Techmeme: Microsoft takes the wraps off Storage Server ‘Breckenridge’ (Mary Jo Foley/All about Microsoft Blog)

7:30 PM ET, November 8, 2010

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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:

How Microsoft Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL on Windows Phone — Corporate vice president and director of Windows Phone Program Management, Joe Belfiore, holds his prototype Samsung device running Windows Phone 7 on campus at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. Photo: Mike Kane/Wired.com

Discussion: Bits, Technologizer and displayblog, Thanks:gadgetlab

Google Mobile Blog:

Google Search app for Windows Phone 7 - in the Marketplace now — Searching with Google on your Windows Phone 7 device just got easier. The Google Search app for Windows Phone 7 provides quick and convenient access to a rich set of search results, allowing you to search the web, images, local, news, and more.

Discussion: Fortune, Microsoft Watch, The Next Web, Download Squad, BlogsDNA, ReadWriteWeb, Gadget Lab, IntoMobile, Erictric, iThinkDifferent, WebProNews, 901am and WPCentral.com, Thanks:rawmeet

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Windows Phone 7 now on sale in the US

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Xbox Live Extras features go live on Windows Phone 7

Discussion: Gadget Lab, The Next Web, PC World and SiliconANGLE

Sundar Pichai / The Official Google Blog:

Happy holidays from Google Chrome: free holiday Wi-Fi at 30,000 feet — Not too long ago, flying home for the holidays meant disconnecting for several hours until you touched down at your destination. Today, Wi-Fi technologies allow us to stay connected even at 30,000 feet above the ground …

Tiffany Hsu / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Google offering free holiday Wi-Fi with AirTran, Delta and Virgin America

Discussion: The Register, DSLreports, dailywireless.org, BGR, Digits, Buleyean String, IntoMobile and GottaBeMobile

Miguel Helft / Bits:

Bill Campbell on Coaching RockMelt and Google vs. Apple — In Silicon Valley, where even mid-level executives seem to be escorted by public relations handlers, Bill Campbell is a bit of an exception. An elder statesman of the tech industry, he prefers to remain out of the limelight.

Discussion: New York Times, Internet Evolution and Electronista

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Here's a Better Name for RockMelt: The FaceBrowser (Plus BoomTown's Two-Dude Video)

Discussion: Inside Facebook, Search Engine Land, Fortune, All Things Digital, Wall Street Journal, Mashable!, All Facebook and L.A. Times Tech Blog

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Hands on: RockMelt, a Chromium-based browser for social Web addicts

Discussion: Digits, CNET News and Google Watch

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Adobe CTO on MacBook Air, HTML5: Flash Battery Problems a “False Argument” — Last week, critics hammered Adobe over a report showing that Flash drained the new MacBook Air's battery life by several hours. It's not the first time Adobe has been in fisticuffs with Apple …

Discussion: Daring Fireball, 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and TiPb

MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Adobe's Next Flash Excuse: If You Want To Save Power, Don't Turn On Your Machine

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Exclusive: Oracle enlists private eyes to find HP CEO — (Reuters) - Oracle Corp has hired private investigators to track down Hewlett-Packard CEO Leo Apotheker, believing testimony by the former SAP chief will help its efforts to claim about $4 billion in damages for software theft …

Discussion: Fast Company, SAI, ITworld.com and Reuters

John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Oracle-SAP Trial: Ellison Swaps Katana for Poison Darts

Discussion: Reuters, The Register, Computerworld, eWeek, CNET News, TG Daily, Bloomberg and Mercury News

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:

Exclusive: Brandee “No Comment” Barker Finally Comments-Longtime PR Honcho Is Leaving Facebook — BoomTown usually does not get all weepy over the departure of public relations folks at Internet companies, in that cynical I've-seen-em-come-and-I've-seen-em- go kind of way.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, All Facebook, SlashGear and SiliconANGLE

George Colony / Forrester Blogs:

Perspective on Zuckerberg — Quickly: Mark Zuckerberg's skills as a CEO are overrated. — Content: What can Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, teach other CEOs? Not very much. To date he is a one-trick pony — a leader that has expertly refined and polished one very, very big idea …

Eric A. Taub / New York Times:

Color Comes to E Ink Screens — E-book readers are lightweight and use little power, but most have a distinct disadvantage to colorful tablet computers: their black-and-white displays. — But on Tuesday at the FPD International 2010 trade show in Tokyo, a Chinese company will announce …

Andrew Munchbach / BGR:

Confirmed: ZTE Peel launching on Sprint November 14th; $79.99, $30 month-to-month plan — On Friday, we told you about a rumor we were hearing surrounding the release-date and pricing for Sprint's ZTE Peel; the iPod touch case that provides 3G internet access. Today, we've got cold hard evidence to confirm our previous scoop.

Discussion: GigaOM, TiPb, MacStories, App Advice, AppleInsider, Know Your Cell and iLounge

Philip Constantinou / Evernote Blogcast:

Evernote for Android takes a huge leap forward with Version 2.0 — We're really psyched to see the tremendous growth of the Android platform. We love the capabilities available in the new OS, as well as the variety of great new hardware-phones, tablets, netbooks, and more.

Discussion: Download Squad, ReadWriteWeb, MobileCrunch, Smartphones …, Mashable!, Android Community, GottaBeMobile, IntoMobile, The Next Web, PhoneArena, SiliconANGLE, mobiputing, Android Phone Fans and PC World

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

LimeWire Resurrected By Secret Dev Team — Last month, the Gnutella-based file-sharing client LimeWire was effectively outlawed after a U.S. federal judge granted a request from the RIAA to shut the software down. Now, not even a month later, LimeWire is back as good as new.

Discussion: Erictric

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:

The iPad is Getting Its First Major Software Update: Here's What's New in iOS 4.2 — Since its launch in early April, the iPad has only received minor bugfix updates while the iPhone and iPad touch got a major update with iOS 4 in June. Apple promised to bring the iPad up to par …

Discussion: Product Reviews Net, PC World and Black Web 2.0

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Boxee Goes Hunting for Big Bucks — Boxee, which makes software that makes it easy to watch Web video on your TV, celebrates a big milestone this week, when the first Boxee-branded hardware starts shipping to consumers. The start-up is celebrating with an event at New York's Irving Plaza.

Discussion: GigaOM

Chris / KreCi:

Android Developer Income Report — A lot of people says that there is no real money in the Android development. They say that if you want to make money you should write for iPhone, iPad and all other iThings... This is not true! I am not a one of guys that is making thousands of dollars …

Discussion: Geek.com

Julien Sobrier / Zscaler Research:

BlackSheep - A Tool to Detect Firesheep — UPDATE: see the requirements for the extension at the end of the post — You've probably all heard of Firesheep by now, a Firefox add-on which lets anyone hijack a user's session to various popular web applications when they're using an open wireless network.

Discussion: TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Download Squad, The Register and Securosis Highlights

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Nexus One Getting Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” Update In “The Next Few Days”? — Google had originally wanted to launch the Nexus Two device alongside Android 2.3, the next release of their mobile operating system, also known as “Gingerbread”. That's not going to happen. The Nexus Two has been delayed.

Financial Times:

HTC to target online app store — HTC, the Taiwanese smartphone maker, is hiring staff to prepare for the possible launch of an online store that would sell e-books and applications, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. HTC is the latest electronics hardware maker …

Discussion: Lifehacker, Engadget, pocketnow.com, Pulse2, Geek.com, Electronista, mocoNews, PhoneArena, Recombu, HEXUS.channel, Softpedia News, asymco, WMPoweruser.com and The Next Web

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Bidding War Breaks Out Over GroupMe — Thanks to a frantic bidding war between East Coast and West Coast venture capitalists, New York startup GroupMe is raising a round that will put its valuation close to a whopping $30 million, multiple sources tell us. — GroupMe is the service that lets …

Discussion: MediaPost and Pulse2

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Microsoft takes the wraps off Storage Server ‘Breckenridge’ — On November 8, Microsoft took the wraps off a new version of Windows Storage Server, which seems to be the product codenamed “Breckenridge.” — Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, like its Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 sibling …

Discussion: TechNet Blogs

Jeffrey Van Camp / Digital Trends:

Facebook and Twitter fail basic security test — In light of the FireSheep controversy, Digital Society has conducted a study that explains key vulnerabilities in Twitter, Facebook, Hotmail, Flickr, and other popular websites. — Riding off of the coattails of the FireSheep Firefox exploit …

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