his Cadillac into the parking lot of an office complex in Issaquah, Washington, he already suspected the police were on to him. — An empty Crown Victoria in one of the parking spaces confirmed it.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI turns to broad new wiretap method — The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed. — Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Adds Local Reviews In Search Results — The Google Blog also announced that now when you conduct searches at Google.com for local specific information, you may get local reviews and business comparisons. For example a search on pizza 10010 returns three results, all with five stars, from pizza restaurants in NYC.
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Getting printers down to iPod size — Zink wants to take the printer off your desk and put it in your pocket. The question now is whether you want it there. — The Waltham, Mass.-based start-up has created—with help from Polaroid—a way to print photographs or documents without ink or an ink cartridge.
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Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:
Seagate introduces "Dave," portable wireless storage device — You must have JavaScript and Flash 8 enabled to view this content. See http://www.adobe.com/products/ flashplayer to download Flash. — Post to your WordPress.com blog » — Here, my sponsor, Seagate, releases a new product …
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Valleywag:
SECOND LIFE: Put your money on World of Warcraft — CLAY SHIRKY — If we don't start off by lumping Second Life with World of Warcraft as virtual worlds, a question emerges: why do virtual game worlds outperform non-game worlds in their adoption? — I have never doubted …
Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Ask a Ninja Makes $300K Plus Ad Share — Update: John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media, emailed to deny that any payments have been made to Ask a Ninja. Our sources maintain that a portion of the ad revenue guaranteed by Federated Media is to be 'floated' up front to the Ask a Ninja team …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Mobio — the useful mobile service — Mobio, a Cupertino start-up, is distinguishing itself by creating simple, useful services for the mobile phone. — We wrote about the company when it released its movie service — which lists movie reviews, times and maps.
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Matthew Aslett / businessreviewonline.com:
Will Oracle launch Unbreakable MySQL? — I had an interesting an enjoyable meeting with Marten Mickos, MySQL's chief executive officer this morning. As usual Marten was in good spirits, and as usual he had some interesting things to talk about. — Here are just two things of note …
Google:
Google Mini™ Integrated Solution Now Offers Secure Search for Businesses of All Sizes — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) - Google today announced that the Google Minii now offers sophisticated search features for finding and sharing information within small businesses and departmental groups …
Mike / Techdirt:
Companies Pay Fines For Advertising In Adware... Still Not Clear How They Broke The Law — from the please-explain dept — Over a year and a half ago, as NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was investigating various spyware/adware firms, he noted that he was thinking about going after the advertisers …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Devicescape connects your device to WiFi hotspots — Devicescape releases a software today that connects any of your WiFi devices automatically to a WiFi hotspot or muni network. — This is significant, because more cellphones are being equipped with WiFi, as the cost of WiFI chips hit bottom rates of $2.
The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Announcing the Network2 "How to Watch Internet TV" Contest: — I'm announcing our first internet video contest where I'm giving away a total of US$ 40,000 and where the Grand prize is US$ 25,000. Submit an episode of your Internet TV show or a videoblog entry dealing with "How to Watch Internet TV …
