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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Bombshell: Google and Facebook Join DataPortability.org — The DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks. The group is working on a variety of projects to foster an era of Data Portability …
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Chris / Are You Paying Attention?:
Individuals from Plaxo, Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org Workgroup — We are proud to announce the inclusion of Joseph Smarr (Plaxo), Brad Fitzpatrick (Google) and Benjamin Ling (Facebook) to the DataPortability Workgroup. — Plaxo, Google and Facebook together represent …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Google And Plaxo Join The DataPortability Workgroup — After publishing an invitation to Facebook to join the DataPortability Working Group January 4, we never thought that Facebook would accept it. Today changes everything you've ever thought about social-networking data and lock-in before …
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Christine Wilhelmy / Apple:
Apple Introduces New Mac Pro — Fastest Mac Ever—Eight Processor Cores Standard — Apple® today introduced the new Mac® Pro with eight processor cores and a new system architecture that delivers up to twice the performance of its predecessor*. The new Mac Pro combines two of Intel's …
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Why is Apple Launching New Gear a Week Before Macworld? The Official No-Answer Reads Like a Zen Koan — I had a briefing with Apple on their new Xserve and Mac Pros that were released today, midweek during CES, a week before Macworld 2008. I had only one question for them, and it had nothing to do with hardware specs.
Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
CES: Comcast plans a big, fast future — Roberts gets a little assist from Ryan Seacrest in talking about Comcast's new services — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts became the first cable head to keynote CES and he didn't disappoint. — The leader of the world's largest cable company …
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Zoë Slocum / CNET News.com:
The end of the cable set-top box? Yes, Comcast says — Comcast, the United States' largest cable operator, says the set-top box's days are numbered. — At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday, CEO Brian Roberts predicted in a keynote address that by the end of the year …
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Bloomberg:
Paramount Denies Report It Will Drop Toshiba's HD DVD — Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) — Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures denied a newspaper report that the studio is poised to follow Time Warner Inc. in abandoning Toshiba Corp.'s HD DVD technology. — “Paramount's current plan is to continue …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Lazysphere and the Decline of Deep Blogging — Tech bloggers (and I put myself squarely in this group), I am sorry to report that many of us have become lazy - really lazy. So, with this in mind I offer a challenge: in 2008 let's strap back on our thinking caps and get our blog mojo back.
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Steven Hodson / WinExtra:Stopping the Lazysphere? ... Maybe when Pigs Fly
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Offer to Acquire Fast Search & Transfer — Companies' combined expertise, technology will help businesses capitalize on the power of enterprise search. — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT") today announced that it will make an offer to acquire Fast Search & Transfer ASA …
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Undergraduate programming — From CrossTalk, The Journal of Defense Software Engineering: “It is our view that Computer Science (CS) education is neglecting basic skills, in particular in the areas of programming and formal methods. We consider that the general adoption of Java …
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Nik Fletcher / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rumour: Fox to include iTunes files with DVDs starting 15th Jan — We heard a while back that Apple and the movie studios were in negotiations over movie rentals, and there were mentions of iPod compatible movie files being shipped with DVDs. Of course, to be able to legitimately import DVDs …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Guess What? WSJ May Not Go Free — If there's one written-in-stone consensus among the digerati—SAI's included—it's that the Wall Street Journal Online will soon be free. But guess what? It might not be. — True, Mr. Murdoch's original instinct was to nuke the pay-wall, and there's a lot to be said for that.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Major 700MHz auction player “closed for business” — Only weeks ago, Frontline Wireless was expected to mount a competitive bid for the public/private “D Block” in the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction. While the name may be unfamiliar, the faces behind it are not; backed by a former FCC Chairman …
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Larry Chiang / FoundRead:
9 VCs You're Gonna Want to Avoid — Editor's Note: Fundraising is tough. So more and more of you bootstrap as long as you can. But once you get close to $1 million in revenues, VCs will come calling. That's right: they'll come to you. Cash flow positive startups remain hard to come by.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
CBS Web guru Quincy Smith talks Digg partnership — When CBS Interactive announced on Tuesday that its CBSNews.com property had entered a content partnership with Digg, there wasn't a whole lot of information released other than the fact that election-related headlines from Digg would appear …
Brad Stone / Bits:
AT&T and Other ISPs May Be Getting Ready to Filter — For the past fifteen years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet. — But ISPs may be about to embrace a new metaphor: traffic cop.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google's search juggernaut continues — Google just keeps getting more popular for search. — The latest figures from Hitwise, which monitors search market share, show Google with a record 66 percent share of Web searches in the United States for the month of December 2007.
