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Mike Ricciuti / CNET News:
Salesforce.com extends cloud computing service — Salesforce.com is expanding its cloud computing service with a new option that lets customers more easily build external Web sites. — The company is expected to announce the new service, called Force.com Sites, at its Dreamforce user conference on Monday in San Francisco.
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Ted Dziuba / The Register:
What Ray Ozzie didn't tell you about Microsoft Azure — Behind the whiteboard of confusion — Fail and You Unveiled earlier this month at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference by Chief Whiteboard Operator Ray Ozzie, the Azure Services Platform confused damn near everyone.
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Microsoft: Trojans are huge and China is tops in browser exploits — China gets more browser-based exploits than any other country, according to the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report for the first half of 2008. — Three things you might not know: Vulnerabilities are decreasing but becoming easier to exploit.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security — Why would hackers target Microsoft directly when there is so much low hanging fruit hanging from the Windows operating system? — The short answer is that hackers won't attack Microsoft directly because they have plenty …
John Markoff / New York Times:On Security, Microsoft Reports Progress and Alarm
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all — MinWin — the core of the Windows operating system — is, indeed, in Windows 7. It's just not part of it in the way many people (including yours truly) initially assumed. — Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, who detailed via …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Windows 7 ‘pre-beta’ washes up on Pirate Bay and co — It's as if people WANT to download Microsoft's next OS — Microsoft's “pre-beta” version of its upcoming OS - Windows 7 - has already tipped up on BitTorrent sites just as the dust settles on the firm's Professional Developers Conference.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Irrepressible widget-maker RockYou aims at Asia, raises $17M — RockYou, a company that started out two years ago making simple slideshow widgets for MySpace, and more recently applications on Facebook and other rival social networks, is now invading Asia. — It has taken on strategic funding …
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
MTV Networks in deal to monetize uploaded videos — The company plans to pair ads with clips on MySpace using Auditude's technology. — Reporting from San Francisco — Hollywood used to fume when fans uploaded video clips to the Internet to share with their friends. Now it's looking to cash in on them.
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:MySpace, MTV Networks team with Auditude to profit from online video
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Ad Rates Dropped 11% In The Third Quarter — The average amount advertisers pay publishers to display their ads one thousand times — CPMs — dropped 11 percent from Q2 to Q3 across the 307 ad networks and 1,300 publishers that ad-optimizing firm The Rubicon Project calls clients.
Seth Rosenblatt / Webware.com:
VoxOx goes gunning for Skype, Digsby — What if Digsby and Skype merged into one seemingly all-powerful VoIP and messaging communications tool? It's a question which, according to San Diego-based telephone company TelCentris, can be answered by VoxOx. — VoxOx incorporates features …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Times Said Shopping About.com — The troubled New York Times Company is running out of options. It owes more than $1 billion, close to half of it coming due in the next two years. But it just ruled out layoffs for the foreseeable future and will probably try to avoid cutting …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Palo Alto Networks pulls in new funds to ride out recession — Bracing for the downturn, Palo Alto Networks has added $10 million to the third round of financing it announced in August. — Lane Bess, chief executive of the enterprise firewall and security firm, raised $27 million …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Social Networks Reunion.com and Wink Merge; Focusing on Meta People Search — Two of the lesser known social networks Reunion.com and Wink have merged together. The two sites focus on people and alumni/classmates search, and will now launch a new brand early next year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
