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Villu Arak / Heartbeat:
What happened on August 16 — On Thursday, 16th August 2007, the Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption. The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users' computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted …
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John Leyden / The Register:
Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage — Mass reboot exposes VoIP network stability bug — Skype has blamed last week's prolonged outage on the effects of Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. — The latest security update from Microsoft required a system reboot.
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Canon USA:
WHO'S ZOOMING WHO - CANON U.S.A. ANNOUNCES NEW ULTRA-ZOOM LINE IN ITS EVER-POPULAR POWERSHOT FAMILY OF COMPACT DIGITAL CAMERAS — PowerShot SX100 IS Offers All the Zooming Power Consumers Could Ever Want — Canon U.S.A., Inc. today introduced a brand new PowerShot line - the SX series …
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CANON U.S.A.'S NEW FEATURE-RICH POWERSHOT A-SERIES DIGITAL CAMERAS HELP USERS UNLEASH THE PHOTOGRAPHER WITHIN, WHILE ALSO APPEALING TO SAVVY SHOPPERS — Canon U.S.A., Inc. today announced two new PowerShot A-Series digital cameras, including one with the highest resolution in the series to-date …
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Canon USA:
CANON U.S.A.'S NEW POWERSHOT G9 CAMERA COMBINES CREATIVE CONTROL WITH COMPACT CONVENIENCE — New G-Series Camera Gives Serious Photo Enthusiasts the Power of a Professional Digital SLR in a Point-and-Shoot Package — Canon U.S.A., Inc. announced today that its acclaimed G-series has a new top …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Hewlett Introduces a Web Feature to Make Document Printing Mobile — Hoping to alleviate a frustration of mobile computing, Hewlett-Packard has quietly introduced a free service designed to make it possible to print documents on any printer almost anywhere in the world.
iTNews Australia:
The Red Shift Theory — Red Shift Theory is Sun's thesis about the explosive growth in demand for raw computing power—but is it more than the utility computing model warmed over? — For nearly a decade as chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, Greg Papadopoulos has mulled the best …
Dan Farber / ZDNet:
Workday unveils Financials and Work Tags — Since Workday publicly appeared on the scene in January 2006, it has been self-described as a "revolutionary application platform and the next generation of business applications to drive your enterprise's performance," with applications that will be …
Macenstein:
Trip down memory lane: Woz the car salesman — "It... is... AWESOME". - Steve Wozniak — Long before he dreamed of dating Kathy Griffin, Steve Wozniak was bitten by the show-biz bug and agreed to appear in the 2nd best Datsun 280Z commercial ever. — For those of you wondering, below is the best Datsun 280Z commercial ever.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Carl Malamud Takes on WestLaw — Carl Malamud has this funny idea that public domain information ought to be... well, public. He has a history of creating public access databases on the net when the provider of the data has failed to do so or has licensed its data only to a private company that provides it only for pay.
Reuters:
Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 prices in Europe — AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is cutting the European price for its Xbox 360 video game console by 50 euros to 349.99 euros ($470), following a similar cut in the United States. — The company said in a statement on Monday …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Ad Growth for AOL Called Vital to a Remake — Just over a year ago, AOL unveiled a radical plan to remake itself into a business built on advertising from one driven by Internet access subscriptions. — To a great extent, AOL had little choice in the matter.
Todd Haselton / Ars Technica:
Gmail driving Google Apps adoption at college — Google's plan for world domination includes convincing colleges and universities to adopt its Google Apps Education Edition suite, and it's showing signs of success thanks to the seemingly ubiquitous appreciation of Gmail.
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