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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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BBC:
No IE onboard Windows 7 in Europe — European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. — Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer. — The company said it would make it easy for PC makers …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Associated Press:
E.U. Criticizes Microsoft Plan to Remove Browser — BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union regulators said Friday that Microsoft Corp. was offering less choice, not more, by vowing to sell the next version of Windows without any Web browsers at all. — Microsoft said Thursday that it would remove …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:EU responds to Microsoft's browser move
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Google Mobile Blog:
Snack time with the new iGoogle for Android and iPhone — We like iGoogle because it lets us “snack” on interesting information all day long. We can read a little bit of news here and there, glance at finance portfolios, take a look at the weather forecast, and then do a Google search.
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Todd Wilder / Apple:
Safari 4 Downloads Top 11 Million in Three Days — Apple® today announced that more than 11 million copies of Safari® 4 have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads of Safari for Windows. Safari 4 is the world's fastest …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Palm Pixie Is Real, But May Never Come To Market — Lots of excitement today over a second Palm WebOS device now that the Pre has launched. The only problem is that none of this is news. We broke the story about the device, code named Pixie, on April 29. A day later we had the Pixie name and additional details.
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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.
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Tax Man's Target: The Mobile Phone — The use of company-issued mobile phones could trigger new federal income taxes on millions of Americans as a “fringe benefit,” spurring efforts by the wireless industry and others to kill the idea. — The Internal Revenue Service proposed …
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.
The University of Michigan:
Analysis of the Green Dam Censorware System — Scott Wolchok, Randy Yao, and J. Alex Halderman — Computer Science and Engineering Division — The University of Michigan … Introduction — Accordingly to recent news reports (NYT, WSJ), the Chinese government has mandated that …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Who's afraid of a digital world? The World Copyright Summit — The world's rightsholders gathered in Washington this week to discuss copyright in all its variegated glory, but the event was essentially about one topic: how do we survive in a digital world?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Daily Show Rips The New York Times — The Daily Show does a much better job than I did ripping the New York Times. … (Here's the video on Comedy Central, for our international friends). — Crunch Network: CrunchBase the free database of technology companies, people, and investors
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Your Facebook business name: Already reserved? — Facebook employees and tech journalists aren't the only ones whose names have been reserved ahead of the big Facebook vanity URL land grab that will open up at midnight Eastern time Saturday morning. The company already has “tens of thousands” …
TechFlash:
Farecast team looks to take Bing Travel to new heights — When Microsoft bought Seattle online travel startup Farecast for $115 million more than a year ago, some people in the technology industry wondered why. The reason is now clear, with Farecast's technology on full display in the software giant's new search engine, Bing.com.
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
How Facebook Uses Your “Skipped” Webmail Contacts — Yesterday, Facebook suggested two people to me through its “Suggestions” feature which usually includes friends of friends, co-workers and people I used to go to school with. The odd thing about these two suggestions was that although …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Sells $3 Million Of Computers For Dell — Who knew that Dell had 600,000 Twitter followers? In any event...the company has apparently tweeted its way to $3 million in sales over the past two years, including $1 million in the last 6 months. — That's chicken feed for Dell, of course.
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Sargund / Sargun's Blog:
Doom hack. I've gotten PRDoom running on the device. PRDoom is an open source doom clone that uses SDL for its rendering backend. The Palm Pre's GUI, Luna, utilizes a framebuffer. The SDL backend we used was directfb. — The Palm Pre's rootfs, based on openembedded, had directfb …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flowgram Was Cool. Now It's Dead — Well, this is a bummer. Flowgram, a promising startup that launched last July, is a goner. — The service let users create screencasts with live websites, and the early beta users really liked it: … But this evening founder Abhay Parekh sent …
