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Google to Acquire Postini — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini, a global leader in on-demand communications security and compliance solutions serving more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide.
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Dave Girouard / Official Google Blog:
Welcome, Postini team — We launched Google Apps so that it would be easier for employees to communicate and share information while reducing the hassles and costs associated with enterprise software. Companies are responding: every day, more than 1,000 small businesses sign up for Google Apps.
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Google To Purchase Postini For $625 Million — Google has announced that it is acquiring Postini, an on demand communications e-mail security company. — Google will pay $625 million for Postini and the company will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Google.
ZDNet:
Google to buy e-mail security company for $625 million — Printer ink price war may be underway … Report: Microsoft customers more leery of Software Assurance … Apple sneaks Java support onto the iPhone … VMware sets IPO price range; lands Intel Capital as investor
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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
Sony Cuts PlayStation 3 Prices as Many Xboxes Fail — Facing slower-than-expected sales of its PlayStation 3 video game system, Sony said it would announce Monday that it planned to lower the price of its console in the United States by $100, to $500, effective Thursday.
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Sony announces price cut, new 80GB PlayStation 3 model for North America — Sony has had a rough time moving units after the initial launch of the PlayStation3; the system is routinely outsold by the 360 and Wii. It has been rumored that Sony would be dropping the price on the system …
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:Sony cuts PS3 price to $499, new $599 80GB model to hit North America in August
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Write Articles, Not Blog Postings … I recently served as a "consultant's consultant," advising a world leader in his field on what to do about his website. In particular, this expert asked me whether he should start a weblog. I said no. — You probably already know my own Internet strategy …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
EA Chief Cites Need For More Innovative Games — Electronic Arts Inc. became the world's biggest maker of videogames by relying on a formula now widespread in the industry: pumping out sequels of familiar game franchises, like Madden football, that consumers bought almost on cue.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Improving Google's Social Network — Google already has a social network (orkut), but it's only popular in Brazil and India, doesn't have a Googlish interface and had a lot of security problems in the past. That's why last year Google sponsored a project at the Carnegie Mellon University's …
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Robert McMillan / PC World:
Security Firm Auctions Bugs — A Swiss company has launched an eBay for details on unpatched security vulnerabilities. — Recommend this story? — Psst. Want to buy a zero-day? — A Swiss startup called WabiSabiLabi Ltd. has some for sale, but to qualified buyers only.
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PR Newswire:
Lexmark revises financial outlook — LEXINGTON, Ky., July 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE: LXK - News) today announced that financial results for its second quarter of 2007 will be lower than expected. — Although based on partial data for the quarter …
Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Makes Late Push To Find Other Buyers — As negotiations with News Corp. continue, Dow Jones & Co. is making one last push to find other possible buyers for itself, according to people familiar with the matter. — The long-shot efforts by the publisher of The Wall Street Journal …
LWN.net:
Patch: Linux 2.6.22 released — Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>&n bsp; — To: — Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>&nb sp; — Linux 2.6.22 released — It's out there now (or at least in the process of mirroring out - if you don't see everything, give it a bit of time).
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Mike Kobrin / CrunchGear:
Exclusive: iRiver Clix Rhapsody Review — The second-generation iriver Clix is an impressive little device, but iriver followed in SanDisk's footsteps and used its partnership with Rhapsody to create a pretty slick little end-to-end solution called the Clix Rhapsody.
Robert Hensing / Robert Hensing's Blog:
VISTA READYBOOST SUCKAGE & VISTA RESUME SLUGGISHNESS — Soo last week I finally figured out why sometimes my notebook takes forever to resume from an S3 / S4 sleep. My notebook is a Dell D820 with a Core2 Duo and 2GB of RAM - yet its brought to its knees sometimes when I resume.
Reuben Schwarz / Stuff.co.nz:
Hobby leads to career for tech blogger — Wellington is home to a rising star in the highly competitive and global blogging industry. — Richard MacManus runs the world's 28th most popular blog, Read/WriteWeb, from his home office in Lower Hutt. — It's every blogger's fantasy.
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Microsoft's OEM catch-22: XP still in the driver's seat — Now more than half a year into the launch of Windows Vista, it's beginning to look as though Microsoft may have a rebellion on its hands, at least in the corporate world. While Windows Vista continues to sell like hotcakes via OEMs to consumers …
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