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TDavid / Things That:
Taking Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 preview through install and uninstall, step-by-step, with screenshots — Bittorrent and private beta testers aside, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but yesterday's release of the IE7 beta 2 for the general public is the very first opportunity to download …
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Early Adopter Download of the Day: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview — Windows only: Microsoft has released a preview beta version of Internet Explorer 7 to the public. The newest version of the browser includes tabs, an integrated search box, quick personal data-clearing and RSS support.
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Reviews of IE7 Beta 2 Preview - will be threat to Mozilla and RSS Aggregators — Some brave developers have downloaded the IE7 Beta 2 Preview and are beginning to report back their findings. The main new features in IE7 are tabs, RSS integration and improved security.
Tom Sanders / vnunet.com:
Microsoft flooded with IE7 bug reports — Testers wade in to forthcoming browser — Bug reports and security warnings have started pouring in just hours after Microsoft released a second public beta of its forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 browser. — Security researcher Tom Ferris exposed …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:IE7 beta: Read the fine print
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SearchViews, Mark Evans, Search Engine Journal, InsideMicrosoft, BetaNews and larry borsato
Robert Roy Britt / livescience.com:
Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams — After 145 years, Western Union has quietly stopped sending telegrams. — On the company's web site, if you click on "Telegrams" in the left-side navigation bar, you're taken to a page that ends a technological era with about as little fanfare as possible:
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michael parekh on IT, saschameinrath.com, Engadget, Techdirt, SearchViews, Dvorak Uncensored, ldopa.net, TechBlog and MIT Advertising Lab
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Western Union abandons telegrams — The Internet strikes again. — First it mostly did away with brick-and-mortar auction houses. Then newspaper classifieds went the way of the Model-T Ford. — And now, thanks to the ubiquity of e-mail and instant messaging, Western Union is getting …
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Engadget
Tom Zeller Jr / Technology News:
Microsoft Amends Its Policy for Shutting Down Blogs — Microsoft unveiled new company guidelines yesterday intended to spell out how it will deal with government censorship demands, in China and anywhere it does business, and limit the impact of its compliance.
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Smart Mobs
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Courier-Mail:
New blog for high-fliers — Got your own blog yet? If not you'd better hurry up if you dont want to be beaten to it by a flock of pigeons, according to New Scientist. — Later this year 20 of the birds will take to the skies above San Jose, California, each carrying a GPS receiver …
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Robert Gavin / Boston Globe:
Subscriber credit data distributed by mistake — Globe, Worcester paper affected — Credit and bank card numbers of as many as 240,000 subscribers of The Boston Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette were inadvertently distributed with bundles of T&G newspapers on Sunday, officials of the newspapers said yesterday.
Rob / ps3week.com:
Interview: Josh Robinson — Josh Robinson's review of PS3 development cost him his job at Sony. We caught up with him to talk about life after his few minutes of gaming fame. — FULL STORY: — We had a chance to chat with Josh Robinson, the former Sony 3D artist who shook up the gaming media …
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1 — Yesterday I interviewed digg founder Kevin Rose to discuss digg's popularity, its battle with spammers, the recent issues with GroupThink and digg's upcoming personalization features. This is the first of a two-part article presenting that interview.
Nick / Rough Type:
Salesforce.com's hiccups — When CIOs think about utility computing in general or software-as-a-service (SaaS) in particular, two things make them very nervous. The first is data security. The second is service reliability. The fears about security and reliability may be rational or not …
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Between the Lines
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:Are Salesforce's outages sullying the reputation of the SaaS model?
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Slip-up spills beans on Dell notebooks — update Apparent specifications for Dell's future notebooks were briefly exposed by Google's search engine Tuesday, before the spreadsheet was removed from a Dell FTP site and from Google's cache. — The basic configurations for the Dell Inspiron e1405 …
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Catherine Yang / Business Week:
Is Verizon a Network Hog? — The telecommunications giant wants to devote most of its capacity to its own traffic, to Internet companies' dismay — Last November, Vinton G. Cerf wrote a letter of warning to Congress. The legendary computer scientist, now a vice-president at Google (GOOG) …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
British warships get iPod docks, surround sound — Here's a question for our British readers: does itbother you at all that your government is spending your tax quid on outfitting each berth in the Royal Navy's six new,£6 billion Type 45 Destroyers with iPod docks andsurround sound …
Katie / Shiny Shiny:
Jabra's colourful headsets arrive — Those Jabra BT160 headsets have just been announced in the UK. The small Bluetooth headset comes with a choice of 33 different patterns and colours, and you can slip the coloured papers in under the transparent top cover.
Marissa Ann Mayer / Business Week:
Turning Limitations into Innovation — When "balanced with a healthy disregard for the impossible," constraints can shape and focus problems, leading to truly creative solutions — As vice-president for search products and user experience at Google (GOOG), I work with a team that defines the features …
prweb.com:
Pheedo, PRWeb Put the News in RSS Ads — Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document. — Pheedo and PRWeb are working together to deliver content in an innovative new advertising format, expanding reach and exposure for PRWeb customers. — Emeryville, CA (PRWEB) February 1 …
Chris Taylor / CNN:
Imagining the Google Future — Top experts help us plot four scenarios that show where the company's geniuses may be leading it—and, perhaps, all of us. — (Business 2.0) - We all know that the company Sergey Brin and Larry Page founded a mere eight years ago is one of the new century's most cunning enterprises.
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Michael Calore / hotwired.com:
BitTorrent Client Shootout — Michael Calore is Webmonkey's editor in chief and the ringleader of Snackfight. He spends his spare moments cultivating bamboo and re-organizing his iPod. His favorite film is Rockers. — Over the past year or two, I have received a small flood of e-mail from readers asking about BitTorrent.
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Releases Q4 2005 Earnings — Google has released their Q4 2005 earnings as covered in this news release. — From the news release: … From CNNMoney.com: … From the Google Q4 Earnings News Release (also includes 2005 financial highlights): — + GAAP net income …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Craigslist's laid-back approach to success — NEW YORK—Online classified-ad site Craigslist isn't your typical Internet company, and CEO Jim Buckmaster isn't your average media mogul. — While other CEOs in the fast-paced technology market are driven by growing revenue and guard their turf …
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