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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft discloses security bugs in Vista Gadgets — Microsoft's August security patches, released today, provide a new chance to assess the company's promise of higher security in Windows Vista. The company released six critical security bulletins, and Windows Vista is among the versions affected by three of them.
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
VMware's IPO - Insanity turns Silicon Valley back to normal — Darling Diary Welcome to The Register's live coverage of VMware's IPO. The world has gone insane over this sucker, and I'm not one to deny ecstasy. — Preamble — It's 6 in the morning here in California, and things have turned palpable.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search — For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range …
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Valleywag, Ars Technica, theacsi.org, Wall Street Journal, Searchviews, Salon: Machinist, Search Engine Journal, Screenwerk and David Dalka
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Google, Apple slip from "loved" to "well-liked"
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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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Download Squad, Profy.Com, Today @ PC World, Mashable!, Google Operating System, Read/WriteWeb and WebProNews
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Jason Roth / Apple:
John Lennon Solo Catalog Debuts on iTunes Store — Apple® today announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). Sixteen of Lennon's solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the "Lennon Legend" …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:Still no Beatles, but Apple adds Lennon
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The Technology Chronicles
Market Wire:
Lime Wire to Enter Music Download Market With New Digital Store and Inks Deals With Music Companies — Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store. — Initially the store will be a stand-alone website …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Opens Up Their Data Feeds — Dave Winer is tracking some new features being released by Facebook that debunk the theories that the company is focused on building a completely closed silo of user data and news. — Facebook's news feeds, launched last year to a lot of controversy, has proven to be a brilliant move.
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John Leyden / The Register:Many Facebook users expose all to strangers
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WebProNews, Web Strategy, CNET News.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Business Week, broadstuff and All Facebook
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
First Google Health Screenshots — Google Health, codename "Weaver", is Google's planned health information storage program. Google's Vice President of Engineering Adam Bosworth lobbies for the program for quite a while now. Adam said the current US health care system is challenged when it comes to …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, Valleywag, Insider Chatter, Mashable!, Between the Lines, Googlified, bytes|genes, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Download Squad, Compiler, UNEASYsilence, BloggingStocks, davidrothman.net, Google Operating System, Search Engine Land, paidContent.org and All Points Blog
CNN:
UPDATE: Microsoft's Bach Sold Additional Stock Before Xbox News — SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) — Microsoft Corp. executive Robbie Bach sold $3 million more in company stock during the period leading up to an announcement about a costly flaw in its Xbox video game console than previously reported …
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Opposable Thumbs, GamePolitics.com, Joystiq, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Game | Life, Kotaku and digg
MrJolly / MCV:
Nod given to HDD-only 360 titles — GAMEFEST: MMO developers permitted to require Xbox hard drive for future titles — Owners of Microsoft's basic Core Xbox 360 may soon find themselves unable to play the latest titles following Microsoft's announcement that developers of online MMO games …
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
EIF: Home abusers can be turned off and banned, warns Sony — Home boss discusses bannings and branding for mature users — Peter Edward, director of the Home platform for Sony, has told an audience at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that users who consistently abuse …
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 …
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
Adobe mulling a move into the Office market? — Wired is suggesting that Adobe Systems may launch a competitor to Microsoft Office. Not only would this not be surprising (though I see little evidence in the article pointing to the presumption), but if anyone were to do it well, it would be Adobe.
Jeff Bennett / Market Wire:
Gay Ad Network Launches With Exclusive Publisher Partners — Vertical Ad Network Offers Wide Range of Advertiser Solutions — Gay Ad Network, an online vertical advertising network, launched today with support from an influential group of gay and lesbian publishers.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
PSP download store held up by DRM — Fans of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) media device must continue to wait for a download store, a feature that experts have said is a must if the player is ever to launch a significant challenge to the iPod. — Sony representatives …
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Technovia
Chris Reidy / Boston Globe:
Home of the bean and the blog — Boston has long been viewed as the land of the bean and the cod — and now the Hub may also be the land of the blog. — According to OutsideIn.com, a website that tracks neighborhood blogging, Boston was the "bloggiest city" in America for the two-month period it examined, March and April.
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.
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Download Squad, Epicenter, Search Engine Journal, mocoNews.net, WebProNews, Mashable!, Search Engine Land, Screenwerk and MobileCrunch
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 …
