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Mscorp / Microsoft On The Issues:
Working to Fulfill our Legal Obligations in Europe for Windows 7 — Vice President and Deputy General Counsel — [Update to my original post earlier today below - I've added more historical context for readers who might be new to the issue - D.H.] — Earlier today CNET reported …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Europe to get Windows 7 sans browser — Microsoft plans to remove Internet Explorer from the versions of Windows 7 that it ships in Europe, CNET News has learned. — Reacting to antitrust concerns expressed by European regulators, Microsoft plans to offer a version in Europe that has the browser removed.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
T-Mobile's Samsung Bigfoot — One of our trusty ninjas just hit us up with the above photo of Samsung's Bigfoot Android device slated to hit T-Mobile USA this summer. We've been told it will rock a 3 megapixel camera, be a UMTS/HSDPA device, and sport a 3.0″ capacitive AMOLED touch screen display.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Scoble's Building 43 Launching Tonight With Practical Tips For Businesses Stuck In The 90's — Tonight sees the launch of Robert Scoble's newest project, Building43, an online community that he's building in partnership with web-hosting provider Rackspace (we're having them over to celebrate with us at our birthday party).
John Carney / Clusterstock:
Media Brawl Breaks Out Over Zipcar IPO Story (UPDATED) — Yesterday Bloomberg put out the story headlined “Zipcar Seeks IPO as Once 'Wacky Car-Sharing Gains.” — But now a fight has broken out about whether the company is actually seeking an IPO. — A spokesperson for the car-sharing rental company …
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Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
Green Dam definitively blocks political sites - and creates security breach — Despite China's claims that Green Dam Youth Escort - the spyware the government has commanded shall be installed on all new PCs - is merely a porn filter, it's now clear that the software filters a whole bunch of political content.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
New screenshot gallery shows more polished Snow Leopard — A new and extensive screenshot gallery taken from the near feature-complete build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard distributed at this week's Apple developers conference shows off a more polished operating system nearing its final stretch of development.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Twitter Launches Verified Accounts — Twitter launched the first phase of its Verified Accounts program moments ago, meaning that celebrities, musicians, athletes, actors, public officials and public agencies on the service can now display a “verified account” button on their Twitter pages.
Frank Ohlhorst / PC World:
Will Microsoft's Free Antivirus App be Worth the Price? — Microsoft is getting ready to offer Windows users a free antivirus product (code name Morro), something it should have built into one of its operating systems a long time ago. But, of course, Microsoft never makes things simple.
Ina Fried / CNET News:
How Intuit managed to hold off Microsoft — The defeat of Microsoft Money at the hands of Intuit's Quicken marks a rare chapter in the annals of software history. — Intuit is one of the few companies to take Microsoft head-on on its home turf—packaged software—and come out on top.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder — A question which regularly pops up in the TorrentFreak mailbox is “How do hide myself online? How can I get free anonymous BitTorrent?” Our answer is usually something along the lines of “Free anonymous BitTorrent isn't really a reality right now.
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Pui-Wing Tam / Digits:
More Ways to Sell Out of Your Startup Stock — Startup executives and employees haven't had it easy cashing out of their private company stock since the IPO and M&A markets, which typically provide “liquidity” and a route to riches, have been relatively moribund in recent years.
Sophos:
More Mac OS X malware discovered — Mac malware can seem like buses - you see none for ages and then two come along at once. — Last night, SophosLabs was sent a message containing what claimed to be the “SRC CoDE of new Macintosh Worm” and so our Canadian labs released OSX/Tored-Fam …
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Celia McGee / New York Times:
Your Invitation Is Not in the Mail — IN Washington, the same week Barack Obama took office, a young staff member for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice enlisted Paperless Post, a new online stationery service, to help put together a going-away party for her boss.
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Inside Twitter — An In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World — Alex Cheng, Mark Evans, and Harshdeep Singh — → Appendix for reference with complete list of graphs — Over the past few months, Twitter has experienced explosive growth, attracting celebrity users such as Oprah …
Bloomberg:
Rambus Says It Reaches Tentative Settlement With EU in Chip Antitrust Case — Rambus Inc., the California memory- chip designer, said it reached a tentative settlement of a two- year-old European Union antitrust probe that includes cutting its patent royalty rates for some products.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
YouTube Adds Facebook Connect — Talk about a big fish ... today YouTube announced that they are now supporting Facebook Connect. While there was a previous YouTube campaign which integrated Facebook Connect, this is the first official implementation. In a blog post on the Facebook developer blog …
Lance Whitney / CNET News:
The many ways to access Wolfram Alpha — Say what you will about Wolfram Alpha, the creators are hard at work trying to drum up interest in the site. — On Tuesday, the WA crew launched a number of updates to its service, some of which I tested. Now the team's Thursday blog points you to the many …
Chris Savarese / AOL Corporate:
AOL Acquires Two Local Services, Patch and Going — Acquisitions Add to AOL's Leading Network of Local Services with a Community-Specific News and Information Platform and a Local Event Platform — AOL today announced two acquisitions in the local space: Patch Media Corporation, http …
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Alex Patriquin / Compete Blog:
Bing Attracts New Searchers, But So Far Only For a Trial — Unless you're completely new to the internet industry, or have been on vacation for the past two weeks, you've probably heard a lot about Bing, Microsoft's slick new search engine. — On June 1st, Microsoft officially launched Bing …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Researching Methods for Facilitating Emergency Phone Calls — A patent application entitled Method and system for prolonging emergency calls, filed in December 2007 and disclosed today, reveals that Apple has been researching methods for facilitating emergency phone calls from the iPhone.
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Victor Godinez / techblog.dallasnews.com:
Dell hoarding $10 billion, rumored to be making big acquisition (maybe Palm?) — The Wall Street Journal reports that expectations are growing that Dell is about to make a major splash with a corporate acquisition. — While the smart money seems to be on Dell wanting to …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Video game sales still in a slump versus a year ago — Video game sales fell for the third straight month in May, as the industry just can't be the extraordinary numbers that it turned out a year ago. It's not quite time to panic. The recession is a drag, but the blockbusters for this year …
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Tech Rumor of the Day: Palm — Palm (PALM Quote) is apparently preparing Pixie, a lower-priced follow-up to its popular Pre phone. — The new phone is expected to be a candybar-shaped touchscreen device that would sell for $99, and it's aimed directly at the cheaper Apple (AAPL Quote) iPhone.
