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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Facebook and Twitter: There's blood everywhere, but no one's dying — Here we go again. Over the course of the last several months, we've heard that FriendFeed was going to kill Twitter. Then Twitter was going to kill FriendFeed. Then Facebook was going to kill FriendFeed.
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Mark Evans, All Facebook, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, A VC, Raph's Website, Marc's Voice, Pulse2 and Don Park's Daily Habit, Thanks:sampad
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Shane O'Neill / Computerworld UK:
Ballmer: Stay on Windows XP and you will face a backlash — Migrate fast to Vista or Windows 7 urges Microsoft CEO — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is warning IT organisations that they risk provoking an end user backlash if they don't move off the XP operating system.
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Gregg Keizer / PC World:
Windows XP's Days are Really Numbered Now — In 10 weeks, Microsoft Corp. will begin to retire Windows XP by shifting the seven-year-old OS into a more limited support plan. — Windows XP, Microsoft's most successful operating system ever, will leave what the company calls “mainstream support” …
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Official Google Australia Blog:
Mapping the Victorian fires — By now, you're undoubtedly aware of the terrible bushfire tragedy that is unfolding in Victoria. — We've today pulled together a Flash Map, containing the latest up-to-date information about fire locations and their status from the Country Fire Authority (CFA).
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Lunarr's Elements is a Twitter-like image-sharing tool to stoke the imagination — The downstream influence of social messaging service Twitter, which lets you message friends or hangers-on about what you're doing or thinking at any given moment, is beginning to result in some interesting applications.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Kaspersky breach exposes sensitive database, says hacker — SQL injection said to strike deep — A security lapse at Kaspersky has exposed a wealth of proprietary information about the anti-virus provider's products and customers, according to a blogger, who posted screen shots and other details …
Wayne Schulz / Gear Diary:
BlackBerry Storm price drops to $99 on Amazon - no rebate required — I just noticed that the touch screen BlackBerry Storm has dropped to $99 on Amazon with no rebate required. Previously the price had been $249.99 with a $100 rebate bringing the net to $149.99.
Conrad De Aenlle / New York Times:
Digital Archivists, Now in Demand — WHEN the world entered the digital age, a great majority of human historical records did not immediately make the trip. — Literature, film, scientific journals, newspapers, court records, corporate documents and other material, accumulated over centuries …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Why Television Still Shines in a World of Screens — SUBSCRIBERS to print newspapers have gone missing, as everyone knows. Book publishers are also wondering where readers have disappeared to. — And yet television stands out as the one old-media business with surprising resilience.
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Erica Naone / Technology Review:
Who's Messing with Wikipedia? — The back-and-forth behind controversial entries could help reveal their true value. — Despite warnings from many high-school teachers and college professors, Wikipedia is one of the most-visited websites in the world (not to mention the biggest encyclopedia ever created).
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
I'm a PC and I'm 4 and a half! — In the latest Crispin Porter & Bogusky ad in their $300 million ad campaign, set to air Sunday night during the Grammy awards, 4 and a half year old Kylie uses Windows Live Photo Gallery to send a picture of her fish to her parents, enjoy:
Staska / Unwired View:
Nokia to launch it's own app store/portal at MWC 09 — Symbian may be the most popular smartphone platform in the world and there may be tons of interesting mobile apps for it out there. — The problem is - there's no way to easily find and get them on to your handset.
