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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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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Yahoo CFO Jorgensen resigns — Yahoo CFO Blake Jorgensen, who addressed analysts at the Goldman Sachs Technology Conference in San Francisco yesterday, has resigned from the company. In a very brief SEC filing, the company wrote: … He was pretty much a Yahoo cheerleader during the Goldman Sachs event …
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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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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook releases draft of new user terms, asks for user feedback — Facebook is now asking for user feedback on a draft version of its proposed replacement for its previously-contested Terms of Service. The company is also announcing a guiding set of “Principles” (also open for comment) …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Live: Zuckerberg Announces Next Steps on Facebook's Terms of Service — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be announcing the next steps Facebook is taking “to improve user understanding and ownership of the Facebook terms of service and, more generally, the policies of the Facebook service,” shortly this morning.
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Facebook Opens Governance of Service and Policy Process to Users — Releases Draft Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities For User Review, Comment and Vote — Facebook® today announced a new approach to site governance that offers its users around the world …
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.
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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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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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Aaron Gray-Block / Reuters:TomTom to contest Microsoft patent lawsuit
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
White hat hackers target the iPhone — How secure is your smartphone? We may find out next month. — Hackers and computer security experts gathering on March 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, for the third annual Pwn2Own contest will be targeting five smartphones: an Apple (AAPL) …
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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 …
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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.
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Let SearchMonkey Feed Your Facebook Addiction — Starting today, Facebook enhanced results will automatically appear in search results. This means users can add a friend, poke, send a message, and view a person's friends from the deep links on the search results page.
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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.
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).
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 …
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Dell's A Mess, And Will Continue To Be — Dell [DELL Loading... () ] will release its fourth quarter earnings after the bell tonight, and despite some draconian cost cuts and a rock-bottom share price, it is an unattractive investment. And will be for the foreseeable future.
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?
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 …
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 …
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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Mendel Chuang / Social Web Blog:
Blogger and Google Friend Connect unite — Labels: Blogger, Google Friend Connect, new features — Since the introduction of the Following feature on Blogger, it has been adopted by nearly three million blogs, with someone following a new blog every second.
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 …
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.
Technology Expert / Tech-Ex:
HP's Upline to Get Permanent Downtime — HP's Upline cloud-based backup and storage service, which was launched last April, is about to fold, without even making it to its first anniversary. — According to an email sent to subscribers (even free ones, like me!), HP will halt backing …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
VMWare For Mobile Devices Lets You Run Windows and Android Simultaneously — Ok, this is even cooler than we expected: a Nokia N800, loaded with VMWare's MVP hypervisor, is seen here running Windows CE and Android, at the same time. This is a big deal! — What you're watching is, admittedly, virtualization.
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