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The Official Google Blog:
The future of online video — The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the ten years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chad Hurley On The Future Of YouTube: We Will Conquer Every Screen — YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley wrote a post this morning about the future of online video and YouTube specifically. Hurley notes that 13 hours worth of videos are uploaded every minute to YouTube (a figure we've reported before).
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Siobhan Chapman / Computerworld:
Lehman Brothers invested in IT despite credit crunch — It spent $309M on technology and communications in the past quarter — Computerworld UK) Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was boosting its investment in IT even as it headed toward bankruptcy. — In the quarter ended Aug. 31 …
Microsoft:
Zune Brings Powerful New Entertainment Features to Every Zune Portable Media Player With Software Release — Internet access provider Wayport enables wireless music downloads for Zune customers in Wi-Fi hot spots at more than 9,800 McDonald's restaurants. — Zune, Microsoft Corp.'s end …
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Zune Owners Get Free Wi-Fi at McDonald's — Microsoft signs three-year deal with Wayport for old and new Zune owners alike: This is a nice win for Zune users, Wayport, and McDonald's, each in their own way, and it's something Microsoft can simply write off as useful marketing …
Wall Street Journal:
T-Mobile's Google-Based Phone Nears — T-Mobile USA plans to begin selling the first smart phone powered by Google Inc.'s new mobile software late next month, according to people familiar with the matter, facing off against Apple Inc.'s iPhone and Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry with a device that blends aspects of both.
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Belinda Goldsmith / Reuters:
Porn passed over as Web users become social: author — CANBERRA (Reuters) - Social networking sites are the hottest attraction on the Internet, dethroning pornography and highlighting a major change in how people communicate, according to a web guru. — Bill Tancer, a self-described …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Apple's Capricious Rules for iPhone Apps — Alex Sokirynsky spent two months, working nights and weekends to write an application for the Apple iPhone called Podcaster, which allows people to listen to and watch Podcasts on their phones. — He was encouraged because he had written …
WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
MICROSOFT AND CRAY TEAM UP TO BRING HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING MAINSTREAM — For the first time in the two companies history, Microsoft and Cray have teamed up to offer a powerful mix of what each company does best - - the Cray CX1! What is the CX1, you ask?
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Business Wire:
Dell Sees Further Softening in Global Information Technology Demand — ROUND ROCK, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—When Dell (NASDAQ:DELL - News) announced Q2 financial results on Aug. 28, 2008, it reported continued conservatism in IT spending in the U.S., which had extended into Western Europe and several countries in Asia.
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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Google offers cutting-edge Chrome, first update — The Google Chrome Channel Chooser lets people get the latest updates to Google's Web browser. — (Credit: CNET News) — Through a new developer program, Google is letting people try the latest versions of its Chrome Web browser, and the first update is available.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Audio Indexing — Google's efforts to improve video search by using speech recognition technology started to become visible in July, when Google launched a gadget for searching inside the political speeches from YouTube. The gadget has been expanded into a new service called GAudi …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
GigaOM Interview: Bill Hambrecht, Legendary Silicon Valley Banker — Last night I watched with morbid fascination as a group of talking heads on CNBC discussed the fall (and subsequent bankruptcy) of Lehman Brothers, the 158-year-old firm that survived the Great Depression, two world wars …
Matthew Sparkes / PC Pro:
Will Apple or Android get in my pocket? — Following the unexpected demonstration of an Android handset here at Google's Developer Day, more information about the OS and the upcoming handset has been leaking out of Android boss Mike Jennings in the last hour, as nearly a hundred curious developers fire volley …
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Blaise Alleyne / Techdirt:
Is Firefox Missing The Point In Its Response To Google Chrome? — Seth Godin thinks Firefox is missing the point by launching new features in response to Google Chrome. He says the problem now is that “when your friends switch to Firefox, your life doesn't get better.”
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Microsoft becomes high priest of secure software development — Historically, Microsoft was bashed for security holes in its software that led to worm outbreaks on desktops and servers around the globe and other problems. In 2002, the company saw the light and launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative …
BBC:
Warcraft add-on gets release date — The second expansion pack for the World of Warcraft (WoW) online game is going on sale from 13 November. — The Wrath of the Lich King includes a new continent for high-level players plus new professions and an army of new enemies to battle.
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Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
HP surprises Wall Street with size of EDS job cuts — SAN FRANCISCO — When Hewlett-Packard Co. announced five months ago it was acquiring technology-services firm Electronic Data Systems Corp., Wall Street expected big layoffs from the combined company. — But the size of the job cuts _ 24,600 jobs …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Cognition Announces “World's Largest Semantic Map” — Cognition Technologies, a Semantic Web company that specialises in Natural Language Processing (NLP) search, is today announcing the release of what it claims is “the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language.”
