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Windows Live Dev:
Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks to Put Users at the Center of their Data — Hey folks, John Richards here, Director of Windows Live Platform. — Today Microsoft is announcing some significant developments to the Windows Live platform that demonstrate Microsoft's commitment …
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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.
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Security Lapse Exposes Facebook Photos — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A security lapse made it possible for unwelcome strangers to peruse personal photos posted on Facebook Inc.'s popular online hangout, circumventing a recent upgrade to the Web site's privacy controls.
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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 …
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.
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.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Is DoubleClick a profit margin killer for Google? — Google has its display advertising beachhead with its acquisition of DoubleClick, but now the real fun begins: The integration and the profit margin risk. — In a research note Tuesday, UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter cut his earnings …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
SonyBMG CEO Says Company Plans Subscription Music Service — Look at us, we're planning one too... SonyBMG wants to get into the subscription music game. CEO Rolf Schmidt-Holtz told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, summarized by Reuters, that his company has such a service in the works …
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BBC:
Google backs ‘white space’ wi-fi — Google is pressing the US government to allow the unlicensed frequencies of TV “white space” to be used for wi-fi. — The firm has written an open letter to regulators saying the US spectrum was a “once in a lifetime opportunity”.
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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.
Simon Avery / Globe and Mail:
Patriot Act haunts Google service — Google Inc. is a year into its ground-shifting strategy to change the way people communicate and work. — But the initiative to reinvent the way that people use software is running headlong into another new phenomenon of the information technology age …
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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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel updates low power server chips — Intel on Tuesday announced two 50 watt server processors that can reach the 2.5 GHz mark. — The quad-core Intel Xeon Processor L5400 Series-there's a mouthful-are 45 nanometer chips with cores that run at 12.5 watts each.
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.
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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...
