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Wall Street Journal:
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data — Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company's competition with Microsoft Corp.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
As Google readies "GDrive", will Microsoft lead, or follow? — Some seemingly non-news coming out of the Wall Street Journal tonight, saying that Google is readying their online storage product, commonly referred to as GDrive. The Journal doesn't offer any really new information, saying only in the publicly accessible copy:
Loretta Chao / Wall Street Journal:
IAC/InterActive Plans China Push — BEIJING — IAC/InterActiveCorp plans to spend $100 million on a new Internet business in China and will bring its search engine, Ask.com, to the fast-moving market as well. — The new company, which could be launched as soon as within a year …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Do Facebook users care about "privacy issues?" What about Doubleclick? — Political groups are successful through mastering a public debate no matter what ideology they espouse, and regardless of what the issues actually are. — MoveOn.org is a good example.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Some Thoughts on the Facebook Beacon — Recently I've read a number of negative posts about the Facebook Beacon which highlight how easy it is for a company to completely misjudge the privacy implications and ramifications of certain features in social software applications.
Nick / Rough Type:
Understanding Google — Any understanding of Google as a business has to begin, I'm convinced, in the idea of complementary goods. In The Google Enigma, an article in the new issue of Strategy & Business, I argue that the wide scope of Google's interest and activity is a natural …
Cory Doctorow / InformationWeek:
How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you're looking to avoid. — Facebook's "platform" strategy has sparked much online debate and controversy.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC, Channel 4 and ITV to launch joint video-on-demand service — BBC Worldwide, Channel 4 and ITV are to launch a video-on-demand service offering more than 10,000 hours of TV programming. — The project has a working title Kangaroo as first revealed by MediaGuardian in June.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:BBC, ITV, Channel 4 to launch joint on-demand web TV
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Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
IBM Slips in Latest Gartner Server Study — While it still leads in revenue, IBM's shipments were down in the third quarter of 2007 compared with last year. — While IBM still dominates the worldwide server market when its comes to revenue, Big Blue's system shipments fell in the third quarter …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screenshots And Details On Upcoming MySpace "News Feeds" — A Reuters article earlier today gave a few details on MySpace's upcoming "new feeds" product (which is what Facebook calls their similar product launched a year ago. We spoke to MySpace and got a much deeper look at the product, as well as screenshots of how it will look.
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Online investigations into job candidates could be illegal — Companies could be infringing privacy if they dig up information about job applicants from social networking websites, an internet expert has warned. — John Carr, chairman of the UK Children's Charities' Coalition on Internet Safety …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple acknowledges some MacBook hard drive problems — Apple is investigating whether or not faulty Seagate hard drives are to blame for data loss on some MacBooks. — Retrodata, a U.K. data recovery firm, reported earlier this year that certain 2.5-inch Seagate drives used in MacBooks …
John Leyden / The Register:
Webroot taps UK-based email filtering firm — Watch online now - The findings of The Register's Virtualization Study — Anti-spyware firm Webroot has announced a deal to merge with UK-based security as a service firm Email Systems. Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were not publically disclosed.
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Gordon Haff / CNET News.com:
Does the Noncommercial Creative Commons license make sense? — Back when I was writing software for PCs, it was pretty common to see licenses offering some program free "for noncommercial use" or some similar wording. The basic idea was that if you got people using some application at home …
Stephanie Kang / Wall Street Journal:
Fine-Tuning Cable Audiences — Software Monitors — Favored Viewers, — Shifts Commercials — When real-estate company RE/MAX International advertises with local cable operators, it typically asks them to air its commercials during home-improvement shows like A&E's "Flip This House" and HGTV's "House Hunters."
