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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel Drops Logo After 37 Years; Seeks to Take Image Beyond PCs — Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., whose marketing made its computer chips a household name, is changing its logo for the first time in 37 years. — The dropped ``e'' in Intel will be shed in favor of a swoop around …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
New Focus for Intel: The Home — Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, is breaking away from its longstanding love affair with pure computing power to remake itself as a consumer-friendly brand that will seek to dominate the digital home. — Intel's strategy, based on a new generation …
Geoff Duncan / news.designtechnica.com:
Intel Launches New Logo and Brand Renewal — Reflecting a shift towards consumer products, chip-maker Intel is scrapping its 37 year-old logo and "Intel Inside" tagline. — In an effort to reflect the company's shift towards the general consumer marketplace, chip-maker Intel Corporation …
Sunbelt BLOG:
The DEP controversy — I admit I'm getting rather tired of talking about this WMF exploit and hope to stop writing about it soon. But because we were the first security company to break the story, a lot of people have been coming to this blog and we feel we have a responsibility to keep people updated.
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
US-CERT: 5,198 Software Flaws in 2005 — Security researchers uncovered a record 5,198 vulnerabilities in software products this year, nearly 38 percent more than the number of flaws found in 2004, according to statistics published by US-CERT, a cyber security information-sharing collaboration between …
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Adam Pasick / Reuters:
Web services thrive, but outages outrage users — LONDON (Reuters) - Web sites that share blogs, bookmarks and photos exploded in popularity in 2005, but in recent weeks a number of major outages left users stranded and frustrated. — The new breed of Web site includes blogging services such as TypePad …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without — There have been numerous 2005 "best of" and 2006 "predictions" posts over the last few weeks as the year comes to an end. I'm not going to write one of those. Giving out "best of" awards seems presumptuous to me, given that I've been blogging all of six months.
Lorraine Woellert / Business Week:
Sony BMG Ends a Legal Nightmare — The label has quickly settled the class action over its "secret" copy-protection software. That's good for all parties — including the future of digital music — As peace treaties go, it might be one of history's swiftest negotiations.
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Why I'm working on an aggregator — Background — The first RSS aggregator developed at UserLand was called My.UserLand.Com. It was a centralized application, like Bloglines or My.Yahoo. It first shipped in 1999, alongside My.Netscape.Com, which took a different approach.
Business Week:
The Daily Paper Of Tomorrow — It won't look the same. But with reimagining, the local daily ain't dead yet — The boss walks into your office and shuts the door. Sits down. Looks you solemnly in the eye. "We're buying a bunch of newspapers from Knight Ridder (KRI )," he says.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU MASHUP RSS, IM, AND PUBLISHING SERVICES? — So remember that prediction I made back in 2004, the one about mobile busting out in some kind of Web 2.0 way in 2005? And how it didn't happen, so I repeated it again this year? Well, I was wrong.
Mark Henderson / Times of London:
Satellite will bring cinema listings to your mobile phone — THE first of a network of 30 satellites that will provide Europe with its own version of the American Global Positioning System (GPS) was launched yesterday. — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the Giove A satellite blasted off …
Daniel B. Wood / ABCNEWS:
No Happy Ending in 2005 For Hollywood — Ticket Sales Drop for Third Year in a Row — LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29. 2005 — Hollywood's year-ending good news is that moviegoers are opening hearts and pocketbooks for "King Kong" — it brought in more than $60 million its debut weekend and counting.
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Eryn Brown / Wired News:
Revenge of the Dotcom Poster Boy … It's the Friday before Halloween, and Jason McCabe Calacanis, the onetime king of New York's Silicon Alley, is holding court in his new hometown of Santa Monica, California. Dressed in a chocolaty suede blazer, a BlackBerry glued to his hand …
Associated Press:
WhiteHouse.gov Uses Cookies, Bugs — NEW YORK — Unbeknown to the Bush administration, an outside contractor has been using internet tracking technologies that may be prohibited to analyze usage and traffic patterns at the White House's website, an official said Thursday.
