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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates — Last summer, I looked at Apple's announced plans for its Safari web browser and wondered out loud, Is Steve Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop? Apple's decision last week to begin aggressively pushing Safari …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Safari 3.1 on Windows: a true competitor arrives (seriously) — While pundits have been lamenting the fact that Apple's “software update” program on Windows is now pushing Safari 3.1 to users, we thought we'd check out Safari 3.1 to find out if Apple has made any real progress on the Windows version of this browser.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Security Lapse Leaves Private Photos Exposed, Even Paris and Zuck's — The Associated Press reported this afternoon that its reporters were able to use an undisclosed method to access private photos on Facebook, including some from Paris Hilton at the Emmys and others …
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Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
Post your FriendFeed comments back to Twitter — For you Twitter users: When you are commenting on a Twitter post in FriendFeed, you now have the option of sending your comment as an @reply in Twitter as well: — Happy Tweeting! — Ana said...
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Steven Hodson / WinExtra:FriendFeed changed the conversation landscape today
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Netflix glitch to delay deliveries — Update at 6:15 p.m. PDT to add areas that may likely see delays in delivery. — Update at 7:55 p.m. to reflect that the site has since come back online. — Netflix customers expecting a little red package soon may be disappointed.
David Case / Fast Company:
Dead Man Walking — On the verge of a revival last year, AOL suddenly imploded. The inside story of a journey to nowhere. — In May 2007, nearly six months after he was hired, AOL chief executive Randy Falco gathered his employees together for an “all hands” meeting at the company's Dulles, Virginia, headquarters.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Launch Preferred Application Program — The Facebook Platform, launched in May 2007, has been an unqualified success. Nearly 20,000 applications have been released by third party developers, and it spurred Google to quickly launch a competing platform of its own.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Windows Live teams up with social networks for contact portability — Robert Scoble couldn't do it, but Windows Live can. — Microsoft's Web-app division announced Tuesday that it has partnered with five social networks—LinkedIn, Tagged, Hi5, Bebo, and yes, Facebook—on a new project to facilitate address book portability.
David Recordon / David Recordon's Blog:
Relying on the Big Companies for OpenID? — Last night Mike Arrington of TechCrunch gave me a call wanting to chat a bit about OpenID adoption when it comes to sites you can login to with your OpenID (aka Relying Parties in identity speak). The crux of his question to me was if the big companies …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo: Time to Negotiate with Microsoft? — So, no surprise, according to multiple sources I talked to yesterday, the road show by top Yahoo execs-CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang, President Sue Decker and CFO Blake Jorgensen-to tout the new growth plan the company unveiled last week was not such a hit with shareholders.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Google outlines proposal for ‘Wi-Fi on steroids’ — Google on Monday said it has a plan to have American consumers from Manhattan to rural North Dakota surfing the Web on handheld gadgets at gigabits-per-second speeds by the 2009 holiday season. — The company, joined by other heavyweights …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
With Winamp in mind, Imeem announces developer strategy — Social media service Imeem has announced the Imeem Media Platform, a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) and tools so that outside developers and partners can contribute to the site. The APIs will give developers access …
US Department of Justice:
Statement of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division on its Decision to Close its Investigation of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc.'s Merger with Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. — Evidence Does Not Establish that Combination of Satellite Radio Providers Would Substantially Reduce Competition
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Eric Alterman / New Yorker:
OUT OF PRINT — The death and life of the American newspaper. … The American newspaper has been around for approximately three hundred years. Benjamin Harris's spirited Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick managed just one issue, in 1690, before the Massachusetts authorities closed it down.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mixx's New Feature Aims To Get Breaking News To Home Page Faster Than Digg — Mixx, a Digg-like site that ranks news stories based on reader voting, will launch a new “breaking news” feature later today that should get real news onto the home page very, very fast. More on that below.
Clark Boyd / BBC:
Open and shut — A new book details the extent to which countries across the globe are increasingly censoring online information they find strategically, politically or culturally threatening. — Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering challenges …
