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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
iPhone Copy and Paste Now Working Between Safari and Mail — Finally, someone has conceived a way to copy and paste text from Safari to Mail, and between web pages. And this time, it doesn't require any software installation and it's legal: … In fact, it doesn't require anything to be installed …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
YouTube Videos Are Pulling in Serious Money — Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living. — One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Who Said Web 2.0 Was R.I.P.? Microblog Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million, Expectations — Tumblr is exactly the kind of startup that's supposed to be gasping for air in today's dismal economy: A trendy but niche Web service with a prominent founder and exactly zero revenue.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screw The Downturn. Accel Raises A Cool Billion In New Funds — Twenty five year old venture capital firm Accel Partners is announcing two new funds today that add more than $1 billion to their war chest: Accel Growth Fund at $480 million and Accel London III at $525 million.
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:What Recession? Accel Partners Raises $1 Billion
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Exploring 3D Desktop and Application Interfaces — Dozens of Apple patent applications were published today revealing research that Apple had done in 2007 on many topics encompassing future versions of Mac OS X. The most intriguing is a series of patent applications which describe a “Multidimensional” user interface.
Matt / WordPress:
WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” — The first thing you'll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we've listened to your feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that's just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
The 10 best IT certifications — Guest post from TechRepublic's 10 Things blog: IT pros tend to have strong opinions when debating the value of professional certification — and views become even more polarized when it comes down to a discussion of which certs are meaningful.
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
YouTube is not so wild anymore — Tanya Derveaux's cleavage may not be suitable for minors. (image via iPower) — On some bright, parched morning back in the Old West, folks must have heard grumbling as a boy nailed a list of new town laws to the wall of the saloon.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Why the Yahoo feeding frenzy? — With camera crews staking out space outside Yahoo's Sunnyvale headquarters, some employees are striking back, uploading photos of the TV reporters to Flickr before the sluggish old media can get their broadcasts together. And that's part of the big story.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (961051) — Vulnerability in Internet Explorer Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Our investigation so far has shown that these attacks …
Paul Carr / Guardian:
Freezing cold, no internet, boring: it's a French web 2.0 conference! — Want to know how Britain should spend that billion pounds it has earmarked for internet startups? On a vodka-fuelled conference in a sauna in London. It would sure put LeWeb into the shade. Though almost anything would.
Cade Metz / The Register:
The Mother of All Demos - 150 years ahead of its time — It's not the mouse. It's what you do with it — Sometime in the late sixties, as Douglas Engelbart was preparing what would one day be called The Mother of All Demos, his boss flew to Washington to meet with the money man.
Microsoft Live Labs:
Introducing Thumbtack — People have always had a need to make sense of the world around them. We want to identify, classify and clarify things. Lately that need has become even greater, since we're being bombarded with information wherever we look. Now there's a new tool to help you organize all that information: Thumbtack.
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Leo Dirac / Gmail Blog:
Really new in Labs this time: SMS Text Messaging for chat — How often do you try to chat with somebody and they don't respond because they just walked away from their computer? Or maybe you're in the middle of chatting with them just as they need to leave.
Wall Street Journal:
Nortel Faces Tough Choices — As Sales Slump and Cash Dwindles, Fallen Telecom Star Seeks to Restructure and Sell Assets, but Buyers Are Scarce — Nortel Networks Corp.'s contemplation of a bankruptcy filing comes after years of strategic missteps, accounting scandals and failed restructurings …
Lets Japan:
Cellphone Blocker Stops Swindles at ATM — Mobile phone signal-blocking at cash dispensers is the newest effort to fight fraud in Japan. — In October Japan police made a major nationwide effort to prevent citizens - especially the elderly - from becoming victims of various telephone scams.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Marissa Mayer At Le Web: The (Almost) Complete Interview — The video above shows twenty two minutes of my and Loic Le Meur's half hour interview with Google's Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer at the Le Web conference in Paris on Wednesday afternoon.
Tony Smith / The Register:
BBC, ITV propose ‘open’ TV-over-net platform — Project Kangaroo alternative jump-started — Having had their plan to combine their broadband TV services kyboshed by the Competition Commmission, the BBC and ITV today said they plan to do it anyway - but this time to open up the infrastructure to all comers.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
CBS Interactive To Merge CBSNews.com and CNET Newsrooms; Some Layoffs — CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS), under pressure to cut costs after what now seems like an even more costly acquisition of CNET, is announcing some more restructuring tomorrow, we have learned from reliable sources late tonight …
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Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Microsoft Prepared For the Winter of Our Economic Discontent — Microsoft may not be looking at further price cuts for their console as the country tip-toes through this recession, but they're looking at ways to make their console attractive to thrift-minded families.
Don Reisinger / Webware.com:
How Twitter's competitors do what it doesn't — Twitter may be the leader in the micro-blogging space, but it's missing key features—features its competitors offer. Will Twitter pick up on these omissions? We know groups are coming to Twitter, but we're not so sure about some of these other useful features...
Martha Graybow / Reuters:
U.S. sues Sony Music over children's online privacy — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony BMG, which is changing its name to Sony Music Entertainment, was sued on Wednesday by the U.S. government, which accused the music company of violating federal rules aimed at protecting the online privacy of children.
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Sony's PlayStation Home boss says it's “leapfrogging” (Xbox Live) — Actually PlayStation Home Director Jack Buser wouldn't mention competitors by name — he never used the “M” word — when we talked about Thursday's public debut of Sony's new virtual world. — But you could tell what Buser was talking about:
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Chicago Tribune:
CareerBuilder lays off 300 — Chicago-based online jobs board CareerBuilder laid off more than 300 workers late last week, a company executive confirmed Wednesday. — Chief marketing officer Richard Castellini said the cuts took place on Friday and were spread across various units …
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Kate Bevan / Guardian:
Newly asked questions: What are we going to be frightened of next year? — Online threats could be as scary as Ben Affleck's experience in the film Paycheck — Apart from terrorism, the growth of our waistlines after Christmas, the credit crunch and its effect on our jobs and wallets, you mean?
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Palm's New-ness, coming to CES — You know, we see a lot (a lot) of PR for CES meetings, press events, booth tours, and even the occasional Jeopardy! contest. Rarely, if ever, do we get that geeky little skip in our hearts. We did, however, get one of those skips today when Palm mailed …
