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Microsoft:
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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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft Announces Plans To Improve Interoperability — There was a nice buzz in the blogosphere this morning about a mysterious press conference Microsoft (MSFT) is holding in a few minutes; the company at first said only that the announcement would have nothing to do with the pending takeover bid for Yahoo (YHOO).
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Electronista:
Microsoft preps mystery “significant” news... Microsoft will make a “significant company announcement” within hours, the firm announced today. Without providing details, the software developer notes that it will hold a mid-day conference and makes clear that the news is unrelated to its attempted acquisition of Yahoo.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:LIVE Coverage: Microsoft Call Regarding...Interoperability …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Microsoft tries to appease EU by sharing secrets
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IDG News Service
Matt Asay / The Open Road:Let's be clear: Microsoft's pledge is not a blanket covenant not to sue
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft pledges (yet again) that it wants to be interoperable
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Associated Press:
Google ventures into health records biz — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
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Steve Lohr / Bits:
Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic — For 18 months, Google has been working to come up with a product offering and a strategy in the promising field of consumer health information. Until now, the search giant hasn't had anything to show for its labors other than bumps along the way …
Alan Newberger / Official Google Blog:A pilot with the Cleveland Clinic for health information access
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Inside AdSense:
Fueling creativity in online video - with AdSense for video beta — We know that publishers are quickly adding video to their sites and looking for ways to earn additional revenue. If this sounds like you, look no further than AdSense for video, our solution for qualifying publishers.
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Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain — THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination — pasty, geeky, male — has failed to live up to his reputation. — Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Price May Be Steep, But Thin ThinkPad Has Abundant Features — I am writing these words on a new laptop computer that packs a full-size screen and keyboard into a body that's quite thin and light. And it has a solid-state drive with no moving parts instead of a hard disk.
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Billboard:
Linkin Park Rocks Apple Store At Secret Show — Linkin Park rocked a crowd of contest winners and industry personnel just after midnight Thursday (Feb. 21) at the Apple Store in New York's Soho neighborhood, in what served as an intimate warm-up for a show tonight at the city's Madison Square Garden.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Facebook Moves to Curtail Application Spam: What Took So Long? — One of the biggest problems with the Facebook user experience today is the amount of spam from applications that are trying to leverage its social networks to “grow virally”. For this reason, it is unsurprising to read …
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Paul C. Jeffries / Facebook Blog:Application Spam — Recently, a lot of people have been frustrated …
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Adobe is pushing DRM into Flash — The Electronic Frontier Foundation has posted a story that says Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash, and obviously they're against it. The story says: … The DMCA bans tools that help “circumvent” any DRM system (as well as the act of circumvention) so this could stop people remixing them.
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Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Analysts do the happy dance about iPod shuffle price cut — Analyst coverage of Apple has been particularly busy since last month's Macworld Expo. Last week, the reports focused on the MacBook Air and the demand (or lack thereof) for the product. Following a price cut and the announcement …
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Facebook sees first dip in UK users — Facebook has suffered its first fall in UK users, with a 5% drop between December and January, according to new figures. — However, Facebook still had 8.5 million unique users in January and remains the most popular social networking website in the UK …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Ask.com Binoculars Adds Compete.com Stats — Ask.com has announced that they have added site statistics from Compete.com to the binoculars feature in the search results. Now, instead of just getting a site preview, you also get estimated visitor stats, site rank, a line chart to plot …
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Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
2008 + The TechCrunch Effect — Admit it. You're getting just a wee bit tired of TechCrunch. Erick's posts are usually pretty cool, and TC UK is interesting. But otherwise...between Mike, Duncan, etc, it's a bit like mistakenly walking into a room filled with screaming harpies.
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
The hands-free way to steal a credit card — WASHINGTON D.C.—Adam Laurie, an RFID security expert, used the Black Hat DC 2008 conference here, to demonstrate a new Python script he's working on to read the contents of smart-chip-enabled credit cards. — As part of his presentation Wednesday …
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Why is Microsoft dancing with Danger? — Analysis The world may have missed it in the fuss over the Yahoo! bid, but last week Microsoft announced it had agreed to acquire Danger Inc, for a reported $500m. The purchase is indicative of Microsoft's aspirations as a provider of back-end services …
