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URI, XML, HTTP, REST, and the Azure Services Platform (Jon Udell)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 10:40pm CET

Jon Udell:
URI, XML, HTTP, REST, and the Azure Services Platform — When friends and family ask about the Professional Developers Conference I attended this week, I tell them it's kind of like Microsoft's State of the Union address. I've been to a number of these over the years.
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Posted: October 31st, 2008, 7:54pm CET

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Yahoo! Video Streams Surge 56% in September to Claim Second Spot ... (Andy Plesser/Beet.TV)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 7:50pm CET

Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Yahoo! Video Streams Surge 56% in September to Claim Second Spot to YouTube which has broken 5 Billion Monthly Videos Serve, Nielsen Online — Video streams on Yahoo! dramatically increased in September to 265 million, up 56 percent from August's 169 million.
Microsoft parks "I'm a PC" recording booth outside Apple Store (Sam Oliver/AppleInsider)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 7:30pm CET

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Microsoft parks “I'm a PC” recording booth outside Apple Store — Microsoft Corp., engrossed in multi-million dollar marketing blitz to counter comical ads from rival Apple, Inc., is now using a portion of its budget to fuel guerilla retail tactics near the Mac maker's stores.
Eee PC 1000H Runs Windows 7 Well (Joanna Stern/LAPTOP Magazine)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 6:35pm CET

Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:
Eee PC 1000H Runs Windows 7 Well — Here is a confession: I am getting pretty tired of netbooks running Windows XP. So when we got our Windows 7 Beta disc at PDC earlier this week, I couldn't wait to get it running on a netbook. — This morning we loaded Windows 7 Ultimate (Pre-Beta) on an ASUS Eee PC 1000H.
Asustek expects to ship US$200 Eee PC in 2009, says president (Monica Chen/DigiTimes)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:25pm CET

Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek expects to ship US$200 Eee PC in 2009, says president — Asustek Computer has announced consolidated revenues of NT$78.26 billion (US$2.39 billion) for the third quarter this year, while net profit after tax was NT$6.38 billion, an increase of 13% on quarter, but a drop of 14.2% on year.
Is Google Playing Chicken With the Justice Department? (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:10pm CET

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is Google Playing Chicken With the Justice Department? — Are Google and Yahoo thinking of walking of away from their controversial search advertising deal, as reported in an amusingly hedged report in The Wall Street Journal last night? — How's this for covering your bases in a story …
BlackBerry Curve 8900 First Impressions (Kills the Original) (Matt Buchanan/Gizmodo)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 4:10pm CET

Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
BlackBerry Curve 8900 First Impressions (Kills the Original) — RIM excels at many things, but keeping secrets ain't one of 'em, so we'd eyeballed the BlackBerry Curve 8900 (nee Javelin) quite a bit before this AT&T-branded one dropped in our laps. It's a Bolder version of the current Curve …
Improvements to Ads Quality (Amanda Kelly/Inside AdWords)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 3:50pm CET

Amanda Kelly / Inside AdWords:
Improvements to Ads Quality — We're always working on improvements that will help us show the most relevant ads to our searchers, and we're excited to tell you that we'll soon introduce two changes designed to enhance how we calculate Quality Score and rank ads.
Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again. (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 3:25pm CET

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook May Be Growing Too Fast. And Hitting The Capital Markets Again. — When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase.
OMG! Gmail Adds SMS Chat (Michael Calore/webmonkey)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 2:55pm CET

Michael Calore / webmonkey:
OMG! Gmail Adds SMS Chat — Users of Google's Gmail service can now send text message chats to mobile phones using the webapp's built-in Chat feature. — Google is adding the experimental functionality through Gmail Labs. To turn it on, go to the Labs tab within Gmail's settings.
Sprint, Cogent in Peering Feud ... (Karl Bode/DSLreports)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 2:55pm CET

Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Sprint, Cogent in Peering Feud - Sprint disconnects from Cogent network, impacting customers — Cogent is no stranger to peering disputes, fighting with Level3 back in 2005 and AOL back in 2002. While most peering arrangements involve carriers trading equal amounts of bandwidth …
8 Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update (Charlie Sorrel/Gadget Lab)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 9:50am CET

Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
8 Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update — One of the great things about the iPhone is the regular software updates. Free and automatic improvements are piped, hot and steaming, to your pocket computer. — We don't know exactly when the next version of the iPhone operating system …
Talks Over Google-Yahoo Search Deal Fail to Progress (Jessica E. Vascellaro/Wall Street Journal)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 6:10am CET

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Talks Over Google-Yahoo Search Deal Fail to Progress — The likelihood that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. will walk away from their planned search partnership has risen, say people familiar with the matter. — The two Internet companies have so far failed to reach an agreement on their partnership …
Apple hires top IBM chip designer and blade server guru (Tom Krazit/CNET News)

Posted: October 31st, 2008, 5:15am CET

Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Apple hires top IBM chip designer and blade server guru — Apple's decision to hire Mark Papermaster away from IBM could mean that its Xserve lineup is taking on a more prominent role. — (Credit: Apple) — Updated throughout at 4:55 p.m. PT with additional details and comment from IBM.
Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents (Michael Masnick/Techdirt)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 11:10pm CET

Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents — from the huge-victory-for-innovation dept — I don't say this often, but it looks like the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) — or “the patent court” — got a big one mostly right.
Some Shed Their Gadgets by Turning to One: iPhone (Sara Silver/Wall Street Journal)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 10:50pm CET

Sara Silver / Wall Street Journal:
Some Shed Their Gadgets by Turning to One: iPhone — Lower-income households are turning in force to Apple Inc.'s iPhone and may be doing so to save the cost of a separate broadband connection and music devices, according to the media measurement firm comScore Inc.
US appeals court rejects business method patents (Reuters)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 10:45pm CET

Reuters:
US appeals court rejects business method patents — A U.S. patent appeals court ruled on Thursday that business methods, such as Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) one-click to buy goods on the Internet, cannot be patented. — The case was closely watched …
Revenue Crisis: Here Come The Pro Accounts (Nicholas Carlson/Silicon Alley Insider)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 10:20pm CET

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Revenue Crisis: Here Come The Pro Accounts — In his Wired magazine cover story, “Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business,” Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote: “It's now clear that practically everything Web technology touches starts down the path to gratis, at least as far as we consumers are concerned.”
What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud (The Official Google Blog)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 9:50pm CET

The Official Google Blog:
What we learned from 1 million businesses in the cloud — The reliability of cloud computing has been a hot topic recently, partly because glitches in the cloud don't happen behind closed doors as with traditional on-premises solutions for businesses. Instead, when a small number …
Link To The Best Parts In Your Videos (YouTube Blog)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 9:20pm CET

YouTube Blog:
Link To The Best Parts In Your Videos — Here at YouTube, we still pride ourselves in listening closely to our community and building what you ask for. In this spirit, we are pleased to announce the ability to “deep link” to YouTube videos. This means you can now not only link to a YouTube video itself …
Study: iPhone Users Not All High Earning Tech Geeks (Meghan Keane/Epicenter)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 7:20pm CET

Meghan Keane / Epicenter:
Study: iPhone Users Not All High Earning Tech Geeks — Only one percent of cellphone users have an iPhone, and while it may seem like most iPhone owners are just dropping disposable income on the latest tech gadget (present company excluded, of course), that is changing rapidly.
The new AOL.com gets all social and stuff (Caroline McCarthy/The Social)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 5:00pm CET

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
The new AOL.com gets all social and stuff — Social networks are front and center in the latest redesign of AOL's AOL.com homepage, which the company announced Thursday and says it will start to gradually roll out to users over the next few weeks (unless they choose to opt in earlier).
H-P Mulls Service Bundles for Netbooks (Ben Charny/Wall Street Journal)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 4:50pm CET

Ben Charny / Wall Street Journal:
H-P Mulls Service Bundles for Netbooks — Hewlett-Packard Co. wants to employ a new tactic to market “netbook” computers in the U.S., offering them at a steep discount to customers who sign-up for wireless service contracts. — This bundling of cellular service with PCs isn't done in the U.S. …
Motorola: No Google Android 'GPhones' Til Next Christmas (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 3:45pm CET

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Motorola: No Google Android ‘GPhones’ Til Next Christmas — Motorola's (MOT) cellphone business restructuring includes a big bet on Google's (GOOG) Android platform, which Motorola hopes to use for several high-end smartphones and mid-level phones. So when will we see their first ‘GPhone’?
Pirate swoop 'catches' non-gamers (BBC)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 3:30pm CET

BBC:
Pirate swoop ‘catches’ non-gamers — Games firms are accusing innocent people of file-sharing as they crack down on pirates, a Which? Computing investigation has claimed. — The magazine was contacted by Gill and Ken Murdoch, from Scotland, who had been accused of sharing the game Race07 by makers Atari.
The Entire Video of John Doerr Giving 10 Tips for Start-ups to Avoid the Econalypse (Kara Swisher/BoomTown)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 3:20pm CET

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
The Entire Video of John Doerr Giving 10 Tips for Start-ups to Avoid the Econalypse — Here's a video of star VC John Doerr reciting his 10 tips for start-ups to follow in the economic downturn. — Doerr gave out the advice at VentureBeat's “How to manage your start-up in the downturn” …
Asus, Intel launch WePC website, ask community to design PCs for them (Samuel Axon/Engadget)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 1:50pm CET

Samuel Axon / Engadget:
Asus, Intel launch WePC website, ask community to design PCs for them — True power is derived from the people, yes? Asus and Intel know this well, so they've launched a website called WePC, where users can draw up concepts and specs for new netbook and notebook models then argue about how fantastic or utterly impractical they are.
Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID (NeoSmart Technologies/The NeoSmart Files)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 1:40pm CET

NeoSmart Technologies / The NeoSmart Files:
Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — A couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google's made the switch to OpenID, joining Yahoo! and Microsoft in the ranks OpenID providers. — But it looks like someone may have been a bit to hasty to pull that switch …
MobileMe: About the Late-September 2008 MobileMe update (Apple)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 12:25pm CET

Apple:
MobileMe: About the Late-September 2008 MobileMe update — This article provides more detailed information about some recent improvements and the resolution of known issues that Apple delivered in the Late-September 2008 update to MobileMe services. — Apple is always working to improve MobileMe.
Netflix Lands on TiVo! (Dave Zatz/Zatz Not Funny!)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 12:05pm CET

Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Netflix Lands on TiVo! — Over 4 years in the making, Netflix digital video has finally found its way to TiVo! — The process probably hasn't played out exactly the way TiVo and Netflix anticipated when they initially inked a development agreement in 2004... In fact …
October Surprise: TiVo to Stream Netflix (Chris Albrecht/NewTeeVee)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 8:55am CET

Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
October Surprise: TiVo to Stream Netflix — In the beginning, there was Netflix streaming movies and TV content to the PC, and it was “meh.” Then there was the Roku Netflix player and it was actually pretty good. And lo, then there was Netflix streaming to the Xbox …
AT&T Finally Offering Free Wifi for iPhone Users (Includes Starbucks Locations) (Arn/MacRumors)

Posted: October 30th, 2008, 4:25am CET

Arn / MacRumors:
AT&T Finally Offering Free Wifi for iPhone Users (Includes Starbucks Locations) — AT&T has announced that they are now offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone subscribers across the U.S. … AT&T provided a number of early hints that the service would be coming.
Google moves towards single sign-on with OpenID (Google Code Blog)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 10:15pm CET

Google Code Blog:
Google moves towards single sign-on with OpenID — Currently users are required to create individual passwords for many websites they visit, but users would prefer to avoid this step so they could visits websites more easily. Similarly, many websites on the Internet have asked …
T-Mobile G1 unlock possible; Android Community celebrates with giveaway (Shawn Brown/Android Community)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 9:50pm CET

Shawn Brown / Android Community:
T-Mobile G1 unlock possible; Android Community celebrates with giveaway — The first T-Mobile G1 has been unlocked thanks to the guys over at Unlock-TMobileG1.com. In honor of this we will be giving away 3 unlock codes for the T-mobile G1 in a community contest.
Apple's $24.5B: The case for a stock buyback (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Technology news)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 9:00pm CET

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Technology news:
Apple's $24.5B: The case for a stock buyback — Here's a headache most companies would love to have. — Apple is sitting on a huge cash reserve — $24.5 billion as of September and growing at the rate of $8 to $10 billion a year - that's doing almost nothing for it.
John Doerr: 10 ways for companies to stay afloat in rough times (MG Siegler/VentureBeat)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 8:20pm CET

MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
John Doerr: 10 ways for companies to stay afloat in rough times — At VentureBeat's Downturn Roundtable event this morning, Kleiner Perkins' John Doerr came prepared with a list of the top things that start-up CEOs should do. He surveyed 18 of Kleiner's companies, and here's what they suggest …
HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 first (Darren Murph/Engadget HD)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 6:45pm CET

Darren Murph / Engadget HD:
HD Netflix streaming comes to Xbox 360 first — It's something you can't get on the Roku. Nor on LG's BD300. Nor on Samsung's P2500 / P2550 Blu-ray players. Nor through Netflix's own “Watch Instantly” portal. It's high-def Netflix streaming, and it's coming first to Microsoft's Xbox 360.
Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share; Microsoft Loses (Vivek Shankar/Bloomberg)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 5:25pm CET

Vivek Shankar / Bloomberg:
Yahoo Gains Internet Search Share; Microsoft Loses — Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. handled a larger chunk of U.S. Internet searches last month while Microsoft Corp. lost market share, according to researcher ComScore Inc. — Yahoo had about 20.2 percent of queries in September …
MacBook Airs ship; Psystar plans Mac notebook, Blu-ray desktop (AppleInsider)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 5:25pm CET

AppleInsider:
MacBook Airs ship; Psystar plans Mac notebook, Blu-ray desktop — Apple is making good on a promise to have its new MacBook Airs in the hands of customers early next week. Meanwhile, unofficial Mac clone maker Psystar has announced a Blu-ray-enabled Mac desktop and says its also working on a Mac notebook.
Why BlackBerry Storm Is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer (Jim Courtney/GigaOM)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 5:00pm CET

Jim Courtney / GigaOM:
Why BlackBerry Storm Is An iPhone (and G-1) Killer — Having followed activity in the BlackBerry ecosystem over the past few weeks, I have come to the conclusion that BlackBerry Storm should be called BlackBerry Stealth. Why? With little media coverage, its forthcoming launch is the sleeper play …
Tech giants in human rights deal (Maggie Shiels/BBC)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 3:15pm CET

Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Tech giants in human rights deal — Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have signed a global code of conduct promising to offer better protection for online free speech and against official intrusion. — The Global Network Initiative follows criticism that companies were assisting governments in countries like China to censor the Internet.
New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions (Joshua Topolsky/Engadget)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 3:10pm CET

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
New Xbox 360 Experience hands-on and impressions — Thanks to a special blessing from the folks in Redmond, we've had an opportunity to thoroughly give the rejiggered Xbox 360 Dash (AKA, the New Xbox Experience) a serious run through, and we've got the lowdown on the future of your gaming life.
Asustek to launch Android handset in 1H09 (Daniel Shen/DigiTimes)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 3:05pm CET

Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to launch Android handset in 1H09 — Asustek Computer plans to launch its first Android-based Google phone in the first half of 2009, according to company sources. Asustek may initially sell the Android-powered handsets under its own brand in the Taiwan market before also launching customized models …
Online Office: Microsoft keeps promising while Google delivers (Sam Diaz/Between the Lines)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 1:20pm CET

Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Online Office: Microsoft keeps promising while Google delivers — No one really expected Microsoft to completely abandon the idea of desktop software, did they? Today, at the Professional Developers Conference, the company announced that it will be rolling out “Office Web applications,” …
HP gets serious about Netbooks (Erica Ogg/Crave)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 1:10pm CET

Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog:
HP gets serious about Netbooks — The Mini 1000 MIE has a custom HP interface meant to hide its Linux OS from users. — After a brief experiment in the education market, Hewlett-Packard on Wednesday is set to introduce a whole line of Netbooks for mainstream consumers.
Logitech Coughs Up $30 Million To Acquire SightSpeed (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 12:30pm CET

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Logitech Coughs Up $30 Million To Acquire SightSpeed — Switzerland-based Logitech, maker of personal computer peripherals, is entering the software market by acquiring internet video communications services provider SightSpeed for $30 million in cash. The deal is expected to close in early November.
Announcing Applications on LinkedIn (Reid Hoffman/The LinkedIn Blog)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 11:20am CET

Reid Hoffman / The LinkedIn Blog:
Announcing Applications on LinkedIn — Hi Everyone. I'm writing today to announce the launch of LinkedIn's applications platform that will enable over 30 million professionals on LinkedIn to communicate, collaborate, and share information even better than before.
Motorola Speed Dials Cell Overhaul (Sara Silver/Wall Street Journal)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 8:35am CET

Sara Silver / Wall Street Journal:
Motorola Speed Dials Cell Overhaul — New Mobile Chief Plans to Slash More Jobs, Focus on Google Software to Simplify Design and Cut Costs — Motorola Inc.'s new cellphone chief is moving quickly to scale back the struggling division, simplifying the way it makes devices and cutting additional jobs.
LinkedIn Means Business With New Application Platform (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 5:05am CET

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
LinkedIn Means Business With New Application Platform — LinkedIn has launched its new OpenSocial-based application platform called InApps - an answer to the platforms found on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, but without the clutter and “junk” apps that plague those sites.
Introducing Y!OS 1.0 - live today! (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 4:10am CET

Yahoo! Developer Network Blog:
Introducing Y!OS 1.0 - live today! — Earlier this month, we introduced a revamped universal profile to all Yahoo! users - but that was just the tip of the iceberg. With the new profile page, you got a peek at our open vision, but today's Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) 1.0 platform launch gives you something to get your hands on.
Short Term Profits Over Long Term Principles; Google's Caving ... (Michael Masnick/Techdirt)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 3:35am CET

Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Short Term Profits Over Long Term Principles; Google's Caving On Book Scanning Is Bad News — Today the tech/business press was filled with stories about how Google has settled the lawsuits from authors and publishers over its book scanning project. Google is paying $125 million …
Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony! (Robin Harris/Storage Bits)

Posted: October 29th, 2008, 1:20am CET

Robin Harris / Storage Bits:
Blu-ray is dead - heckuva job, Sony! — Blu-ray is in a death spiral. 12 months from now Blu-ray will be a videophile niche, not a mass market product. — With only a 4% share of US movie disc sales and HD download capability arriving, the Blu-ray disc Association (BDA) is still smoking dope.
Retailers Slash Blu-Ray Player Prices (Miguel Bustillo/Wall Street Journal)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 11:20pm CET

Miguel Bustillo / Wall Street Journal:
Retailers Slash Blu-Ray Player Prices — Electronics manufacturers and retail chains are slashing prices of Blu-ray players in a bid to boost adoption of the high-definition movie format, which has yet to catch on with American consumers. — Entry-level Blu-ray players have dropped …
Windows 7 details galore: interface tweaks, netbook builds ... (Nilay Patel/Engadget)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 11:10pm CET

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Windows 7 details galore: interface tweaks, netbook builds, Media Center enhancements — Microsoft's Windows 7 announcement earlier today was followed up by an extensive demo of the new features during the PDC keynote, and since then even more info about the new OS has flooded out …
MTV: Just Ignore That Nice New Video Site We Rolled Out Yesterday (Peter Kafka/MediaMemo)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 10:45pm CET

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
MTV: Just Ignore That Nice New Video Site We Rolled Out Yesterday — I've just heard back from the folks at MTV.com, who've explained what they're up to with MTV Music, the nifty video archive site they quietly rolled out yesterday. — The answer: They really haven't rolled out the site.
Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition (Stephanie Clifford/New York Times)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 10:30pm CET

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition — After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.
Sonos Launches Free iPhone, iPod Touch App [Update] (Peter Ha/TechCrunch)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 7:20pm CET

Peter Ha / TechCrunch:
Sonos Launches Free iPhone, iPod Touch App [Update] — Those of you with Sonos equipment already filling your abode with the sweet tunes of your music library and an iPhone or iPod Touch should promptly hit up Apple's App Store and download their free app now.
New chapter for Google Book Search (The Official Google Blog)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 7:20pm CET

The Official Google Blog:
New chapter for Google Book Search — Google was built on the principle of making the world's information more accessible and useful. Before the company was even founded, Larry and Sergey imagined a way to make it easier for anyone, anywhere, to access the information held within the world's books.
Wal-Mart To Sell Google's G1 Phones At Discount Starting Wed (CNN)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 7:05pm CET

CNN:
Wal-Mart To Sell Google's G1 Phones At Discount Starting Wed — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Wal-Mart Inc. (WMT) will start selling the G1 phone at a discounted price starting Wednesday, a Wal-Mart spokesman confirmed Monday night. — Wal-Mart will carry the Google Inc. (GOOG) G1 phone …
Shakeout Threatens to Thin Out Web-Ad Brokers (Emily Steel/Wall Street Journal)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 6:55pm CET

Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Shakeout Threatens to Thin Out Web-Ad Brokers — As the Economy Sours and Venture Funding Grows Scarcer, Some Networks Have Begun to Exit a Crowded Niche on the Internet — More than 300 online-ad networks have cropped up over the past couple of years, making the business of brokering ads …
Ten Comments You Think Are Cool And Insightful But Aren't (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 6:15pm CET

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ten Comments You Think Are Cool And Insightful But Aren't — Comments are the lifeblood of TechCrunch, and we love 'em. But we also get our share of the freaks, conspiracy theorists and jerks out there who have something to say and believe they have a constitutional or God given right to say it, right here.
Google strikes book search deal (BBC)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:50pm CET

BBC:
Google strikes book search deal — Google's reach into the world's libraries looks more assured following a deal struck today. — The agreement with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers will resolve a number of lawsuits from the last three years.
Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally) (Richard MacManus/ReadWriteWeb)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:45pm CET

Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally) — Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
First look at Windows 7's User Interface (Peter Bright/Ars Technica)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:40pm CET

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
First look at Windows 7's User Interface — At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months MS has let on that the taskbar will undergo a number of changes …
Google settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authors (InfoWorld)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:05pm CET

InfoWorld:
Google settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authors — Google has settled lawsuits brought against it by major publishers and authors that argued that Google's wholesale scanning and indexing of in-copyright books without permission amounted to massive copyright violations.
Study: When it comes to influence, bloggers beat friend lists (Caroline McCarthy/The Social)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 4:55pm CET

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Study: When it comes to influence, bloggers beat friend lists — Facebook likes to trumpet the value of “trusted referrals”—recommendations and ads with the endorsements of members of your friends list. But a new study from Jupiter Research, commissioned by analytics company BuzzLogic …
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Set Common Voice Abroad (Jessica E. Vascellaro/Wall Street Journal)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 3:55pm CET

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Set Common Voice Abroad — Principles Aim to Define Conduct With Nations That Restrict Speech, Lack Privacy Protections and Censor Search Results — Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will announce Tuesday that they have agreed to a common set of principles …
Playfish Gets $17 Million More For Social Games (Nick Gonzalez/TechCrunch)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 3:20pm CET

Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Playfish Gets $17 Million More For Social Games — Over the past year video games have begun invading every computing platform, from social networks to mobile devices. They've also been picked up in the portfolios of a number of firms. — London based Playfish has just raised …
Why this tech recession will be different (George Colony/George F. Colony)

Posted: October 28th, 2008, 1:30pm CET

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