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Michele Gershberg / Reuters:
Yahoo edges Google in US user satisfaction survey — Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) may be struggling to convince Wall Street of its future prospects, but for the first time its users gave its services overall a better rating than what Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Bigger not better: Google, Apple down in customer satisfaction; Yahoo gains — The American Customer Satisfaction Index for the second quarter was released Tuesday and the brief recap goes like this: Apple is still the top dog in customer satisfaction in the PC market, but is slipping.
Nokia:
Nokia announces product advisory for BL-5C battery — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. This product advisory does not apply to any other Nokia-branded battery.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia-branded batteries at risk of overheating — 46 million devices affected — Here we go again kids. After all those notorious fires related to the batteries used by the world's largest handset manufacturer, Nokia has issued a product advisory for the BL-5C, Nokia-branded battery.
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Dan Warne / APC:
Google launches YouTube-style embeddable maps … First up, if you know how to embed a YouTube video in your blog, you'll be able to embed Google Maps in your website, Google promises. — It'll be as simple as cutting and pasting a bit of HTML code into your website, just like a YouTube video.
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Stephen Hutcheon / Sydney Morning Herald:
Google's embeddable map feature out next week — Google will shortly roll-out a new feature on its mapping service that will allow users to easily embed maps directly into web pages. — The feature, which operates much in the same as with YouTube videos, was conspicuously missing …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
VMware rockets; Virtualization hits Wall Street — Update: As of 11: 15 am. EDT, VMware shares were trading at $51, well above the $29 offering price. MarketWatch is reporting that VMware has the best opening of 2007-assuming the current price holds of course. — Shares of VMware topped out at $55.
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:VMware's IPO - Insanity turns Silicon Valley back to normal
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 in Technology Preview — New software builds on Exchange Server 2007's anywhere access* to information, operational efficiency and built-in protection. — Microsoft Corp. today announced Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and opened a technology preview for the software.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft readies new test builds of Exchange 2007 SP1, PerformancePoint 2007
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John Borland / Wired News:
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign — On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically …
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Reuters:
Half of Web time spent viewing content: study — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Content online is king. Internet users spend nearly half their time online viewing news or entertainment content, surpassing activities such as sending e-mails, shopping or searching for information …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care — In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their plans to improve the nation's health care.
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
A notebook in miniature — You'd be forgiven for classifying Fujitsu's U810 notebook as a slightly clunky ultramobile PC. — After all, it weighs a pound and a half, has the Intel A110 processor used in Samsung's UMPC, and allows for fairly easy and accurate thumb typing. But you'd be wrong.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AOL Launches Mobile Search — Google may have won the fixed line search sweepstakes, but mobile search remains an open territory, for anyone to conquer — countless start-ups, Yahoo, Nokia. Add AOL to the list, which is launching a revamped (beta) version of its mobile search service today.
BBC:
Paper battery offers future power — Flexible paper batteries could meet the energy demands of the next generation of gadgets, says a team of researchers. — They have produced a sample slightly larger than a postage stamp that can release about 2.3 volts, enough to illuminate a small light.
SHAPE Services News:
FREE Beta version of IM+ for Skype is available for iPhone — www.skypeforiphone.com — SHAPE Services is pleased to invite you to participate in a beta testing round. Please send your suggestions to betaskype.iphone@shapeservices.com.&nbs p; — Call Skype users to their PCs
Chris Williams / The Register:
Free software campaigners stonewalled at BBC — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) mounted its protests against "corruption" of the BBC by Microsoft in London and Manchester this morning. — In filthy weather, about 20 assorted free software and open source advocates turned out at the BBC's Television Centre in west London.
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John Tierney / New York Times:
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch — Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby. I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version …
