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Archive for July 2nd, 2008

Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom  —  Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it’s not just another also-ran.  The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services.

We’re official! - The Firefox community is the proud new owner … (Mary Colvig/The Mozilla Blog)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Mary Colvig / The Mozilla Blog:
We’re official!  —  The Firefox community is the proud new owner of a Guinness World Record — each and every one of you!  Mozilla today received confirmation from Guinness World Records that we’ve officially achieved the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.”

The Roku box to expand beyond Netflix. Living room Trojan horse? (MG Siegler/VentureBeat)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
The Roku box to expand beyond Netflix.  Living room Trojan horse?  —  If you’re a subscriber to the DVD rental-by-mail service Netflix, you probably want to get your hands on the new Roku box.  This device lets you stream any of Netflix’s 10,000+ “Watch Now” movies (movies that can be watched […]

Nicely said: Google Maps for mobile with voice search on BlackBerry Pearl (Google Mobile Blog)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Google Mobile Blog:
Nicely said: Google Maps for mobile with voice search on BlackBerry Pearl  —  Posted by Jonathan Matus and Luca Zanolin, Google Maps for mobile voice search team  —  On the Google Maps for mobile team we’re always experimenting with new technologies, so we’re happy to announce that we’ve started testing voice search […]

Netflix’s Online Movie Dreams (Mary Jane Irwin/Forbes)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Mary Jane Irwin / Forbes:
Netflix’s Online Movie Dreams  —  Can start-up Roku save DVD rental giant Netflix from the coming video-streaming onslaught?  —  Saratoga, Calif.-based Roku, best known for its networked music player SoundBridge, in May rolled out a set-top box that streams Netflix (nasdaq: NFLX - news - people ) movies.

Palm Treo 755p Software Update for Verizon (Palm)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Palm:
Palm Treo 755p Software Update for Verizon  —  Do you need this update?  —  On your Treo 755p, press Phone .  Then press Menu .  From the Options menu, select Phone Info  —  Look for the Software item.  If the version number is lower than 1.08 and the end of […]

Why I’m leaving Forrester (Charlene Li/Groundswell)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Charlene Li / Groundswell:
Why I’m leaving Forrester  —  I was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received — and it was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because research showed that people typically master a job in that time period and fall into a routine.

Jobs, Apple directors face new backdating suit (Tom Krazit/One More Thing)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Jobs, Apple directors face new backdating suit  —  Apple CEO Steve Jobs addresses the crowd at WWDC 2008.  —  (Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com)  —  Current and former members of Apple, including CEO Steve Jobs and several directors, have been sued again over their role in the company’s stock options-backdating […]

PDF format becomes ISO standard (ISO)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

ISO:
PDF format becomes ISO standard  —  The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1.  This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems Incorporated …

Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering That Combines … (Microsoft)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Microsoft:
Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering That Combines Microsoft Office and Windows Live OneCare  —  Microsoft Equipt gives consumers powerful productivity and security protection technologies in a single package through Circuit City.  —  Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft Equipt …