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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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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
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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
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Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Engadget, Engadget HD, Digital Trends, Neowin.net, Joystiq and digg
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Paramount adopts HD DVD, kicks Blu-ray to the curb — Just when many observers are beginning to believe that Blu-ray has the next-gen HD format wars all wrapped up, Paramount throws us a major curveball. The studio has announced that it is abandoning Blu-ray in favor of HD DVD. Is a shake-up in the works?
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google China Blog Search Goes Live — The domain blogsearch.google.cn was available for quite some time now, but it didn't display any service so far. Some minutes ago, it changed to a (mostly) working homepage, meaning Google China now has a blog search engine among its array of sites.
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Richard Baguley / wirelessinfo.com Blog:
US 3G version of Nokia N95 gets FCC approval — Busy day for Nokia on the FCC: another version of the N95 just got the nod from the feds. This version is a quad-band GSM phone which includes support for the US 3G bands. This means that it would work with the both the voice and 3G data network of AT&T …
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Skrentablog:
Some thoughts on Mahalo — I was surprised (along with many others) that Jason chose to launch a "human powered search engine" as his next venture. More so at the reported funding of $20M. — I'm a fan of Jason's antics and his promotional ability, but at first glance making …
PR Newswire:
comScore Introduces Significant Enhancements to Search Measurement With comScore qSearch 2.0 — RESTON, Va., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — comScore, Inc. , a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore qSearch 2.0, the second generation of search measurement.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:comScore Introduces Expanded U.S., Global Search Measurement And Methodology
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Facebook labelled a $5b waste of time — THE next time you see an employee hunched intently over the computer, don't imagine he or she is slaving over the office accounts or a report for the next shareholders meeting. — Employees are more likely to be whiling away the hours on the social networking site Facebook, a report says.
Luke Shepard / Facebook Blog:
Facebook Messaging just got better... If you're like most people, you may have a few stubborn friends who haven't joined Facebook...yet. This can make reaching friends complicated—there are some friends you can send a Facebook message, and others you have to email. Not anymore.
Tameka Kee / MediaPost Publications:
The Little Engine That Could: Ask.com 3D Redesign On Track — ALMOST 10% OF SEARCHERS AT Ask.com now choose to refine their queries through "Search Suggestions," one of the upgrades bundled into the search engine's user interface overhaul two months ago. — Based on what comScore reported …
Anne Zelenka / Web Worker Daily:
Do You Want One Social Networking Profile to Rule Them All? — There's talk lately of the social graph problem: "people are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site." One proposed solution is to create an open, interoperable representation of our social relationships on the web.
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 …
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Even the Office 2007 box has a learning curve — I bought a retail copy of Office 2007 today (I'm loading up the new laptop I got for the world tour, which is a Thinkpad X61s), and I must be a complete spaz, but I simply could not figure out how to open the bizarre new packaging.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Piece Of Cake: How To: Install Apps on Your iPhone Easily, No Hacking Skills Required — If you wanted to install third-party native software in your iPhone but you didn't had the necessary technical knowledge or courage, the newly updated iPhone Installer.app will make it so easy that it will be very hard to resist.
Robert L. Scheier / Computerworld:
Your data's less safe today than two years ago — Crooks are outpacing prevention efforts; ID theft is up 50% since 2003 — Today's electronic world is a risky place for your personal data — and it's not getting any safer. More than 158 million data records of U.S. residents have been exposed …
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Tilera throws 64-core meshy chip at video and security tasks — Faster than a Xeon, smaller than a bread box — Hot Chips The multi-core chip revolution advanced this week with the emergence of Tilera - a start-up using so-called mesh processor designs to go after the networking and multimedia markets.
