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Matthew Broersma / PC World:
Acer: PC Industry 'Disappointed' with Vista — Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer to openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system. — Recommend this story? — Acer president Gianfranco Lanci today became the first major PC manufacturer …
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David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
By 2010, will Windows 'Seven' (or any desktop OS) really matter? — There's probably no better example of how Microsoft seems to be sweeping left while the rest of the computing world sweeps right than today's edition of ZDNet Tech Update Today (the newsletter that we send out daily to those who've subscribed to it).
Michele Mehl / Twango:
Nokia acquires Twango to offer a comprehensive media sharing experience — Share photos, video and other media through virtually any connected device — Nokia and Twango today announced that Nokia has acquired substantially all assets of Twango (www.twango.com).
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Cassell Bryan-Low / Wall Street Journal:Nokia Extends Web Push With Twango Purchase
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John Lam / John Lam on Software:
A first look at IronRuby — We've been working very hard over the past couple of months to get our first source code release ready. I'm happy to announce today the first drop of the IronRuby source code. IronRuby is licensed under very liberal terms as set out by the Microsoft Permissive License.
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Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
TiVo Targets the Mainstream — The DVR pioneer hopes to gain customers with its price-slashed TiVo HD, but subscription costs and shrinking market share remain concerns — Can a low-cost, high-definition digital video recorder clear up TiVo's blurry picture?
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Troy Unrau / Open Ended:
The unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit — There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE's web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little original corporate backing.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why Feedburner is trouble, day 2 — Saturday's post about Feedburner was much-discussed, and that's good. The most common rebuttal was the user's ability to opt out. If you don't like it you don't have to use Feedburner. But that's not any kind of a rebuttal. Let me illustrate.
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Dick Durbin / Open Left:
What should be America's national broadband strategy? — (This diary will remain at the top of the page for the next day. New content will continue to appear below. For example, check out Mike's piece on Bloggers and Donors, as well as my new piece on Republicans to Blame for World's Major Problems - promoted by Adam Bink)
Colin Gibbs / RCR Wireless News:
Crown Castle bails from mobile TV effort, Modeo's fate unclear — Crown Castle International Corp. is spinning off its Modeo business, agreeing to lease Modeo's nationwide spectrum for a dedicated mobile broadcast network to a pair of venture capital firms.
Forbes:
Class War: MySpace Vs. Facebook — A flurry of recent articles have observed that young people are leaving MySpace for Facebook in droves, setting off speculation that MySpace is becoming the latest victim of fickle teens following the hot new thing. — Not so, says University of California, Berkeley, researcher Danah Boyd.
Chris Remo / Shacknews:
Developers on Unreal Engine 3 and the Silicon Knights Lawsuit — Last week the internet—or at least the video game-related parts of it—exploded when Epic Games quietly announced that it had been sued by developer Silicon Knights. That quiet announcement quickly turned into a frenzy as the full text of the lawsuit surfaced.
Mikko / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Bulletproof Hosting — So Google has these sponsored links in their search results... Which is all nice and simple when you search for something like "flowers" or "clip art". — But try searching for "bulletproof hosting", and you'll get a bunch of Google sponsored links for companies that sell hosting for spammers:
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Curing "sender's remorse" (and screw-ups) with self-destructing e-mail — Everyone has had one of those moments when you realize that you shouldn't have sent that e-mail. Maybe you sent it out of anger (or drunkenness), it was sent to the wrong person (that was not supposed to go to the boss!), or it was just plain incomplete.
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