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Microsoft:
Microsoft Contributes Linux Drivers to Linux Community — Roundtable Q&A: Sam Ramji, senior director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft, and Tom Hanrahan, director of Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center, discuss the company's release of Linux device driver code under General Public License v2.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Pigs do fly: Microsoft unleashes 20,000 lines of Linux code — Microsoft is releasing three Microsoft-developed Linux drivers to the Linux community for possible inclusion in the Linux source tree. — This is the first time Microsoft has made Microsoft-developed code available directly to the Linux community.
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Network World, Ars Technica, PC World, LinuxWorld.com, Computerworld, Port 25, The Register, CNET News and The Seattle Times
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Estimated to Account for 20% of Cellphone Industry Profit — The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) on research from Deutsche Bank analyst Brian Modoff showing that Apple and Research in Motion together accounted for approximately 35% of the cellphone industry's total operating profit …
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Sara Silver / Wall Street Journal:
Apple, RIM Outsmart Phone Market — No wonder they are called smart phones. Not only can these fancy phones send email, get directions and play music, they can generate huge profits for their makers. — At least for iPhone's manufacturer Apple and BlackBerry's Research In Motion.
Andrey / Inside BlackBerry:
BlackBerry Desktop Software: Coming Soon to a Mac Near You! — Many of you commented on my “Updating Your BlackBerry Device Software” post back in April saying “...this is great! But what about Mac?” I could not respond to those comments at the time, but I'm happy to say there's some exciting news we can share with you.
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CrunchGear, Ars Technica, Silicon Alley Insider, Computerworld, Engadget, 9 to 5 Mac, BusinessWeek, Boy Genius Report, CNET News, Macworld, InformationWeek, Mashable!, SlashGear, jkOnTheRun, RIMarkable, TheNextWeb.com, IntoMobile, Unwired View, BlackBerry Cool, TheAppleBlog, Macsimum News, Gizmodo, The iPhone Blog, AppScout and Obsessable
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Twitter Generates $48 Million of Media Coverage in a Month — But Can It Maintain Its Sizzle? — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Twitter's been the toast of TV news programs, daytime talk shows, magazine editors and newspaper reporters. But what's all that chatter worth?
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Scobleizer, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Glass House, mocoNews, Silicon Alley Insider and Softpedia News
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable:
YouTube Testing 3D Videos (YT3D) — It appears that some time over the weekend, YouTube began experimenting with 3D videos. I spotted a thread at the YouTube Help forum about this, where Googler Pete said he developed this in his 20% time. — He said he is the “developer working on the stereoscopic player as a 20% project.”
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Barnes & Noble partners with Plastic Logic; Opens up; Targets Kindle — Updated: Barnes & Noble has outlined its answer for Amazon's Kindle: A partnership with Plastic Logic, which will launch an eReader in early 2010, and plans to open its e-book sales to multiple platforms.
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VentureBeat, Tech Beat, CNET News, TechFlash, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Barnes & Noble, Inc., PC World, TechCrunch, The Seattle Times, Tech Trader Daily, mocoNews, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, Shooting at Bubbles, Engadget, Gizmodo and TeleRead, Thanks:mager
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
DRM is ****, RIAA Says — The digital music landscape is evolving continuously. Just two years ago RIAA chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol defended the use of DRM on digital music because customers would benefit from it. — “DRM serves all sorts of pro-consumer purposes,” he said at the time …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Charging for Access to News Sites — John Plunkett, reporting for the Guardian last week, in a story titled “Financial Times Editor Says Most News Websites Will Charge Within a Year”: … I wish them good luck with this, and I mean that sincerely, but I believe this is a fundamentally flawed strategy.
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Gabriel Snyder / Gawker:
The Management Consultants Who Will End Condé Nast As We Know It — That was quick. Here is the grim memo that Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend just sent out announcing that it is bringing in McKinsey & Company to “develop new perspectives on optimizing our approach to business.”
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Facebook co-founder's Asana raises funding — from Facebook angels? — We're hearing that the business collaboration company co-founded by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein (both formerly of Facebook) has raised funding from the same investors who backed the popular social networking site.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
Apple Preparing iPod Touch With Camera, Microphone: Source — Rumors have swirled about Apple readying a new version of the iPod Touch with a camera and microphone, which, combined with a Skype account, would pretty much obviate the need for a home phone line once and for all.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google not liable for defamation in search results, rules court — Internet giant Google wins landmark high court libel ruling over forum comment displayed in search results — Google is not liable for defamatory comments that appear in news articles, blogs and forums displayed in its search results …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
All eyes on Apple's earnings — Apple (AAPL), one of the most closely watched stocks on the Nasdaq — and one of the engines driving the market's midsummer rally — reports its fiscal third quarter earnings on Tuesday. — None of the three dozen analysts who follow the stock …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:What to expect from Apple's quarterly progress report
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NEWSFACTOR, AppleInsider, Crave, Tech Trader Daily, TUAW, Brainstorm Tech, GMSV, Tech Check with Jim Goldman and The Apple Core
Aaron / YouTube Biz Blog:
YouTube myth busting — One of our favorite shows at YouTube is MythBusters, the Discovery Channel's popular science program in which hosts Jamie and Adam bravely attempt to debunk urban legends. For those of us who thought you could jump start a car with a defibrillator, we consider this show a public service.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Kazaa to rise from the dead — The notorious Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing service is back from the dead three years after it was shut down by the music industry in a $150 million lawsuit. — But the software looks entirely different this time around, with users forced to pay for their music instead of trading tracks illegally.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Most Engaged Brands On The Web — What big brands do the best job with social media? A new study by analyst Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Wetpaint ranks the top 100 brands by social media engagement. You can find the report embedded below or on ENGAGEMENTdb …
The Official Google Blog:
Explore the moon in Google Earth — Posted by Anousheh Ansari, Trustee, X PRIZE Foundation, and first female private space explorer … Ever since I was a young girl, it has been a dream of mine to travel into space. In September of 2006, I was fortunate enough to make that dream a reality …
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Google LatLong, Macworld, Search Engine Watch, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Google Earth Blog, VentureBeat, Webmonkey, Technologizer, Telegraph, Search Engine Land, Google Watch, YouTube Blog, AppScout, Softpedia News, Search Engine Journal, dailywireless.org, Mashable!, Search Engine Roundtable, Bits, The Register, Google Operating System and The Map Room
Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:
Palm: Report Sees Pre Defects Hitting Earnings — Despite being enamored with Palm's (PALM) Pre smartphone, analyst Kevin Dede with boutique investment banker and brokerage Jesup & Lamont this morning initiated coverage of Palm shares with a “Sell” rating. Dede thinks the shares are worth $12.50.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Launch Wars: Twitcam Beats CamTweet To Live Video Tweets — Ten days ago at our Real Time Stream CrunchUp, Justin.tv demonstrated a new beta product they are working on called CamTweet. It lets you launch a live video broadcast using your computer Webcam, Tweet it out to your followers …
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Apps ‘to be as big as internet’ — The market for mobile applications, or apps, will become “as big as the internet”, peaking at 10 million apps in 2020, a leading online store says. — However, GetJar say, the developer community will decline drastically as each developer makes less money.
Benjamin / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more — Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features: — Real-time APIs - utilize long polling to get feeds in real-time, including search!
Nick Thuesen / Open:
Announcing the NYT API Tool — A few weeks ago, I was playing with the Facebook API and using the Facebook API Test Console. I thought to myself, “Wow, if we were smart, we'd have something like this for our APIs.” Sadly, it took me another two or three minutes before I remembered I was a developer and could just build it myself!
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Hang On, It's Going to Be a Bumpy Night: Yahoo Earnings Tomorrow, Microsoft Earnings Thursday — Yahoo and Microsoft are still seriously talking about a search and partnership deal, never-ending discussions that might or might not come to fruition. But most investors will be focused …
Joseph L. Flatley / Engadget:
Kingston unveils 256GB thumb drive for well-heeled memory fiends — We're sure that it's only a matter of moments before a 256GB thumb drive this bulky is something of a joke — hell, it wasn't so terribly long ago that cramming 256MB into something this size was an accomplishment.
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Obama's Unwilling Cyber Czars — By focusing on the economy, the administration may have turned away its top candidates. — America's cyber czar, despite the impressive title, may not be such a coveted job after all. As early as this week, President Obama is expected to appoint …
DSLreports:
Qwest Unveils 40Mbps/20Mbps Service - Rumored VDSL2 expansion finally lands... Back in June we were the very first to report that Qwest was getting close to launching new VDSL2 service in select markets that would allow Qwest to offer faster broadband speeds, something that was important …
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Qwest Communications, Bits, BetaNews, GigaOM, The Seattle Times, TechFlash and Electronista
David Colker / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
New York Public Library opens elegant room for Wi-Fi users — Edna Barnes Salomon Room, pre Wi-Fi furnishings. Credit: David Sundberg/ESTO — When in New York, visit what is probably the grandest Wi-Fi hotspot in the country. — The New York Public Library today opens …
