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3:55 PM ET, March 22, 2006

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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 …
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Vista 2007.  Fire the leadership now!  —  2007. It certainly sounded like Microsoft leadership committed to us, our customers, our partners, and our shareholders that Vista would be out in 2006.  —  Slip!  —  We should have asked for more details around the "or else" part of that commitment.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Windows Vista delayed  —  As you might have read by now, Windows Vista has been delayed.  —  I found this out while I was at Mix06 and in Las Vegas hanging out with the community.  I have not had time to get educated on this issue and so I'll reserve most comment on it.
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Vista Delayed Again
BBC:
Microsoft delays launch of Vista
Discussion: Ken McGuire Blog
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:   Windows Vista delayed - again
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
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.)
Discussion: SiliconBeat, Valleywag and bizjournals
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.
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.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
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Tony Smith / The Register:   Samsung pre-announces 2.33GHz Intel Core Duo T2700
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 …
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 …
sierrawireless.com:
Sierra Wireless introduces product line for next generation EV-DO networks  —  The AirCard® 595 wireless wide area network card and the MC5725 PCI Express Mini Card embedded module will offer increased data rates and faster uploads  —  Vancouver, British Columbia - Sierra Wireless …
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.
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 …
Ward / Nerd Vittles:
A Marriage Made in Heaven: Sprint Cellphone + Asterisk@Home = Unlimited U.S. Cell Phone Calls for $5  —  Last week Sprint announced the availability (beginning today!) of a new add-on for existing and new Sprint cellphone customers.  For $5 more a month and a little Yankee ingenuity …
Discussion: VoIP & Gadgets Blog and VoIP Watch
Melissa J. Perenson / PC World:
No Copying From First High-Def Players  —  The first HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc players will ship soon—without any support for consumer copying.  —  Imagine Olympic skaters lined up at the starting line, but the ice ahead of them isn't ready for the race—not a pretty sight.
Discussion: HDBlog.net and Engadget
 
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Netvibes to Announce Seed Financing Today
Will O'Brien / Engadget:
How-To: SSH tunnels for secure network access
Justine Lau / Financial Times:
China 'to block VoIP calls for two years'
Discussion: IP Democracy
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Right-wing think-tank hates DRM
Reuters:
Apple says proposed French law smacks of piracy
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Jason Shellen / Official Google Reader Blog:
Reader learns to share
Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Yahoo! Music at Mix06: AJAX YMU, RSS + SLE
Discussion: TechCrunch
Ahbao / slashphone.com:
NEC Enables 50 Hours of Continuous Music Playback on Mobile Phones
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and Ubergizmo
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Microsoft to offer cheap Xbox 360 game development kit?
 

 
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