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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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Jane Maliouta / blogs.msdn.com:
Upgrading to Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 — Just like for previous beta releases, I am going to guide you through the upgrade steps for Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (IE8 RC1). — Before we begin, let me summarize the major changes you will see when installing IE8 RC1:
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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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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Apple equipping all Macs with iLife '09 for Tuesday launch
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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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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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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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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, TheAppleBlog, Macenstein, SlashGear, Tech Beat, The Toybox and The Mac Security Blog
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.
PR Newswire:
Netflix Announces Q4 2008 Financial Results — Subscribers - 9.4 million Revenue - $359.6 million GAAP Net Income - $22.7 million GAAP EPS - $0.38 per diluted share — Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX - News) today reported results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2008.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Netflix Shrs Rally Ahead Of Earnings This Afternoon
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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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Digital Daily, DealBook, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, VatorNews, Boy Genius Report, Geek.com and Guardian
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.
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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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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PC World, Crave, Destructoid, CrunchGear, Kotaku, GamePolitics News, Game|Life and GoNintendo
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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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?
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.
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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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sprint Treo Pro now on sale at Best Buy — We already knew that the Sprint-branded Treo Pro was making guest appearances at the occasional Best Buy, but thanks to a hard working web admin, you're one step closer to owning one without having to step foot in the aforesaid store... if you're willing to wait, that is.
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 …
