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Traci / Burning Questions:
FreeBurner for Everyone — One of the many benefits that FeedBurner publishers will enjoy now that FeedBurner is part of the Google family is a little something we like to call, "more for free!" Beginning today, two of FeedBurner's previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Gates no longer the richest man in the world? — Bill Gates appears to have been dethroned as the world's richest man. But based on his past comments, he probably isn't disappointed. — The Microsoft Corp. chairman and co-founder has been overtaken on the world's richest list …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Where TomorrowNow goes from here — Embroiled in controversy, SAP's third-party maintenance and support company TomorrowNow is facing challenging days ahead. — SAP disclosed late Monday that its TomorrowNow subsidiary had inappropriately downloaded Oracle's proprietary software.
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SAP CEO is 'disappointed' Oracle did not go to him first before suing co UPDATE — WALLDORF, Germany (Thomson Financial) - SAP (nyse: SAP - news - people ) AG chief executive Henning Kagermann said he was personally 'surprised and disappointed' that Oracle Corp (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ) …
Wall Street Journal:
Europe Steps Up Probe of New DVD Formats — Competition of Blu-ray, HD — To Secure Studios' Support — Arouses Antitrust Concerns — In a move that could be key to determining the future of home cinema, European antitrust regulators are stepping up their probe into possible anticompetitive practices …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Straight dope from Fake Steve Jobs — newsmaker For months now, one of the best-read blogs in technology circles has been the starkly funny, pull-no-punches Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. — Otherwise known as "Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ)," the author—who writes as if he is, in fact, Steve Jobs …
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Survey: Windows loses ground with developers — (InfoWorld) - Microsoft's Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America but still is the dominant platform, according to Evans Data survey results being released on Tuesday.
Greg Sandoval / Webware.com:
EBAY SQUARES OFF WITH CRAIGSLIST, LAUNCHES CLASSIFIED SERVICE — Auction giant eBay has launched an online classifieds service that will compete with market pioneer, Craigslist. — Kijiji, a site eBay has operated overseas for two years, is now available in about 220 cities across the United States …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
NetVibes, now with one less CEO — Netvibes, the Paris-based personalized page start-up, which till recently had to co-CEOs, Tariq Krim (also the founder) and Pierre Chappaz, now has one less CEO. Chappaz is leaving Netvibes and instead will be focusing on Wikio, his personalized blog …
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Researchers demonstrate laser-based hard drive technology — Though we rely on them as a mainstay of modern computing, hard drives are really a mixed bag: part storage blessing and part performance albatross. The ongoing digital media revolution could never have gotten off the ground without plentiful …
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Dave Sifry / The Technorati Weblog:
Farewells and Welcomes — In the life of companies, there are moments of welcoming and there are times when one must bid a fond farewell. For Technorati, at this moment, we must say a warm goodbye to our colleagues Adam Hertz and Tantek Celik. I remember when both started …
MacNN:
iPhone shatters AT&T record, dwarfs RAZR [u] — Apple over the weekend sold more than 700,000 iPhones to rocket past analyst predictions and shatter AT&T's record by selling more iPhones in three days than Motorola's RAZR did in its first month. Apple's supply of iPhones depleted …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
eBay Open Classifieds Site Kijiji in U.S. — eBay has quietly launched in international classified site Kijiji in U.S., in an attempt to compete against Craigslist and others, reports WSJ. Kijiji was launched overseas in February 2005, and until now, was available in certain countries in Europe and Asia …
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Is Google's Spam Fight a Sham? — Google may say it fights spam but I'm beginning to have my doubts. A recent post on Google's Webmaster Central blog offers advice on how to build "startpages." — What is a "startpage"? "Basically, it's a Web page with a lot of links about a specific topic …
Reuters:
D.Telekom's mobile unit clinches iPhone deal: paper — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom's (DTEGn.DE: Quote, Profile, Research) mobile phone unit T-Mobile clinched a deal to bring Apple Inc's iPhone handset to Germany, according to a report in a German daily.
