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Amazon Web Services Blog:
We're Never Content — We've got something new and cool in the works and I'm excited to be able to tell you a little bit about it today! — Before the end of the year we are planning to release a new service for content delivery. This new (and as yet unnamed) service will provide …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon Launches Content Delivery Network. Rivals, Watch Out! — It was a matter of when, not if, that Amazon would launch a content delivery business in addition to its current suite of web services that include S3 storage service and EC2 on-demand computing.
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Bits, Tech Trader Daily, The Business Of Online Video, eWeek, paidContent.org and CNET News
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Expanding the Cloud — For many the “Cloud” in Cloud Computing signifies the notion of location independence; that somewhere in the internet services are provided and that to access them you do not need any specific knowledge of where they are located. Many applications have already …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Echoing the Campaign of a Rival, Microsoft Aims to Redefine 'I'm a PC' — RELAX, computer users, after only two weeks Microsoft will stop teasing you as the company begins the next phase of an ambitious — and risky — $300 million campaign intended to make over its tarnished image.
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L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines, Daring Fireball, GMSV, Microsoft Pri0, Gadgetell, Gawker, ParisLemon, BloggingStocks, Today @ PC World, Pulse 2.0, MarketingShift, MacUser, The Apple Blog, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, I4U News, CrunchGear, AdFreak, Microsoft Subnet's blog, Homotron.net, Boy Genius Report, All about Microsoft, AppScout, Valleywag, Screenwerk, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Todd Watson, Apple Gazette, TechCrunch, Techdirt and Adrants
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Microsoft Ads Featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Not Canceled — From a trusted Crispin Porter source, we've learned that the internet has jumped the gun and that the Microsoft Gates/Seinfeld ads have not been axed. It's true, Microsoft apparently asked the agency to focus on the new “I'm a PC” spots.
Julian Sanchez / Ars Technica:
Alleged 1st-person tale of Palin e-mail hack comes and goes — With news of Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo e-mail account being hacked coming to light yesterday, details on how the hack may have taken place may be emerging.
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E-Commerce Times, Christopher Null, Valleywag, Boy Genius Report, AppScout and Portfolio
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David Bowie / Joost:
Notice anything different? … One of the great things about working at a startup is the ability to be flexible and make changes when our users, trends or data suggest a new direction. For much of the past year, we've listened to the feedback we've received from many of the people who use Joost …
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Don Reisinger / TechCrunch:
Beacon Is Baaaaack! — Tom Kincaid, a top Facebook developer and blogger mentioned in the Facebook Developer Forums last night that Beacon seems to be rearing its ugly head once again. — According to Kincaid, he signed up for CBS Sportsline and got a Beacon-like pop-up, which he thinks may have used a Facebook cookie.
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Rebecca / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to Stop Illegal Surveillance — The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government agencies today on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the illegal, unconstitutional …
Austin Modine / The Register:
Google to DoJ: The clock is ticking — Will push Goo-Hoo! deal, regulators be damned — When government regulators come knocking, businesses usually make with the “Yes, sirs” and the “Thank you very much, sirs,” attempting a bit of the old boardroom charm to make the probing process go easy.
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Michael Liedtke / E-Commerce Times:Google May Plunge Ahead With Yahoo Deal Sans Gov't Blessing
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Business Wire:
Palm Reports Q1 FY09 Results — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM - News) today reported that total revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 was $366.9 million. Smartphone sell-through for the quarter was 1,029,000 units, up 49 percent year over year.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google execs cheery about Silicon Valley economy — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—The national and global economy is suffering something between a setback and a meltdown, but Google's top executives said Wednesday they're bullish about Silicon Valley's economic prospects.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
AT&T launch updates: HTC Fuze, Samsung Mirage, Bold moved to November? — Bear with us folks. We've just got ahold of an AT&T product sheet dated September 17th. Also known as “the most up to date doc you've seen”. Before we get into the BlackBerry Bold nonsense, here's a break down on what the sheet says:
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MobileCrunch, Phone Arena, BlackBerry Cool, Gizmodo, CrackBerry.com blogs, IntoMobile, wmpoweruser.com and Mobility Site
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Oracle's first quarter allays worries — Oracle reported first quarter earnings that topped expectations as new software licenses were in line with estimates. Revenue, however, was light. — In a statement Thursday, Oracle said it reported earnings of $1.1 billion, or 21 cents a share (preview).
Tapan Bhat / Yodel Anecdotal:
Testing, testing...a new Yahoo.com — Ever since Jerry and David began categorizing the Web back in 1994, people have visited our homepage to find out what's happening. That's 100 million of you in the US and 314 million of you globally starting your day on a Yahoo! homepage, so we must be doing something right.
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Pulse 2.0, BoomTown, Download Squad, paidContent.org, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Search Engine Land
Tony Smith / The Register:
Toshiba takes wraps off netbook — Updated It's official: Toshiba today formally launched its entry into the Small, Cheap Computer arena, following Dell's lead and equipping the Linux version with Ubuntu 8.04. — The NB100 is an 8.9in model - the display resolution is 1024 x 600 - and powered by Intel's 1.6GHz Atom N270.
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
O'Reilly: Stop throwing sheep, do something worthy — NEW YORK—Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, is known as a futurist, but his keynote address on Thursday morning at the Web 2.0 Expo was heavy on the realism in the wake of sobering news from Wall Street.
Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics — Quick intro to getting set up on analytics — I've been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts?” This blog is to address these questions.
