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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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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
AT&T Does Nothing, Convinces Reporter It Has Now 'Opened' Its Network — When Verizon Wireless announced last month its plans to "open" its network some people noticed very quickly that what Verizon Wireless was announcing didn't sound any different from what GSM operators, like AT&T and T-Mobile already had.
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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.
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:
Nancy Gohring / PC World:
Microsoft to Try Windows XP Out on OLPC in January — Microsoft field trials of Windows XP running on the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop will take place next month. — Recommend this story? — Microsoft said it plans to conduct field trials in January of Windows XP running on the One Laptop Per Child XO laptop.
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Electronista:
iPhone 1.1.3 to bring voice capture, disk mode? — Apple may be preparing a significant update for the iPhone as early as this weekend that will have some heavily requested features, according to a claim from CNET France. The site points to multiple reports that a 1.1.3 upgrade for the iPhone …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Microsoft releases final version of HD Photo plug-in for Photoshop — Microsoft has taken the beta tag off a plug-in to let Photoshop read and write files in the HD Photo format, which Microsoft is standardizing as JPEG XR. — The free plug-in is available for download for Windows and Mac OS X systems.
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Paul Mah / One Microsoft Way:
Next version of IE is IE8 — Well, its official. The next version of IE will be, well, IE8. In fact, Bill Gates himself was heard calling it IE8 at Microsoft's Mix 'n Mash event over at the Redmond campus. — Perhaps you won't be so sarcastic if you looked at the list of names actually considered …
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.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Mobile Updater for Blackberry — Google Mobile Updater. What could that be? After all, Google doesn't have too many mobile apps. Maybe there's some connection with the desktop updater included in Google Pack. Let's see. — "Google Mobile Updater is a free download …
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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
OAuth 1.0, OpenID 2.0 and up next: DiSo — IIW 2007b is now over and with its conclusion, we have two significant accomplishments, both the sum of months of hard work by some very dedicated individuals, in the release of the OpenID 2.0 and OAuth Core 1.0 specifications.
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Kevin Allison / Financial Times:
Apple's rising popularity lures hackers — After years of relative safety, the Apple Mac is becoming an increasingly tempting target for malicious computer hackers, according to a new report published this week. — Security researchers have been aware of the threat to Apple since last year …
J.A. Watson / ZDNet:
Skype - Is 10,000 Page Faults per Second normal? — I am writing this as a follow-up to yesterday's Tech Talk about Skype. I mentioned this issue then, and I have received a number of requests for additional information about it. There have been some new developments today, as well.
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.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Small New Features Make Gmail Better — It seems that Gmail 2.0 is all about small new features. There may be small, but you'll find plenty of minor updates and there are more to come. — Contact tooltips — The tooltip that showed up when you hovered over the name of a contact …
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple sub-notebook to retail for $1500, 3G iPhone by June - report — In a just-aired broadcast on CNBC, the network's Jim Goldman reported that a source close to Apple's manufacturing facilities has confirmed that the company will launch its much rumored sub-notebook at Macworld in January …
Chris Kanaracus / PC World:
SourceForge Opens Online Marketplace — SourceForge.net now has a marketplace, where users can offer support services. — Recommend this story? — SourceForge Inc.'s open-source, project-hosting Web site now has an eBay-like marketplace, where users can offer support services for sale.
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Dell to sell PCs at Best Buy — Beginning in the next few weeks, Dell notebooks and desktops will be for sale at Best Buy, the companies announced Thursday. — Several models of XPS and Inspiron PCs will be available at 900 Best Buy locations, including the XPS M1330 in white …
Peter Cohen / PC World:
LaCie Unveils Designer Hard Drive — LaCie has introduced a new external hard drive designed by industrial designer Neil Poulton. — Recommend this story? — LaCie on Wednesday introduced the Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton. It's an external hard disk with USB 2. connectivity …
