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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Availability of Internet Explorer 8 — New browser focuses on top customer needs, including security, ease of use and performance. — Today Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of Windows Internet Explorer 8, the new Web browser that offers the best solution for how people use the Web today.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Microsoft Ups Ante With New Browser — The Web browser is arguably the most important piece of software on a computer. No longer just a tool for perusing or searching for information, it has become, for many people, their principal communications medium, their photo album, their newspaper, social club, bank and shopping mall.
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Pwn2Own 2009: Safari/MacBook falls in seconds — [ UPDATE: IE 8 and Safari also fall ] — VANCOUVER, BC — Charlie Miller has done it again. For the second consecutive year, the security researcher hacked into a fully patched MacBook computer by exploiting a security vulnerability in Apple's Safari browser.
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InfoWorld, Download Squad, Computerworld, Pocket-lint.com, The Register, SlashGear, The Mac Observer, Security Watch, Guardian, Neowin.net and MacNN
Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:With Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft turns up Web browser competition
Cisco:
Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Pure Digital Technologies, Makers of Flip VideoTM — Networking Leader Adds Popular Flip Video Solutions to Consumer Portfolio — SAN JOSE, Calif. - March. 19, 2009 - Cisco today announced its intent to acquire privately held Pure Digital Technologies …
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Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Cisco Flips Over Pure Digital — Cisco Systems went through with its head-scratcher of an acquisition, announcing on Thursday the purchase of Pure Digital for $590 million in stock. — While you may not recognize the Pure Digital name, there's a decent chance that you've run across its Flip Video products.
BBspot:
Twitter Unveils New Premium Accounts — By Brian Briggs - Twitter Dove Member, follow me @ twitter.com/briggsb — San Francisco, CA - Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams today announced part of the company's long-awaited business model: Twitter Premium accounts.
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Twitterville Falls For Premium Accounts Hoax — It's mildly funny and very obviously a hoax, but this article on humour site BBspot didn't stop many a Twitter user from thinking it is real. — The author of the post mocks Twitter's lack of an apparent business model after 3 years in operation …
Wall Street Journal:
Sony, Google Challenge Amazon — Sony Electronics Inc. is pairing with Google Inc. to battle Amazon.com Inc. in the growing digital books market. — In a strike against Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader, Sony and Google plan to launch a partnership Thursday that will give users …
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BBC:
Google's pictures of UK go live — Google has launched the UK version of its Street View service, which allows users to browse a selection of pictures taken along city streets. — Street scenes in 25 UK cities from Aberdeen to Southampton can be viewed using the service.
Peter Suber / Open Access News:
MIT adopts a university-wide OA mandate — This afternoon, the MIT faculty unanimously adopted a university-wide OA mandate. Here's the resolution the faculty approved (thanks to Hal Abelson, MIT professor of computer science and engineering, who chaired the committee to formulate it):
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Analysis: Apple's iPhone Shows How Upgrades Should Be Done — Never mind the cut and paste. Never mind the picture messaging, or all the other stuff that should have been in iPhone 1.0. Never mind the new payment methods that will shake up the mobile shopping marketplace.
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Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Sirius Founder Says The Company Is Screwed — from the cracks-in-the-crystal-ball dept — It's no secret that Sirius XM's business has been hurting. Its recent brush with bankruptcy merely highlighted the huge obstacles the company faced from the beginning: massive capital outlay …
Palm WebOS:
Palm WebOS: Subscription Accounting — In my infinite quest to find every bit of Palm WebOS and Palm Pre news on the planet, I came across a Palm document marked “confidential” that illustrates to investors how the company will handle accounting for Palm Pre and other WebOS related revenue.
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
A More Local, Social Citysearch — Citysearch is unveiling a new Web site on Thursday that will make the site more social and more local — and, the site hopes, staunch its loss of readers. — Citysearch was one of the first Web companies to create an online version of the Yellow Pages when …
Adam Frucci / Gizmodo:
Why iPhone In-App Transactions Could Be a Disaster — Apple made a big deal about allowing in-app transactions with the new iPhone 3.0 API. It's great news if you're a developer looking to make more scratch, but it's potentially terrible news for users. — Basically, this is opening …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Live from New York: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer — The Microsoft (MSFT) boss is sitting down with BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler at the McGraw-Hill media conference. Expect at least some chatter about Yahoo (YHOO) and its new boss Carol Bartz, who just happens to be visiting New York this week as well.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Topspin Shows That Premium Offerings Get Sales: People Will Pay For Value Beyond The Music — It's really been great over the past year or so to see more and more bands adopting business models that involve tiered “premium” options that add real value for fans — the key to creating a real reason to buy …
