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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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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Ars Technica, Download Squad, dslreports.com, Ryan Naraine's Zero Day, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Mark Evans, istartedsomething, Skype-watch.com …, Compiler, TechBlog, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, AppScout, Skype Journal, Digital Inspiration, Lunch over IP, NevilleHobson.com, /Message, PalmAddicts, HipMojo.com and Data Center Knowledge
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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.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Skype's outage: Lessons learned — Skype has its official response to its nearly two-day outage: A software bug was unearthed after numerous restarts over a Microsoft patch download. — Russell Shaw has more, but here's what Skype had to say: … So what are the key learnings here (Techmeme has more):
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Skype Journal
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 USA:
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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Gizmodo
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 …
Nick / Rough Type:
The end of ERP? — As the founder and leader of PeopleSoft, Dave Duffield played a seminal role in establishing enterprise resource planning, or ERP, systems as the IT engines of big business. But then, in a hostile takeover, the enterprise software giant Oracle yanked PeopleSoft out of Duffield's hands.
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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 …
Jbrjake / HandBrake:
HandBrake 0.9.0 Released! — "But apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" — We're proud to announce the public release of HandBrake 0.9.0. — Download it now.
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iProspect:
iProspect Offline Channel Influence on Online Search Behavior Study — Background — In June 2007, iProspect partnered with JupiterResearch to develop and field a survey to U.S. search engine users (heretofore referred to as "online search users") to gain a better understanding of how exposure …
Reuters:
Google reveals stake in Chinese social Web Tianya — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) revealed on Monday that it had acquired a stake in Chinese community Web site Tianya.cn, indicating a foray by the global search leader into social networking in the world's second-largest Internet market.
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.
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.
