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Archive for October 22nd, 2007

Free My Phone - Suppose you own a Dell computer … (Mossblog)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Free My Phone  —  Suppose you own a Dell computer, and you decide to replace it with a Sony.  You don’t have to get the permission of your Internet service provider to do so, or even tell the provider about it.  You can just pack up the old machine and set up the new one.

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Free My Phone - Suppose you own a Dell computer … (Mossblog)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Free My Phone  —  Suppose you own a Dell computer, and you decide to replace it with a Sony.  You don’t have to get the permission of your Internet service provider to do so, or even tell the provider about it.  You can just pack up the old machine and set up the new one.

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Free My Phone - Suppose you own a Dell computer … (John Sullivan/Mossblog)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Free My Phone  —  Suppose you own a Dell computer, and you decide to replace it with a Sony.  You don’t have to get the permission of your Internet service provider to do so, or even tell the provider about it.  You can just pack up the old machine and set up the new one.

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Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web (Katie Hafner/New York Times)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web  —  Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Katie Hafner
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology…

Facebook: Who needs Google? Facebook’s stealth ad system (Owen Thomas/Valleywag)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Facebook: Who needs Google?  Facebook’s stealth ad system  —  Facebook, in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation over its future, has just dramatically upped the ante.  How?  The social network is quietly starting to promote its long-rumored ad-targeting system — under a clever costume.

Source:   Valleywag
Author:   Owen Thomas
Link:   http://valleywag.com/tech/facebook/who-needs-google…

As Apple Gains PC Market Share, Jobs Talks of a Decade of Upgrades (John Markoff/New York Times)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

As Apple Gains PC Market Share, Jobs Talks of a Decade of Upgrades  —  It may have dropped the word “computer” from its name, but Apple is certainly selling plenty of Macs.  —  Driven in part by what analysts call a halo effect from the iPod and the iPhone, the market share of the company’s […]

Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA (David Kravets/Wired News)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA  —  Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown’s anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker.  —  In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells …

Source:   Wired News
Author:   David Kravets
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Core of “Windows 7″ taking shape: meet the “MinWin” kernel (Jeremy Reimer/Ars Technica)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Core of “Windows 7″ taking shape: meet the “MinWin” kernel  —  Eric Traut, one of Microsoft’s chief operating system design engineers, gave a fascinating demo (WMV) recently at the University of Illinois, where he talked about where the Windows core is going and ended with a sneak peek …

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Jeremy Reimer
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Has The MySpace To Facebook Switch Begun? (Duncan Riley/TechCrunch)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Has The MySpace To Facebook Switch Begun?  —  If hype was the only indicator of marketshare in social networking, Facebook would be the winner by a mile, and yet for all the talk of Facebook’s greatness, MySpace remains the most popular social networking destination.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/21/has-the-myspace…

Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable (Sam Zuckerman/San Francisco Chronicle)

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable  —  In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to indulge his obsession with young technology companies.  —  But it turned out that Arrington had latched onto something big.

Source:   San Francisco […]