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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Cisco Plans Big Push Into Server Market — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Within the next few months, Cisco Systems, the largest maker of networking equipment, plans to release a product that threatens to shake up the technology industry and put the company on a collision course with traditional partners like Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Belkin Employee Sheds Light On Belkin's Supposedly Dirty Practices — Belkin's alleged, and now confirmed, payola scheme may have been one of the first times we've heard about their shady practices, but an employee of Belkin says it's actually very common. — To summarize the note …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Just in time for the Obama inauguration, Ustream's iPhone app launches — True to its word, live streaming video site Ustream, has released its iPhone application into Apple's App Store in time for people to watch President Obama's inauguration on their iPhones live tomorrow.
The New York Times Company:
The New York Times Company Enters into Agreement with Banco Inbursa and Inmobiliaria Carso for $250 Million in Senior Unsecured Notes — The New York Times Company today announced that it had entered into a private financing agreement with Banco Inbursa, S. A., Institucion de Banca Multiple …
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Agence France Presse:
Change.gov coming to the White House — WASHINGTON (AFP) — At exactly one minute after noon on Tuesday change.gov is coming to the White House. — That's the moment when whitehouse.gov — the website for the past eight years of President George W. Bush — changes hands and the savvy young …
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
After Twitter Authority Here Comes Facebook Authority — I know... But I had to post this just as a follow up. After Twitter Authority I had to post about the first Facebook authority tool I bumped into. It seems to have a huge “lese-majeste” bug actually as I am positive I have 5000 friends …
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Jessica Vascellaro / Digits:
Coupons Clips Google Engineering Director — By Jessica E. Vascellaro — The down economy has dramatically slowed hiring at Google. But it hasn't stopped startups from poaching the company's stars. — Coupons Inc., which makes software to help marketers create, distribute and track coupons …
Brent Frei / TechFlash:
Lifestyle business? Google or Microsoft could eat your lunch — How many times will the lessons of business history be relearned? When it comes to the importance of being a marketing and distribution focused company primarily, versus a product company, it seems the answer is... an endless number.
Matt Peckham / PC World:
Amazon Drops Xbox Live Price to $30 — Make what you will of Sony's embryonic PlayStation Home, the PS3's online matchmaking service ultimately costs nothing, while Microsoft's Xbox Live equivalent reaches into your wallet and extracts $50 annually. It's all a bit strange, really …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yammer Raises $5 Million For Workgroup Micro-Messaging — Fifty thousand dollars will only go so far. As the winner of last year's TechCrunch50, that's how much workgroup micro-messaging service Yammer received in prize money. But Yammer has now raised a $5 million series A financing …
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
New Features to the Pre: Oops I'm late and Automatic Calendar Context — We've already posted on this video, but it warrants another look. In the recent history of Palm, nothing has been more important to the survival of the company than the gigantic infusion of cash and brain-power …
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Michael Wei / Reuters:
Apple sells used products for less in China — BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Tuesday it had launched an online shop selling second-hand Apple products in China, offering discounts of up to 22 percent, as it looks to beef up its business in the country.
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Paul Taylor / Inquirer:
EFI-X boots US partner — ART STUDIOS ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA (ASEM), the company behind the EFI-X UEFI dongle, has severed its relationship with EFI-X USA LLC, its North American distributor. — The whole situation was triggered when EFI-X USA LLC (unrelated to ASEM as a company) …
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The VAR Guy:
Zimbra Email: Thriving Under Yahoo's Ownership? — At first glance, Yahoo is struggling on multiple fronts. But take a closer look and you may discover that Zimbra — the open source email system Yahoo acquired in September 2007 — is thriving under Yahoo's ownership. Skeptical?
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Julia Angwin / Digits:
Guest Blogger: Googling the Inauguration — Guest Blogger Bill Tancer is the general manager of global research at Hitwise, an online data and research unit of Experian PLC. He is also the author of “Click: What Millions of People do Online and Why it Matters.”
NokiaPressServices / Nokia Press Bulletin Board:
Nokia and Securitas to cooperate in bringing security services into mobile devices — Nokia and Securitas today announced a new cooperation regarding mobile services for personal security and every day safety. Mobile devices already today give increased feeling of security with friends …
Sean / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
Social Engineering Autoplay and Windows 7 — The Downadup worm utilizes autorun.inf files to spread via removable devices such as USB drives. — Our January 7th post, When is AUTORUN.INF really an AUTORUN.INF?, provided analysis. The autorun.inf uses some tricks, such as variable size, to help avoid detection.
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Tom Warren / Neowin.net:
Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month — Microsoft is planning to unveil three new mobile services at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next month. The software giant is aiming to move your mobile data into the cloud and rival Apple's MobileMe service.
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Electronista, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, TechCrunch UK, Mobilewhack.com, IntoMobile, GPS Obsessed, Mobile Tech Addicts, One Microsoft Way, Obsessable, Silicon Alley Insider, Phone Arena, Gizmodo, I4U News, Technologizer, SlashGear, Boy Genius Report, wmpoweruser.com, MobileCrunch, TechSpot and Boing Boing Gadgets
Jack Davis / SiliconBeat:
Plantronics laying off 18 percent, writing down goodwil — Plantronics, the Santa Cruz maker of headsets said last week that it plans to cut 18 percent of its workforce, or about 900 jobs, “effective immediately”, the same day that it warned that its sales for its fiscal 2009 third quarter …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Win 7 testers find (and fix themselves) troublesome installer bug — A number of Windows 7 testers have succumbed to a bug that is causing them to crash randomly whenever they try to start Windows Update or install anything using Microsoft's MSI installer. But a couple of testers …
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
iGoogle Redirects iPhone Users to the Standard Mobile Interface — iGoogle continues to make mistakes. After testing the new version of iGoogle without providing an option to end the experiment, after ignoring most of the complains regarding the new interface, Google decided to redirect iPhone users …
Financial Times:
IBM accused of abusing position in European mainframe market — By Nikki Tait in Brussels and Richard Waters in San,Francisco — IBM faces fresh scrutiny from European competition regulators as a new complaint is filed today formally accusing the US company of abusing its monopoly power in Europe's computer mainframe market.
Rebecca Buckman / Forbes:
U.S. Venture Fund-Raising Plunges — VC fund-raising fell 71% in the fourth quarter due to the recession and aversion to risky investments. — BURLINGAME, Calif.—Fund-raising by U.S. venture capitalists plunged 71% in the fourth quarter, squeezed by the global economic recession …
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
TechRestore offering matte conversion for 15" MacBook Pro — If you're one of those people who would have gotten one of the slick new 15" MacBook Pros but just can't bear the thought of using a glossy LCD screen, then you need to know about TechRestore. The electronics repair service …
Erica Sadun / Infinite Loop:
What the duck? Train your iPhone to (truly) learn new words — I was chatting with some colleagues today who complained that their iPhones never seemed to learn new words properly and permanently, no matter how often they typed them. In the case of the Ars staff, I won't lie …
