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Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
The Rise of JAVA - The Retirement of SUNW — I've spoken before about the value of brand - this post is a good example. And I wanted to follow up with a few more thoughts, and an important shift in how Sun (NASDAQ:SUNW) presents itself to the world - and more importantly, how the world now presents itself to Sun.
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:Sun boots workstation roots in favor of JAVA ticker
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to usher in era of Mac OS X-based iPods — Apple Inc. will use a media event next month to unveil a new breed of iPod digital music players that have been injected with the company's most vital asset — the Mac OS. — The move will culminate a multi-year effort on the part …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:Apple's lawyers called, the iPod nano "phatty" is apparently the real deal
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York Times (NYT) Launches MyTimes. Cool, But Ten Years Too Late — The New York Times continues to add to its impressive online site, rolling out a "MyTimes" feature today that has been behind a beta wall since last year. The feature looks slick: Customizable widget boxes featuring …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Mary Meeker's YouTube Math — Morgan Stanley's Internet analyst Mary Meeker was a good deal more optimistic than we and others were about the revenue impact of YouTube's new overlay ads. Specifically, Mary concluded that the overlays could immediately add $4.8 billion of gross revenue …
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Sony announces high-definition DVR for the PlayStation 3 in Europe — The Sony PlayStation 3 makes no excuses about what it wants: your entire living room. Sony wants you to watch Blu-ray movies in between playing your PS3 games and streaming content to your PSP.
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Jon Brodkin / InfoWorld:
Google Apps no match for MS Office, report says — (InfoWorld) - Deploying Google Apps could be a "career-limiting move for enterprise architects" if they expect too much from the software-as-a-service collaboration suite and its "rudimentary" feature set, the Burton Group research and consulting firm says in a new report.
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Stephen Lawson / PC World:
IBM Buys Web Conferencing Vendor — IBM Corp. has acquired a Web conferencing service provider, it announced as part of a flurry of unified communications moves on Wednesday.IBM will make WebDialogs Inc. part of its Lotus division and add its service to the Sametime family of products …
Jeremy Kirk / InfoWorld:
Firefox ad-blocker extension causes angst — (InfoWorld) - A Web site owner has blocked Firefox users from accessing his site in protest of a popular browser extension that blocks text and display ads. — Firefox users who go to http://jacklewis.net/weblog/ are redirected to Why Firefox is Blocked …
George Ou:
Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail? — A man in London was arrested for using an open Wi-Fi network from someone's unsecured broadband link from a nearby house. Similar arrests have happened in the US and this makes me wonder: Can owning a Wi-Fi Skype phone land you in jail?
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Sony Defeats Truman — This just in from video-game reporting headquarters: Sony may be a consumer electronics giant, but its public relations folks aren't so powerful when it comes to prognostication. — Yesterday, said spinsters made a bold prediction about sales figures for video game consoles that were due out today.
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Dean Takahashi / Mercury News:
Exclusive: What Microsoft's Falcon project is going to mean for when you should buy an Xbox 360 — Falcon is coming your way this fall. The first Xbox 360s with it are probably on ships coming from China. — Readers of this column will know that Falcon is the code name for a board …
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Digging Deeper:: Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions — Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions — If you follow the world of traditional journalism, you can't help but notice the seemingly constant stream of layoffs and buyouts at news organizations.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Interview With Facebook's Joe Hewitt, iPhone God — The Facebook iPhone application was a one-man job. Joe Hewitt joined Facebook when the company he co-founded with Blake Ross, Parakey, was acquired last month. He quickly got to work on the company's iPhone app, which was released just a month after he joined the company.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
SoundExchange drops DRM requirement, webcasters still oppose new deal — Small Internet broadcasters have the opportunity to stay around for another few years if they accept SoundExchange's official offer to pay a discounted royalty rate... with a few caveats.
Cathy B. Almeida / Wired News:
IPhone Tantalizes, Frustrates Criminal Forensics Experts — Technophiles may love the iPhone, but you criminals? Watch out. The iPhone may reveal more about your misdeeds than you realize. — Derrick Donnelly, chief technology officer of Blackbag Technologies, a Silicon Valley-based …
