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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
SproutBuilder: You've Got to See This Drag and Drop Widget Maker — SproutBuilder is going to explode the world of widgets on the web. This is far and away my favorite product I've seen at DEMO, not just this year but ever in the three years I've attended.
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Changing Way, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, The Universal Desktop, on AIR and Mashable!
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash — A new application called Sprout, launching in private beta at DEMO today, promises to make the creation of Flash applets a whole lot easier. — Sprout is a browser-based, WYSIWYG editor for Flash with an interface reminiscent of Photoshop or Dreamweaver.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo to Cut 1,000 Jobs, and Warns on Growth — SAN FRANCISCO — After announcing a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profits Tuesday, Yahoo issued a disappointing outlook for this year, suggesting that investors would have to wait until 2009 for a turnaround. — Yahoo also said that as part …
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Robert Hof / Business Week:
Yahoo's Yodel Turns Into a Whimper — Layoffs and a refocusing effort can only do so much. CEO Jerry Yang needs to find exciting new products or services if he hopes to make Yahoo sing again — Getty Images — At the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks ago, Yahoo! (YHOO) …
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Breaking: MySpace Developer Platform Launching on February 5th — MySpace has just announced that they will be launching their developer platform on February 5th. You can pre-register now by going to http://developer.myspace.com (requires login). — Earlier this evening, I spoke with Amit Kapur …
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WebProNews, IDG News Service, Compiler, Epicenter, TECH.BLORGE.com, The Social Times, paidContent.org, VentureBeat, Stay N' Alive, ProgrammableWeb and All Facebook
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek announces Eee family product lines — With Eee PC becoming a focus of the PC market, Asustek Computer has announced it is planning to launch a family of Eee products including: E-DT (desktop PC), E-TV and E-Monitor. All the products while have low-cost as their major selling point …
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Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, Newlaunches.com, eHomeUpgrade, Insanely Great Mac, I4U News, Engadget and GottaBeMobile
Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
WSJ's Web site adds Facebook function — NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal has just accepted Facebook's request to be online friends. — Hoping to tap into the growing buzz of online social networks, the Journal is adding a feature to its Web site that will allow readers to see which Journal stories …
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ParisLemon, CenterNetworks, Investor Relations Blog, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Lost Remote
Andrew Yoon / PSP Fanboy:
Firmware 3.90 now available on Network Update — Ready for Skype? Here it is! Get it by accessing Network Update on your PSP. Here are the official details: — Support for PLAYSTATION Network titles has been expanded. — Skype has been added as a feature under Network.
Larry Dignan / Zero Day:
Mozilla ups unpatched Firefox flaw to ‘high severity’; Preps fix — Mozilla has given a proof of concept Firefox vulnerability a “high severity” rating because an attacker can collect session information such as cookies and history, according to Mozilla security chief Window Snyder.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Six Apart adds activity streams to its blog platform — In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
What's Google Doing on Vista (RED)? … Last week, Microsoft and Dell unveiled three (PRODUCT) RED, or (RED), computers. When people buy one of these computers, the companies donate money to The Global Fund. — Little problem for Microsoft: As part of a previous $1 billion bribe marketing agreement …
Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Apple Prohibits iTunes Movie Rentals on Fifth-Generation and Older iPods — Apple's downloadable videos have played on iPods since the company debuted iTunes movie sales in 2006. But iTunes' new movie rentals won't work on iPods released before September 2007.
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
And you thought Google Street View was creepy before — In this video, Google Street View gets even more invasive. Call it improving geolocated search. Boo!
Christina Mackenzie / Agence France Presse:
French police deal blow to Microsoft — The move completes the gendarmerie's severance from Microsoft which began in 2005 when it moved to open sourcing for office applications such as word processing. It switched to open source Internet browsers in 2006.
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Have Facebook Apps Peaked in Popularity? — There appears to be evidence that Facebook users are beginning to suffer from app fatigue, and there is growing discontent about how applications are being distributed and about the amount of noise that the application platform has introduced into the Facebook ecosystem.
