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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Netflix Goes Dark And Finds It's No Place To Be — It started this morning with an email apology from online movie rental powerhouse Netflix, confirming to its 8.4 million users that the company was suffering a shipping and distribution outage. — I called the company this morning …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Netflix may lose $1.8M to $3.6M in revenue per day over outage — Update: Netflix has been facing shipping delays and outages in its distribution centers for the last two days and has been fumbling to find a fix. The company said Thursday that it is hoping to bring its systems online overnight.
Steve / Netflix Community Blog:
Thursday Morning Shipping Update — Hi, it's Andy again. Unfortunately, we continue to experience significant shipping issues as of Thursday morning. We were able to ship some DVDs from about half of our distribution centers yesterday but we haven't yet been able to resume shipping this morning.
MSDN Blogs:
Engineering Windows 7 — Welcome to our blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7 — Welcome to Engineering Windows 7 — Welcome to our first post on a new blog from Microsoft—the Engineering Windows 7 blog, or E7 for short. E7 is hosted by the two senior engineering managers …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Sinofsky to dish on Windows 7? Wishful thinking
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ben Ling Lands (Back) at Google-This Time, at YouTube — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — Ben Ling-the high-profile Facebook platform exec who came from Google less than a year ago and then up and left the social-networking site earlier this week-is about to head back to Google …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:Ben Ling boomerangs from Facebook to Google
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Jon / p2pnet:
RIAA pays Tanyan Andersen $107,951 — RIAA News:- Another huge hole has appeared in Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG's s(t)inking ship, the SS Sue 'Em All. — And it's well below the water-line. — Nor is the rapidly foundering merchant vessel MediaSentry looking too good.
Peter Burrows / Byte of the Apple:
Coming in September: Better 3G In The iPhone 3G — As we reported last night, two reliable sources say Apple will issue a software fix that will address the widespread complaints regarding lost calls and inconsistent 3G access with the iPhone 3G. The problem (and it is a real issue …
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:What May Be Behind the iPhone 3G Glitches
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Yahoo!:
Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple Appointed to Yahoo!'s Board of Directors — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple were appointed to Yahoo!'s board of directors. — “We are pleased to add people …
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Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Heinen settles with SEC over Apple option backdating complaint — In doing so, Heinen neither admitted or denied the Commission's allegations. — According to the complaint, “Heinen caused Apple to fraudulently backdate two large options grants to senior executives of Apple …
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Jeff DeChambeau / Wikinomics:
Remember Photosynth? Well, it's old-hat now. — Photosynth (ted talk, demo page, our coverage), a project acquired by Microsoft, made for one of the coolest tech demos to grace the internet in a very long time. The experience that Photosynth provided by inferring 3d structures from collections …
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
The Google Black Hole — SERGEY AND LARRY JUST BOUGHT MY COMPANY. UH OH. — Late last month, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reported that Google was in the final stages of negotiations to purchase Digg, the popular user-vote-counting news site. A few days later, Arrington …
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Palm Treo Pro Revealed (Best Looking Palm Ever) — Wow, check out the Treo Pro, previously thought to be the Treo 850. It's safe to say Palm is plunging ahead with the Centro's industrial design, but the stark (glossy?) black and white color scheme with the phone/end orbs make it slick, rather than kiddie cool.
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The Next Social Networks Will Be Powered By WordPress and Movable Type — Platforms like WordPress and Movable Type democratized the process of self-publishing. With these tools, everyone could be a publisher and it didn't require advanced technical expertise to do so.
Matthaus Krzykowski / VentureBeat:
Sources: HTC's Google Android phone is “weeks away” from launching — Over the past few days, we've gotten multiple confirmations from reliable sources that the first phone built on Google's Android platform will launch in the next several weeks. It will be an HTC phone, likely the HTC Dream …
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Indie Game Developer Finds Success On Xbox 360 — Est. $825K Sales In First Week — Console game developers — people who make games for the Xbox, PlayStation, etc. — have mostly been big companies — EA, Activision, etc. — because of the high cost of game development and retail distribution.
Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
MBTA published checksum info in court filings — Something most troubling in the email exchange between Electronic Frontier Foundation lawyer Jennifer Granick and MBTA attorney Leuan Mahony, posted by News.com. The essence is that MBTA itself included the MIT students' confidential report …
InfoWorld:
MobileMe users fall prey to phishing scam — A recent phishing scam targeting users of Apple Inc.'s .Mac and MobileMe online services has successfully duped hundreds into divulging credit card and other personal information, a security company said Thursday.
