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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Zune HD to get Twitter, Facebook as Microsoft abandons ‘squirting’ — One of Microsoft's big bets when it decided to challenge Apple's iPod in 2006 was a feature known as Zune-to-Zune wireless sharing — or “squirting,” as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dubbed it.
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Brier Dudley / The Seattle Times:
Microsoft launches Zune, clarifies what's up with apps, raps iPod — Microsoft's third and perhaps best Zune effort goes on sale today, taking on the new generation of camera and app-equipped Apple iPods with a relatively pure music and video player. — This time the emphasis …
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Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
300 Million and On — As of today, Facebook now serves 300 million people across the world. It's a large number, but the way we think about this is that we're just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone. Because we want to make it as easy and fast as possible for the world to connect …
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:Facebook: 300 Million Monthly Active Users, “Free Cash Flow Positive”
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Omniture:
Adobe to Acquire Omniture — Combined Company Will Deliver Comprehensive Solutions for Creation, Delivery and Optimization of Content and Applications — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Omniture, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMTR) today announced the two companies have entered …
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion — Adobe said on Tuesday that it has reached a deal to acquire Web analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share. — That represents a 45 percent premium to Omniture's average closing price for the last 30 days, Adobe noted in its press release.
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Krishna Bharat / The Official Google Blog:
Read news fast with Google Fast Flip — One problem with reading news online today is that browsing can be really slow. A media-rich page loads dozens of files and can take as much as 10 seconds to load over broadband, which can be frustrating. What we need instead is a way to flip through articles …
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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Bruce Sewell to Join Apple as General Counsel & SVP — Daniel Cooperman to Retire — Apple® today announced that Bruce Sewell, formerly senior vice president and general counsel of Intel Corporation, will join Apple as the company's General Counsel and senior vice president …
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Zachary M. Seward / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Microsoft's vision for a “next-gen newspaper” looks like TweetDeck — The Newspaper Association of America cast a wide net this summer in seeking proposals for generating online revenue. Their request went out to many of the firms we've been covering closely but also several tech companies …
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Taiwan Economic News: 9.6-inch, PA Semi Apple Tablet due in February, cost $800-$1000 — We went a few weeks without a tablet rumor - which was scary - but the Taiwan Economic News chimes in today with a bunch of parts information on Apple's forthcoming Tablet.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:Fresh Apple tablet rumors: February launch. $800-$1,000. AT&T, not Verizon
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Feds launch Apps.gov; Cloud computing players salivate — The Federal government launched Apps.gov, a site designed to be a storefront for approved cloud computing applications. The move is designed to streamline application adoption at federal agencies. — U.S. CIO Vivek Kundra …
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Lee Byron Today / Facebook Blog:
Testing 1-2-3: Announcing Facebook Prototypes — Facebook's engineers thrive on innovation and experimentation. We're encouraged to work on projects that inspire us and build on new ideas, but not all of these features and improvements wind up launching on the site.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Gets Its WiMAX; Clearwire Launches Silicon Valley Network — What's the point of being an investor in WiMAX operators if you can't get them to build a network in your backyard? Clearwire says that it has completed its “innovation” network in Silicon Valley that covers more than 20 square miles …
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Ashlee Vance / New York Times:
Times Web Ads Show Security Breach — OVER the weekend, some visitors to the Web site of The New York Times received a nasty surprise. An unknown person or group sneaked a rogue advertisement onto the site's pages. — The malicious ad took over the browsers of many people visiting the site …
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Jay Yarow / Silicon Alley Insider:
Murdoch: We're Going To Charge You To Read The WSJ On The Blackberry — Bad news for people reading the Journal for free on their BlackBerries: Rupert says he's going to start charging you. — If you have a subscription to the paper then it's only going to be a dollar a week.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Voice chat coming to Facebook — The new Vivox voice chat system for Facebook will allow any user to start a conversation with anyone on their friends list. The service will also be available to third-party developers who want to integrate voice into their applications.
Galen Gruman / Computerworld:
Apple betrays the iPhone's business hopes — InfoWorld - Fixing a major but unacknowledged bug in the operating system, last week's iPhone OS 3.1 update has rendered most iPhones and all iPod Touches incompatible with Exchange 2007 servers that require on-device data be encrypted, a standard safeguard used by businesses.
Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
AOL embraces Twitter, Facebook with AIM Lifestream — AOL's instant messenger, AIM, becomes on Tuesday the AIM Lifestream and gets support for modern social services Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Flickr, and Delicious. — A multiple-platform suite of products being announced at the TechCrunch50 event will support the service.
SANS:
The Top Cyber Security Risks — Two risks dwarf all others, but organizations fail to mitigate them … Executive Summary — Priority One: Client-side software that remains unpatched. — Waves of targeted email attacks, often called spear phishing, are exploiting client-side vulnerabilities …
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Jack Riley / The Independent:
Twitter users solve Google's crop circle mystery — Eagle-eyed users of microblogging site Twitter claim to have unearthed the secret meaning of today's “Google doodle”, a depiction of crop circles spelling out the Google name which has puzzled many users of the ubiquitous search engine.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Chrome Goes 3.0: Gets Themes, Improved Omnibox & Better New Tab Page — Just about a year after Google launched the first version of Chrome, the company released the first stable version of Chrome 3.0 today. According to Google, this release comes after 21 beta and 15 stable updates and 3,505 bugfixes.
