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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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Chaim / About Skype:
Skype opens up to corporate SIP communications — New beta program brings Skype voice calling to SIP-based PBX systems — LUXEMBOURG, March 23, 2009 — Skype today announced the beta version of Skype For SIP for Business users. SIP, short for Session Initiation Protocol …
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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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Salesforce.com lets you answer customer complaints on Twitter — Most people on popular microblogging site Twitter (which just turned three) have probably seen customer service-type queries from other users — questions about how to make a product work, or complaints that it's broken.
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eWeek, Between the Lines, TECH.BLORGE.com, ReadWriteWeb, GMSV, TechCrunchIT, TheNextWeb.com, The Social and Micro Persuasion, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Media Companies Ask Google to Favor Their Content Over Blogs — Nat Ives reports in AdAge that a number of major media companies have asked Google to give it favorable positioning over blogs... What year is this? I thought it was 2009. But when I read this I felt like it was 2004 all over again.
Dan Freedman / BBC:
Users criticise Facebook update — More than a million people have now voted against changes to the social networking site Facebook. — The new look site puts more focus on status updates and has been likened to one of its rivals Twitter. — Users have voted overwhelmingly …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Dan Rosensweig Steps up to Take His Licks as Guitar Hero Frontman — Former Yahoo COO and current Quadrangle Group partner Dan Rosensweig (pictured here) will take over as CEO and President of Activision Blizzard's powerful Guitar Hero franchise, according to sources close to the situation.
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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 …
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
D.C. Homeless People Use Cellphones, Blogs and E-Mail to Stay on Top of Things — Homeless People Turn to Technology to Track Assistance and Opportunities — To the usual trappings that help many homeless people endure life on the streets — woolen blankets, shopping carts or cardboard box shelters — add the humble cellphone.
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.
Robert Weisman / Boston Globe:
Data backup firm sues 2 hardware suppliers — Carbonite claims bad equipment led to information loss — Carbonite Inc., a Boston company that backs up computer data for businesses and other organizations, is alleging that two other companies sold it more than $3 million worth of defective hardware …
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