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Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog:
Introducing Windows Live SkyDrive! — Thanks for your help testing Windows Live Folders. It's been a month and a half since our first release, and today we're making three major announcements! — First, we're happy to announce our new name: — Second, we've been listening intently …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Experience Blog:
Store your files in "the cloud" with Windows Live SkyDrive — Today Microsoft is announcing the final product name for what was previously known as Windows Live Folders. Windows Live SkyDrive gets not only its final product name but also a few new features and enhanced UI reflecting changes coming across …
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One Microsoft Way, Insider Chatter, Guardian Unlimited, All about Microsoft, Windows Connected and Mashable!
Chris / LiveSide:
Windows Live Folders renamed to Skydrive - Gets update too — Today sees the somewhat expected renaming of Windows Live Folders to its final name, Windows Live Skydrive. There is also a significant update to the service, extending the basic functionality that was criticised somewhat at the start of the initial beta.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for August 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: August 9, 2007 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: August 14, 2007 — This is an advance notification of nine security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on August 14, 2007.
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Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Update: Porn company Perfect 10 sues Microsoft — (InfoWorld) - A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for putting links and images of the company's content in search results taken from other Web sites that are illegally reproducing the material.
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PR Newswire:
Vonage Holdings Corp. Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results — HOLMDEL, N.J., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG - News), a leading provider of broadband telephone service, today announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2007.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:Vonage flounders amid slowed subscriber growth
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Ricky Cadden / Symbian-Guru.com:
US 3G Nokia N95 Getting Battery Upgrade! — I received this in my inbox recently, and had to wait a few days to share. This is the official sales flyer for the US 3G Nokia N95. There's several really HOT parts about it that I'm really excited about. — The first is that the thing finally has US 3G - HSDPA even.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Coming Soon, Nokia N95 with US 3G Support
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jkOnTheRun, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Symbian-Guru.com, Mobility Site, Gizmodo, Engadget and IntoMobile
Business Wire:
Limelight Networks Reports Second-Quarter 2007 Results — Bookings Performance and Customer Additions Position Company for Continued Growth — TEMPE, Ariz.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Limelight Networks (Nasdaq:LLNW - News), a leading content delivery network (CDN) for digital media …
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thepomoblog.com:
FOUNDATIONS ARE CRUMBLING BUT NEW ONES ARE BEING FORMED (Terry) — The first story in this morning's MediaDailyNews jolts like a cold splash of water on a hot face. Nielsen has released new data from its "engagement panels," and it's not good for the status quo.
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Bloomberg:
Blockbuster Acquires Movielink — The video rental chain Blockbuster said yesterday that it had acquired the Internet movie provider Movielink to offer video downloading services to customers. — Blockbuster is also acquiring rights to show the films of Movie- link's owners …
Susan Landau / Washington Post:
A Gateway for Hackers — The Security Threat in the New Wiretapping Law — Current administration policy is replete with examples of quickly enacted efforts whose consequences led to the opposite effect. (Beware of what you wish for . . . .) With Congress caving last week …
Nik Fletcher / Download Squad:
iPhone set to get games? — There's talk all over the web of the U.K. getting iTunes Movies and T.V. shows "by the end of the month" - something us Brits are long overdue. Here at Download Squad we decided to see whether it truly is a matter of "flipping the switches" on this rumoured store …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Pearl Jam censored by AT&T, calls for a neutral 'Net — A bit of heavy-handed censorship of a Pearl Jam concert by AT&T this weekend led the band to fire off an open letter to fans—a letter in which Pearl Jam railed against media and ISP consolidation and called for readers to support network neutrality.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Dell To Pay Ex-CEO Rollins $48.5 Million For Unexercised Optons — Well, isn't this nice. Dell (DELL) disclosed in an SEC filing yesterday that it will pay Kevin Rollins, its former president and CEO, $48,462,495 as part of a previously disclosed program to provide cash payments …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Equity Firm Invests in NBC Universal-News Corp. Online Venture — The joint venture between NBC Universal and the News Corporation to bring their television shows and movies onto the Internet still lacks a Web site. It still has no name. It also has yet to announce a clear mission …
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NewTeeVee, Guardian, HipMojo.com, Epicenter, Insider Chatter, TechCrunch, Silicon Alley Insider, alarm:clock, IP Democracy, Contentinople, paidContent.org, VentureBeat and Searchviews
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple makes iMovie HD 6 available for download — Are you an iMovie user who misses what you once knew and loved after installing iLife '08? I know that there are more than just a few of you (and a few of us at the Orbiting HQ) who have a strong disdain for the newest version of iMovie.
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MacUser, Jim Heid's Mac iLife 06 Site, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Macsimum News and The Mac Observer
Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:
Hey Apple, Who is iMovie's "Brilliant Engineer?" — "One of our most brilliant video engineers went on vacation, a well deserved vacation," said Steve Jobs at Tuesday's Apple press event. "He went to the Cayman Islands [and] shot a bunch of underwater footage with one of the new high-def little camcorders."
