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Larry Larsen / Channel 10:
First Look: Internet Explorer 8 — Surprise! IE8 beta is going to be available for download starting today at 12:00 PST. Matthew Lapsen from the IE team gave me a spur of the moment demo for you all showing us some of the core features that power users will enjoy.
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Joshua Allen / MIX Online:
FIRST LOOK AT IE8 ACTIVITIES AND WEBSLICES — Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8. Watch Jane Kim explain how these features bring the power of mashups to the browser, and how you can tie your web site or service into IE8's chrome using only web standards and no custom C++ code.
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DailyTech, InfoWorld, Digital Daily, Threads watched, Jon Udell, Compiler, jkOnTheRun, Neowin.net, Dave Naylor a UK SEO and GottaBeMobile
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived — Microsoft's next-generation web browser, Internet Explorer 8, has arrived. In a surprising move, after the demo of IE8 and its new features at today's session of the MIX08 conference, the startling announcement was made: “It's available for download now”.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:Internet Explorer 8 features uncovered, public beta coming today?
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Microsoft Watch, eWEEK.com, LiveSide, TechSpot News, The Boy Genius Report, Mashable!, AppScout and TechBlog
CNN:
Adobe's Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says — SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)- Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) popular media player for cellphones simply isn't good enough for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday in the most substantive comments …
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Between the Lines, TechCrunch, People Over Process, iPhone Central, Tech Tracks, Gizmodo, Addicted to Digital Media, Silicon Alley Insider, InformationWeek Weblog, TechBlog, GottaBeMobile, The iPhone Blog, Gadgetell, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, NewTeeVee, Guardian Unlimited, Digital Daily, The Boy Genius Report, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Life On the Wicked Stage, Insanely Great Mac, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, mocoNews.net and One More Thing
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Charles Cooper / CNET News.com:
Adobe bites its tongue after iPhone Flash jab — Was Steve Jobs trying to send an unofficial message to Adobe Systems? Something on the order of “get it in gear, guys, if you want to stay on my VIP list”? — As my colleague Tom Krazit reported Tuesday afternoon, Jobs used …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Mix Keynote One, Live From Las Vegas — 11:56: That's a rap. the rumors were wrong, yet still some very impressive demonstrations and info provided. To be fair I'm not sure it needed 2 1/2 hours, but still, some interesting tech. — 11:54: Weatherbug says that they tried doing …
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The Universal Desktop, CNET News.com, InfoWorld, eWeek, Platform Wars, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Microsoft Watch, MIX Online, BetaNews, Tech Tracks and Mike Stopforth
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Microsoft Silverlight content:
Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Now Available! — Take advantage of all the new features in Silverlight 2 that make building RIA applications with your existing .NET programming skills a breeze. Start by installing the Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008 which includes the Silverlight...
InfoWorld:
Ozzie: Microsoft needs Yahoo for Web, advertising plan — Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie attempted to clarify Microsoft's Web-based advertising and services strategy and lay a case for why buying Yahoo is integral to that plan on Wednesday. — In his keynote at the MIX 08 conference …
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TechCrunch, Business Technology, Good Morning Silicon Valley, CNET News.com, The Register and All about Microsoft
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Ziff Davis Planning To File For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection — Ziff Davis, the troubled trade media company which sold off its enterprise division last year, is now close to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, we have learned.
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Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Allegations swirl around Wikipedia's Wales — Jimmy Wales, the Internet whiz famous for creating the online, user-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, is facing allegations on two fronts that he abused the trust of the community he helped build. — Former Wikipedia employee Danny Wool is alleging …
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Web 2.0 VC to start-ups: Your income is “noise” — Maybe two years ago, I hosted a panel discussion on the emerging Web 2.0 economy, and I asked my panelists if we were in a bubble. Because it's clear to me that we are. Not that it's a bad thing, mind you.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Synchronize Google Calendar With Outlook — Google Calendar Sync is a new Google tool synchronizing your Google Calendar with MS Outlook. You can adjust the synchronization frequency, Google says, as well as the direction of information flow. Only syncing with your primary Google Calendar is supported for now.
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Financial Times:
Facebook asks labels about music service — By Joshua Chaffin in New York and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Facebook is approaching big record companies about creating a music service on the social networking site, according to several people familiar with the matter.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's “Twitter For Location” Goes Into Private Beta With Near Zero Functionality — I have big hopes for Yahoo's new FireEagle platform announced in November 2007. They first described it to me as a Twitter for location. And it does stream your location information in a similar way that Twitter streams short messages.
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Webware.com, VentureBeat, Search Engine Watch Blog, GigaOM, tecosystems, Jeremy Zawodny's blog and Ajaxian
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
Swiss bank in Wikileaks case abruptly abandons lawsuit — A Swiss bank that successfully sued to yank the Wikileaks.org domain name, and then faced a severe setback in a subsequent court ruling, has given up for now. — Bank Julius Baer filed a brief note with a court in San Francisco Wednesday saying …
Waxy.org:
New Video Overtakes “Evolution of Dance” for #1 Spot on YouTube — Yesterday, YouTube refreshed their leaderboards and a strange new video became the Most Viewed Video of All-Time, topping the world-famous Evolution of Dance video. With 89 million views, the new winner is a fan-made music video.
Jonathan Cassell / iSuppli:
Dell and Apple Make Gains in Q4 PC Market — The fourth quarter of 2007 was a strong period for the top-tier U.S. PC brands, with Hewlett-Packard Co. continuing to pad its dominance in the global market, Dell Inc. showing signs of a resurgence and Apple Inc. coming on strong, according to iSuppli Corp.
