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BBC:
'Kill switch' dropped from Vista — Microsoft is to withdraw an anti-piracy tool from Windows Vista, which disables the operating system when invoked, following customer complaints. — The so-called "kill switch" is designed to prevent users with illegal copies of Vista from using certain features.
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Christopher Null, Good Morning Silicon Valley, p2pnet, Gizmodo, dailytechrag.com/news …, TechSpot News and Slashdot
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
With SP1, Microsoft plans to ditch the Vista "kill switch" — The case for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 just got a lot stronger. — When SP1 ships sometime in early 2008, it will strip away one of Vista's most annoying features and remove one of the most persistent objections to Vista's adoption.
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CrunchGear, Engadget, Channel 9, Microsoft News Tracker, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and GottaBeMobile
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Verizon Embraces Google's Android — How Verizon Wireless learned to stop worrying and love open access. Step one: Realizing it's a way to add low-cost customers — In yet another sudden shift, Verizon Wireless plans to support Google's (GOOG) new software platform for cell phones and other mobile devices.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Chat With AIM Users From Gmail — After introducing colored labels earlier this week, Google now seems to be rolling out a web-based client for AOL Instant Messenger chatting as part of Gmail. You will still need an AIM account, as Google Talk and AOL are not joining forces, but Google is merely using the Open AIM framework.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Announces Fastest Growing Search Terms — Yesterday Yahoo announced its top search trends for 2007. Google's list traditionally come later in December (here's last years list), but today VP of Search and User Experience Marissa Mayer revealed the "fastest rising U.S. search terms" on the Today Show.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Technorati Relaunches To Focus On Core Blogging Audience — Technorati has a brand new CEO, and he's been busy in his short time with the company. Today Technorati is relaunching, with a new core focus on bloggers. — Last week I saw a demo of the new products …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia — The Register Desktop Support Seminar . Live & Online 11th December (10am PST) — On the surface, all is well in Wikiland. Just last week, a headline from The San Francisco Chronicle told the world that "Wikipedia's Future Is Still Looking Up," …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple validates 13-inch LED backlight units ahead of ultra-portable — Apple, which in January is expected to take the wraps off its slimmest and sleekest notebook in years, is reported to have placed orders for a new breed of 13.3-inch LED backlight units with production-ready quantities scheduled for delivery this month.
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Rebecca Kuo / DigiTimes:Kenmos and Nano-Op supply LED notebook BLUs to Dell and Apple
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Crave, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, CrunchGear, dailytechrag.com/news …, Macsimum News, Gizmodo, Computerworld Blogs and MacRumors
Nokia:
Nokia World 2007: Nokia outlines its vision of Internet evolution and commitment to environmental sustainability — Amsterdam, The Netherlands - At the annual Nokia World conference today, Nokia outlined its vision for the mobile industry, predicting rapid change driven by the convergence …
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Crave, Gizmodo, Engadget, Gadget Lab, SlashGear, Listening Post, Engadget Mobile, MobHappy, p2pnet, I4U News, dailywireless.org, ringtonia.com, jkOnTheRun, Phone Scoop and Digital Trends
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google's Infrastructure is its Strategic Advantage — Back in the day, when PC stocks were kings on Wall Street, a pesky college kid named Michael Dell figured out that he could do an end run around the then-established PC makers by developing a smarter way of making and selling boxes.
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Gabriel Aldamiz-echevarría / MyStrands Blog:
MyStrands Raises $24 Million to lead the social recommendation industry … We are very excited to announce that MyStrands has secured $24 million in its Series B2 round of funding. Spanish bank BBVA led the funding along with existing investor Debaeque. As you know, the last round …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:Recommendation Engine MyStrands Expands War Chest to $55m to Go Beyond Music
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
LA Times invests in Mixx, integrates social news site — The Los Angeles Times has partnered with Mixx, a social news website, to give readers more input in the news they read. — It has also said it will start using technology from Aggregrate Knowledge, a Silicon Valley company …
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Read/WriteWeb, PR Newswire, 901am, Webomatica, Mashable!, ParisLemon and paidContent.org
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
iPhone browser count rockets past WinMo — I guess people can't be having that hard of a time inputting web addresses on that fiddly keyboard, because the total people browsing with an iPhone has passed up the years-old WinMo for an impressive 0.09 percent of the browser market.
Bloomberg:
Deutsche Telekom Wins Ruling in IPhone Sales Dispute — Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's largest telephone company, can block buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPhone from using the handset on competitors' networks, a German court ruled, overturning an injunction won by Vodafone Group Plc.
Globe and Mail:
Passport applicant finds massive privacy breach — KENYON WALLACE — A security flaw in Passport Canada's website has allowed easy access to the personal information - including social insurance numbers, dates of birth and driver's licence numbers - of people applying for new passports.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bubble 2.0: The Video … How could we not? A perfect link-bait video, and it is pretty funny too (Here Comes Another Bubble): — Sphere It -
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Where the hell is Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook? — It's just totally amazing to me how badly Facebook is handling the PR around its new Beacon system. — This story is NOT going away. Even if this particular story goes away, there's a bad taste in our mouths because Facebook tried to do something that clearly wasn't for the users.
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Techland, PDA, Insider Chatter, PR 2.0, broadstuff, Smalltalk Tidbits … and All Facebook
MSDN Blogs:
Live Search and Cloaking Detection — Since the inception of the Live Search team a few years ago, we've been maniacally focused on one thing: relevance. We use the term relevance to mean that Live Search finds the answer to your question better than any other source …
