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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace — Facebook is holding a massive press/developer event today in San Francisco to officially launch Facebook Platform. 750 or so people are here. — A number of third party applications will also be announced, including Microsoft …
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Facebook: The social Web utility company — The suspense is nearly over. In about an hour, Facebook will lift the veil on its plans to turn its social networking site into a platform that its makers hope becomes a pervasive ecosystem. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls this latest interation …
David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Exclusive: Facebook's new face — The social networking company now wants to become a place for anyone to build applications for social computing. Fortune got an inside look. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Facebook may turn out to be a lot more important than any of us thought.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
FACEBOOK PRESS CONFERENCE - LIVE! — Facebook is making a major platform announcement today at 3:00 PM Pacific time. We'll be at the press conference and, unless there's a clamp on video rights during the event, we'll be streaming it live, using Veodia (preview) technology.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Facebook aims to be Social OS — Facebook's platform strategy will be announced today in San Francisco. In discussions with multiple sources involved with the launch, we've come to see the platform as a highly ambitious idea, approaching the idea of Facebook being an operating system with other web apps riding on top of it.
David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
Facebook's plan to hook up the world — The company's boy-wonder CEO wants to take social networking out of the dorm room and make it a platform for new businesses, reports David Kirkpatrick in a Fortune exclusive. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Imagine that when you shopped online for a digital camera …
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Wal-Mart to Sell Dell Desktops in Stores this June — Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Dell, Inc. announce that the two companies will partner to sell Dell Computer desktops in Wal-Mart stores nationwide, beginning June 10, 2007. The agreement includes the launch to two Dell products offered …
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Erica Ogg / ZDNet:
What Wal-Mart means to Dell — Dell is adding a new dimension to its sales strategy, but it's unclear if this move can get the company back on track. — Since its beginning, Dell has prided itself on its direct-to-consumers sales model, but the company announced Thursday it will begin selling …
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:Wal-Mart to begin selling Dell PCs
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Dell To Sell Two Models Through Wal-Mart, Sam's Club Starting June 10
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
HD DVD, Blu-ray "Managed Copy" coming later this year — The managed copy spec that will allow users to make copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray movies is finally nearing completion. MPAA head honcho Dan Glickman recently said that the AACS support behind managed copy would be ready before the end of the year …
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Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Copying HD DVD and Blu-ray discs may become legal — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Under a licensing agreement in its final stages, consumers may get the right to make several legal copies of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc movies they've purchased, a concession by the movie industry that may quell criticism that DRM …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Closing the book on Apple's Mac mini — Even while at the top of its game, Apple Inc. can seemingly find faults with just about anything, including a bit of itself. The Mac maker is constantly evaluating the market segments in which it wishes to participate and those which it does not.
Jon Udell:
RESTful Web Services — RESTful Web Services, by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, was published this month. I interviewed the authors yesterday for an upcoming ITConversations show, but I also want to spell out here why I think it's such an important book. — In the realm of IT you could hardly pick a more controversial topic.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Sarbanes-Oxley Audit Rules To Ease; Bad For IT Spending; Good For Corporate Earnings — One of the under-appreciated drivers of IT spending in the last few years has been Sarbanes-Oxley. While there is much complaining in Corporate America about the costs of compliance …
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Kdawson / Slashdot:
Why Are CC Numbers Still So Easy To Find? — Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton gives the full-disclosure treatment to the widely known and surprisingly simple technique for finding treasure-troves of credit card numbers online. He points out how the credit-card companies …
Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Make-It-Yourself 'Star Wars' — Lucasfilm Will Post Clips — From Film Saga on the Web, — Inviting Fans to Edit at Will — George Lucas, creator of "Star Wars," has never hesitated to protect his intellectual property, which is why some call him "Lucas the Litigator."
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The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Kaiser Unboxing — Remember the exciting news from last evening? Here it is! As you can imagine, we've seen our share of devices here at BGR, and I personally have combed through almost all. Let's start it off like this...the HTC Kaiser is the best darn Pocket PC I have ever used!
Edo / Pink Tentacle:
Flexible, full-color OLED — On May 24, Sony unveiled what it is calling the world's first flexible, full-color organic electroluminescent display (OLED) built on organic thin-film transistor (TFT) technology. OLEDs typically use a glass substrate, but Sony researchers developed new technology …
