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USA Today:
AT&T flings cellphone network wide open — NEW YORK — Starting immediately, AT&T (T) customers can ditch their AT&T phones and use any wireless phone, device and software application from any maker — think smartphones, e-mail and music downloading. And they don't have to sign a contract.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
AT&T claims completely open network, too — "the most open," even! — Who'd have thought the end of 2007 would see US cellphone carrier heavyweights duking it out with PR one-upsmanship to be... open? Seriously, someone pinch us, it's as amazing as it is farcical.
IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 8 — Just as he was the first to talk about IE7, Bill Gates kept the tradition alive and discussed IE8 at the Mix 'n Mash event here on campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8, the same way we do here in the IE team hallway.
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molly.com, Asa Dotzler, ParisLemon, SitePoint Blogs, istartedsomething, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Webware.com and Ajaxian
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:IE team shares ... a version number
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Messages: Small Change, Big Impact. — Dear Facebook: Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. — In August Facebook opened up their messaging system to allow people to add normal email addresses. I wrote a post praising the change, but I specifically asked for more:
Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft to Field Test PC For Developing Countries — Microsoft Corp. said that it will field test an inexpensive laptop PC for developing nations being championed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte. — Microsoft's plans mark a step closer …
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Jamesu / Inside UP:
OLPC in the News (Part 2) — Well, I will be flying out to Cambridge next week for my first meeting with some of the people at the OLPC, and I have to say I am looking forward to it. Some of my UPG co-workers from Microsoft have been meeting with the OLPC team for about a year now …
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Microsoft Watch, ZDNet.com.au, Compiler, BetaNews, CNET News.com and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Chris Gilmer / Download Squad:
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista Preview is live — We broke the news the beginning of this year that Yahoo! was busy preparing a complete rebuild of Messenger made exclusively for Windows Vista users. The ground up rebuild has taken quite a long time (11 months), but it's finally here.
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Yahoo! Messenger Blog:
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista: Preview Release Available! — It's here! It's really here! We're thrilled to bring you the preview version of Yahoo! Messenger for Vista, the first Yahoo! Messenger built from the ground up for the Windows Vista operating system.
BBC:
Facebook founder apology over ads — The founder of social networking site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to users for the way it launched a social advertising system. — Called Beacon, the system tracks web shopping on partner sites outside Facebook and then sells adverts to the social network based on purchases.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Zuckerberg's Mea Culpa, Not Enough
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BoomTown, broadstuff, Darren Herman, Joe Duck, Valleywag, ParisLemon, p2pnet and Between the Lines
Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:Thoughts on Beacon — About a month ago, we released …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
House vote on illegal images sweeps in Wi-Fi, Web sites — The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings—or face fines of up to $300,000.
InfoWorld:
Lenovo will pass Olympic torch to Acer after Beijing — Acer will take over from Lenovo as a sponsor of the Olympic Games after 2008, a move that could help to elevate Acer's profile as a worldwide PC brand. — Acer's sponsorship deal covers the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver …
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Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!:
Twitter is Banned in the United Arab Emirates — You know you've really made it as an online entity when an entire country bans your site. In terms of a rite of passage, its just after the wide-spread adoption and critical mass stages (which of course is followed by random companies banning you …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Major copyright bill boosts penalties, creates new agency — In the aftermath of the $222,000 jury verdict that the Recording Industry Association of America recently won against a Minnesota woman who shared 24 songs on Kazaa, the U.S. Congress is preparing to amend copyright law.
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InfoWorld:
IBM researchers build supercomputer-on-a-chip — San Francisco - Supercomputers may soon be the same size as a laptop if IBM brings to market research detailed on Thursday, in which pulses of light replace electricity to make data transfer between processor cores on a chip up to one-hundred times faster.
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