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Matt / WordPress:
WordPress 2.6 — I'm happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post …
YouTube Blog:
The Law and Your Privacy: An Update — As we let you know on July 4, YouTube received a court order to produce viewing history data. We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for all users' viewing histories and we will not be providing that information.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google/Viacom Agree To Preserve User Anonymity In Data Shakedown — The Google-Viacom showdown over the handover of YouTube user data appears to be over. The two sides agreed to changes in a previous ruling that would have required Google to hand over user id's, IP addresses and a list …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Carl Icahn Screwed Up a Perfectly Good Search Deal — A source close to Yahoo, a source close to Microsoft, and Carl Icahn disagree about a critical part of the search proposal that Yahoo rejected over the weekend: whether or not it required that Carl Icahn be given control of Yahoo.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
From the Inside, Jerry Yang Looks Out for Yahoo — “Do you let the fox in the henhouse?” — So asked Jerry Yang, Yahoo's co-founder and chief executive, as we chatted for more than an hour one afternoon last week at Allen & Company's annual conference here.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Sets the Record Straight — On July 12, Yahoo! Inc. released a statement relating to recent discussions involving Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Carl Icahn. Microsoft believes the statement contains inaccuracies that need to be corrected. — On the evening of July 12, Yahoo! …
Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
Intel Releases Centrino 2 Mobile Platform — The Intel Centrino 2 mobile platform for laptops is the chip maker's fifth platform for notebooks. The Intel Centrino 2 mobile platform offers the company's latest 45-nanometer processors, new wireless technology and enhanced graphics.
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Electronista, Silicon Valley Watcher, Inquirer, Gizmodo, Social Media, Sidecut Reports, TG Daily, techblog.dallasnews.com and GottaBeMobile
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Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:Intel Unveils New Centrino Chip Technology
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PR Newswire:
Microsoft and Netflix Unveil Partnership to Instantly Stream Movies and TV Episodes to the TV via Xbox LIVE — Exclusive agreement creates game-changing home entertainment experience; more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes will be available to watch instantly at no additional cost to paying subscribers.
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Salesforce.com pulls plug on Sun's flagship Unix servers — Exclusive Salesforce.com is chucking out the last of it Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire servers this week, ending one of Sun's most bragged about relationships. — The software-as-a-service (SaaS) pioneer told The Reg …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:Salesforce Ditches Remainder of Sun Hardware
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Tear down the broadcast towers — My most striking realization since getting my iPhone (love it, thanks for asking) is that radio is doomed. Pandora is a wonder, creating my own radio station, live and on the fly without need for a broadcast tower. CBS is streaming all its stations …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunchIT:
Security Exploits Move To Microprocessor Bugs — At the upcoming HackInTheBox conference in Malaysia, security researcher Kris Kaspersky will demonstrate how bugs in microprocessors can be exploited to take control of local machines and servers. Commonly security holes have involved exploiting flaws …
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Google's Retention Problem? — I had someone recently tell me that they were seeing more and Google people exiting the company after shorter periods of time. Assuming that's true, and it is anecdotal empiricism, has it gotten that much worse to work at Google, given its size, or is something else going on?
Cade Metz / The Register:
Google plays Hide and Seek with Android SDK — How to lose friends and alienate developers — Google's strict code of secrecy may work fine for protecting its internal operations. But the company isn't ingratiating itself to software developers by keeping major updates …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Way to Save Internet Video — There is a lot of money being spent trying to turn internet video into something its not. Its not TV. It's certainly not going to be HDTV. What is shocking about the entire attempt to turn the internet into a tv/HDTV distribution medium is how much people lie …
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
AOL launches personal finance site — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc's AOL will launch a personal finance site on Tuesday, adding to a roster of new properties that do not bear its name. — The new site, called WalletPop.com, is a spin-off of AOL's Money & Finance channel and will focus on consumer and personal finance.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Bucket Testing New Digg-Like Search Interface — Google has experimented with search features that let users vote on search results, and/or recommend other results than those given, since late 2007. They generally bucket test these features (meaning some small percentage of users …
Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org:
Bugging — It's pretty clear that the App Store is a huge hit. We're all loving the ability to customize our iPhones and iPod touches with cool new software! — But with any big new release, there are problems that didn't pop up while beta testing. As iPhone developers …
