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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype Now Means Business, Friends the SIP World — Skype, a division of beleaguered eBay, is going corporate. The company today announced that it will play nice with corporate PBX systems that use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). According to The Wall Street Journal …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Online Backup Company Carbonite Loses Customers' Data, Blames And Sues Suppliers — The danger of storing your data in the cloud, part n. VC-backed online backup and storage provider Carbonite has lost data of 7,500+ customers who relied on the company to keep their files safe, The Boston Globe unveiled over the weekend.
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
The Future of Twitter: Social CRM — Twitter has multiple business models to choose from — I get asked over and over: “How do you think Twitter will monetize? What's their business model?” While it's clear their already experimenting with ‘house’ ads, ads that promote features of their service …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
iPhone game developer Ngmoco raises second round of funding — The iPhone game publisher Ngmoco is announcing today that it has raised $10 million in a second round of funding — in its ninth month as a company. — The funding — led by Norwest Venture Partners and put together in a matter of weeks …
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple discontinues iPhone Bluetooth Headset [u] — Apple this weekend appears to have discontinued its iPhone Bluetooth Headset, a possible sign that the company could be planning to introduce an updated model alongside new iPhones a bit later this year or cede the market segment to third parties.
Nat Ives / AdAge:
Media Giants Want to Top Google Results — Argue That Professional Sources Should Be More Recognized Than Blogs — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their expensive professional content within the search engine's undifferentiated slush of results.
Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Mag:
Samsung N110 — Samsung's updated 10-inch netbook continues to beat the competition with an improved touchpad and more than 7 hours of battery life. — Price as Reviewed: $469.00 — Review Contents: — The Samsung NC10 rose to the top of our favorite-netbooks list when it first hit …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Bigfoot Networks launches second-generation gaming network card — Bigfoot Networks is launching the second-generation of its gaming network card for PCs to deal with the problem of lag. — Lag is the problem gamers see when they're getting ready to blast someone in a multiplayer combat game …
PC World:
Play Xbox Games on Your Cell Phone — Imagine playing what looks like an Xbox 360 game — on a $100 cell phone. That, according to Remi Pedersen, graphics product manager at ARM, is exactly what could be possible as soon as winter 2009 with its new higher-end Mali-200 and Mali-400 processors.
Elizabeth Holmes / Digits:
Business Week Jumps on Twitter Bandwagon — Business Week is syncing the comments on its social-networking site to Twitter, making it among the first major media companies to harness the popularity of the microblogging service. — Business Exchange is the community site Business Week launched …
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Rivals Say I.B.M. Stifles Competition to Mainframes — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — I.B.M. has dominated the mainframe computer business since the category was created four decades ago. And it still gets about one-quarter of its $100 billion in annual revenue from sales, software, services and financing related to the machines.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
SpiralFrog owes $34 million. Investors get nothing? — Attorneys representing defunct music service SpiralFrog have notified investors not to expect any returns. Whatever money comes from liquidating assets will go to a group that loaned the company an “amount exceeding $34 million.”
Felix Salmon / Portfolio:
The NYT's Blogophobia — What's with the sudden blogophobia at the NYT? Between Craig Whitney's astonishingly tone-deaf memo on how to write a blog, and the legal department's heavy-handed nastygram trying to shut down Apartment Therapy, it seems that one of the most web-savvy media companies …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Vuze Integrates with iTunes, Xbox 360 and PS3 — Over the past year, Vuze has been slowly transitioning to an all-in-one BitTorrent application where users can search, download and play videos from the Vuze network and other torrent sites. The latest addition to the client takes yet another step forward.
Tim Arango / New York Times:
As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes — In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing “Winter Wonderland,” and she posted it on YouTube.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft readies its Web platform 2.0 — Last fall, Microsoft rolled out version 1 of its installer for its Web-platform stack of software. At Mix '09 last week, the company refreshed the installer in the form of a new beta for Web Platform Installer 2.0 and a new gallery of third-party Web apps.
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Austin Modine / The Register:
Eclipse to unwrap Swordfish in early April — Takes stab at open-source SOA software — Free whitepaper - Avoiding costs from oversizing data center and network room infrastructure — The Eclipse Foundation will soon be unwrapping the first release of Swordfish, an open source Service …
Chris Keall / National Business Review:
Section 92A to be scrapped — Prime Minister John Key has announced the government will throw out the controversial Section 92A of the Copyright Amendment (New Technologies) Act and start again. — Commerce and justice minister Simon Power will now meet with officials and rewrite Section 92A (S92) of the Act from the ground up.
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