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Orphan Works: Half a loaf (21 May 03:14) |
| The world of copyright may be about to change because of pending legislation, but in a guest post, James V. DeLong, says that Congress's hard work is only beginning. |
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Schwarzenegger blasts White House over environment (21 May 02:11) |
| But California's governor lauds businesses profiled in new report for incorporating "green" policies into their daily operations. |
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Earnings alert: HP profits rise (21 May 02:02) |
| Plus: Sony posts rosy outlook...EA tops expectations...SAP sees profit dwindle...Verizon is still on a roll. |
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James Cameron: 3D heading beyond movies (21 May 01:08) |
| The legendary filmmaker tells a crowd of digital advertisers that the kind of three-dimensional experiences just making their way into film will also revolutionize television and gaming |
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Psystar launches Open Computer software updates (21 May 12:16) |
| Psystar adds software updates to its Web site |
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Hedge fund, corporate raider sign onto Yahoo-Icahn battle (20 May 09:21) |
| Third Point and T. Boone Pickens are snapping up millions of Yahoo shares and throwing their support behind Carl Icahn's proxy fight. |
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Study: Engineering teams, not processes, factor heaviest in code quality (20 May 09:06) |
| New research suggests that open source doesn't necessarily create better-quality software. This is perhaps not surprising, but begs the question as to whether the open-source process does a... |
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Virtual stack vendor CohesiveFT part of Top Ten Tech Startups (20 May 09:04) |
| Get your applications in a VM and run them locally or in the Cloud with CohesiveFT |
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Aster Data Systems offers cluster for deep insights (20 May 08:50) |
| Taking cue from Google, company's parallel-processing analytical engine and commodity hardware can extract insights from hundreds of terabytes of data. |
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Aster Data Systems offers new cluster for deep insights (20 May 08:50) |
| Taking cue from Google, company's massive parallel-processing analytical engine and commodity hardware can extract insights from hundreds of terabytes of data. |
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Exploring the music industry's other alternatives (20 May 08:33) |
| Featured links from the CNET Blog Network
Exploring the music industry's other alternatives -- Don Reisinger has some ideas for the music industry. Do you have others?
Audioengine... |
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Apple and MySpace win at Microsoft's expense (20 May 08:06) |
| Microsoft tries to control all, an approach that has failed on the web, as demonstrated by Apple and MySpace. For its own good, and ours, we should pray that it continues to fail. |
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Congress to like Google's censor-handling proposal? (20 May 07:29) |
| Silicon Valley's again in front of a Senate hearing today, and some sensible ideas are finally on the table about how to deal with censorship-heavy countries. |
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Survey finds 54 percent would buy more Microsoft products if it were more open (20 May 05:37) |
| Microsoft seems to be comfortable in its desktop dominance, but a recent survey suggests that people would buy even more from it if Microsoft would just open up. |
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U.K. tech agency: Microsoft's no friend to schools (20 May 07:11) |
| A British government agency says that Microsoft isn't doing enough to support interoperability standards for tech in schools. |
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Open Season Episode 17: I can't believe we are still doing podcasts (20 May 06:53) |
| Podcasts are sometimes more fun than Twitter |
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If you're Jerry Yang, play that Stanford card for all its worth (20 May 05:14) |
| Depending upon what happens with the Microsoft negotiations, Yahoo's CEO may be out of a job. But not to worry: The old school tie gives him an in at Google. |
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Today's must reads: Novell's lead pony, Microsoft on open source, and more (20 May 05:06) |
| A random sampling of blogs that I would have liked to have tackled in earnest, but ran out of time. |
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Google execs stew over Microsoft response (20 May 03:43) |
| Google's triumvirate of top executives is meeting Monday to evaluate what to do in response to a Microsoft offer to buy some Yahoo assets. |
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Open source in Japan: Q&A with the President of Plat'Home (20 May 03:25) |
| Plat'Home has been very influential in making Linux big in Japan. Here's an interview with one of the biggest drivers of Japan's Linux market. |
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Microsoft's advertising pitch, by the notes (20 May 02:48) |
| Here's a preview of what's to come at this week's advertising conference, including a primer on the key buzzwords that will come from Redmond this week. |
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So now Eric Schmidt is a al-Qaida fellow traveler? (20 May 02:14) |
| Senator Joe Lieberman wants Google to pull "terrorist content" from YouTube. His PR director obviously is incapacitated. |
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So now Eric Schmidt is an al-Qaida fellow traveler? (20 May 02:14) |
| Senator Joe Lieberman wants Google to pull "terrorist content" from YouTube. His PR director obviously is incapacitated. |
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A new wrinkle: Microsoft could take 'minority, passive stake' in Yahoo (20 May 02:02) |
| A report from Reuters says the search giant may want a piece of the Silicon Valley company, even after it buys the search business. |
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What Google, Yahoo, Microsoft look for when buying a start-up (19 May 11:58) |
| At the TieCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif., corporate development officers from the three Internet giants discuss their acquisition strategies. |
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Intel Itanium to go quad-core in early 2009 (19 May 11:18) |
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Intel Itanium to go quad-core in early 2009 -- Alliance to promote use of Itanium says quad-core version of chip will come out in early 2009, d... |
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Steve Ballmer egged at Hungarian University (19 May 10:02) |
| Steve Ballmer is used to getting egged on. This time he got egged. |
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Open source "Cloud Tools" for deploying and testing Java EE applications on EC2 (19 May 09:59) |
| A new wave of open source development will make the Cloud real. |
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Microsoft: Vista is so misunderstood! (19 May 09:06) |
| The reality is that Vista is almost certainly not as bad as detractors suggest (myself included), nor as good and faultless as Microsoft suggests. Regardless, Microsoft may have to wait unt... |
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Microsoft, Yahoo forced to each others' arms (19 May 09:01) |
| The software maker and search pioneer have both said they want to move on, but the fact of the matter is they need each other. |
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Microsoft, Yahoo forced into each others' arms (19 May 09:01) |
| The software maker and Internet pioneer have both said they want to move on. But the fact of the matter is they need each other. Will they swoon on cue? |
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Why it's hard for Microsoft to catch the next wave (19 May 08:07) |
| It's hugely challenging to jump from one wave to the next even when you see it coming with perfect clarity. The next wave may even be bigger in terms of customers, revenues, and everything e... |
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Playing out Microsoft's online strategy (19 May 06:49) |
| Here's a strategy for Microsoft: Sign a search ad deal this week with Yahoo to preempt Google, over the summer acquire Yahoo as the pressure builds from shareholders and finally, as Facebook... |
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Yahoo up after Microsoft nudge (19 May 06:40) |
| Microsoft's announcement over the weekend that parties have re-entered talks gives Yahoo shares a bit of a boost in morning trading. |
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Yahoo up slightly in pre-market trading, after Microsoft nudge (19 May 06:40) |
| Microsoft's announcement over the weekend that parties have re-entered talks gives Yahoo a bit of a boost. |
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Flash and Flex continue to blow away Silverlight (19 May 06:06) |
| Microsoft is trying to win the RIA fight. It's losing. Big time. |
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Talking with Microsoft's new Office chief (19 May 04:30) |
| Stephen Elop, president of the business division, hasn't given up his iPhone, but says he has been pleasantly surprised to find plenty of innovation at his new employer. |
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Microsoft v. DOJ, 10 years later: Did it make a difference? (19 May 07:44) |
| Knowing how the subsequent decade turned out, do you think the Justice Department would still have gone after Microsoft in 1998? |
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Google's Brin: Anti-Semitism forced my family out of Russia (19 May 05:56) |
| While on a visit to Israel, Sergey Brin tells local newspaper that his parents were victims of official discrimination in the former Soviet Union |
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Kevin Johnson's letter on updated online strategy (19 May 03:28) |
| As Microsoft returns to the table with Yahoo for a deal that might include Yahoo's search business, Windows and Windows Live chief Kevin Johnson sent this letter updating his team on an upda... |
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Kevin Johnson's letter on Microsoft's updated online strategy (19 May 03:28) |
| As Microsoft returns to the table with Yahoo for a deal that might include Yahoo's search business, Windows and Windows Live chief Kevin Johnson sent this letter updating his team on an upda... |
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MS to Yahoo: Never say never (19 May 03:10) |
| With Carl Icahn hovering, Microsoft figures this is the right time to give Yahoo one more chance. |
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Microsoft and Yahoo re-enter talks (19 May 02:08) |
| Microsoft announced Sunday afternoon it has issued another proposal to Yahoo that calls for an acquisition of some but not all of Yahoo's assets. |
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Microsoft reportedly in new talks with Yahoo (19 May 02:02) |
| Microsoft said in a statement Sunday it's talking about a new deal with Yahoo that wouldn't involve a full buyout. |
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Observations on Twitterdom (19 May 01:47) |
| Twitter and its ilk will go mainstream as the generation that has grown up texting rather than e-mailing takes over the planet. |
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Amateur hour at Facebook. What gives? (18 May 07:34) |
| Does Facebook have any idea how badly it's getting creamed here? When billion dollar enterprises like Google or Microsoft have no trouble painting themselves being on the side of the angels,... |
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News flash: Web 2.0 is unreliable (18 May 05:54) |
| Recurring uptime problems with Twitter, Seesmic, and other sites demonstrate that the much loved Web 2.0 is having growing pains. |
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Newsflash: Web 2.0 is unreliable (18 May 05:54) |
| Recurring uptime problems with Twitter, Seesmic and other sites demonstrate that the much loved Web 2.0 is having growing pains. |
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Firefox 3 release candidate goes public (17 May 05:24) |
| A preview release of the latest Mozilla browser, ready for downloading, includes many new features and performance improvements. |
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Yahoo tries to conceal lawsuit documents (17 May 05:55) |
| Suing shareholders and Yahoo disagree about whether information on the company's employee severance plan should be public. |
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