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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Microsoft Commercials Are Live — The three new non-Seinfeld commercials, which the New York Times described earlier this week, still don't talk about Vista features. But they do try to break the stereotype that cool and interesting people use Macs, and everyone else is on a Windows machine.
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Macworld, Microsoft Blog, p2pnet, Between the Lines, Technologizer, AppScout, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, steve clayton, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Daring Fireball, Sean Percival's Blog, Boy Genius Report, GottaBeMobile, greg hughes, CrunchGear, Jaffe Juice, Mashable!, Pulse 2.0, dailywireless.org, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, DVICE and Gadgetell
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Microsoft's “I'm a PC” Ad Beats Seinfeld (But Not Hodgman) — Phase 2 of Microsoft's Windows ad campaign debuted tonight during The Office, and the latest work by ad agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky definitely beats the crap out of those (ill-fated?) Gates/Seinfeld ads when it comes to making a point.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
That Was Fun, But Now Ebay's Selling Off StumbleUpon — In May 2007 eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon for $75 million. Now, less than a year and a half later, they're trying to unload it according to a source with knowledge of the sale process.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Report: eBay Trying To Ditch StumbleUpon. What About Skype?
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VoIP Watch
Cisco:
Cisco Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Jabber — Jabber's Presence and Messaging Software to Enhance Cisco's Collaboration Portfolio — Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Jabber, Inc., a provider of presence and messaging software.
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Profy, Technology blog, Valleywag, OStatic blogs, Tech Trader Daily, Collaborative Thinking, The Inquisitr, WebProNews, open and Enterprise 2.0 blog
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Cap'n Pam Greenebearde / The Official Google Blog:
Google in one more language — As we've written before, one of our goals is to enable everyone using Google to find the information they want easily, no matter what language they speak. — It recently came to our attention that Google was not accessible to a large, influential, and notoriously quick-tempered community: Pirates.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Roundup: Brin's blog, O'Reilly gets serious, Joost's browser …
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Mashable!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Facebook, Google, FriendFeed (Who Else?) Dives Into Talk Like A Pirate Day
Symbian Smart Phones World:
ULTRA HOT: Two New Nokia Eseries Phones In The Works - Nokia E72 and E75 Leaked!!!!! — + ULTRA HOT: Two New Nokia Eseries Phones In The Works! — Nokia E72 and E75 Leaked!!!!! — Two New Nokia QWERTY Phones In The Works! — Leaking confidential information is the growing problem.
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PhoneReport v2.0, MobileCrunch, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, Gadgetell, PalmAddicts and Engadget
Maciej Stachowiak / Surfin' Safari:
Introducing SquirrelFish Extreme — Just three months ago, we announced SquirrelFish, a major revamp of our JavaScript engine featuring a high-performance bytecode interpreter. Today we'd like to announce the next generation of our JavaScript engine - SquirrelFish Extreme (or SFX for short).
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
A Better Way To Collaborate: OpenACircle — OpenACircle is a new collaboration tool for teams which includes innovative screen-sharing and video conferencing features for instant collaboration with co-workers. This makes OpenACircle somewhat unique in the web-based project/task management space …
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Wall Street Journal:
EA Relaxes Rules on Installing ‘Spore’ — Videogame publisher Electronic Arts Inc. plans to allay complaints about copy-protection limits in its new “Spore” software by increasing the number of times the game can be installed. — “Spore,” a game based on evolution from “The Sims” …
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Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC's Web sites see surge in traffic — iTunes sells 1 mil since Sept. 9; news events draw visitors — The Peacock felt gale-force winds beneath its wings this week on the Internet. — A trio of unrelated events conspired to give NBC Universal record traffic at three Web locations: CNBC.com, NBC.com and iTunes.
Jibi / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry OS 5.0: your first looky looky — Remember when we first mentioned OS 5.0 nearly one and a half years ago? Yes, it's been that long. Although that version matured into what we now know as OS 4.5, earlier this year, we broke the story about the formal introduction of OS 5.0 within the walls of Waterloo.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Drop.io Launches Geo-Location File Sharing — NY-based private file sharing service Drop.io has announced the launch of geo-location based drops. The concept works like this — you upload files into your drop. Once uploaded you can tag the drop with a location.
Twitter Blog:
Changes Afoot — We're getting ready to launch a refresh of parts of the Twitter.com interface. This release does not include any new features (well, one). It's mostly cosmetic changes. This post describes what we're doing and why. — Moving the tabs
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Mark Evans, Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, Feeds, Search Engine Watch, AppScout, The Web Services Report, TECH.BLORGE.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, bub.blicio.us, FriendFeed Blog, MarketingVOX, Blogging Pro, Pulse 2.0, broadstuff, RotorBlog.com, Sean Percival's Blog, The Inquisitr, Mashable!, SEO and Tech Daily and Digg
Sergey Brin / too:
LRRK2 — For more than 20 years, my mother has worked with computers at NASA. So, when she developed a pain in her hands the diagnosis seemed easy — Repetitive Stress Injury. Except that it wasn't so easy. As her mysterious symptoms progressed it varied — RSI, fibromyalgia (unexplained pain), Lyme Disease, and so forth.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Parallels 4 to tout OS X Server VM, dual-core, new interface — Competition between virtualization software developers is about to kick into overdrive thanks to the ongoing development Parallels Desktop 4, which people familiar with the update say will significantly expand hardware …
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O'Grady's PowerPage
Paul Taylor / Inquirer:
Atom 330 makes its debut — Early bird catches the sample — THE DUAL-CORE brother to Intel's Atom lives and breathes as we speak. The Guru of 3D somehow landed an engineering sample from ECS and had some time to run basic benchmarks on the CPU. If you thought the original Atom was slow, then this one's only half as slow.
