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Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:
A vote for broadband in the “white spaces” — All eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote just took place at the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 5-, the FCC formally agreed to open up the “white spaces” spectrum — the unused airwaves between …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
FCC Approves ‘Wi-Fi On Steroids’: Good News For Consumers, Bad News For Telcos — As anticipated, the FCC has voted to approve the use of wireless airwaves between TV channels — so-called “white spaces” — for Internet devices. — The ruling is a victory for companies like Google (GOOG) …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:F.C.C. Agrees to Open Radio Spectrum
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Forget The Magic Wall. CNN Now Has Holograms — CNN is cool. In addition to the huge touchscreen “Magic Wall” (which was originally military technology), CNN's Wolf Blitzer gets to play with Holograms today during their coverage of the presidential elections.
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Jeremy Bradley / CNN:
The inventor behind CNN's election ‘Magic Wall’ — NEW YORK (CNN) — On the 16th floor of a nondescript building in lower Manhattan, a group of tech-savvy staffers clad mostly in jeans and T-shirts is changing the way Americans watch TV election coverage. — Perceptive Pixel is a high-tech startup company.
Sridhar / Zoho Blogs:
Mr. Benioff, Tear Down That Wall — Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, talks about how Salesforce is all for sweetness and love and openness and all the good things. As VentureBeat reports: … Now, where do I begin? As I have recounted elsewhere, our dalliance with Salesforce began …
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Ehsan Akhgari / Ehsan Akhgari's blog:
Don't leave a trace: Private Browsing in Firefox — Today, a major feature was added to the pre-release versions of Firefox 3.1, called Private Browsing. I've been working for quite some time on this, so I thought it may be a good time to write about what this feature is and how to use it.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: Shazam! A Projector That Fits in Your Jeans Pocket — Come on, admit it: is there anything more awesome than miniaturization? — The Walkman put a stereo system in your pocket and changed the game forever. A modern digital watch has the computing power of a roomful of 1950s computer gear.
Mark Ward / BBC:
The end of an era - Windows 3.x — An application has expectedly quit. — Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life. — On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US. — The various versions of Windows 3.x …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Firefox Reaches 20% Market Share for First Time Ever — The good folks at Mozilla are trumpeting a new report by global analytics service Net Applications that documented a 20% global market share for two out of four weeks in October. It's a new high bar of popularity for the 2nd most popular browser in the world.
BBC:
New MP3 logo gets online support — Seven of Britain's largest music download sites have got together to promote a new “MP3 compatible” logo. — It aims to raise the profile of the open MP3 music format and show people what they can do with their downloads.
Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video:
Two Year's Later, Google Still Can't Deliver YouTube Without Stuttering & Buffering — It's been just over two year's now since Google acquired YouTube and while the debate rages on in the industry about how YouTube will make money, few people are discussing the quality problem Google continues to have with delivering YouTube videos.
Rick Turoczy / ReadWriteWeb:
Juice Makes You Smarter, Faster (If You're on Firefox 3) — We've all been there. You started reading something on the Web, saw something interesting in the article, searched for it, wound up somewhere else, and after about 12 hops you've forgotten exactly what it was you were looking for.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Ex-Facebook exec withdrew candidacy for MySpace Music job — Two months ago, MySpace Music appeared ready to fill its CEO position. The new music service had whittled down the candidates to Owen Van Natta, the former Facebook executive, and Andy Schuon, a longtime music industry insider.
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Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Yammer goes down, companies all over go silent — Back in the heady, sunlit uplands of Summer 2007 we used to complain when Twitter went down, so useful had it become. Even Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis once decided Twitter was so crucial to his business that he would pay $100 a year for a premium account.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
FCC OKs Clearwire/Sprint WiMax Deal; Both Stocks Soar — The FCC voted 5-0 today to approve a plan to combine Sprint's Xohm network with Clearwire's (CLWR) own WiMax network. Investors in the newly combined company include Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC) and a group of cable companies.
Dan Zehr / Statesman Business Blog:
Dell asks employees to take unpaid time off to help cut costs — Michael Dell sent a memo to employees Monday, telling them the company needs to slash more costs and asking them to consider taking five days off without pay. — Dell said the company will consider a range of options to reduce its costs …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
BlackBerry Bold Goes On Sale, Fervor Lacking (RIMM) — Four months ago, thousands of people waited for hours in line to buy Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone 3G. Last month, far fewer people waited in line to buy Google's first phone, the T-Mobile G1. Today, is anyone waiting in line for RIM's (RIMM) new BlackBerry Bold?
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Gabriel Madway / Reuters:
Yahoo-Google deal may flounder, analyst says — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The new search advertising deal between Yahoo Inc and Google Inc is unlikely to win U.S. antitrust approval, and therefore may open the door to a new bid for Yahoo from Microsoft Corp, an analyst said on Tuesday.
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Election Hoax Sent Via D.C. Based E-Campaign Group — An e-mail hoax telling 35,000 George Mason University students, faculty and staff, that the election had been moved to Nov. 5, was sent through servers run by a D.C. based company that seeks to help political campaigns promote their messages online.
Karen Wickre / The Official Google Blog:
Top searches on Election Day (part 1) — The long, long election campaign season culminates today as people make their choices on hundreds of statewide and local contests as well as the race for the next U.S. president. Throughout the day, we're keeping an eye on Google Hot Trends to decipher …
Associated Press:
FCC approves Verizon Wireless' purchase of Alltel — WASHINGTON - Federal regulators are signing off on Verizon Wireless' planned $28 billion purchase of Alltel Corp. The deal will create the nation's largest wireless carrier. — With partial dissents by the two Democrats on the five-member panel …
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Fired? Don't delete your company's Exchange database — Former IT engineer Steven Barnes has been sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty to computer intrusion charges. But wait till you hear how it happened. — Baseball bats and server passwords
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