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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Challenging Microsoft With a New Technology — Microsoft's No. 1 rival is a household name, Google. But a strong candidate for No. 2 is a company that is scarcely known outside the technology industry: VMware. — “VMware is definitely a threat,” said Gary Chen, an analyst at IDC, a research firm.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
VMware to step up data center automation game — VMware on Monday will roll out a product family dubbed vCenter to automate data center tasks and manage to service level agreements. — The announcements will kick off VMworld 2009 in San Francisco this week.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
A Hired Gun for Microsoft, in Dogged Pursuit of Google — REDMOND, Wash. — Qi Lu knows as well as anyone just how difficult it is to take on Google. — For nearly a decade, Mr. Lu played a leading role in building Yahoo's Internet search and advertising technologies.
Ryan Faas / Computerworld:
What's the real deal with 64-bit computing in Snow Leopard? — Is Snow Leopard a 64-bit operating system? Well, yes and no. — Computerworld - One of the biggest points of confusion around Apple's newest version of Mac OS X is about whether it's really a 64-bit or a 32-bit operating system.
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Hadley Leggett / Wired Science:
Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text — Starting this fall, you'll have a new reason to trust the information you find on Wikipedia: An optional feature called “WikiTrust” will color code every word of the encyclopedia based on the reliability of its author and the length of time it has persisted on the page.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Here come AMD's six-core, ultra-low-power Opteron EEs — There are three “rails” of wattage in AMD's architectural plan for its CPUs: its higher-performance SE line, its lowest-power EE line, and its hybrid HE line that trades some performance for power savings.
Laura Saunders / Wall Street Journal:
Is ‘Friending’ in Your Future? Better Pay Your Taxes First — Tax deadbeats are finding someone actually reads their MySpace and Facebook postings: the taxman. — State revenue agents have begun nabbing scofflaws by mining information posted on social-networking Web sites …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Man uses ‘Find My iPhone’ to locate his iPhone... and three robbery suspects — It's the moment every iPhone owner dreads — but secretly dreams about. You're walking in a dark alley (or near the intersection of Amberson Avenue and Amberson Place in Shadyside, in this case) and three men approach, one brandishing a gun.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Calix Raises $100M to Meet Broadband Demand — Calix, a company that provides equipment to help carriers, cable companies or rural broadband providers deploy and manage fiber networks, has raised $100 million in a combination of debt and equity financing. The funding will help …
Dan Dorfman / The Huffington Post:
SEC Investigating Apple Trading — Hey, have some investors been screwing around illegally with the shares of high-flying Apple, Inc., a superstar of the investment scene? — Apparently, the Securities & Exchange Commission is suspicious this may be the case and has kicked off an investigation …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google May Hand Over Caribbean Journalists' IP Addresses — Google has reportedly sent a letter to a high-profile Caribbean investigative website called The TCI Journal saying it will supply the IP addresses used to access the Journal's primary GMail account unless the Journal supplies a legal counter-motion within the next two weeks.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
All a Cub Reporter Needs Is a Scoop and an iPhone — SAN FRANCISCO — A Web site for local news hopes to fill the growing void in professionally reported local news by recruiting citizens armed with iPhones as reporters. — The site, Fwix, will release an iPhone application this week …
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Did AT&T get a sour apple when it snagged the iPhone? — No. But the WSJ feels otherwise. Their arguments: — The iPhone used to generate 40% new users for AT&T in 2007. Now that has dropped “all the way down” to 35%. No other Smartphone brings over a third of their customers from another network or anything close to that.
Maria Elena / Show Tracker:
Fox goes tweet, tweet, tweet on your TV screen during reruns of ‘Fringe’ and ‘Glee’ — Is that a tweet you see on your TV screen? — If you watch Fox's “Fringe” rerun on Thursday or a repeat of the “Glee” pilot on Friday, it is. — Twitter, as you may know, has become all the rage in the TV industry …
Derek Kessler / PreCentral.net:
New Palm phones in Sprint inventory: P120 and C40 — Following up on the word of Palm devices appearing in Verizon's database, we've been sent the above screenshot of a Sprint inventory management system, showing not one, not two, but three plot-thickening Palm devices.
Tim Greene / Network World:
Developer denies software to beat Chinese censors is malicious — Software designed to beat Chinese censorship may behave in ways that seem suspect, but it is all part of the application's strategy to fool the Great Firewall of China, according to one programmer of the software.
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
HP Labs researchers shift focus to bottom line — (08-30) 18:08 PDT — In the past, the 500 researchers at the famed HP Labs - creator of the first scientific pocket calculator, among other things - were spread over 150 projects at any given time, with little expectation of immediate hits.
