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Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability — New interoperability principles and actions will increase openness of key products. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices …
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Port 25:
See Change — I have always been a fan of Tim O'Reilly's phrase the “architecture of participation” to describe “systems designed for user contribution.” I liked it so much that at last year's OSCON I made this concept the focal point of a discussion about how Microsoft's products, programs …
Red Hat:
Red Hat Statement on Microsoft Announcement — Eight years ago the U.S. regulatory authorities, and four years ago the European regulators made clear to Microsoft that its refusal to disclose interface information for its monopoly software products violates the law.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Red Hat Sends C&D to DataPortability.org...Over Its Logo — Open source giant Red Hat sent a Cease and Desist letter to the DataPortability.org group today, the group says, demanding the removal of the DP logo from the group's website. — Red Hat alleges that the infinity sign …
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CenterNetworks
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft pledges (yet again) that it wants to be interoperable
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LinuxWorld.com, CNET News.com, Web Worker Daily, Tech Tracks, Electronista, The Open Road, eWeek, Download Squad and 451 CAOS Theory
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Disk encryption: Can you trust it? — Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. — In a paper (PDF) published Thursday that could prompt …
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Security boffins unveil UnBitLocker — BitLocker, meet UnBitLocker. — Word arrives from The Electronic Frontier Foundation that a crack team of researchers - including the Foundation's own Seth Schoen - have discovered a gaping security flaw in everyday disk encryption technologies …
Associated Press:
Google founder spooked by Microsoft's Yahoo bid — Speaking after a Google press event, Sergey Brin calls the possibility of a Yahoo takeover ‘unnerving.’ — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin called Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. an “unnerving” …
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Windows Live SkyDrive Team Blog:
Welcome to the bigger, better, faster SkyDrive! — We know it's been mighty quiet on the SkyDrive blog, but we've been hard at work on a new version that we're proud to announce today! — You've made two things clear since our first release: You want more space; and you want SkyDrive where you are.
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
TechCrunch, Peaking, Etc. — A lot of people write a lot of stuff that's pretty negative about TechCrunch. Since I don't actually do an ego monitor, we miss most of it. But every once in a while something bubbles up and I see it. Usually I don't respond because it just encourages more of the same.
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TechCrunch UK, Deep Jive Interests, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, broadstuff and Furrier.org
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Chumby Is Open, but Not for Business — I find Chumby fascinating for a lot of reasons. Meant to replace a clock radio, it is a $179 device with a Wi-Fi connection, a 3.5 inch touch screen and a squishy leather case. It displays various widgets with information pulled off the Internet …
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Apple patent seeks to marry TiVo, podcasts, and iTunes Store — A new patent filed by Apple is raising speculation over what may be in store for the future of podcasting. Podcasting began maturing quickly on its own a few years ago, but Apple's embracing of the grassroots movement by giving …
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Maritz joins EMC, to battle Microsoft in the cloud — Microsoft's cloud computing efforts have a formidable and familiar new competitor. — Paul Maritz, the former Microsoft platform boss, is becoming president of EMC's cloud computing initiative, which competes directly with Microsoft.
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AppleInsider:
Mega Apple filing details next-gen ‘multi-touch input surface’ — The latest patent filing from Apple Inc. hints at a next-generation multi-touch ‘surface’ that would combine typing, pointing, scrolling, and handwriting capabilities into a single ergonomic design aimed at replacing traditional input devices …
Electronista:
Art Lebedev ships first Maximus OLED keyboards... Art Lebedev Studio today announced that it had at last begun shipping the Optimus Maximus. The anticipated keyboard builds OLED displays into the keys that can change depending on the context; Photoshop can replace normal letter keys with editing icons, for example.
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Knowledge@Wharton:
Steve Wozniak on Apple, Steve Jobs and the Value of a Good Prank — Steve Wozniak, or “Woz” as he is commonly called, is best known for co-founding Apple along with high school friend Steve Jobs. But Wozniak didn't set out to establish one of the world's most influential computer companies.
Darren Waters / BBC:
Virtuality and reality ‘to merge’ — Technology editor, BBC News website, in San Francisco — Computers the size of blood cells will create fully immersive virtual realities by 2033, leading inventor Ray Kurzweil has predicted. — Exponential growth in processing power and the shrinking …
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Joe Duck
Jason Hiner / Tech Sanity Check:
Sprint will make WiMAX an open platform with an SDK and open APIs — From its conception, WiMAX has been engineered to be an open platform for mobile broadband Internet. When you talk to any of the executives and business professionals from the big vendors in the WiMAX ecosystem …
