Yahoo launch NEXT!
New Yahoo! Blog Focuses on Tech and the Folks Behind It
http://next.yahoo.net/
Microsoft Corporation Website get a facelift
Microsoft final redesign their website look.
http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx
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It’s now elevenish here in EST and the tracker is down. If you want a place to go each time your tracker is off track, here it is.
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A Computer That Works With Google, Not Microsoft (John Biggs/New York Times)
A Computer That Works With Google, Not Microsoft — Advocates of Linux, the free open-source operating system, like to say that buying a standard-issue computer involves a Microsoft Tax, because you have no choice but to pay for Windows. New versions of Linux and inexpensive hardware …
Source: New York Times
Author: John Biggs
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Spammers employ stripper to crack CAPTCHAs
A series of photographs shows “Melissa,” no relation to the 1999 worm by the same name, with progressively fewer clothes and more skin each time the user correctly enters the characters in an accompanying CAPTCHA (Completely Automatic Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Huma …
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How to: Use the Programs and Features tool
Today we will try to explain you some simple things. Maybe some of the new users of Windows Vista wanted to remove a simple software or a game and couldn’t find the path they were used to in Windows XP or older versions.
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NYTimes.com Launches Enhanced Technology Section (The New York Times Company)
NYTimes.com Launches Enhanced Technology Section — Redesigned Section Includes Content From Around the Web — NYTimes.com today launched an expanded and enhanced version of its technology section (www.nytimes.com/technology) with a different look, further aggregation of top publications …
Source: The New York Times Company
Link: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=105317&p…
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Mandriva CEO Calls Out Microsoft’s Ballmer (PC Magazine)
Mandriva CEO Calls Out Microsoft’s Ballmer — On Tuesday, Mandriva announced that it had won a hotly-contested contract to install its Linux distribution on top of 17,000 Intel-powered Classmate PCs in Nigeria. — On Wednesday, the Nigerian client told Mandriva that it would buy …
Source: PC Magazine
Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20071101/tc_zd/218540
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Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro quietly updated (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)
Apple’s MacBook and MacBook Pro quietly updated — The rumors were rampant about the pending upgrade; now the deal is done. The Apple MacBook has finally moved to the Santa Rosa architecture with a healthy GMA X3100 video bump from the lethargic GMA 950 of yore.
Source: Engadget
Author: Thomas Ricker
Link: http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/01/apple-macbooks…
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Facebook, Your Move (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)
Facebook, Your Move — Not so fast, Mike. The anti-Facebook coalition piling onto Google’s OpenSocial platform does not constitute checkmate for Google just quite yet. These are developer announcements. No actual consumers have changed their social networking habits because of OpenSocial.
Source: TechCrunch
Author: Erick Schonfeld
Link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/01/facebook-your…
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Video Web Site Gets Religion
Chris Wyatt is on a mission.
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Facebook: “We Have Not Been Briefed On OpenSocial” (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)
Facebook: “We Have Not Been Briefed On OpenSocial” — When Google was asked during the press conference earlier today if they had invited Facebook into OpenSocial, the answer was “yes,” and then changed to “we can’t comment, followed by “we have reached out to virtually everyone in this space” …
Source: TechCrunch
Author: Michael Arrington
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MySpace Gets Social With Google
Internet social networking leader MySpace is joining Google Inc.’s platform for sharing applications across the Web — a concept that threatens to undermine the rapid growth of their common rival, Facebook Inc.
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Hackers Unlock Extra Violence in Game
Hackers have unlocked violent content that was censored by the publisher of the game “Manhunt 2″ to give it a marketable rating, the company confirmed Thursday.
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MetroPCS Withdraws Bid for Leap
MetroPCS Communications Inc., a wireless communication services provider, said Thursday it is withdrawing its $4.7 billion bid for Leap Wireless International Inc.
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