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Lars Rasmussen / The Official Google Blog:
Surf's up Wednesday: Google Wave update — Starting Wednesday, September 30 we'll be sending out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to: — Developers who have been active in the developer preview we started back in June — The first users who signed up and offered to give feedback on wave.google.com
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:
First look: Microsoft Security Essentials impresses — After a short three-month beta program, Microsoft is officially releasing Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE), its free, real-time consumer antimalware solution for fighting viruses, spyware, rootkits, and Trojans.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's Courier tablet: A Franklin Covey planner on steroids? — Since the first video and photo leaks went public last week of Microsoft's alleged second-generation Tablet PC, tipsters have been working overtime. — Since Microsoft isn't commenting at all on Courier (the official statement is …
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The Paperboy / Gizmodo:The Courier Files: How Microsoft Thinks We'll Use Their Secret Tablet
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blog.seattlepi.com:
Judge overturns Uniloc's record $388M victory over Microsoft — A district judge has abolished a high-profile, $388 million award against Microsoft and ruled that the company did not infringe a patent held by software maker Uniloc. — The judgment, signed Tuesday by Judge William Smith …
Steve Ballmer / Microsoft Corporation:
The New Efficiency — In all the talk about the economy, one term that comes up more and more frequently is something called “the new normal.” I like this phrase because it speaks to the fact that economic reality has undergone a fundamental shift over the course of the past 12 months.
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Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Microsoft's Top Executives Get A Paycut — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) just completed the worst fiscal year in its history, with revenue down three percent; the first decline in sales in its history. And its executives did not get off easy. All of Microsoft's top executives …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Palm Pre's New Strategy: Forget iTunes, Hello Wireless Amazon Downloads — When the Palm Pre debuted, one of its most useful features was its ability to sync with Apple's iTunes software. Unfortunately, how it went about doing this was a little bit underhanded: it pretended to be an iPhone.
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Daniel Brusilovsky / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Meets The iPhone; Access Files On The Go — Dropbox, the easy to use file access manager which syncs your files across all your computers and the web, has introduced an iPhone application to make it even easier to access your files anywhere in the world.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
DoubleTwist Remakes Apple's Classic 1984 Ad With A New Dictator: Steve Jobs — On January 22, 1984 during the third quarter of the SuperBowl, Apple broadcast one of the most famous television commercials of all time. Based on a dystopian future George Orwell described in his novel 1984 …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
OnLive raises big round from AT&T and others for on-demand gaming — OnLive is announcing today it has raised a third round of funding from AT&T Media Holdings, Lauder Partners and its existing partners as it moves toward the launch of its video games on demand service, which will let you play high-end games with no special hardware.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple warns of near-term iMac, Mac mini constraints [u] — Apple this week began informing its direct sales channels that several of its desktop-based Mac offerings have entered a period of constraint, further hinting that Mac hardware updates are on the horizon. [Updated with additional info on Mac mini.]
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Misfired e-mail was never viewed by Gmail user — A sensitive e-mail mistakenly sent by a bank to a Gmail address that prompted a court to order Google to deactivate the account was not viewed by the recipient and has been deleted, the bank said on Tuesday.
Electronista:
Moto Cliq to ship Nov. 2, match iPhone's price — T-Mobile this afternoon set out official launch details for the Motorola Cliq, its newest Android phone and Motorola's first touchscreen smartphone. Pre-orders for existing users should start on October 19th while the phone should ultimately arrive …
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Amit / Digital Inspiration:
Perform OCR with Google Docs - Turn Images Into Editable Documents — Google Docs can now perform OCR on digital images. You can upload an image containing typewritten or printed text (like a fax document or a scanned newspaper clipping) to your Google Docs account and it will turn that image into editable text.
Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
Data Mining the Mint.com Demographic — Last week we reported on Intuit's acquisition of personal finance site Mint.com. Now Mint Founder Aaron Patzer is lifting the curtain on a few fantastic new features—for businesses. — The most significant: Mint is now aggregating data …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos Joins Benchmark As Entrepreneur In Residence — Mårten Gustaf Mickos, former CEO of MySQL, is Benchmark Capital's newest Entrepreneur In Residence (EIR). — Mickos served as chief executive officer for the open source database company from January 2001 …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
MySpace Co-Founder And CTO Aber Whitcomb Leaves, To Be Replaced By Alex Maghen — MySpace has just announced that CTO and co-founder Aber Whitcomb will be leaving the company, to be replaced by MySpace Music's current CTO Alex Maghen. The news doesn't come as much of a surprise …
Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
Ten New Details on the Apple Tablet — Want to know some more about Apple's upcoming tablet device? You're in luck. We've received the scoop from our reliable source—who correctly called the iPod nano 5G, iPhone 3GS and Chinese iPhone 3G months ago. — Apple has created …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Metered Broadband Is the Future: Verizon CTO — Verizon Chief Technology Officer Dick Lynch said today that in the coming years, wired broadband will likely be sold in packages based on the amount of data a person wants to consume, much like wireless broadband is sold today.
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Facebook Offers Translation Tool to Other Sites — Back in January 2008, Facebook was available in one language: English. That's when the company introduced a new translation tool that allowed its members to do the hard work of translating the site into their native languages.
