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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ning In Full — I have to hand it to Ning - it took them well over a year after their initial beta launch to fulfill their promise of allowing "anyone" to create social applications, but they've done it. Ning relaunches tonight with new functionality and an interface that allows …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ning: let '000 Social Nets Bloom — Ning, thanks to the pedigree of its co-founder, Marc Andreessen, has been under close scrutiny by the Silicon Valley cognoscenti. The Palo Alto-based start-up has played its cards close to its chest, a move that has left many scratching their heads and wondering what is Ning.
Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:
Build your own social space with Ning, version 2 — Here Ning co-founder Gina Bianchini, shows off the new Ning social media creation platform. We get an in-depth demo of how Ning (version 2 just released today) enables you to build your own social network.
Chris Pirillo:
Windows Vista: I'm Breaking up with You — No, seriously. When I know I have time, I'm "upgrading" from Windows Vista to Windows XP. — I stand by my original assertion that the shipping version of this OS is late beta, at best. I realize that other enthusiasts are leaving Windows altogether …
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Jason Busch / SpendMatters:
Vista, Office and Outlook 2007 are a Nightmare — Hey, category managers in charge of IT spend. Want to make yourself a friend of the business for life? I've got a secret for you: don't rubberstamp your CIO's decision to upgrade to Vista or Office 2007. In fact, tack on a big "reject" to the request or the requisition.
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Virtual Designers Busy in Online Worlds … LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Toyota Motor Corp. wanted to promote its new Scions to young buyers, it turned to one of the growing number of digital design companies doing business in the popular online universe "Second Life."
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
How Ultimate Is This? … I was poking around Microsoft's support lifecycle page for another blog post and observed some oddities, one being that Windows Ultimate support ends on April 10, 2012. Windows Vista Business and Enterprise both receive Extended Support, which means five more years—or April 11, 2017.
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David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
Adobe starts opening the kimono on its Apollo platform — Today, at Adobe's offices in San Francisco (in an old lumber building dating back to the 1800s), Adobe is hosting a small briefing it has aptly titled "Engage." What makes the name appropriate? According to Adobe senior vice president …
useit.com:
Life-Long Computer Skills … I recently saw a textbook used to teach computers in the third grade. One of the chapters ("The Big Calculator") featured detailed instructions on how to format tables of numbers in Excel. All very good, except that the new Excel version features …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Kazaa's Creators Do Latest Venture by the Book — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis made names for themselves as renegade Internet entrepreneurs by taking conventional tasks like talking on the phone or listening to music and giving consumers an unconventional — and free — way to do it.
BBC:
Burgers paid for by mobile phone — Visitors to fast food outlets in Japan will soon be able to pay for their burgers with their mobile phones. — Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo is teaming up with McDonalds to offer electronic payments and special promotions for mobile users.
Business Wire:
Carl Icahn Invests $50 Million in Motricity — Funding Fuels Motricity's Continued Growth and Expansion — DURHAM, N.C.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Motricity, a leading provider of mobile content services and solutions, today announced the completion of $50 million in equity funding from Carl Icahn …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Gizmo 3.0, Voice for all IMs — JUST RELEASED: How do you make Gizmo Project better? Add free calling to other IM clients to the service. And that's exactly what SIPphone, the company behind Gizmo Project, has done with the just-out-of-oven Gizmo Project 3.0 soft client.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
CLIPMARKS: TINY NIBBLES OF WEB CONTENT — Clipmarks, a Web bookmarking service, launches its 2.0 version today. Previously, the service made it possible to snip paragraphs and pictures from Web pages and save them. Today, the service launches its new, supergranular version …
Kelly Hill / RCR Wireless News:
Verizon Wireless to launch Vcast Mobile TV March 1 — Verizon Wireless will begin offering mobile television on March 1, according to coverage maps on the carrier's Web site. — No further details were offered, and the maps offered the caveat that mobile TV would be available only in "select markets" on March 1.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Why Can't Programmers.. Program? — I was incredulous when I read this observation from Reginald Braithwaite: … The author he's referring to is Imran, who is evidently turning away lots of programmers who can't write a simple program: … Dan Kegel had a similar experience hiring entry-level programmers:
Sony:
NEW SONY MICRO-DISPLAY HDTVs NOW IN SVELTE, STYLISH CABINETS — New 3LCD Models Add 1080p Resolution, BRAVIA Internet Video Link Compatibility — Sony today unveiled its new line of newly-named BRAVIA™ 3LCD micro-display models, featuring cabinets that are about 22 percent slimmer …
Iljitsch van Beijnum / Infinite Loop:
Final version of Parallels Desktop released as free update (updated) — Is it a sad commentary on our zeitgeist that the actual release of a piece of software, rather than a new beta, feels slightly disappointing? We're so used to running beta software these days (yes, I'm looking at you …
PR Newswire:
Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Reports Preliminary Revenue for Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal 2007 — SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: MRVL - News), a leader in storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions …
