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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To "Out Open" Facebook On November 5 — Yesterday a select group of fifteen or so industry luminaries attended a highly confidential meeting at Google's headquarters in Mountain View to discuss the company's upcoming plans to address the "Facebook issue."
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Google to Envelope All Knowledge on November 5th, 2007 — Michael Arrington has convinced several high level sources to disclose discussion at a top secret Google meeting where the company discussed plans to release on November 5th a new set of APIs. Those APIs will make access to the data …
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Google plans new undersea "Unity" cable across Pacific — Google is planning a multi-terabit undersea communications cable across the Pacific Ocean for launch in 2009, Communications Day has learned. — The Unity cable has been under development for several months, with a group of carriers …
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Bkp / The Pirate Bay:
TPB files charges against media companies — Thanks to the email-leakage from MediaDefender-Defenders we now have proof of the things we've been suspecting for a long time; the big record and movie labels are paying professional hackers, saboteurs and ddosers to destroy our trackers.
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Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
PirateBay Fires a Broadside of Complaints to Police — A blog post on the site by administrator brokep states that they have been going through the emails from the recent MediaDefender leak, and have obtained proof, from them, that they are being targeted by several companies.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
The XP alternative for Vista PCs — update While Microsoft is still pushing Vista hard, the company is quietly allowing PC makers to offer a "downgrade" option to buyers that get machines with the new operating system but want to switch to Windows XP. — The program applies …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Internet Celebrity Doesn't Translate: Amanda Congdon Let Go By ABC — Amanda Congdon, best known as the original host of Rocketboom, has been let go by ABCNews.com. — ABCNews.com said in a statement: … During her time at ABCNews.com Congdon did a number of projects, including …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook's Impact on the Widget Economy — Last night I attended a technology event, Refresh DC. Refresh DC provides local companies with the opportunity to speak for an hour about a topic of their choice. Last night's event was sponsored by Clearspring and the topic of discussion was widgets.
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Citigroup Customer Data Leaked on LimeWire — Citgroup has confirmed that it's investigating a data breach involving the names, Social Security numbers and credit information of 5,208 customers leaked by an employee of its ABN Amro Mortgage Group unit onto the LimeWire peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
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PR Newswire:
DEMOfall 07 Conference Releases List of Participating Demonstrators — DEMOfall 07 Logo. Event produced by Network World Events & Executive Forums. (PRNewsFoto/NETWORK WORLD EVENTS) — SOUTHBOROUGH, MA UNITED STATES — 69 Innovations to Debut at Conference
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comScore:
comScore Releases August U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. Among core search engines in August 2007, Google Sites remained the top search property …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Google Shares Hit All Time High
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
David Haskin / Computerworld:
Usability test: Does iPhone match the hype? — Users try out the iPhone, HTC Touch and the Nokia N95 — We all know that in the technology world, the hype about new products often doesn't match reality. So it's fair to ask: Is the iPhone as good as its hype?
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Open Source Is the Big Disruptor — Continued acceptance will drive down prices and force proprietary software vendors to change their business model. — Gartner declared open-source software the biggest disruptor the software industry has ever seen and postulated it will eventually result …
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The Open Road
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
How to avoid sounding like an monkey — A few weeks ago a well-respected developer wrote a blog post about something he called the "social graph." A graph, to most people, is a diagram like the one on the right, which plots the value of a stock over time. For 99.99 percent of the people this is what a graph is.
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The Social Customer Manifesto
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Blaupunkt dumps CDs in new car stereo — It was bound to happen eventually and, in fact, it's surprising that we haven't seen this sooner. — Blaupunkt's "Melbourne SD27" is the first car stereo that shuns CDs, according to SCI FI Tech, instead playing MP3 and WMA files with a front-loading SD card.
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Copier translates languages on the fly — OK, so maybe wood engraving isn't exactly the kind of advancement in desktop printers that we've all been waiting for. This one is esoteric as well, but there are probably a few more people who will find it a bit more useful: It translates while making copies.
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Clicks That Count — Depending on whom you ask, click fraud is either an unsolvable quagmire threatening the online ad industry or, as Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said last year, "immaterial." — That disconnect is growing. According to a July report from the click-fraud auditing …
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