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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
New Internet Explorer 8 accelerates browsing — Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of the most commonly used web browser in the world, has left beta testing and is now available as “Release Candidate 1.” This isn't the final release version per se, but it's close enough …
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TechFlash, AppScout, Neowin.net, Microsoft Pri0, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and Beyond Binary
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Dean Hachamovitch / blogs.msdn.com:Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate Now Available
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The Microsoft Blog, Epicenter, The Windows Blog, Obsessable, PC World and The Tech Report
Apple:
iLife '09 Shipping January 27 — Major Upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie & GarageBand — Apple® today announced that iLife® '09 will be available tomorrow, January 27, and features major upgrades to iPhoto®, iMovie® and GarageBand®, with breakthrough new ways to organize and manage photos …
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Digital Daily, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Lifehacker, Boy Genius Report, Electronic Pulp, Macsimum News, MacDailyNews, iLounge, PC World and TechSpot
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
More Signs of a Google Webdrive — The long-awaited and much-delayed GDrive is likely to be released in the near future as more pieces of its integration are revealed. Cédric Vergé noticed a change in one of the CSS files for Google Apps: there's a class named “webdrive” and an icon for the new service.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Should Yahoo Buy The New York Times? — Carol Bartz, the new Yahoo (YHOO) CEO, is getting ready for her coming out party tomorrow: she hosts her first earnings call for the company following the release of Q1 results. The numbers are likely to be ugly, but that won't be all that surprising.
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Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
Chip complex delaying Apple's new iMac line, says analyst — Apple's next-generation iMacs are being held up for business reasons and a minor technical obstacle, according to one Wall Street analyst. — Kaufman Brothers' Shaw Wu, citing supply chain checks, says the new iMac appears …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
RIM CEO: Buggy smartphone software is the “new reality” — While our experience says otherwise, we really hope that the practice of launching buggy smartphones hasn't been institutionalized. The Wall Street Journal just published a report about the “bumpy launch” of the BlackBerry Storm …
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TECH.BLORGE.com, last100, CNET News, I4U News, FierceWireless, InformationWeek, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Electronista, Boing Boing Gadgets, DailyTech, BlackBerry Sync, Simon's Blog and AppScout
Intego:
New Variant of Mac Trojan Horse iServices Found in Pirated Adobe Photoshop CS4 — Exploit: OSX.Trojan.iServices.B Trojan Horse — Description: Intego has discovered a new variant of the iServices Trojan horse that the company discovered on January 22, 2009.
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Gizmodo, eWeek, Macenstein, TheAppleBlog, The Mac Security Blog, SlashGear, Tech Beat and The Toybox
Judi Sohn / WebWorkerDaily:
Will the Last One to Leave GrandCentral Please Turn Out the Lights? — We've been worried about GrandCentral for a while now. The free service that promised “one number for life” started with such promise. And then Google bought the company and the technology way back in July 2007...and they left it to rot.
PC Pro:
EU could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with Windows — The European Commission could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. — The revelation came as part of Microsoft's quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:Microsoft worried about EU pressure to bundle alternatives to IE
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Coach Carol: Are They Crying? There's No Crying! There's No Crying at Yahoo! — One of the first things Carol Bartz said when she made her public debut as new Yahoo CEO was that everyone should give the company “some friggin' breathing room.” — Some heard “frickin',” while others heard “frackin'.”
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Industry Standard, Contentinople, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Alley Insider and Furrier.org
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Texas Instruments Cutting Staff 12%; Sees Big Q1 Rev Drop — Texas Instruments (TXN) this afternoon said it will cut its staff by 12%, including 1,800 layoffs and 1,600 voluntary retirements and departures. The company will take about $300 million in related charges.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Should Facebook-or Someone Else-Take Another Run at Twitter? — Twitter-the non-money-making start-up that lets a user update status in a pithy manner-had a banner day last week with the inauguration of President Barack Obama, which followed all the tweets about the successful airline crash …
Times of London:
Speculation grows over eBay plan to sell Skype internet telephone division — Chief executive's descrition of internet telephony group as great standalone business fires speculation — Speculation is mounting that eBay, the internet auction website, is preparing to sell Skype, its internet telephone company.
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DealBook, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, VatorNews, Boy Genius Report, Geek.com, Digital Daily and Guardian
securitylabs.websense.com:
Barack Obama's Site Leading to Trojan — Change has finally arrived in the United States of America, marking the dawn of a new era. The US Presidential campaign has shown the world how governments can leverage Web 2.0 to better understand and garner support from their citizens.
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Steve Jobs Reportedly Under the Knife at Stanford Hospital Today — Ailing Apple CEO Steve Jobs checked into Stanford Hospital over the weekend and was scheduled for surgery this morning, we hear. — At a party in Silicon Valley last night, a Stanford staffer who had just come …
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
U.S. Defense Department Mimics Google, Microsoft in Cloud Computing Effort — Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) — When the Defense Department's John Garing met Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to learn about cloud computing, he liked what he saw. Enough to send him back to Washington ready to change how government technology works.
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Isle of Man Plans Unlimited Music Downloads — PARIS — Two generations ago, the Isle of Man gave the world the Bee Gees. Now it says it wants to help the wounded music industry stay alive. — The island, a rainy outpost in the Irish Sea, is promoting an offbeat remedy for digital piracy …
Adam Sage / Times of London:
Nintendo brain-trainer ‘no better than pencil and paper’ — A 10p pencil is just as good as a £100 Nintendo at stimulating the memory, according to a study that dismisses the DS Lite's claims to boost the brain. — The survey of ten-year-old children found no evidence to support claims …
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DS Fanboy, PC World, Crave, Destructoid, CrunchGear, Kotaku, GamePolitics News and Game|Life
Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Announces Actions to Reduce Labor Costs by about $1.2 Billion — Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) today announced that the company will take actions in the first quarter of 2009 to reduce internal and external labor costs by approximately $1.2 billion on an annualized basis.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Multiple Windows 7 versions coming? Say it ain't so! — These pictures supposedly come from a new build of the Windows 7 beta, 7025. It goes without saying that while we knew this was a possibility, we've been seriously wishing against it. We hope these are fake (and they very well could be) …
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Technologizer, Electronista, Download Squad, Gizmodo, Boing Boing Gadgets and Silicon Alley Insider
Business Wire:
VMware Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2008 Results — Company Achieves Annual Revenue Growth of 42% to $1.9 Billion with Solid Fourth Quarter; Annual GAAP Operating Margin of 17%; Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 25% — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW - News) …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA seeks sanctions against Harvard Law School prof — Joel Tenenbaum's file-swapping case is being handled by a Harvard Law prof and his students, but the RIAA wants Professor Nesson censored and fined after he tries to depose a mysterious music industry lawyer. — Does the RIAA look at Charles Nesson and see Denny Crane?
PE Hub Blog:
ChaCha Raising $30 Million — ChaCha Search Inc., a Carmel, Ind.-based search startup, has secured around $11 million of a $30 million Series C round, according to a regulatory filing. No new shareholders are listed. The company had previously raised around $14 million from Morton Meyerson …
Dawn Kawamoto / Webware.com:
The Knot marries WedSnap — Weddingbook is the highest-ranking wedding-planning application on social network Facebook, which recently awarded developer WedSnap $25,000. — (Credit: WedSnap) — The Knot on Monday announced that it has acquired WedSnap, the developer of the popular online wedding-planning application Weddingbook.
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