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Skype Throws 1.4 Into the VoIP
Skype tossed their new version 1.4 for Windows into the VoIP on Thursday. The newest version offers some keen new features for the Internet communications firm and should push the envelope further for competitors as well as make eBay stockholders grin slightly.
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Date: 2005-09-30
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Ballmer Having Breakfast At Neelie’s
The Associated Press reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be swinging by Brussels for a chat over breakfast (waffles?) with the European Union's antitrust chief, Neelie Kroes, on the morning of October 5th.
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Date: 2005-09-30
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Eolas Scores Win On Microsoft Over Patent
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled in favor of the University of California and their offshoot Eolas Technology and against Microsoft in a patent case that's been floating around for nearly a decade.
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Date: 2005-09-30
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The Next Gen DVD War Heats Up
In what seems like an eternal battle to some, the war over the next generation of DVDs continues to wage on. New factions backing either the Blu Ray disc or the HD DVD format are appearing and they are power players in the market. Microsoft and Intel have figured in for HD DVD. Dell and HP are speaking out against them.
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Date: 2005-09-30
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AOL Taps New Chief Technology Officer
America Online (AOL) presented their new chief technology officer (CTO), Maureen Govern on Thursday. She takes over the roll as the top technology strategist at AOL and will be a key player in their overall business strategy.
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Date: 2005-09-29
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US Delivers 404 On UN Web Proposal
The United States government has rejected a proposal by United Nations members to cede its control of the Internet's root servers to international governance, an announcement that has increased criticism among developing nations before November's World Summit on the Information Society in Tunisia.
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Date: 2005-09-29
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MIT’s $100 Dream: Laptops For Every Child
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory is working on a visionary project that could potentially put the Internet in the hands of millions of children all over the world and single-handedly force the revision of several business models in the tech industry.
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Date: 2005-09-29
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Another Firing Over Blogging Bad About Employer
A marketing and public relations professional working for New York real estate firm Dwelling Quest was fired, according to her, for speaking ill of her firm on her blog. She also claims the company has filed a lawsuit against her.
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Date: 2005-09-29
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JupiterWeb, Abobe, Team-Up For Intelligent Design
JupiterWeb, the online media division of Jupitermedia Corp., launched its Adobe LiveCycle™ Developer Source, an extension of Adobe's developer outreach program, to assist application development professionals create more dynamic, intelligent document-based applications.
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Date: 2005-09-28
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$1 Trillion For Global R&D In ‘06
The annual study completed by Battelle and R&D Magazine states estimates to exceed $1 trillion next year in global research and development. The statistics show the U.S. as the largest single player but Asia as a whole moving up past the U.S. and the Americas.
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Date: 2005-09-28
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Ready For An Internet Jam? Grab Your Guitar
Ever feel the need to jam with your instrument but don't have a good place to play? Your old garage band buddies spread out over the country and the occasional phone call is the closest you get to the good ol' days? Check out Ninjam and you'll be covering the Clash again.
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Date: 2005-09-28
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Presidential Politics And Broadband
So you thought the Bush versus Kerry arguments were over? Not a chance. The Center for Media Research (CMR) published information today measuring how people with broadband Internet access voted in the 2004 election.
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Date: 2005-09-28
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NYC Mayor Calls Out Opponent’s Blog
I know its off-topic, but I had to post it. Steve Rubel posts that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called out his opponent, Democrat Fernando Ferrer, for false claims on his blog.
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Date: 2005-09-28
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Putting Wikis to Work for Your PR Program
Collaboration. I hate this word, it's overused, especially in the PR industry. I should know, I work for a PR agency and my job - technically speaking -- is to "collaborate" every day on all sorts of things with all sorts of people.
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Date: 2005-09-28
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iPod Nano Scratched In The First Race
When Steve Jobs showed off the new iPod Nano, he turned a few heads and many started foaming at the mouth to get their hands on the pocket-sized music player. It would seem however, the pocket is the last place one would put the Nano.
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Date: 2005-09-27
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Huge Growth For Municipal Wireless Networks Expected
Municipal wireless networks are expected to spring up en masse over the next three years with US cities expected to spend up to $700 million setting them up, according to Om Malik and friend Esme Vos, who provides the details after speaking with officials in the public and private sectors.
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Date: 2005-09-27
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Blog Movie Critics: The Blogosphere Is Closed
Another sign blogs are moving into the mainstream media industry popped up in the form of movie critiques. Townhall.com arranged to have bloggers added to the press lists for advanced screenings of the science fiction film Serenity.
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Date: 2005-09-27
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Apple Plugging Security Holes
The latest security update for the Mac operating system patches ten critical holes, ranging from potential privilege elevation to arbitrary code execution.
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Date: 2005-09-26
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Treo 700 Using Windows
The folks at Palm announced their new Treo smart phone today. The new Treo 700 will carry the Mobile Windows OS by Microsoft and will be distributed through Verizon initially through their wireless broadband.
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Date: 2005-09-26
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Eyes On The Hurricane Scam Sites
By now you can see it coming, almost as soon as Hurricane Katrina made landfall, scam artists were setting up their online piggy banks to collect the pennies of the unwitting. Rita, not quite the shrew that Katrina was, will no doubt see Rita relief scams, and an international "call to arms," has been launched to flog the offenders.
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Date: 2005-09-26
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Credit Card Companies Sued Over Interchange Fees
A number of retail advocacy groups filed suit today against Visa, Mastercard, Bank of America, Citibank, Bank One, Chase Manhattan Bank, J.P. Morgan, Chase, Fleet Bank, Capital One, and other banks, charging collusive practices by setting credit card interchange fees at "supracompetitive" levels.
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Date: 2005-09-26
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What’s The 411? Free, That’s What
Never pay for directory assistance again-or at least until some major communications company buys this thing and puts it to rest. Jingle Networks, Inc. has set up the first free nationwide consumer telephone directory assistance service by launching 1-800-FREE411.
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Date: 2005-09-26
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Blog a Movie and Influence the World
Spotted in a post by Hugh MacLeod - an innovative (and, today, hardly surprising) approach to building buzz about a movie by getting bloggers to talk about it. In return, they get free tickets to the US preview.
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Date: 2005-09-26
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The Prize For Skype
Writing in the Financial Times last week, Stuart Henshall has an interesting analysis of Skype's call forwarding functionality and what that could mean for eBay and Skype users following eBay's acquisition of Skype a few weeks ago ...
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Date: 2005-09-26
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Taking Your Garage Sale To The Web
With online spending on a serious surge in recent months, web-entrepreneurs are taking cues from the likes of retailers like eBay and overstock.com-case in point: Darren Anderson's Qwixo.com, a bare-boned online classified site selling anything and everything with next-to-nothing listing fees.
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Date: 2005-09-23
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Picasa Babe?
Google launched the Picasa product in Europe on Friday. Picasa, a photo management software tool allows users to modify, label and arrange photos for email, printing or ordering of prints. Oh, forgot to mentions something about searching for your photos too but why that's relevant to Google I'm not sure.
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Date: 2005-09-23
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Massachusetts Blasted Over Open-Source Switch
The activist group, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), released a statement yesterday strongly criticizing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for its recent decision to switch all government computer systems to open-source format.
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Date: 2005-09-22
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Earthlink Wins ScamBlocker Lawsuit
Earthlink Inc. has been cleared of any wrong doing in US District Court after Associated Bank brought suit against the Internet provider over it's ScamBlocker toolbar listed the bank's website as potentially fraudulent.
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Date: 2005-09-22
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On-Demand Storage At MCI
MCI launched a new service last week aimed at enterprise customers in the form of storage on-demand. The new service, called Utility Storage Service, is designed for enterprise customers who need flexibility in their utility storage.
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Date: 2005-09-22
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Handbook For Subversive, Dissident Blogging
Reporters Without Borders, in their attempts to promote free speech and discussion of and exchange of ideas, recently published a downloadable handbook on blogging called "Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents" It's for folks who want to discuss issues but, based on the rules in their homelands, can't discuss things openly.
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Date: 2005-09-22
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Windows Sends Out Monad For Beta 2
Software monstrosity Microsoft launched the second beta of their Monad shell for both the x86 and x64. The new technology of the Monad shell allows the administrators to better handle automation and control system management tasks for desktops and servers.
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Date: 2005-09-21
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EnterpriseDB Looking Into Mouth of Mac “Tiger”
Enterprise database company Enterprise DB announced the release of the Enterprise DB 2005 for the Mac OS X "Tiger" Server 10.4. The database system is built on PostgreSQL, an open source database and attempts to enhance it and runs a number of Oracle applications unmodified.
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Date: 2005-09-21
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Verizon Simplifies EV-DO In Notebooks
Verizon Wireless and Lenovo yesterday announced plans to integrate wireless technology using Verizon Wireless' Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) network in upcoming versions of ThinkPad notebooks, beginning with the ThinkPad Z60m in October.
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Date: 2005-09-21
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eBay, We Have A Problem
Online auction house eBay experienced some technical difficulties in the first half of the week. Problem in the My eBay Selling Manager and the Selling Manager Pro continued to resurface even after adjusting the problems.
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Date: 2005-09-21
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IBM Enters Microsoft’s Workspace
IBM is poised to join the assault on Microsoft's traditional dominance of preferred office applications, as Big Blue sets to roll out an "MS-Office killer" with the not-so-threatening title of "Workspace," complete with Open Document Format (ODF) support.
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Date: 2005-09-21
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Dual Layer HD DVD-R: The Next Notch In DVD Wars
The war rages on for high definition DVD format supremacy. Both Toshiba and Sony continue to hype their products and push to be the universal standard. It remains unclear who will end up with the crown, however, Toshiba managed to beat its chest today with the reconfirmation of its recordable HD DVD.
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Date: 2005-09-21
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Opera Goes Free
Users loading the default Opera browser start page found a message stating the formerly ad-supported free version would now be ad-free.
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Date: 2005-09-20
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Jobs Says Music Companies Are Greedy
After meeting with major music labels seeking price hikes for Apple iTunes downloads, Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs used the popularity of Apple's iPod and iTunes, and logic, as leverage to swat those requests.
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Date: 2005-09-20
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News Sites See Traffic For Katrina Info
Whenever there's world breaking news, news sites see more traffic. Hurricane Katrina was no different. Internet traffic for news sites in and around the Gulf Coast region saw huge increases in traffic.
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Date: 2005-09-20
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IT Spending Heading Up
Forrester Researchpublished a recent study in which they surveyed nearly 1000 IT executives. Their research concluded that IT execs will spend 4.3% more in the coming year. 53% of those surveyed expect an increase in IT budgets and 7% see a decrease.
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Date: 2005-09-20
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Siemens Cuts Jobs In Germany
It's bad news for 2,400 German employees as Berlin-based electronics company Siemens AG downsizes its staff as part of a "major restructuring" of Siemens Business Services (SBS). Siemens shares were up after the news.
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Date: 2005-09-19
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Blogging Therapeutic, So Says AOL
AOL just released a survey saying most bloggers aren't aspiring journalists or even the vicious political pundits of the cyber world. They blog for the therapeutic aspect.
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Date: 2005-09-16
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Doctors Need Cheese With Their Blog Whine
Imagine, someone using an online forum to complain about something. It boggles the mind doesn't it. Apparently a number of physicians who've discovered the vision of loveliness known as the blogosphere were in for protological awakening when seeing some patients thoughts on their bedside manner.
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Date: 2005-09-16
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Daimler Chrysler’s Blog Blunder?
DaimlerChrysler drove off the cliff today when they launched their new blog, "TheFireHouse.Biz." This is to be their company engine for information and commentary aimed at the media. The Chrysler Group Media Blog is what they call it. The problem though, is that regular bloggers of any kind can't get into it.
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Date: 2005-09-15
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Amazon: Change Is Good
Did you know that American's have an estimated $10.5 billion in coins just camping out in their couch cushions with remote controls, potato chip crums, lint, and missing socks? Amazon.com does and has put in its two cents with Coinstar Inc.
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Date: 2005-09-15
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Companies Demonstrate Interoperability of WSDM OASIS Standard
Powerful tech companies collaborated with OASIS on their Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard. Those companies include IBM, DataPower, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi and Tibco and they demonstrated the interoperability of that standard at the Enterprise Management World conference in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Date: 2005-09-14
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Cisco To Launch new RFID Solution
Cisco announced what it refers to as an Intelligent Foundation for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to help enterprises introduce RF technologies into the supply chain.
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Date: 2005-09-14
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Goodbye Granddad Pockets
My girlfriend says I have Granddad Pockets, as they are full of goodies, weighted down by a cell phone, pocket change, an enormous German keychain with tiny flashlight and USB jump drive, a wallet with an array of business and membership cards, among many other things on any given day. But soon will come a day when Granddad Pockets will be a quaint back-in-the-day memory as the world moves toward a very James Bond lifestyle.
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Date: 2005-09-14
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AOL Launches Own Reality Show – “Project Freshman”
How many reality shows do we have running currently. Many would say entirely too many but not portal power AOL with their RED service for teens. They are running an online reality show about college freshman called "Project Freshman" that should increase the hold on AOL's 75 million or so visitors even further and probably attract a few more.
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Date: 2005-09-14
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UK Managed Hosting Sector to Grow by 23% in 2005
For smaller businesses, running internal server operations can be more cost than benefit. It's for this reason, according to E-Consultancy, that managed hosting in the United Kingdom is on the upswing, expected to grow by 23% in 2005.
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Date: 2005-09-14
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AOL TV Airing The “Big Game For The Big Easy”
AOL remains busy getting into the TV business. They just announced their reality TV show and now they've announced they will be carrying the Tulane versus Mississippi State while running a telethon to raise money for youth sports programs in areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.
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Date: 2005-09-14
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Samsung Wins
The age of the hard drive has ended, to be replaced with flash memory devices provided by Samsung and others.
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Date: 2005-09-13
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Most People Unaware of IM Threats
IMLogic recently conducted a survey of 1,100 enterprise instant message users, and found that most people unknowingly expose their computers and company networks to security threats.
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Date: 2005-09-13
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The Blogitorial: The Print/Online Hybrid
At the turn of the 20th century, citizen journalism (then referred to as a letter to the editor) was considered an innovative and progressive idea. Giving the reader a voice in the news was unheard of at that point. Fast-forward a hundred years (give or take), and take note of the web log, the brave and testy incarnation of a new millennium.
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Date: 2005-09-13
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Macromedia Studio 8 Now Available
Macromedia has released Macromedia Studio 8, which combines the latest versions of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, and Fireworks, as well as Macromedia Contribute, and FlashPaper.
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Date: 2005-09-13
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Blogs Are Hurting B2B Publishers
TechWeb brings us a gloom and doom research report stating that business to business trade media will see print ad spending decrease due to blog advertising, sponsorship and content opportunities.
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Date: 2005-09-13
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Teens Like Hosting Images, Blogging
We know blogging is growing in popularity. We know there are millions of ‘em and thousands more popping up everyday. Use of image hosting has also grown exponentially and Nielsen/NetRatings says there's a correlation between the two. With nearly 15 million unique users since January, image hosting is picking up steam.
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Date: 2005-09-13
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Temporary Private Phone Lines?
Nobody's going to get in trouble with this one. It's foolproof. PrivateTel, a self-described "privacy-oriented" telecommunications company has launched Click-and-Connect, a pay-per-minute phone service designed specifically for chat and online dating services-and not in any way for use by the mafia.
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Date: 2005-09-13
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Sun To Introduce Galaxy Servers
Today, Sun Microsystems is expected to introduce its new line of 64-bit network servers, which are code-named Galaxy, and use dual-core Opteron processors from AMD.
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Date: 2005-09-12
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Online Content and Hurricane Katrina
The Internet is changing the way people view the world, both in terms what's out there and what's not out there. With the prolific disaster along the Gulf Coast, FEMA requested media new organizations not show the dead in their coverage of the aftermath. As we're finding out, bloggers and photographers are providing stories and images that probably won't make the nightly news.
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Date: 2005-09-12
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Website For Kids By Kids For Katrina Relief
In recent weeks, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, there were stories and images of horrific tragedy and great heroics as in any disaster. One story is perhaps meager but no less heroic effort on the part of some children based in Davie Florida. They've launched a website urging other children to help with the relief effort by donating their lunch money.
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Date: 2005-09-12
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The Microcosm Of The Blogosphere
The Internet is huge, no doubt about it. With millions of people reading news, checking email, shopping and looking for the occasional odd hobby, it's a wonderful tool for so many things. In recent years, one of the newest items is the web log, AKA the blog.
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Date: 2005-09-12
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Sun Talks About X
A new series of x64 servers from Sun Microsystems will contain AMD Opteron processors and will run Solaris 10, Windows, or Linux.
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Date: 2005-09-12
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Remembering 9/11
I can't believe it's been four years already since 9/11. The feelings of sadness and helplessness come back when I look back and see my son's pictures on my blog for that day.
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Date: 2005-09-11
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Seven Versions for Vista!?
Bill, you have got to be kidding us all. The always-excellent Signal vs. Noise blog says that Microsoft has seven versions planned for its next Windows release, Vista (the OS formerly known as Longhorn)...
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Date: 2005-09-11
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Off to the PDC
Well, I'm off to go to the PDC. If you're going, remember to tag your posts PDC05. Jeff has more details on that.
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Date: 2005-09-10
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Company Offers Free News Feeds For Blogs
It's getting easier and easier for Joe Blogger to create a professional looking blog with lots of side action flanking his content. Thanks to advertising support, amateur bloggers can now add free news feeds to their sites, pulling in customized topic lists from major news sources like USA Today, CNN, and BBC.
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Date: 2005-09-09
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Killer Confesses Through Blog
A trend is developing that allows insight into to the sublime (the third definition) like the world has never known-the motivations and pain of criminal minds and victims are highlighted in weblogs with gripping gory detail, and those listening can't turn the channel.
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Date: 2005-09-09
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Tech Industry Giant Lew Platt Dies
Former HP CEO Lew Platt died on Thursday, September 8th. Platt worked for Hewlett-Packard starting in 1966 as an engineer in the medical products division. He retired from HP in 1999 as chairman, CEO and president.
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Date: 2005-09-09
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Ecommerce Sales Tax: What Next?
Sales tax for retail products sold on the Internet has been an issue for heated debate for some time. Since most online retail is essentially a catalog order from another state, in many cases, sales tax isn't charged. There is a movement to get a federal law passed that would force online retailers to charge sales tax on products they ship out.
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Date: 2005-09-09
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This Grave Brought To You By…
Here's a nice formula: Technology + Creativity=I Have No Idea What To Make Of That. A Miami man has invented a video headstone to help extend the commemoration of the dearly departed.
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Date: 2005-09-09
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Blog Law: Queen Of Skies Vs. Delta
A disgruntled Delta flight attendant has taken legal issue with Delta pushing her out the airlock in the form of a lawsuit. Ellen Simonetti claims sexual discrimination over scandalous photos she posted on her blog.
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Date: 2005-09-09
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Woo Hoo! Secretary Email Catfight!
Let's not forget that it was a ham sandwich that did in Mama Cass. And now two Australian secretaries have lost their jobs after an email catfight that began with a missing one. Oooooh, ham sandwich! (Shaking fist) I'll get you one day.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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Most Companies Have No Employee Blogger Policies
Mega PR firm Edelman and blog portal Intelliseek just released a white paper on companies and the employees that blog them. The study titled, "Talking From The Inside Out: The Rise of Employee Bloggers," takes a candid look at the relationship between employees and their employers and examines the challenges and opportunities this phenomenon presents.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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Apple’s New Fritter: The Nano
I don't know if I want this new Apple toy or not because as small as it is, I would inevitably leave in my jeans and it would get washed but it is cool, no doubt about it. This tiny little music player holds a ton of tunes and the price is pretty reasonable.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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Sony Introduces New Digital Walkman
Sony has now introduced its new Walkman 26 years after the original one that began the portable music trend was released. The new Walkman may just give Apple's iPod a run for its money.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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Citizen Journalists, Start Your Engines
Everybody's a reporter these days and Creative Weblogging is making it easier by launching its Creative Reporter Network, a new citizen journalist system that pays (handsomely) for great news content, tips, podcasts, and video clips.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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CA and IBM Share Patents
Computer Associates (CA) is giving the open-source community access to 14 of its patents and entering an agreement with IBM for the two companies to share their technology with each other.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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The Million Pixel March
Dr. Evil would be impressed with the debut of the Million Dollar Homepage. Alex Tew, an entrepreneurial young man in the U.K. created the site in order to raise a little money, a cool million to be specific and he's got a unique method to his million dollar madness, one pixel at a time.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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News Corp Grabs IGN
News Corp announced today they plan to purchase the IGN Entertainment to add advertising dollars. The IGN network covers a lot of ground with video games, movies, DVDs, music, comics and tons of other goodies tied mostly to the oft coveted demographic, 18-34 males. This is just one more move by media mogul Rupert Murdoch as continues to dump billions into Internet purchases.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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Saturday Is Flag Day For Splogs
Matt Haughey is a man on a mission-a mission to inspire an international blogspot flagging day to combat spam blogs (splogs). We agree with Blogger Buzz that it's a cool idea. Flag Day is set for Saturday, September 10th.
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Date: 2005-09-08
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Kazaa Rocked In Australia Court
Sharman Networks, the operator of the Kazaa P2P file sharing system, may have to fork over at least three-quarters of a billion dollars to the global recording industry as the Australian Federal Court for Sydney ruled the company violated Australian copyright law. More than violation of copyright law, the ruling goes as far as finding Sharman guilty of enticing users to become pirates by making it easy for them to do so.
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Date: 2005-09-07
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Sony Makes a Killing with PSP in the UK
Sony's PSP system had a record launch in the UK, selling 185,000 units in one week according to analysts, Chart-Track. That is more than any gaming console has ever sold in its opening week in the UK.
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Date: 2005-09-07
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iPod Owners Thieving Wasters Of Space?
Though digital music players are equipped to store something like 20,000 songs, a new study says the average number of songs per player is only 375. What's more, less than a quarter of the songs on them were paid for.
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Date: 2005-09-07
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iPod Nano... Hot Cakes
Now this is sexy! Today Apple announced the iPod nano, a very elegant, slim digital player that supersedes the iPod Mini (which is no longer listed on Apple's website but is there if you know the URL).
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Date: 2005-09-07
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Blogger Filters Out Spam, But No Comprende
The folks at Blogger have been pretty quick to respond to user criticism over the copious amount of spam blogs (splogs) dirtying up the air at blogspot.com by implementing some "artificial intelligence" to weed out the posers. Some more tweaking may be needed however, if you only speak one language.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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Box-Wrap Rap: Lexmark And Patent Infringement
Lexington, KY - Lexington, KY based Lexmark International finally won a major ruling in their never ending war to protect their printer cartridge business. The decision came down from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals saying that when consumers open the packaging for printer cartridges, they agree to the terms and conditions of Lexmark, namely, not to refill them.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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Make Way For E-Driving
File this one under coolness. Mazda has unveiled a new concept car that further moves the push to orphan the soon-to-be old-fashioned use of keys-by replacing keys with USB flash drives.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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Have A Coke And A Ringtone
Contrary to popular belief, they do serve soft drinks in Ireland. Soon, thanks to a deal between Coca-Cola and UK-based Inspired Broadcast Networks, the sons and daughters of Erin will be able to download a Coke along side the latest whiny U2 song from the same machine.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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Samsung Solves DVD Problem?
The high definition DVD battles have raged for months without end. Warriors Sony and Toshiba thrash about like two steel-spurred cocks, fighting to the death. Electronics giant Samsung may have the answer. They plan on creating a DVD player that will support both formats, much to the benefit of consumers.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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Couch Potatoes Interactive By 2009
As the line between the Internet and television continue to blur, well over the majority of digital TV homes will be equipped with interactive platforms by 2009, according Kagan Research.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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Intel Buying A Chunk of Grisoft
Intel Capital, Intel's venture capital side, announced they are sinking $16 million into Czech online security firm Grisoft. This makes Intel's largest investment to date in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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SalesForce's Future Looks Bright
SalesForce stock jumped $1 a share today after an SG Cowen analyst commented that he expects the company's shares to beat the rest of the market by 40% over the next year.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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Amazon Expanding Office Space
Amazon.com Inc. has apparently been bursting at the seams, "shoe-horning" employees into its Seattle home base offices. In response to this overstuffing, the company has leased no less than 180,000 square feet, or half of the office space in Seattle's tallest building.
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Date: 2005-09-06
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A Bloggers Reinvention
After 18 months of writing about branding and marketing, I hit the point of burn-out. So I'm making some changes that I hope will keep me interested and engaged in the blogosphere.
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Date: 2005-09-05
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Geek Discovers Girls
A Chinese researcher was apparently shocked to learn that a large percentage of young men on the Internet had an interest in nudity. Scientific breakthroughs to follow: women like chocolate, cats are stupid, and an in-depth exposé on the mystery of where babies come from.
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Date: 2005-09-02
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Waiting For A Reply
The newest trend in search engines may come from a Reply. Reply has tried something new by providing a venue for people to search for certain things based on forms a user fills out online.
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Date: 2005-09-02
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Be Careful What You Blog For
Blogging about work is risky business. Weblogs are still a thin ice realm, poorly defined with unclear lines and though becoming a powerful medium, it is only their potential that makes employers uneasy, not necessarily the content.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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Linux: the Cheaper Way to Go?
IBM released a report from the Robert Frances Group (RFG), which it sponsored that claims that the total cost of operation (TCO) for Linux is 40% lower than that of Windows.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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Marketing Male Review
Over the past few months, there have been several reports detailing which corners of the World Wide Web are most likely to attract the attention of hard to reach wealthier men (aside from adults only areas). If you're online business targets this demographic, then this information is very useful. So, let's review.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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Intel Inside Red Cross With $1 Million For Katrina Relief
Intel's philanthropic division, the Intel Foundation, channeled a $1 million donation to the American Red Cross in support of Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. The foundation will also match employee contributions in support of the relief effort during the month of September.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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Kodak’s Playing With Wi-Fi Cameras
Kodak announced on Thursday their newest camera, the Easyshare-One zoom digital will be out for sale in October. The camera, available for the holidays, has a unique distinction: the world first Wi-Fi camera.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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IBM Hooks Up With Dutch Bank For €1.5 Billion Deal
IBM announced today they've signed a 5-year, €1.5 billion deal with Dutch bank ABN AMRO for an on demand IT infrastructure. The contract supports ABN AMRO in its worldwide operations and IBM says it's the most extensive rollout of their data center automation technology they call Universal Management Infrastructure.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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Tragedy Knows No Boundary
Reading and viewing online news coverage of the Katrina hurricane disaster in the US over recent days, I'm just awed by the sheer scale of so many people - thousands according to many news reports - losing their lives, family, and property.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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Phone TV?
Take your mind out of the traditional TV set box and think about how willing you'd be to pay $12 a month for television programming on your mobile phone.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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Web of Verbs
Yesterday Alex Pang held a fascinating conversation at an IFTF open space meeting on the use of the term Cyberspace.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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P2P Pirates Give Booty To Katrina Victims
The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) and a trade organization for peer-to-peer software providers, content rights holders, and service-and-support companies will offer P2P users a chance to help Katrina victim by buying and sharing music.
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Date: 2005-09-01
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AOL Co-Founder Buys Clown Car
One car, fifty people. That's America Online co-founder Steve Case's vision as his Washington-based investment firm, Revolution LLC, acquires Flexcar, an urban car-sharing service. The company hopes to provide 20,000 cars to 1 million people by 2010. Lee Iacocca says "Fo shizzle".
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Date: 2005-09-01
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