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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy — Exclusive Google has stunned the server world by acquiring superstar start-up PeakStream, The Register can confirm. — PeakStream's website and phone lines mysteriously crashed yesterday, indicating that the software maker was struggling to pay its bill or had been gobbled.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
WordPress vs. Movable Type: Open Source Blogging Software Showdown — Movable Type has just released version 4.0 and reversed a decision that nearly killed MT 3.0 and led to the rise of WordPress — MT 4.0, currently in beta, will be released in open source later this year. (See Read/WriteWeb coverage.)
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Anildash / Movable Type News:
Movable Type 4 Beta: We're On A Mission — If you're reading this blog, you probably know a lot about Movable Type. It's the power bloggers' tool, made by people who just wanted to make a good, flexible blogging application. Over half a decade, it's grown into a platform that even enterprises …
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Will Watts / The Register:
Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional — Who said you could improve our software? — What's the best way to attract a pile of threatening lawyers' letters from Microsoft? Sell pirate copies of Windows? Write a DRM-busting program? — Londoner Jamie Cansdale has just discovered a new approach.
caminobrowser.org:
Camino 1.5 Release Notes — After over a year of hard work by devoted volunteers, the Camino Project is proud to give you Camino 1.5. This latest version fixes hundreds of bugs and implements many new features, providing all users with an improved browsing experience.
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Inside AdSense:
Policy updates — and it's not even Thursday! — After our many weeks of policy posts on Thursdays, you're probably intimately familiar with all of our program policies. So we can imagine your surprise when you woke up today, got your morning coffee, and settled in for your daily re-read of the policies …
Gizmodo:
Apple Interview: Details on the New LED Macbook Pro — Apple's elves gave me more details about the Santa Rosa Macbook Pro. Here's some stuff you don't know about the revision. — How much battery life does the LED Backlighting save? — 30 minutes to an hour vs. the older models.
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Apple:Apple Updates MacBook Pro
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Tony Long / Wired News:
June 5, 1977: From a Little Apple a Mighty Industry Grows — 1977: The Apple II, the world's first "practical" personal computer, goes on sale. — The Apple II is the computer that made Apple a driving force in a new industry. The company's original computer bore little resemblance …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Intel, Asus Announce $199 'Eee PC' — TAIPEI — Asus and Intel have teamed up to develop a $199 notebook PC, the companies announced here on Tuesday. — In a keynote address given by Sean Maloney, an executive vice president at Intel and chief marketing and sales officer, Jonney Shih …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Lawyer ratings site not without objections — A venture-capital backed Web site called Avvo.com that launches Tuesday claims to offer a "game-changing" alternative to the Yellow Pages for anyone interested in hiring a lawyer. — Avvo's plan is ambitious: to award a numeric score …
Fareastgizmos.com:
Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 presented — Stephane Bret, director of Porsche Design Mobile Group, holds a Porsche Design Mobile Phone P'9521 in Essen June 4, 2007. The Porsche Design Group and Sagem Communication are presenting the first Porsche Design Mobile Phone, the P'9521, at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen.
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Intel updates compilers for multicore era — Intel has announced major updates for its C++ and Fortran tools, updates that are aimed at making it easier for programmers to exploit thread-level and data-level parallelism in multicore processors. On the data parallelism side …
Niels Provos / Google Online Security Blog:
Web Server Software and Malware — In this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads. — We determine server operating system by examining the 'Server …
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Computerworld
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, has a new Address and Signature Card — As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we've been migrating our crawler, Yahoo! Slurp, over to the new domain at crawl.yahoo.net. As of today, the transition is complete and all machines crawling as Slurp are now in crawl.yahoo.net.
Patrick Klepek / 1UP.com:
RESIDENT EVIL 5 RELEASED BY MARCH 2008? — Capcom's president hints at a possible timetable. — We haven't heard anything about Resident Evil 5 since Capcom originally announced the game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Who knows if the company will take the wraps off …
Frank Caron / Ars Technica:
Microsoft to unify MSN, Xbox and Zune with Ignition music platform — Once upon a time, Microsoft proposed a huge network of media, music and gaming that would span multiple devices: Windows computers, Xbox game consoles, and even Zune media players. It was quite the proposal …
BBC:
Talking paper made by scientists — Digital paper that can speak to you has been created by scientists. — Researchers from Mid Sweden University have constructed an interactive paper billboard that emits recorded sound in response to a user's touch. — The prototype display uses conductive inks …
