"Here, I’ve downloaded MySQL 5.1.41 server tarball. Please note that one MySQL was already there on server having differnt version (ver 5.0.77). For second installation, I’ve downloaded different version to test out things but for best compatibility, its recommended to download same version.
 
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The Social
The retail and deals start-up has been turning a profit since June, the CEO said, but added that it has some new technology on the way that will require extra backing.
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Hyperlocal Ad Firm PaperG Raises $1.1 Million Second Round
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Local online ad tech provider PaperG has raised $1.1 million in its second funding round, the company’s CEO Victor Wong told paidContent. Launch Capital led the round. Among the other participants in the funding were AppNexus CEO Brian O’Kelley, former Boston.com publisher Steve Taylor, and Recovering Journalist’s Mark Potts, ...
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PaidContent
Branding Effectiveness Researcher Vizu Raises $6.75 Million Equity Financing
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Online market researcher Vizu has raised $6.75 million in equity financing from iNovia Capital and Greycroft Partners. Previous backers, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Esther Dyson, also participated in the financing. The San Francisco company, which raised $2.9 million nearly three years ago, plans to use the proceeds from this latest ...
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MocoNews
Ansca Mobile Raises $1 Million In Funding For App Development Tech
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Mobile app technology firm Ansca Mobile has raised $1 million in funding from Merus Capital. Ansca is the developer of Corona, an iPhone app development platform that makes it as easy to create apps as it is to use Adobe’s Photoshop progam. That’s partly because Ansca was founded by a pair of former Adobe execs. CEO Carlos Icaza and ...
Dean Takahashi
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VentureBeat
GWallet raises $12.5M for more ethical virtual currency/offers system
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gWallet has raised $12.5 million for its brand-friendly offer platform for monetizing social games. The company hopes to set itself apart as the “cleaner” way to monetize games without running into allegations of scamming consumers. Social games are taking off on sites like Facebook. While the games are free, consumers can buy ...
Kara Swisher
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BoomTown
Let's Make a Deal! Groupon Nabs $30 Million in Funding
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Groupon, a group-buying social e-commerce service, has nabbed $30 million in its second round of funding, led by Accel Partners. The innovative Chicago-based service, which launched only a year ago, had previously gotten $4.8 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates, as well as $1 million from an angel investor. NEA participated in this ...
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Malware Protection
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The Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC) provides world class antimalware research and response capabilities that support Microsoft's range of security products and services. With laboratories in multiple locations around the globe the MMPC is able to respond quickly and effectively to new malicious and potentially unwanted software threats ...
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Prevx Blog
Windows Black Screen Root Cause
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We've been working with Microsoft to get to the bottom of the specific black screen issues in our earlier blog. We have made some significant progress in determining specific triggers of the black screen event. The issue appears to be related to a characteristic of the Windows Registry related to the storage of string data. In parsing the Shell ...
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Ars Technica
How one man designed the Windows 7 boot animation
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Rolf Ebeling, a senior user experience lead for the User Experience Design and Research Team for Windows, Windows Live, and Internet Explorer, is the man who designed the 105-frame Windows 7 boot animation that millions see or will see every day for years to come. Along with developing the famous boot animation, he also helped with the ...
Digg.com
'Black screen of death' for some Windows users
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A Microsoft security update for its new computer operating system, Windows 7 as well as older versions of Windows, is resulting in some users getting a "black screen of death" on their machines, according to reports.
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TechNet Blogs
Updates: VMMap v2.5, Disk2vhd v1.4; Sigcheck v1.63; Autoruns v9.57; PsExec v1.97; PsKill v1.13 and a new Mark's Windows Internals Session video from PDC 2009
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Mark’s Windows Internals Session at the Professional Developer’s Conference : Mark dives deep to cover Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 kernel changes in his top-rated session from PDC 2009. VMMap v2.5: This update to VMMap, a process memory analysis utility, now identifies thread environment blocks (TEBs), the process environment block ( ...
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Flipshare TV is a system that wirelessly streams Flip video clips to a TV screen. Updated software will send video to iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Android phones.
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Put your Flip videos on the big screen
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Flipshare TV is a system that wirelessly streams Flip video clips to a TV screen. Updated software will send video to iPhones, BlackBerrys, and Android phones. Originally posted at Circuit Breaker
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Engadget
Flip Video FlipShare TV beams video to the big screen
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We first saw the Cisco FlipShare TV hit the FCC just over a month ago, and now that's it's official (well, official in the sense that Walt Mossberg broke the embargo by two hours) we're still sort of underwhelmed and a little befuddled -- although it's made by Cisco, the Flip-focused media player doesn't actually connect to your home WiFi network.
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Bits
For $150, Cisco Router Will Play Flip Videos on Your TV
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A new set of products for Cisco's Flip video recorders will let people play their videos on a TV and subscribe to each other's channels. But high cost and limited uses could restrict their appeal.
Chris Albrecht
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NewTeeVee
FlipShare TV Set-top Box Launches for Vid Sharing on the Big Screen
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Users of the Flip line of videocameras can now wirelessly transmit home movies to their big screen TVs with the FlipShare TV set-top box, which launched today. With the release of this new box, Cisco, which bought the makers of the Flip line earlier this year, is targeting family video sharing in an attempt to [...]
Dan Nosowitz
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Gizmodo
FlipShare TV Hands-On
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Flip's new companion hardware to their pocket camcorders is a logical extension of the Flip brand. It brings Flip-taken videos (and nothing else) to a TV, and while some may find its simplicity refreshing, others will find it limiting. We knew about the FlipShare TV awhile ago, thanks to an FCC leak . It's basically a companion piece to Flip's ...
Macworld
First look: FlipShare TV
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Cisco releases an easy way to view and share videos shot with your Flip camcorder. We take a look at the new $150 FlipShare TV.
MacNN
Cisco confirms FlipShare TV wireless streaming device
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Cisco Systems has officially announced the FlipShare TV wireless distribution system that had surfaced in FCC filings late last month. Confirming earlier speculation, the device transmits video signals between a computer and a TV. Like the company's Flip recorders, the system is designed with simplicity in mind. The package includes a USB key to ...
Ed
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SFGate
Set-top box brings Flip videos to TVs
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After forging a strong brand with its inexpensive and simple Flip Video camcorders, Pure Digital Technologies, with the backing of new parent company Cisco Systems, is plotting a course beyond its line of cameras. The San Francisco company is releasing a TV... Cisco Systems - Pure Digital Technologies - FlipVideo - San Francisco - Television
Doug Aamoth
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CrunchGear
Review: Dexim P-Flip Foldable Power Dock
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Short Version: Equal parts backup battery and iPhone dock, Dexim’s $55 P-Flip Foldable Power Dock serves as a nice daily desk accessory and then easily pulls double duty as a portable travelling companion. Review: Guess what? There are a million iPhone accessories. And it’s not easy to stand out in the crowd if you’re a company ...
Tom
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Eurogamer
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Gawker
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day
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Today at Gawker.TV, A&E's Hoarders discovers the ultimate cat lady, a Spanish Lost , clues your relationship is over, and late night hosts joke at Tiger Woods expense, while the Chinese animate his car crash for the world to see. George Lopez and Wanda Sykes Make the Same Exact Racist Joke about Tiger Woods George Lopez and Wanda Sykes are both ...
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Digital Noise
Unfortunately, it doesn't offer anything unique, and has less gig information than competitors like JamBase, Bandloop, and iConcertCal.
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MacNN
Fring adds one-way video calls to iPhone app
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fring has released a new version of its self-named iPhone application, v3.0.0.4. The software merges access to multiple instant messaging platforms -- such as AIM, Skype, MSN and Twitter -- in a central location, with push notifications where possible. Contact status is displayed in real-time....
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Macworld
IPhone app manages Netflix queue
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TouchMatter has released ezMoviePick, an iPhone companion app for Netflix. Like the popular restaurant app, UrbanSpoon, ezMoviePick lets you shake your mobile device to receive a recommendation.
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MacNN
TrueHDR app captures high dynamic range images on iPhone 3GS
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Pictional has launched a new High Dynamic Range (HDR) utility for the iPhone, TrueHDR 1.0.1. The app creates HDR images by blending two similar images, captured at different exposures, for an increased tonal range. iPhone 3GS users can take two images within the app, while all iPhone users can select saved images to blend....
Kim-Mai Cutler
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VentureBeat
IPhone app with Twilio hack lets you order pizza from anywhere in the country
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Big chains like Starbucks and Pizza Hut have already pushed through iPhone apps that let you order coffee and food ahead of time without waiting in line. But what about the thousands of mom-and-pop stores throughout the country? Seattle-based startup Order Mapper is tackling that problem with an iPhone app launched today called Order Pizza. You ...
PC World Latest
IPhone App Manages Netflix Queue
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TouchMatter has released ezMoviePick, an iPhone and iPod touch app aimed at Netflix users. Like the popular restaurant app UrbanSpoon, ezMoviePick lets you shake...
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In the popular holiday song "The 12 Days of Christmas," the cost of gifts - from the 12 drummers drumming to a partridge in a pear tree - is quite pricey.
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Comcast Buying NBC From GE is a Done Deal
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Comcast's acquisition of NBC from GE is a done deal reports David Faber on CNBC. All that needs to be done is paper work at this point. The deal should be announced Thursday morning, says Faber. This is hardly a surprise. After yesterday's news that GE would buy its NBC stake from Vivendi for $5.8 billion, the closing of the deal was basically a ...
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Mashable!
What Will Comcast-NBC Mean for Hulu?
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It’s taken several months , but it looks like the deal is done: Comcast is buying NBC Universal from GE. Well, at least 51% of it. While the deal still has to pass regulatory hurdles, it seems likely that The Tonight Show and The Office are going to be part of Comcast’s vast cable operation and its own array of TV programming that ...
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Wired
Comcast Tests Broadband Meter in Portland
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Comcast has launched a trial of an internet usage meter in Portland, Oregon, which lets users keep track of their monthly data usage to make sure it stays under the cable service’s 250GB a month cap, the company announced Monday. Comcast introduced the cap on data usage after the company took a beating from the press [...]
Electronista
GE and Comcast finalize majority stake in NBC Universal
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Comcast and General Electric have allegedly finalized a deal that will land Comcast a 51 percent majority stake in NBC Universal, unnamed sources told CNBC. The sources claim only paperwork remains to be finished as the companies prepare to officially announce the merger. Vivendi is expected to quickly finish signing an agreement to sell its ...
Times Online
NBC Universal sale makes key breakthrough
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General Electric, the American conglomerate, and Vivendi, the French media group, have struck a deal that opens the way for the NBC Universal entertainment group to be sold to Comcast, the American cable operator.
Bob Sassone
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TV Squad
Tomorrow night's Christmas tree lighting on NBC could be more interesting than usual
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I'm not quite sure what to make of this web site. It's called nbcstolechristmas.com and it has a How The Grinch Stole Christmas -ish rhyme that seems to imply that tomorrow night's live Rockefeller Plaza Christmas tree lighting show on NBC might not go off the way the network wants it to. If I'm reading the rhyme correctly, NBC is refusing to ...
Jon Ogg
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BloggingStocks
Closing Bell: The risk-trade back on
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Filed under: General Electric (GE) , Amer Intl Group (AIG) , Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) , Genzyme (GENZ) Many said that today was based on solid economic data, but the markets were already pointed handily north. Today was about traders putting the risk trade back on by buying stocks and buying commodities. Dubai's explosive consequences ...
Allen Stern
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CenterNetworks
Postabon Offers Crowd Sourced Location-Based Deals
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What’s a deal hunter to do now that Cyber Monday and Black Friday are over? A new NYC startup launching today hopes they have the answer. We also know that “location” is hot. Postabon combines these concepts together to create a crowd-sourced, location-based deal finder. The Postabon website displays deals based on the location
Mark Frauenfelder
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Boing Boing
Tim Biskup special edition wallet by Poketo
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Tim Biskup designed a wallet made by Poketo, which will be offered at his upcoming show, "Art-Snob Eat Shit" at All Tomorrow's Parties' "Nightmare Before Christmas," December 4-6, 2009 at Butlin's Holiday Centre, Minehead, UK. Tim Biskup not only designed the poster, tee shirts and other graphics for the upcoming My Bloody Valentine-curated " ...
Mediabistro.com
Dan Rather on What the Comcast-NBCU Deal Might Mean for NBC News
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Dan Rather was here at mediabistro.com this morning for our Media Beat series. TVNewser's Gail Shister asked Rather what he thought the Comcast-NBCU deal would mean for NBC News: Rather was interviewed for Media Beat, our weekly video series which premiered yesterday. Right now on FishbowlNY, an interview with author and New Yorker columnist Ken ...
The Seattle Times
GE returns to roots as it looks to spin off NBC
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One of the nation's iconic industrial businesses, GE has spent 23 years making sitcoms and blockbuster movies along with jet engines, dishwashers and light bulbs. The pairing of glitzy entertainment and gritty manufacturing has often confounded investors and even has been ruthlessly satirized by NBC's own show "30 Rock," in which a fictional ...
The Seattle Times
GE Healthcare expands home health business
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GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Co., said Tuesday it has bought Living Independently Group Inc. to expand its home health care business.
Ross Miller
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Engadget
The daily roundup: here's what you might've missed
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A visual recap of the day's articles Dec 1st 2009 | 37 Articles 1:21 am 12 Comments Cambridge Consultants Suma sensor is designed to add '3D' input to traditional control schemes - ...
FT.com
No cash for Vivendi in deal for NBC stake
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The French media group will not receive any cash upfront from General Electric for its stake in NBC Universal, a move that will boost GE's cash flow
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Public Knowledge
Fine Net Neutrality Whines Accompany Comcast's NBC Takeover
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Just in time for the holidays, some old and new whines are presenting themselves for our seasonal enjoyment. In New York City, songwriters are still complaining about the Internet as a City Council committee considered endorsing the simple idea of “Net Neutrality.” In Washington, AT&T’s top lobbyist blew his stack when an ...
LXer Linux News
DE: Open source professorship at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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Germany's first open source professorship was established at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
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VistaPrint, an online printing company, says it is no longer connected to Affinion, one of three marketing companies accused of duping consumers into paying monthly fees. Originally posted at Media Maverick
Acer plans to launch a Google Chrome operating system-based netbook, which the company has been developing since mid-2009 in the second half of 2010, according to industry sources.
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PreCentral.net
WebOS 1.3.2 Released for Pixi, Pre Standing By
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note: webOS 1.3.2 is not Christmas-themed, that'd be an add-on We're not sure what to make of this yet, but andidendel in our forums just let us know that webOS 1.3.2 is getting pushed out to the Pixi right now . A few of our members in this forum thread have installed to to much rejoicing. Where by "rejoicing" we mean "it's not ...
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Tom Krazit
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Crave
One of Google Chrome OS's hardest tasks? Printing
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Printer drivers are a complicated problem to solve when building a new operating system, and Google hopes to come up with a unique solution for Chrome OS's launch. Originally posted at Relevant Results
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TheAppleBlog
Get Chrome for OS X Early With Chromium Nightlies
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Google’s Chrome browser is fast, small, and “nearly” perfect. Using the same Webkit rendering engine as Safari, and its own custom V8 javascript engine, Chrome has been blowing away the competition on Windows for over a year. Google is finally nearing a release for the Mac, but since the browser is open source, [...]
PC World Latest
Why Chrome OS Is No Threat to Windows
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When Google first announced its Chrome OS project, many commentators assumed that the Internet giant was challenging the dominance of Microsoft Windows. The truth is, Chrome is not a threat to Windows, OS X, or any distribution of Linux--nor is it meant to be.
Fudzilla
Acer plans Chrome netbook for next year
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Acer has given the Google Chrome operating system the thumbs up and plans to jack it under the bonnet of a netbook, which the company has been developing since mid-2009 in the second half of 2010.
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Shahine.com/omar
Interesting Search interface in Chrome
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Today I noticed something I hadn’t seen before in the Chrome dev channel. When I typed “amazon.com” and then hit space, it turned into a search feature and then did a site specific search on amazon using the phrase I typed after. Pretty cool and subtle feature. The posts on this weblog are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confer no ...
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ReadWriteWeb
SAP to Launch Google Wave Competitor
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SAP is preparing to launch a potential rival to Google Wave . The application, code-named Constellation, is described as a "virtual war room" where co-workers can collaborate in real-time with information aggregated from different data sources. The cloud-based tool is now in private beta with the code name 12Sprints . The application is being ...
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Dogster Inc. Company Blog
Chrome Already has 12% Browser Share of Digg Users
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We’ve been getting a lot of digg traffic lately. Here are the visits during a big spike over a 2 day period. Check out what browsers Digg users use. Firefox is 65% and Chrome is 12.3%. Wow! Chrome is definitely being adopted by the early adopters.
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ReadWriteWeb
Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2009
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Every year at ReadWriteWeb, we look at hundreds of new web apps aimed at everyday users. Occasionally, we come across a service that stands out from the pack because it offers a novel solution, disrupts the way incumbent market leaders do business or changes the way we experience the Web. Here is our list of the top 10 consumer web apps of 2009. ...
Joe Wilcox
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Betanews
My Windows 7 confession
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By Joe Wilcox , Betanews They say that confession is good for the soul -- or the mind. I'll make mine but insist that you read no further unless you're willing to make yours in comments. Deal? My confession is the real reason for running Windows 7. In September, I wrote " Why I chose Windows 7 over Snow Leopard (and why you should, too) ." In ...
APC
CrunchPad crashes to the ground
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Just two weeks away from launch where it would be shown running Windows 7 and Google Chrome OS, the long-awaited and highly anticipated CrunchPad goes belly-up...
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LXer Linux News
Dell releases unofficial Chrome OS Linux desktop
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Of all the big computer companies, only Dell really supports desktop Linux. Specifically, Dell offers a nice selection of PCs running Ubuntu Linux. But what Dell hasn't done is come out and announce that they are working on Google's beta Chrome OS. Other vendors, such as Acer, HP and Lenovo, are on board with Chrome. Regardless, Dell is actually ...
LXer Linux News
Howto setup Wireless on Chrome OS
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How to setup Wireless on Chrome OS. Chrome has recently been open sourced by Google as a developer preview. Its very young, clearly has some issues and needs serious work, however it is usable and lots of people have managed to get it running in a virtual machine or via a USB key.
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Status-Q
There’s no place like Chrome
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Sometimes, just sometimes, I wonder whether I’m getting a glimpse of the future. I wondered that about the early Google Wave videos, but, so far at least, for all the technical cleverness, the future leaves something to be desired. We shall see. On the subject of Google, though, this post may or may not [...] Related posts: Using Linux to ...
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Memex 1.1
Google’s exclusive new operating system
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Here’s an interesting angle on Google’s plan for its cloud-based operating system. Google’s Chrome OS is a great idea. Put as much as possible into the cloud, and keep the physical device as a “thin client” to access this functionality. However, this great dependence on Internet connectivity has left the OS virtually useless for ...
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Google’s video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows for a fee, multiple sources tell me. YouTube already lets users watch a smattering of TV shows for free, with advertising. Now it envisions something similar to what Apple and Amazon already offer: First-run shows, without commercials, for $1. ...
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Digg.com
YouTube Launching iTunes Killer
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YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too. Google's video site has been trying to convince the TV industry to let it stream individual shows. It envisions something similar to what Apple and Amazon already offer: First-run shows, without commercials!
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Top News
Italian Prosecutors Request Jail Time For Google Execs
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Italian prosecutors have - sort of - tried to put several Google executives (and the company's former CFO) in jail. The prosecutors requested sentences ranging from six months to one year in connection with a case that involved a YouTube video and a disabled boy. In September of 2006, a clip showing several teens making fun of a classmate with ...
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Christina Warren
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Mashable!
YouTube + Movies = Marriage Made in Marketing Heaven
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Warner Bros. recently released the highly anticipated film Where the Wild Things Are, in which acclaimed director Spike Jonze brought Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book to life, injecting it with his unique style. To promote the film, Warner Bros. launched a pretty sophisticated media campaign that included a number of social ...
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ReadWriteWeb
Facebook, Google & Twitter Unite for World AIDS Day Around the Web
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December 1 marks World AIDS Day , and every major social site around the Internet has come together to spread awareness about the disease, its transmission and available treatments. Thanks to efforts from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, AIDS is a more visible topic today than perhaps at any other point in the history of World AIDS ...
BBC News
Google to limit free news access
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Google will let newspaper publishers limit the number of articles people can read free through its search engine.
Jennifer Van Grove
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Mashable!
Just Married: Groom Changes Facebook Relationship Status at the Altar
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We’ve seen plenty of Twittered marriage proposals , but a recent video posted to YouTube takes the cake for the most unconventional Twitter and Facebook updates. During his wedding ceremony, Dana Hanna whipped out his mobile device and not only changed his relationship status to married on Facebook, but also sent out a tweet announcing ...
Ross Miller
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Engadget
Snoop Dogg: the GPS industry's secret weapon against Google
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You know what TomTom has that Google Maps Navigation doesn't? Snoop. D. O. Double G. Voice Skins, the same company that brought Homer Simpson to the world of turn-by-turn, paid tha cost to hire da boss himself, which is now available for $12.95 and compatible with all TomTom devices. The Doggfather telling us how to get to Taco Bell? Let's face ...
TIME.com Top Business Stories
Google's Year-End Zeitgeist: A Window into America's Interests
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Twitter has its trends, but Google has billions of search queries, a treasure trove of data that is still the best window into what people are interested in on the Web
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John Battelle
What Are The Conversion Rates for Google's "First Click Free"?
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Google today announced a new policy in its ongoing attempt to reach detente with an increasingly querulous publishing industry. (For background, read Mashable's piece). A key piece of the new policy has to do with changes to Google's "First Click Free" program. From Google's announcement: One way we overcome...
L.A. Times
Murdoch accuses Google of news 'theft'
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News Corp.'s chairman calls the use of the media company's content by Google and other Web firms an 'almost wholesale misappropriation of our stories.' Escalating the battle between traditional newspapers and online news providers, media mogul Rupert Murdoch lashed out at Google Inc. and other Web companies Tuesday, accusing them of looting news ...
Joseph L. Flatley
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Engadget
Google halts development of Gears, makes room for HTML 5
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Well, we've known for a while that Google was throwing considerable weight behind HTML 5 , and that one of the purposes of the markup language is to do away with plug-ins for Internet apps, so it makes sense that eventually Gears would go the way of the Dodo. But so soon? Linus Upson, the man in charge of both the Chrome browser and Chrome OS ...
Judith Townend
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Journalism.co.uk
Google introduces option for five-a-day free click limit
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Google is to allow publishers to limit free access to content found via Google News, it announced in a blog post yesterday. Publishers using restricted access systems will be able to prevent Google News users looking at more than five pages of content a day without registration or subscription. In the post, Google said: “We’re happy ...
PC World Latest
Google, Yahoo, AOL Users Search for Michael Jackson
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An economic crisis that continues to grip much of the world and the H1N1 pandemic that has swept around the globe couldn't keep the self-titled King of Pop from attracting the most attention from online searchers.
Doug Caverly
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Top News
Fair Syndication Consortium Calls Foul On Google
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In most pie charts that feature Google, the search giant dominates the circle, and a new one from the Fair Syndication Consortium follows that pattern. Unfortunately for Google's reputation, the chart's titled "How unlicensed use of U.S. newspaper content is monetized." According to the Fair Syndication Consortium , newspaper articles ...
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PhysOrg.com
Google to let publishers limit free website access
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Google, under fire from Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners, said it will let publishers set a limit on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.
Andrew Yoon
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Joystiq
ESRB launches TV campaign to promote mobile ratings guide
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In its continuing battle against apathetic parents, the ESRB is launching a brand new ad campaign promoting its mobile ratings guide (viewable after the break). Both the iPhone app and mobile website will allow searchers to get disturbing and/or hilarious descriptions of all rated games. In addition to promoting the search program, the campaign ...
Sardar Mohkim Khan
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Startup Meme
Breaking: has Google Bowed to Publishers? Does This Mean Murdoch Has Won?
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Interesting news rolling on BBC while I write this. Google has has bowed to Publishers and it might be forced into going easy on the content and limit the view to quality content from news publishers. I guess it has more to do with Google Books that have been targeted by publishers all across as it many think it robs them off the rightful loyalty.
Times Online
Google to restrict access to paid-for web news
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Publishers of paid-for web content will now be able to restrict viewers' free internet access under concessions made by Google, the world's biggest search engine.
Fool.com
How iPhones and Droids Support Google's Success
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Every Federer needs a Nadal. Baseball wouldn't be half as much fun without pitching the Red Sox against the Yankees. Good luck getting an Ohio State fan to shake hands with a Michigan peer. Rivalries are so much fun.
Shawn Ingram
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Gadgetell
Google phasing out Gears for HTML 5
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Section: Computers , Software / Applications , Web , Web Browsers , Google One of the biggest features of many of Google’s web apps has been their ability to work offline. Through Google Gears we’ve been able to use Gmail and Google Docs among others without having an Internet connection. The offline feature isn’t going away ...
Maile Ohye
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Google Webmaster Central Blog
Region Tags in Google Search Results
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Webmaster Level: All Country-code top-level domains (or ccTLDs) can provide people with a quick and valuable clue about the location of a website—for example, ".fr" for France or ".co.jp" for Japan. However, for certain top level domains like .com, .info and .org, it's not as easy to figure out the location. That's why today we're adding region ...
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PRO
Google to put limits on free news
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Google News allows publishers to put up the pay wall after they've read five stories on their sites
Techworld.com News
Google holds back on hiring the best talent
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Industry needs good people at other companies, says exec Causes such as transparency, openness and open standards are so critical that it's important there be wise, "clueful" people throughout the industry working for those issues, said Bradley Horowitz, a vice president of product management at Google, at the Supernova conference. "Recently I ...
Jessica
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Checkout
Now even easier: Use Google Docs & Checkout to sell online
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As you may have seen, the Google Docs blog announced a preview of the Google Checkout store gadget back in July. The Google Checkout store gadget , available in Google Labs, allows you to create an online store with inventory managed from a Google spreadsheet and payments accepted through Google Checkout. Since then, our engineers have been ...
PC World Latest
Google's Paid YouTube TV Would be Better Than iTunes
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Streaming isn't a deterrent to video distribution once the Internet is everywhere -- and that's Google's plan.
Cedric Giorgi
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TechCrunch Europe
Yahoo Top Search and Google Zeitgeist 2009 in France – what can we learn?
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Google and Yahoo have both published their most searched terms of 2009. TechCrunch already took a detailed look at the US rankings , but now let's see what we can learn from the top search terms in France for 09... Google Zeitgeist (most popular search terms in France): facebook youtube jeux (Games) you yahoo tv orange meteo (Weather Forecast) le ...
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Techdirt
Google Bug On Document Sharing Highlights Communication Problems
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Hopefully this is just a big mistake, but Slashdot points us to a bunch of Google Docs users complaining that Google is blocking them from sharing their documents claiming "inappropriate content," even in cases where the content is clearly fine, such as college class notes and homework assignments. Even assuming this is just some sort of bug, the ...
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Google Operating System
Optimized Google Analytics Code
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A lot of web sites use Google Analytics to analyze traffic data, so the performance of Google's tracking code is very important. Google recommends to place the code just before closing the <body> tag to ensure "that the tracking code is executed as the last element of the DOM". Otherwise, the script would block the other elements from ...
Owen Williams
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Neowin.net
Google to begin offering users to pay for third party news
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Today, Google announced that it is making changes to it's "first click free" program, part of Google News and Google web search, which will enable participating news publishers to give users a "taste" of news, but then push them to a subscription page after viewing five articles on the external site. This news seems to follow Rupert Murdoch&# ...
Rosa Golijan
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Gizmodo
Gizmo5 Update Available, Brings Better Google Voice Support
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Good news for those who snagged a Gizmo5 account before it closed its doors to new users : It appears that the Gizmo5 4.0 v 269 update is available and along with "various bug fixes" it bring "improved support for Google Voice ." [ Cool Geex ]
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Wired Top Stories
Reboot This! 10 Sci-Fi TV Shows Ready for Upgrade
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From Star Trek to The Prisoner , creative types are busy raiding the past in a never-ending quest for the next successful remake. Sometimes they score; other times they fail miserably. These science fiction shows deserve to be spun into the futuristic mix.
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Library Stuff
Google To Let News Groups Set Reader Limits
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Dow Jones – “Google?Inc. (GOOG) said Tuesday it will let publishers set a daily limit on the number of articles readers can view for free through the Internet giant’s search engine. The change, which will let publishers limit readers to five free articles per day, comes as news executives step up their war of [...]
Matt McGee
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Search Engine Land
Google Supersizes Images In Universal Search
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In a brief blog post this afternoon, Google has introduced a new layout for displaying images in universal search results on Google.com. Rather than a single row of equal-sized images, some searches may produce a single, supersized image next to two rows of regularly-sized images. Here’s what the image results look like currently on a ...
FT.com
Google offers concession to publishers
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Search engine operator Google moves to calm the fears of publishers that charge for website access by putting a limit on the number of stories users may access for free
Matt McGee
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Search Engine Land
Geo Data Added To Google Search Results
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It was just a couple weeks ago that Google confirmed the addition of breadcrumb information in place of URLs for some search results. Today, Google has announced another change to the green URL line: In some cases, “region tags” — geographic information about the web site — will appear next to the URL. Google shares [...] ..
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Google News Blog: Google and paid content
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"Previously, each click from a user would be treated as free. Now, we've updated the program so that publishers can limit users to no more than five pages per day without registering or subscribing. If you're a Google user, this means that you may start to see a registration page after you've clicked through to more than five ...
Jason Deans
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The Guardian World News
Google allows blocks on online news
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Move follows Rupert Murdoch's attack on online aggregators for 'theft' of content Read Google's announcement in full Murdoch: 'There's no such thing as free news' Huffington hits out at Murdoch speech Google is to allow publishers of paid for content to limit the amount of free access internet users have to their websites from Google News. The ...
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Engadget
Believe it or not, we first heard of SDXC nearly a year ago . Aside from a highly guarded chip spotted at CeBIT , though, we've yet to see any of those cards in the flesh. Thankfully for the impatient among us, it seems as if the SD Specification 4.0 is well on its way to being hammered out, with the maximum data transfer rate scooting up from ...
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Rosa Golijan
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Spring Design's Injunction to Stop Barnes & Noble's Nook Sales Denied
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While waiting for a court date over an intellectual property dispute , Spring Design wanted to stop Barnes & Noble from selling the Nook. Their injunction for that's been denied today, but they shouldn't really worry much over that anyway . While the injunction's been denied, Spring Design has been granted an expedited pre-trial process to push ...
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Joystiq
When Square Enix unveiled the English-language release date of Final Fantasy XIII , Joystiq commenter Chedder dared to ask the one question on everyone's mind. "Is it me or has the host of this video been drenched by a douche nozzle before they turned the cameras on?" Mega64 has the answer: yes . Mega64's parody announcement one-ups Square Enix' ...
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Final Fantasy XIII is 50 to 60 Hours Long
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Final Fantasy games are not short. So while big titles from other developers might be clocking in at somewhere between 7 and 9 hours, don't expect a brief Final Fantasy XIII experience. Expect a long haul. In a recent interview, FFXIII director Motomu Toriyama noted, "For XIII, the size of the entire game is considerable. Just running through ...
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Straight off of AT&T and Verizon's multi-week network quality snark fest , Consumer Reports has issued their latest survey of wireless carriers and phones, and it probably won't make AT&T particularly happy. The survey itself is available to subscribers only, but we can tell you that the findings generally mirror other recent surveys of the ...
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Wireless Customer Care Ratings
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Overall Satisfaction: This score is based on how satisfied customers are during the interaction with their carrier's service representatives and automated response systems (ARS) among contacts made via the telephone, retail store, or Online.
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Mashable!
AT&T Dead Last in Customer Satisfaction
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From the “this might not come as much of a surprise” department is the latest wireless customer satisfaction survey from Consumer Reports . The annual results from over 50,000 readers surveyed in 26 U.S. cities found AT&T to have the lowest customer satisfaction rating in 19 of them, while Verizon ranked highest (that ...
Adam Frucci
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Gizmodo
AT&T Comes in Last in Consumer Reports Study That Surprises No One
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Here's some news anyone with an iPhone could have told you: AT&T delivers crappy service that its customers hate. But this news comes from a reputable source, Consumer Reports , instead of the usual whiny friends. Yes, in 19 of the 26 cities surveyed, AT&T was ranked dead last in every category. Verizon was ranked the best, followed by T-Mobile, ...
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Bits
Verizon Leads Wireless Service Rankings, While AT&T Lags
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The latest annual survey of wireless phone service from Consumer Reports places AT&T dead last in customer satisfaction. Verizon Wireless came in first.
Digg.com
AT&T Comes in Last in Consumer Reports Study That Surprises
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Here is some news anyone with an iPhone could have told you: AT&T delivers crappy service that its customers hate. But this news comes from a reputable source, Consumer Reports, instead of the usual whiny friends.
Juliet Ye
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WSJ.com
China’s iPhone Sales, One Month Later
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When it comes to iPhone sales, it seems South Korea has got China beat.
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Pluralsight Blogs
Google Android and iPhone Web Development Compatability
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I picked up a new Motorola/Verizon Droid over the holiday weekend and WOW do I love this phone!! From a user perspective I'm finding the Droid to be useful beyond anything I've used in the past. In just the 5 days I've had it, it has become part of my day-to-day lifestyle like no other phone I've used. I find that the Droid's ...
Jesus Diaz
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Gizmodo
Where Is My iPhone Videochat, Apple?
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Dear Apple and AT&T: I have had enough of this. Tell me, why don't we have videochat on the iPhone, you assclowns? Whatever excuse you may have, I'm here to destroy it. This morning, the latest Fring update brought videochat to the iPhone. It only works in one direction, from a computer to your iPhone. It uses Wi-Fi instead of the 3G connection, ...
Joseph V. Tirella
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Fast Company
IDrunk: Six Reasons Your iPhone Is Your New Best Chug Buddy
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Drinking alone has never been so much fun. After our recent report on the brew-sniffing augmented reality app from Stella , we started drinking thinking about the wider world of suds. Turns out there's a keg's worth of new beer-themed iPhone apps that have recently bubbled to the surface of the iTunes store. In the brave new AR world, you'll ...
Digg.com
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would Shock Consumers
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Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies?
Electronista
AT&T ranks last in Consumer Reports survey
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AT&T is once again trailing other major US carriers in its quality of service rankings, Consumer Reports has found in its latest survey (live soon; subscription required). Readers scored the network just 66 points for its performance in numerous cities, just below the declining Sprint's 67 and significantly lower than T-Mobile's 70 or Verizon's ...
Andru Edwards
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Gear Live
SquareUp iPhone payment service launched by Twitter co-founder
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New iPhone credit card payment service SquareUp has finally been unveiled, and we’ve gotta say, it’s got our attention. The brainchild of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, SquareUp aims to be a simple, sleek, inexpensive, and charitable credit card payment processing service. It works on the iPhone and iPod touch, in conjunction with a credit ...
Jakob Griffith
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Hack a Day
Double dose of iPhone camera hacks
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Why take an iPhone, a slim device that already takes decent photographs and add several macro magnifying lenses? For [Mathijs], simply because he could, But now he can take some awesome macro pictures. [Bhautik] (maker of the tilt-shift Plungercam) took the concept further. With some more trademark plumbing supplies and a lot of duct tape, ...
Gagan Biyani
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CrunchGear
ThinkFlood Answers Our Prayers and Unleashes RedEye: Universal Remote for the iPhone
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It’s as though He came down and said to MobileCrunch: “Ask and you shall receive.” We asked for this device just under a month ago and whoopee — ThinkFlood has delivered. Specifically, we wanted a universal remote because why the hell should we be using regular remotes anymore? ThinkFlood’s RedEye remote system fits ...
AJ Glasser
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Kotaku
Super Monkey Ball 2 iPhone Preview: Hollaback Monkeys
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Anyone who played Super Monkey Ball for the iPhone probably isn't thrilled to hear about the sequel hitting the App Store today. But before you say "this shit is bananas," know that Sega completely redid their approach to the game. First, they got rid of the 2D sprite monkeys and replaced them with 3D monkeys and 3D boards. This of course ...
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The J-Walk Blog
Verizon Gets Very Strict
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Apparently, Verizon recently changed their Acceptable Use Policy . From the section that gives examples of AUP violations: The following are examples of conduct which may lead to termination of your Service. Without limiting the general policy in Section 1, it is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to... (e) post off-topic information on ...
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Malicious iPhone Worm
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We've received a sample of a malicious iPhone worm with botnet functionality. Like the Ikee worm , it only affects Jailbroken iPhones which have SSH installed and have not changed the default password. This one connects to a web-based command & control center running at 92.61.38.16 in Lithuania. The worm is not widespread, but it is much ...
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F-Secure Antivirus Research
Mobile Security on the Sony Ericsson Aino
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With the first iPhone worms making headlines , many people have contacted us regarding antivirus protection for the iPhone. Unfortunately there are no antivirus products available for iPhone, from any vendor. Producing such tools for iPhone would require assistance from Apple. As there are no worms for unmodified iPhones, there's no need (they ...
Techchron
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SFGate
Verizon top wireless network, iPhone top smart phone
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Consumer Reports is out with its latest annual report on cell phones and cell phone service. Surprise: you love your cell phone but your cell phone service? Not so much. According to the survey of...
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Microsoft say a Windows operating problem, dubbed the 'Black Screen of Death', is not due to security updates.
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EWeek
10 Reasons Why the New Windows Black Screen of Death Is Alarming
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News Analysis: The Black Screen of Death might not cause as much damage as the Blue Screen of Death, but it's still causing major headaches for users. Worse, there is no sign that there will be a quick and permanent fix for all occurrences of this glitch. So users will just have to assume that the Black Screen of Death will likely continue to ...
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Innovation
How to fix the Windows Black Screen of Death
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Microsoft says it's looking into the Black Screen of Death issue recently confronting Windows machines. The computer problem reportedly strikes shortly after affected PCs start up. A black screen stonewalls users, cripples the operating system, and renders the computer useless even after reboots. Named in the classic tradition of the Blue ...
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Ars Technica
Microsoft says BSODs not linked to latest patches
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Microsoft is denying reports of the Black Screen of Death on a number of PCs. A fraction of Windows users have been complaining their computers were locking up and displaying a Black Screen of Death (BSOD, not to be confused with Blue Screen of Death, which is usually due to hardware or driver failure) after the last Microsoft Patch Tuesday on ...
TG Daily
Microsoft refutes Black Screen of Death allegations
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CrunchGear
The Windows 7 black screen of death will destroy us all!
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Have you run into the black screen of death in Windows 7 yet? I haven't, but that's probably because I only use Windows as a conduit to playing Team Fortress 2 and spend only as much time as I can in there. I also haven't applied any security updates to it, and that may be the culprit.
Fudzilla
Microsoft denies black screen of death
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Microsoft claims that reports that its recently security updates create a “black screen of death” have been greatly exaggerated. British software security firm Prevx claimed last week that changes to Microsoft's operating system's registry were the most likely cause of the error. Initially both believed it was a recent patch ...
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TechNet Blogs
Windows Server 2008 R2 Adventskalender – Tag 2: WINS Server mit Helge Klein
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Woher der Name “Advent” stammt? Noch nix von Namensdienst gehört? Der Name “Advent” stammt aus dem lateinischen (adventus) und bedeutet übersetzt “Ankunft”. Stimmt doch, oder, Helge? Falls das Video nicht korrekt angezeigt wird, können Sie es auch unter folgendem Link von TechNet Edge abrufen: - ...
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TechNet Blogs
Windows 7 rockt – aktuelle Marktanteile
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Nicht nur, weil das Arbeiten damit Spaß macht, sondern auch, wenn man sich den Marketshare ansieht: Der Übersichtlichkeit halber habe ich aus obiger Grafik sowohl XP als auch Vista entfernt, mit den beiden Betriebssystemen schaut es sonst so aus: d.h. Linux stabil (wie seit Jahren) auf 1 %, die Marktanteile von Mac OS verschieben sich eher ...
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Addicted to Digital Media
DOWNLOADS: Spruce up Your Holidays with Windows 7
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If you know me, you know I can go a little Clark Griswold this time of year. I love the holidays and spreading a little Christmas cheer. So here are a few of my favorite downloads, dusted off and repackaged for Windows 7. With apologies to my friends in the southern hemisphere, I'm keeping the Winter Fun Pack naming convention ;). So ...
EWeek
Windows Azure Supports Ruby on Rails
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Microsoft announces support for Ruby on Rails running on the Windows Azure cloud platform. - Microsoft has announced support for Ruby on Rails running on the Windows Azure cloud platform. At its Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft played up Windows Azure's capacity to support a variety of different languages and development frameworks. ...
Dave Freeman
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CrunchGear
Microsoft already looking at Windows 8
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Well Windows 7 is out, the reviews are in, the service packs are starting to be worked on - that's the end of it right? Wrong. Microsoft is already looking forward to the next generation of its OS, Windows 8.
Eric Savitz
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BARRONS.com
Microsoft Denies Windows Security Update Causes Glitches
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Microsoft (MSFT) contends reports that its November security updates for Windows has caused consumers to experience a “black screen of death” glitch are not accurate. Here’s their response: Microsoft has investigated reports that its November security updates made changes to permissions in the registry that are resulting in ...
Tom Warren
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Neowin.net
Microsoft: Black Screen Of Death due to patches? Umm NO
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Yesterday, Neowin reported on an issue affecting a limited amount of users and dubbed the "Black Screen Of Death". Originally, at least according to Prevx, the "Black Screen Of Death" could affect "millions". Prevx, a little known software company from the UK, claimed that Microsoft's recent patches (KB915597 and KB976098) were at fault in ...
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Betanews
Security firm: Windows patches not responsible for 'Black Screen of Death'
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By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews When Betanews reported last June about occurrences of the infamous "Black Screen of Death" (KSoD) in Windows Vista, a reader wrote to suggest to us that we might have only considered the matter so important this late in the game because suddenly it happened to us. A similar opinion may be appropriate for ...
PC World Latest
Microsoft: Don't Believe the Black Screen of Death Hype
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The dramatic-sounding reports over a Windows 7 "black screen of death" are inaccurate, Microsoft says -- and blown way out of proportion.
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ASP.NET
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development Class
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Tulsa Community College is offering a FREE Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Development class. See below for more information. Prerequisties: ASP.NET Development Course/Class: CSYS 2993 - 24051 Title: Application Development with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Instructor: B.J. Pohl Delivery: Blended (On ground and Online) Meeting: ...
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IPhone Provider rumors, crazy putty, Japanese security systems and Dell smartphones are showing up in the remainders today. Plus, four things we actually like, but aren't gadgety enough to post.
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Tales of Direct Marketing gone bad, wrong, astray, AWOL, batshit crazy, or just plain incompetent. Discussing Marketing from both sides of the fence. The creators and the recipients.
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Ars Technica
"Tech tapeworms": Bloggers denounce "parasite" label at FTC
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The war between old media titans and scrappy Internet upstarts heated up today as the Federal Trade Commission rounded up journalists of all stripes for a two-day conference on the future of journalism. It wasn't long before the gloves came off—and were replaced by Nightmare on Elm Street slasher claws. Arianna Huffington, editor of The ...
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HARADHEERE, Somalia (Reuters) - In Somalia's main pirate lair of Haradheere, the sea gangs have set up a cooperative to fund their hijackings offshore, a sort of stock exchange meets criminal syndicate.
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Today I was included in a Boston Globe article about bloggers and the FTC’s new guidelines about disclosure in product reviews and endorsements. While I’ve witnessed a lot of panic and anger in the blogosphere about these guidelines (rumors of $11,000 misconduct fines will do that), they’re actually a good thing because ultimately, the goal ...
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In all seriousness, I want to take a moment address the FTC guidelines regulating blogger endorsements and testimonials that go into effect today. From the second I started working at NonSociety, I felt that total and complete transparency - with regards to everything, not just financial compensation - was extremely, extremely important not just ...
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Though hubbub around the FTC's plans to require bloggers to disclose relationships with companies, services and products has lessened over the last few weeks, the December 1st date for enactment is rapidly approaching. As promised before, and many other times, I will make any relationships I have that are beyond "typical" clear to you as best as ...
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Over the last four years on this blog, you have seen me talk a lot about hundreds of different startups and dozens of large enterprise companies. I have tried to share with you how I consume information and disseminate it outward to the many social networks. I let you know my thoughts on gadgets and hardware, and we have had open conversations ...
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