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Matt Haughey / PVRblog:
TiVo 7.2 OS adds content protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows — We got a bit of a disturbing report over the weekend from a reader: … Unfortunately, he didn't have any photos of what he saw, so I started looking around for similar reports. It didn't sound like an isolated or accidental incident.
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Google Blog:
Judge clears way for Dr. Lee — A Washington state judge ruled today that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can immediately begin working for Google. (There's a profile of Dr. Lee in today's San Francisco Chronicle.) We're thrilled, and he's excited to get right to work on several big things, including recruiting …
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manageability.org:
The Logic Behind Ebay's Acquisition of Skype — The first salvo was from Yahoo when it acquired Dialpad. The counter punch then came from Google with its release of Google Talk. Now comes the big haymaker with Ebay's acquisition of Skype. Many observers can easily comprehend the logic …
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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
New-look Memeorandum launched — I've been one of the beta testers of a brilliant new blog news service over the past 2-3 months - and today it's gone live. tech.memeorandum is the brainchild of Gabe Rivera. It basically aggregates all the latest news from blogs on one page - but it's more than that.
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start.com:
Start.com Developer Center Preview — Today Microsoft announced Microsoft gadgets at PDC with three flavors of Gadgets for Windows Sidebar, Gadgets for Start.com and Gadgets for Windows Sideshow. On that note we welcome you to a preview of the start.com developer center.
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Microsoft Should Confuse the Market More — Back in January there were numerous news stories about how Microsoft Longhorn might be sold in as many as seven variations. The story died down, and I figured that the company wouldn't be so nutty as to confuse the market with so many variations on a theme.
Michael Coates / OpsanBlog:
PDC05 - WPF/E Session — Quick hits on WPF/E (Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere) Jim Allchin announced this in his keynote: — The goal: to work everywhere. Macs, FireFox, everywhere. — WPF/E is a subset runtime of WPF that's small, fast and will run everywhere.
Miker / This is Mobility:
Photos — We had a Mobile Monday focused on photos this evening. The presentations were great, and I just wanted to get down some of the thoughts here. Both to share and so that I don't forget them myself. Erik from Shutterfly led off the presentations, and put up some great info …
Michael Gartenberg:
Office 12 has new UI and cool RSS Support — This seems to be the month for bold moves. Microsoft has tossed out the old Office UI and replaced the pull down menus and toolbars with a series of visual tabs. IT certainly doesn't look like anything I've seen before. I'm not sure I totally love the new Office "12" UI.
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
See Office 12 Now! — I've been working internally on courseware for Microsoft for a while now. As part of that, I've spent a fair amount of time with the Office12 team. — Now, you can see much of what I've seen, at this funky Channel9 video. — Don't make judgements …
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Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
So, You Wanna Fund a Startup? — For investors determined to be first in detecting the promise of a burgeoning technology, picking through publicly traded stocks can make for a disappointing approach. — Sure, if you'd discerned the promise of Microsoft back in 1986 …
ZDNet:
Tasmania powers up 12Mbps broadband — Internet service provider Datafast, in partnership with Aurora Energy and hardware vendor Mitsubishi Electric, today kicked off a 12Mbps broadband over power line service in Hobart, which the company claims is the world's first large-scale commercial trial.
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Report: Blogs And Free Content Are Hurting B-To-B Publishers — Newspaper companies and business trade publishers face disruption from online competitors such as Google and Yahoo. — The news and trade market is in for some rough weather, according to report released Monday by researchers …