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Engineering Windows 7:
Some Changes Since Beta for the RC — We've been quite busy for the past two months or so working through all the feedback we've received on Windows 7. It should be no surprise but the Release Candidate for Windows 7 will have quite a few changes, many under the hood so to speak but also many visible.
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Carol Bartz / Yodel Anecdotal:
Getting our house in order — A month and a half in the saddle and today I have the perfect excuse to get blogging. — I've been on a whirlwind tour for the last six weeks, talking with everybody from executive leaders to the guys who configured my laptop.
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Frederik Schaffalitzky / Google LatLong:
Explore more with User Photos in Street View — Starting today, a new feature lets you browse popular user-contributed photos from Panoramio at major landmarks around the world. The many people who virtually visit Paris to see the famous Eiffel Tower or the Notre Dame cathedral in Street View …
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Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia considering entering laptop industry — HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia is eyeing entering the laptop business, its Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE on Wednesday.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Enters the Twitter Game : Google + Twitter = Twoogling? — Google is now on Twitter. As insane as it may seem, it has taken Google years to start using their Google account, which is located at Twitter.com/Google — Google + Twitter = Twoogling?
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to further polish Leopard with 10.5.7 update — Apple this week is believed to have tapped its vast developer community to begin testing Mac OS X 10.5.7, a sizable maintenance and security update to the company's Leopard operating system with a particular focus on syncing improvements.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Microsoft Finally Reveals Some Of The Patents It Claims Linux Infringes... Sorta — For years, Microsoft has waved around the FUD stick concerning the 200+ patents it claimed to hold that Linux implementations supposedly infringed upon. However, when confronted, the company never seemed willing to name a single such patent.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end — The Government's plan to introduce mandatory internet censorship has effectively been scuttled, following an independent senator's decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started.
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Better Interface for Uploading Gmail Attachments — Gmail improved substantially the interface for uploading attachments: now you can select multiple attachments at once and there's a progress bar that displays the status of your uploads. It's much easier to upload multiple files from a folder …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Trial Day 9: BitTorrent Is Not Evil — First up today was Kristoffer Schollin who spoke via telephone from Gothenburg University. He explained he is a lecturer in IT law with a particular interest in file-sharing and has written a paper on Digital Rights Management (DRM).
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
Twitter = YouTube. — What? Is Battelle crazy? Hear me out. Think back when YouTube was growing like a weed, and Google snapped it up. Most folks (including me) saw this as Google “getting into the video business,” and sure, that in fact was one part of the equation.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Why Are iPhone Users Willing to Pay for Content? — It may be no surprise that the bestselling computer book so far this year is “iPhone: The Missing Manual,” by my colleague David Pogue (O'Reilly, 2007). — But here is something that did surprise me: The most popular edition of this book isn't on paper …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook now available to order, officially — After a rocky start that is becoming increasingly common for the company, Dell has now officially made its new Mini 10 netbook available for order. The snazzy little netbook first appeared on the site for pre-order a few days ago …
Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
First Wave of Cisco Layoffs Begins — Cisco Systems Inc. laid off several hundred employees this week, joining other tech giants that have cut staff as they deal with the recession. — The layoffs are the first wave of a planned cut of up to 2,000 employees.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
New York Times to the Web: Hands Off Our “T”! — The New York Times is justifiably proud of the work its staff publishes on the its flagship Web site every day. It's also very proud of the first letter of its name. — That seems to be the lesson in a flap between the paper and Newser …
Brian Prince / eWeek:
Google Challenges Hackers to Native Client Security Contest — Google wants hackers to take their best shot at cracking Native Client security. Google is offering prizes for the top five vulnerabilities hackers can find. The contest ends May 5. — Google is hosting a contest …
Jaimee Steele / comScore:
comScore: Light PC Internet Users Are 30 Percent More Likely than Heavy PC Internet Users to Access Mobile Internet Content — Results from first PC/Mobile Internet overlap panel suggest — Mobile can enhance a PC digital advertising campaign — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) …
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Mobile Ad Publishers Asked to Verify Display Ad Campaigns — Publishers of mobile content were told by Omnicom's OMD to obtain third-party verification for mobile display ad campaigns. Running ads through third-party authentication allows for more consistent reporting between the Web …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Salesforce.com: High maintenance costs are pushing customers to us — Salesforce.com delivered strong fourth quarter results that put CEO Marc Benioff in a more chatty mood than usual. The big takeaway: Salesforce.com is using high maintenance costs from big vendors like Oracle and SAP to its advantage.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL International Head Out: Rejiggering Commences! — Yahoo's not the only place BoomTown gets internal corporate memos from! — Here are two about big changes in AOL's international-such that it is-unit, as the head of it-Maneesh Dhir (pictured here)-moves on.
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Asavin Wattanajantra / IT PRO - Today:
Should Jack Straw use Hotmail for gov business? — Security firm criticises the Justice Secretary for using a Hotmail email account to talk to his constituents and government contacts. — UK Justice Secretary Jack Straw has been criticised by a security vendor for using a Hotmail account …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
The Troubling Implications Of Recognizing ‘Hot News’ As Property — from the you-can-copyright-facts? dept — A bunch of sites have been discussing the Associated Press's lawsuit against All Headline News, but I wanted to spend some time reading up on the case before commenting — and the more I read, the more troubling it became.
