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New York Times:
Microsoft to Delay Next Version of Windows — Microsoft's long effort to deliver the next version of its Windows operating system suffered another setback yesterday when the company said that the system would not be ready for consumer personal computers for the holiday sales season.
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Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Delays Windows Vista Debut Again — Consumer Version to Miss — Critical Holiday Season; — Unit Shake-Up Is Expected — Microsoft Corp. announced a delay in its long-awaited Windows Vista operating system, and people familiar with the matter said the company is planning …
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Vista Delayed Again — Microsoft is now planning to deliver business versions in November 2006 and the consumer versions in 2007. — The unthinkable has happened: Microsoft has delayed Windows Vista yet again. — Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:For Vista, a few extra months can only help
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Mike / Techdirt:
Now That Plaxo Spam Has Annoyed Enough People, It's Time To Fade It Out? — from the dubious-reasons dept — For years, plenty of people have complained repeatedly about the scourge of "Plaxo spam." These are the constant bombardment of emails from new Plaxo users who have you in their address book …
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Jeremy Wagstaff / the LOOSE wire blog:
Plaxo Drops the "Hi, I'm updating my address book" Email — Plaxo is dropping the "Hi, I'm updating my address book. Please take a moment to update your latest contact information..." email which has, over the past three years, raised more than a few hackles. (What is a hackle?
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Return of Rakesh Mathur — Rakesh Mathur is someone I have known from a bubble ago. He dropped me a note today saying that he has moved back to Silicon Valley from Seattle. (That perhaps explains the torrential rains, which have followed Rakesh to the Bay Area.)
Leander Kahney / Wired News:
How France Is Saving Civilization — New legislation in France would force Apple Computer to open the iPod and iTunes to competitors — and that's a good thing for consumers, in the long run. — On Tuesday, the French parliament passed a law that would require digital content bought …
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USA Today:
Yahoo calls on customers to try its new phone service — LOS ANGELES — Internet giant Yahoo (YHOO) Tuesday launched a new way to get a local telephone number for just $2.99 a month. — The calls have to be initiated from a PC, but can be made to traditional landline phones and cellphones.
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Tanya Palta / MobileWhack.com:
Samsung Q35 - World's Smallest Laptop — Trust Samsung Electronics to always take the unbeaten path. Today Samsung Korea showcased the world's smallest dual-core notebook which also has an extremely stylish feel to it. The Samsung Q35 is extremly mobile and once again Samsung has managed to stand apart from its rivals.
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linuxboxadmin.com:
What you get with sudo — What are you really gaining by using sudo in the default Mac OS X configuration? First, you gain some comfort that nobody can login as root, either locally or remotely via SSH or FTP and tamper with your machine. Second, you get a log entry in /var/log/system.log every …
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Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
It's Official Now! Get The Portable Firefox 2 Alpha 1 Here — Unfortunately I had just went to sleep last night when this was released...so I know it has been out for 9 hours but here is the Portable version of Firefox 2 Alpha 1 that I promised. I have received a lot of emails requesting …
danah.org:
Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? — [Note: this is an essay that would've been a blog post but it got too long.] — A lot of folks have asked me "What went wrong with Friendster? Why is MySpace any different?" I guess i never directly answered that question, even though i've addressed the causes in other talks.
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Scobleizer, Larry Borsato, PaidContent.org, It's Rishi, Many-to-Many and A Whole Lotta Nothing
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
No Bundle of Joy — Some Buyers Find Packaged Telecom Services a Tangle of Trouble — Lori Mabry thought she was getting a good deal by putting all of her home communications needs in the hands of one company. — Two years ago, the Lanham resident turned to AT&T for a package …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Network.com - Sun Provides Grid Computing for $1/CPU-hour — This is really interesting. Following Amazon's release of S3 (an on-demand storage solution), Mechanical Turk (human tasks on demand) and the Alexa Web Search Platform (rent your own search engine), I've been told that Sun …
John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A new tactic in fight against pop-up advertising: public shaming — The Center for Democracy & Technology is employing a new tactic in its fight against 180solutions and the scourge of pop-up advertising: public shaming. — In a 10-page report released this week, the Washington D.C.-based …
Valleywag:
Google Finance doesn't care about black people — John W. Thompson, CEO of Symantec, according to Symantec.com — John M. Thompson, CEO of Symantec, according to Google Finance — Hooray! Silicon Valley has black people! They're just disguised as white people! — Symantec Corporation [Google Finance]
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