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Vindu Goel / Bits:
Game Over: Scrabulous Shut Down on Facebook — Facebook says the decision to block Scrabulous for U.S. and Canadian users was made by the Scrabulous developers, not Facebook. — Scrabulous has been shut down on Facebook. — If you try to pull up the popular Scrabble-like game …
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Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Popular Scrabulous Game Vanishes From Facebook — It's game over for Scrabulous; the popular Scrabble knockoff game on Facebook is no longer available as of this morning. — Facebook users who logged on to play the word puzzle game this morning instead got a message that it has been …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:Sorry, Scrabulous Fans, I'm Only Mildly Sympathetic
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Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows ‘Mojave’ Video Posts — Last week we showed a video of the Mojave Experiment to a small group of folks here on campus. Today we are excited to share the results with the public. — For those new to the Mojave Experiment, it's a focus group effort we initiated a few weeks ago.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft goes live with Mojave videos — One of the Mojave participants talks about her Vista experience on the Mojave Experiment Web site, which went live on Tuesday. — (Credit: CNET News) — So I told you about Microsoft's Mojave Experiment last week.
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HP, Intel and Yahoo! Create Global Cloud Computing Research Test Bed — Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Lead the Way as Global Centers of Excellence — PALO ALTO, Calif. & SANTA CLARA …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
HP, Yahoo and Intel Create Compute Cloud — Updated at the bottom: At long last, Hewlett-Packard is stepping up with an answer to cloud computing by inking a partnership with two other big technology vendors and three universities to create a cloud computing testbed.
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Neal Kanodia / Google LatLong:
New, blue, and better than ever — Less is more. — Before — After — With the new look for Google Maps, you can do all of the same things, but without the extra clutter. Find businesses (creamery near palo alto), addresses (6605 Delmar Blvd, St Louis, MO), and more (root beer in sf) from one search box.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
BT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million — Will BT Make Ribbit Work? — Yes. Better To Look For Help Outside — Not a chance, $105 million wasted — BT, Ribbit... what? who? — BT (British Telecom) has acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone apps: 1,001 and counting — The number of offerings on the App Store — the venue for independently produced programs that helps distinguish Apple's smartphone from all others — hit 1,001 on Monday night. — That's roughly double the number that were available when the store opened …
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Mobile web standards announced today — No question the mobile web is booming no matter who you ask. Consumers are accessing the web from phones in droves and the World Wide Web Consortium wants to make sure that everyone plays on the same 3-inch field. Today the WWWC announced …
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Verne Kopytoff / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pickens rips Yahoo management, says he dumped shares at a loss — Billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens excoriated Yahoo's management for failing to reach an agreement to sell all or part of the Web portal to Microsoft Corp. Pickens, who bought 10 million Yahoo shares in May in hopes that an acquisition was imminent, said...
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
MSN Direct API “Send to GPS” released — Just getting the urge to regurgitate press releases out of our system today - but here's just one more (hey, we read press releases so you don't have to!). Today Microsoft has announced an API for MSN Direct, to allow websites to send location information …
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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry — The deal between record companies and ISPs will drive music-swapping underground and erode their profits still further — This month's announcement of a back-room deal between ISPs (internet service providers) …
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CNN:
Sprint Loses Early Termination Fee Case, May Pay $73 Million — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Sprint Nextel Corp. (S) was dealt a major blow in its early-termination-fee case when a California judge ruled it would have to pay $ 73 million. — The decision could bode poorly for the various trials …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Yahoo Offers Refunds Or DRM-Free Music In Exchange For Shutting Down DRM Servers — We were a bit surprised last week when Yahoo decided to shut down its DRM servers, rendering all sorts of “purchased” music close to worthless. After all, when Microsoft had done the same thing …
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Upcoming iPhone application MagicPad includes copy/paste — After having been on the list for inclusion into the iPhone 2.0 firmware and then supposedly getting dropped, cut and paste functionality for the device is becoming a bit infamous by now. We've heard from an Apple executive …
