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10:05 AM ET, January 31, 2007

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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Few Rush Out to Buy New Windows Vista  —  Microsoft's Long-Delayed Vista Operating System Hits Retail Shelves, but Few Rush Out to Buy  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Consumers can finally get their hands on Microsoft Corp.'s long-delayed Windows Vista, but unlike the mad midnight rushes retailers saw …
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Ryan Shrout / pcper.com:
Windows Vista Gaming Performance - NVIDIA and ATI Compared … Introduction  —  Introduction  —  Chances are you might have heard of some software package that was released today; a new version of Windows or something like that.  It's only the biggest software release in the last five or so years …
Discussion: Engadget, The Test Bed and digg
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Planning to Add 100 Web Sites for Entertainment  —  Yahoo said Tuesday that it planned to build individual Web sites around 100 entertainment "brands" this year that would pull together content from Yahoo's sprawling array of online properties.  —  The effort, called Brand Universe …
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Has Yahoo Picked Marketing as Its Game?
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
New Technorati "WTF" Feature Clones Digg  —  Technorati has launched a new feature called Technorati WTF.  No, it doesn't stand for "what the..." It's short for "Where's the Fire?"  —  Basically, Where's the Fire appears to be a digg clone.  It allows users to share what's hot.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Mainstream Media Usage of Web 2.0 Services is Increasing  —  Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus  —  I was reading a Time magazine article online today, entitled Marketing to your mind.  This article was very provocative and I enjoyed reading it.  But after I was done, something else caught my attention.
BBC:
PC World says farewell to floppy  —  The time has come to bid farewell to one of the PC's more stalwart friends - the floppy disk.  —  Computing superstore PC World said it will no longer sell the storage devices, affectionately known as floppies, once existing stock runs out.
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
Five Key Facts on Apple's Colored iPod shuffles  —  Last Update: Tuesday, January 30, 2007  —  If you've been following Apple's second-generation iPod shuffle since last year, and don't need all the details found in our updated, comprehensive review, here's a quick summary of five key things you'll …
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Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Database Researcher Jim Gray Is Missing At Sea  —  Jim Gray, 63, the noted database researcher, veteran of stints at IBM, Tandem Computers and Microsoft, is missing at sea.  He set out Sunday morning to do something that I have done twice, sail from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge across 27 miles of ocean to the Farallon Islands.
Discussion: West Coast Grid
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Jeff / Venture Chronicles:
The Dearth of Web Services and a Solution  —  Joe McKendrick points out an uncomfortable reality about web 2.0 and published APIs, namely that there aren't that many of them relative to the number of web sites that could be offering them.  This is something that we faced at Teqlo …
Peter Huber / Forbes:
The Inegalitarian Web  —  The new Congress is determined to enact a "net neutrality" bill.  Nobody yet knows what those two words mean.  The new law won't provide any intelligible answer, either.  It will, however, put a real drag on new capital investment in faster digital pipes by making …
Nick Wilson / Performancing.com:
3 Reasons Why Snap Preview is Ruining Your Blog, and Hurting Your Readership  —  Welcome Digg readers, you can grab this sites RSS Feed here.  —  Snap's preview anywhere gizmo is ruining the reading experience for millions of people.  Its intrusive, obstructive and unuseful in almost every respect and use case.
Ritualistic:
Going Small - How the MumboJumbo Merger Will Affect Ritual  —  Last week, to the surprise of industry observers and gamers alike, MumboJumbo acquired Ritual Entertainment in order to reinforce its own army of developers and further strengthen its hold on the casual games market.
Bryan / Innovation in College Media:
BigLickU aims social network at college students; huge implications for college media  —  College media advisers and editors - especially a certain subset of folks located in close proximity to metro dailies - had better turn a watchful eye toward Roanoke, Va. over the next few months.
Discussion: yelvington.com
Business 2.0:
LISTS  —  Main Company News Economy International News CEOs and CFOs in the News Fun Money Mergers and acquisitions Biggest deals YTD Corrections Financial News in Brief Main Portfolio Stock Market News Indexes Pre-Market Stock Trades 24-hour Stock Data Bonds and Rates Commodities …
Robert Scoble / PodTech.net:
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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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Seagate unveils "D.A.V.E." drive with Bluetooth and WiFi
Discussion: The Tech Report
Stuart Dredge / pocketgamer.co.uk:
EXCLUSIVE: It's all systems go for next-gen Nokia N-Gage  —  Big publishers check the platform out at top-secret workshop  —  Product:  —  Manufacturer:  —  Format:  —  Mobile, N-Gage  —  What's happening with Nokia's next-generation N-Gage platform?
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
DEMO: Linking Devices is DART's Target  —  PALM DESERT, Calif. — The American Idol-style demos haven't even started yet at the DEMO convention, where I arrived this afternoon, and already the clamoring PR machine is in full effect.  Most of the 68 companies here have put their 'message' onto …
 
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Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
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Sander Marechal / LXer Linux News:
A dystopian future - looking beyond Windows Vista
Discussion: Channel 9 and digg
Billboard.Biz:
Indies Up In Arms Over YouTube
Gizmodo:
Everything You Wanted to Know About Vista's SideShow
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Joe Mandese / MediaPost Publications:
Venture Firm Backs Nielsen Foe, Deal Tied To Patent For Addressable Ads
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FTC finally settles with Sony BMG over rootkit
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VoIP & Gadgets Blog:
Digium podcast of Mark Spencer's new role
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Mike Boland / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Live From NAA: Local SearchTakes Center Stage
ResourceShelf:
SplashCast Goes Live!
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
Rogue Second Life Server Goes Open Source
Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Profit Slips at Sony on Losses for PlayStation 3
Billmonk / Notes from the BillMonk:
BillMonk is now an Obopay company! Settle up online.
Financial Times:
Microsoft tackling threat from Google model
Joe / Techdirt:
Release Of An Operating System Just Not The Big Deal It Used To Be
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Holland Considers Banning DRM, Legalizing Filesharing
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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