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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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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):
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.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google-powered Questions & Answers for China — Wenda (wen da meaning "ask and answer" in Chinese) is a new question & answers site in China... powered by Google, in cooperation with Tianya.cn, a popular net forum in China, as Googlfied reports. It's re-using the same framework …
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 …
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Canon USA:
ELPH ELEGANCE REIGNS SUPREME: CANON U.S.A. INTRODUCES TWO NEW DIGITAL ELPH CAMERAS THAT ARE THE EPITOME OF SUBSTANCE WITH STYLE, BACKED BY A PLETHORA OF POWERFUL FEATURES — Canon U.S.A., Inc. today introduced two new compact PowerShot Digital ELPH Cameras - the top-of-the line 12.1-megapixel PowerShot SD950 …
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Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Steve Balmer Actually Gets A Word In With Charlie Rose — I'm sitting in the audience watching Microsoft chief executive Steve Balmer chat with Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers at the Mandarin Hotel in midtown Manhattan, hosted by Charlie Rose. Tech discussions these days …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Ballmer and Chambers: No Cisco-Microsoft merger
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Randall Bennett / wirelessinfo.com Blog:
Black 8GB Nokia N95 hits FCC — Looks like a black version of the N95 just hit the FCC. We're really digging the black exterior, and they've added 8GB of internal memory under the hood. We also peeped a reference to Nokia's new music store (Nokia.com/music, dead in our browser and on our N95) in the user manual.
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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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Disconnects Grand Central Customers — So much for Grand Central's "one number for life" promise. The company is turning off customer phone numbers and giving them new ones following their acquisition by Google last month. — Troy Schneider received such a notice …
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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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Viacom:
Paramount and DreamWorks Animation Each Declare Exclusive Support for HD DVD — Movies Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment Including Paramount — Pictures, DreamWorks Animation SKG, DreamWorks Pictures, Paramount Vantage, — Nickelodeon Movies and MTV Films to be Released Exclusively in HD DVD
John Cox / PC World:
Wi-Fi Carnival Comes to Town — The California State Fair isn't complete without a Ferris wheel, midway, and wireless network. — Recommend this story? — The sprawling California State Fair opens in Sacramento this weekend and Bil Lowry will be watching a key part of it …
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Steve Rubel / AdAge:
Three Strategies for Thriving on the Decentralized Web — As Long-form Content Becomes Bite-Size, Make Everything on Your Site Eembeddable — The Long Tail of content and increasing demands for our attention have created a perfect storm where traffic to brand sites may soon shrink.
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.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Exclusive: Adobe Media Player Launch Delayed Until Next Year — The introduction of the much anticipated Adobe Media Player (AMP), the desktop application that allows users to download and save Flash files, will launch in Beta this year but won't have a full introduction until next year.
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