Google Starts to Index Images Uploaded to Blogger  —  Even if this sounds hard to believe, Google Image Search started to index images uploaded to Blogger in December 2007.  Until this month, all the images were prevented from being indexed by search engines for unknown reasons.

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   Ionut Alex Chitu
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Apple Macintosh Computers Likely To Gain Market Share  —  Apple’s (AAPL) Macintosh computers are poised to make sizable market share gains in the coming months, according to a research firm that tracks PC purchase intent.  —  ChangeWave Research says it sees continuing momentum …

Source:   Investor’s Business Daily
Author:   Patrick Seitz
Link:   http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp…

Facebook’s Zuckerberg Doesn’t Take $40 Million Off Table  —  UPDATE: Valleywag’s Owen Wilson now says that his earlier report was wrong, and that Zuck hasn’t cashed out at all.  —  [Valleywag reports more evidence that Mark Zuckerberg is no dummy: $40 million of the $300 million of stock sold …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   […]

One step from the top, Essex boy who reached Apple’s core  —  The designer has come a long way — from a technophobe at a British polytechnic to being mooted as the US giant’s next CEO  —  He holds one of the most powerful corporate jobs in America.  His admirers (and customers) include Bono, George […]

First Passport, now fraud: ex-MS employee charged  —  The former Microsoft employee associated with the company’s notorious December 1999 Hotmail outage has been charged with fraud.  —  Carolyn Gudmundson was indicted Thursday on charges that she raked in more than $1 million during …

Source:   InfoWorld
Link:   http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/12/07/First…

Pass The Bong, It’s Another Whacky Zune Commercial  —  We first covered the rather different advertising campaign for Microsoft’s iPod wannabe MP3 player the Zune in November.  Enamored perhaps by the surrealism presented in the original campaign, Microsoft has sponsored a project called Zune-Arts …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/07/pass-the-bong…

Rails 2.0  —  Rails 2.0 is finally finished after about a year in the making.  This is a fantastic release that’s absolutely stuffed with great new features, loads of fixes, and an incredible amount of polish.  We’ve even taken a fair bit of cruft out to make the whole package more coherent and lean.

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Hackers Launch Major Attack on US Military Labs  —  Hackers have succeeded in breaking into the computer systems of two of the U.S.’ most important science labs, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.  —  John E. Dunn, Techworld  —  Recommend this story?

Source:   PC World
Link:   http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140390-c,hackers…

Mark Zuckerberg cashes out?  [Scoop]  —  Venture capital’s ancien régime is on the verge of being overturned.  We hear Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, may have cashed out — before an IPO, before a sale, and before his investors.  In the company’s recent financing round …

Source:   Valleywag
Author:   Owen Thomas
Link:   http://valleywag.com/tech/scoop/mark-zuckerberg…

Mark Zuckerberg cashes out [Scoop]  —  Venture capital’s ancien régime has been overturned.  We hear Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, has cashed out — before an IPO, before a sale, and before his investors.  In the company’s recent financing round, insiders believe, he sold about $40 million worth of stock.

Source:   Valleywag
Author:   Owen […]