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Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta — Now is the time and the time is now: let's talk about Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Much has been made of what will or will not be included in SP1 and when it will be released (some accurate, some otherwise).
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Brandon LeBlanc / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta White Paper — Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta Whitepaper — Introduction — When developing Windows Vista, Microsoft set out to provide higher levels of productivity, mobility, and security, with lower costs. After more than six months …
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Ryan Naraine's Zero Day, Ars Technica, WinBeta, CyberNet Technology News, Windows Connected and Digital Trends
WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
WINDOWS SERVER 2008 TIMING UPDATE — With over 300,000 downloads of Beta 3 already under our belt, there is a lot of excitement here in Redmond as we get closer to our release candidate milestone for Windows Server 2008. Customers and partners are very impressed with what they see …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
The shroud of secrecy is lifted: Vista SP1 beta due in two weeks — After almost a year of hemming and hawing over how and when to acknowledge publicly its plans for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, Microsoft finally went public on August 29 with its official schedule and feature set for the awaited update.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia's iPhone — no, seriously — Oh come on, what the hell is that? A Nokia branded iPhone? It was presented during Nokia's GoPlay event this morning as a glimpse of what's coming with Nokia interface design. Oh, and it's due out next year. When pressed during the Q …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Nokia Goes Web2ish, Launches 4 New Phones, Services
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Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
NewCo finally gets a name: Hulu — News Corp. and NBC Universal have finally announced the name for their much talked about NewCo online video effort: Hulu. CEO Jason Kilar explains the reasons why they picked the name. … The company is going to go into a private beta in October 2007[8].
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Reuters:
News Corp and NBC Universal name video site Hulu — NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp. and NBC Universal said on Wednesday they have named their new online video joint venture Hulu, taking a page from the Internet company tradition of creating meaningless corporate monikers.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Breaking: News Corp. and NBC Universal Unveil Official Name for Online Video Venture — This just in... the un-named online video venture from News Corp. and NBC Universal now has a name: Hulu. Details are just coming in but here is the release: — News Corp. and NBC Universal today announced that …
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The Technology Chronicles, BetaNews, Valleywag, TechSpot News, Mashable! and Contentinople
AppleInsider:
Apple confirms "Special Event" on September 5th — Apple Inc. will use a special media event on September 5th to introduce a new array of digital media offerings, according to digital invitations issued to analysts and members of the media Tuesday afternoon.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Speculation: The Beatles on iTunes Sept. 5
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Valleywag:
Rumormonger: Yahoo sales chief may be out of the picture — On AllThingsD, Kara Swisher has the scoop on some minor personnel moves at Yahoo. But surprisingly, the reporter who's normally so plugged into the mess at Yahoo may have missed the big news. One tipster claims that Gregory Coleman …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo No-Sacred-Cow Vision Quest, Day 43: The Reorganization? — Is Yahoo headed for yet another corporate reorganization? — As many of these as the Internet giant has had over the last year, another could not come soon enough. — Yahoo ranks are clearly becoming more restless …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Patch service shuts after Microsoft request — AutoPatcher, a four-year-old project to distribute Microsoft patches and other updates to software that runs on Windows, has shut down because of a Microsoft request. — "Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate takedown …
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
The Next iPod — Don't even think about buying an iPod between now and Sept. 5. Apple has invited the press to a "special event" next week in San Francisco. And as usual, Apple won't say what it plans to announce. Or much of anything. — But it doesn't take one of Hewlett-Packard's …
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Hadley Stern / Apple Matters:
The Coming Leopard Letdown — John Gruber has branched out from his usually excellent blog, Daring Fireball and has started writing for Macworld. I say good for him (yes, I'm a little jealous, I always thought my words would be good there!). Although I hope the contract doesn't include doing nothing but heaping praise on Apple.
Facebook Developers News Feed:
A Shift to Engagement. — As we indicated earlier, today we are introducing new guidelines that will change how applications are ranked in the application directory. Currently, the focus is on total number of users, but going forward it will be based on user engagement.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Facebook implements better attention measurement
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Blaine Harden / Washington Post:
Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future — TOKYO — Americans invented the Internet, but the Japanese are running away with it. — Broadband service here is eight to 30 times as fast as in the United States — and considerably cheaper. Japan has the world's fastest Internet connections …
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dslreports.com, Susan Crawford blog, Napsterization, michael parekh on IT, Concurring Opinions and Lost Remote
Carolyn Feibel / Houston Chronicle:
EarthLink owes Houston $5 million for Wi-Fi delay — EarthLink will pay Houston a $5 million penalty, an acknowledgment that the Internet service provider will not meet its first deadline for building a wireless network throughout the city, Mayor Bill White announced this morning.
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Robin Linden / Official Linden Blog:
Identity Verification Comes to Second Life — Trust is the foundation of any community. And one cornerstone of trust is identity. You've got to know something about the person you are dealing with before you can trust them. Knowing who to trust in an online environment presents unique challenges.
David Lazarus / Los Angeles Times:
Time of day calling it quits at AT&T — It's the end of time, at least as far as AT&T is concerned. — The brief note in customers' bills hardly does justice to the momentousness of the decision. "Service withdrawal," it blandly declares. "Effective September 2007, Time of Day information service will be discontinued."
