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<title>Microsoft&#x2019;s Next OS To Be Called &#x201C;Windows 7&#x2033;. Seriously</title>
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Microsoft has announced that the latest version of Windows, due in the next couple of years, will be called - drumroll please - Windows 7.  It's about time Microsoft adopted a naming system that might actually make some sense to users, but I can't wait for hordes of customers to start asking if they somehow missed Windows 1 through 6.

Windows has had one of the most ridiculous naming schemes in the history of software.  First there were logical (but ugly) version numbers, like the once commonplace "Windows 3.1".  Then with the release of the overhauled Windows 95 the company adopted a naming system based on the year of release, which it continued until Windows 98.  

Windows Me (perhaps the worst operating system I've ever used), sacrificed the scheme for a chance to be clever (it stood for "me" and the millennium at the same time!)  Next up we hit Windows XP, which has served most of us reasonably well since 2001.  It sounds sort of cool, it's catchy, and we have no idea what it means.  Fine.]]></description>
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<title>RjDj Generates An Awesome, Trippy Soundtrack For Your Life</title>
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RjDj, a new iPhone application that was released earlier this week, is one of the coolest things I've seen released on the still fledgling platform.  Download it now, if only to try it for a few minutes.  You can download the full version for $2.99 here, or you can try out the free version (which only has one 'scene').

The application is difficult to describe and on paper it sounds sort of silly (see the video below for a convincing demonstration).  Using the iPhone's built in microphone, the application listens for ambient noise which it then modifies and infuses into an automatically generated dynamic soundtrack.  Each of the application's six different "scenes" has a different feel to it, with options like a trance-like beat that might fit in at a club and a track that is based entirely on percussion.  Each track also treats the incoming audio differently - some tracks loop the input, while others distort it.]]></description>
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<title>More MashLogic Invites Available on InviteShare</title>
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We've run out of our 500 pre-allotted beta invites for MashLogic, a new Firefox plugin that puts users in control of website links. But you can get one by putting your name down on InviteShare, where current MashLogic users are encouraged invite up to two people each. 

Also check out David Cowan's post on the release of MashLogic. Cowan, a partner at Bessemer, describes the plugin as important for restoring Tim Berners-Lee's original vision for the web.]]></description>
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<title>AmEx Card Members, Vote Now And Help DonorsChoose Win $1.5 Million</title>
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Are you an American Express card holder?  Then your vote can help provide supplies to 100,000 school children in the U.S.  American Express is giving away $2.5 million to the top charities its members vote for, and DonorsChoose right now is in third place for the top $1.5 million prize.  And it is only about 1,000 votes away from second place.  There are about six hours left to vote.  You can vote here for DonorsChoose, or go here to see all top 25 contenders.  (Only AmEx members can vote).

We are participating in this year's DonorsChoose Blogger's Challenge, and the top three TechCrunch donors who give at least $1,000 will receive tickets to every TechCrunch event for the next year and a chance at a pitch session with angel investor Ron Conway. (More details here).  But if you are have an AmEx account, you might do more good by simply voting.

DonorsChoose is an educational charity that lets you find and fund specific teacher's projects.  If you want to fund a project directly, you can do so here through TechCrunch.  For instance, for only $153 you can buy some Flip video cameras for a class of underprivileged students in Virginia.   If you made money in today's market rally, you can afford it.  And it is tax deductible.]]></description>
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<title>Can Twitter Authors Capture The Magic Of LonelyGirl15?</title>
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Last year we ran a post introducing the idea of Twitter as a conduit for fiction when we wrote about Twittories, a series of crowdsourced stories comprised of 140 Twitter messages from up to 140 different people.

Now it seems that some individual authors are exploring using Twitter as an alternative to the traditional novel.  Professional author and freelance writer Nikki Katz has launched her own story called MyLifeIn140 - the tale of a "sixteen-year-old fictional character who learns that she can change her world around her, all by editing photos in her Yearbook room."]]></description>
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<title>Flash Web Editor Wix Raises $3.5 Million, Shows Signs of Early Growth</title>
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Today, Wix announced that it raised a $3.5 million series B round From Mangrove Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.  The Israeli startup offers a Web-based Flash editor for making artful widgets and Websites, but without losing any SEO juice.  (I've embedded two examples below).  

The service has been showing some healthy growth since it launched in public beta last June.  Co-CEO Allon Bloch tells me that Wix just crossed the 200,000-user mark, and is adding between 2,000 and 3,000 a day.  These users are creating 2,000 new Web pages and widgets every day (the split is about 75/25 in favor of full-blown Web pages on MySpace and elsewhere).  

In September, says Bloch, Wix content across the Web generated 20 million pageviews, up from 13 million in August. ]]></description>
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KidZui, the kid-friendly web browser that debuted last March as a subscription service but switched over to a freemium model just a few months later, has introduced a suite of social networking features designed for kids aged 3-12.

There are obvious safety concerns when developing a product that helps kids communicate with others online, especially since it's nearly impossible to ensure that their online buddies are indeed kids with benign intentions themselves. So, unlike Facebook - which lets its users share extensive personal details, write on each others' walls, and send free-form messages - KidZui doesn't enable explicit forms of communication at all.]]></description>
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Columbus Day gets no respect.  Be honest, how many of you are actually celebrating it?  That's what I thought.

Even Google doesn't care (or maybe Columbus Day just isn't PC enough).  The logo on Google's homepage today is celebrating Paddington Bear's 50th birthday instead of a drawing of the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria.]]></description>
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Without much fanfare, Joost has finally turned on the browser version of its Web video service, as we noted it would last month.  The new site is all based on Flash, and lets you watch old Bruce Lee flicks, Sci-Fi movies like The Fifth Element, and clips from Barely Political and Comedy Central.  

The Flash site comes almost exactly a year after I wrote a post pointing out that Joost's peer-to-peer software approach would not work and that it would have to switch over to Flash-based video, just like every other Web video service.  People don't want to have to launch a new piece of software to watch video on their computers.  They want to watch it in their browsers (so they can quickly surf to another page when they realize how much the video they are watching sucks—or, if it doesn't suck, quickly switch tabs when the boss walks by their desk).  

It took Joost a year, but it has finally realized that the Web is where it's at.  Now all it has to do is compete with Hulu, YouTube, Veoh, DailyMotion, and the hundred other video sites out there.]]></description>
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The third quarter saw the number of U.S. venture funds raising new cash decline by 29 percent to 55 funds, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.  That compares to 78 new funds a year ago and 76 new funds in the second quarter of 2008.  And 45 of that 55 were follow-on funds rather than new funds.

Each of those funds, though, raised a lot more money on average. The total raised for the third quarter was $8.1 billion, down only 6 percent from the third quarter of 2007 (but down 12 percent from the $9.2 billion raised in the previous quarter of this year).  

And remember, all of this was before the financial meltdown of the past two weeks that had alarm bells ringing at every VC firm.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[I've been hearing a lot about Google's innovative login feature for the Android phone, but only saw it today for the first time (Loren Feldman, who recently did some video of one, sent a screenshot).

Unlike other phones, which require a four digit number for unlocking, the Android simply puts nine dots arranged in a square on the touch screen, along with the words "draw pattern to unlock." My understanding is that any pattern can be used as long as it touches at least four of the dots. Given the many, many different possible patterns (any math majors want to tell me how many?), it seems like a decent way to to lock and unlock a phone.

Except a very low tech side effect of the touch screen may be giving Google pause.]]></description>
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Eyealike, the startup that lets you use photo recognition to help find your ideal mate, is expanding to apply its image processing technology to a new market: advertising.  The company says that the new system will allow businesses to place highly targeted advertising alongside photographs that appear on their site (which have long been difficult to monetize). 

For now the image recognition is restricted to identifying physical traits of the people in photographs, with categories including age, gender, hair color, and skin color.  In the demo I saw, the results were impressive: photographs with babies in them were paired with products for infants and toddlers, and makeup ads were shown near photos with women in them.]]></description>
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<title>MySpace Launches &#x201C;My Ads&#x201D; Self Serve Ad Platform: Is This Their Google Moment?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[MySpace launches their self serve ad platform, called My Ads, tonight, which was first talked about a year ago. Like Facebook's similar product, it allows anyone to quickly create a targeted ad and serve it on MySpace. 

Unlike Facebook, which only allows text ads, MySpace is only allowing display ads for now (advertisers would like both, I imagine). Users can choose between a 728x90 or 300x250 ad unit and can create an ad with pre-built templates and a Flash tool, or upload their own.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Dare Obasanjo, a Microsoft employee and the son of a former President of Nigeria, doesn't like it when people disagree with him. I found that out in 2007 when Obasanjo vandalized the TechCrunch Wikipedia page in response to a post we wrote that was mildly critical of Microsoft's hiring of a blogger to edit certain Wikipedia entries relating to Open Office standards. His actions as an individual and as a representative of Microsoft were outrageous. 

Today he writes a post accusing us of "encouraging...garbage" on TechCrunch because we've reported on the market fall over the last week, pointing to three examples (out of over 100 posts last week) where we chronicle the fall of Yahoo and Google stock, and the Seesmic layoffs. A number of other blogs jumped on the bandwagon, calling for the negativity to stop (obviously none of these writers read TechCrunch this last week).

"The last thing we need is popular blogs AND the mass media spreading despair and schadenfreude at a time like this," he says.]]></description>
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<title>Will Verizon&#x2019;s New Three-Cent Hike Kill SMS Services?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

On Friday, word got out  that come November 1 Verizon Wireless plans to tack on an extra 3-cent charge for every SMS message sent by Web information services to any of its mobile subscribers.  That hike will be on top of the 20 cents per message that Verizon subscribers already pay (even those with "unlimited" plans).  Thus, in one fell swoop, Verizon is attempting to boost its SMS revenues by about 15 percent.

While it may be good for Verizon, the additional charge is not good for any service that sends out millions of SMS messages each month.  The move caught a lot of Internet companies, SMS aggregators, and media companies by surprise. For instance, I asked Twitter co-founder Biz Stone what impact it would have on the micro-blogging service, which lets users keep up with every Tweet they follow via SMS, and he didn't know:

We're still investigating with Verizon so I don't have a definite answer for you right now.]]></description>
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<title>Brightcove 3 (Leaked ScreenShots)</title>
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Brightcove, the Web video distribution platform used by media companies including Dow Jones, Warner Music, and the New York Times, is getting a massive makeover.  Most people won't see it, but its customers will.  A new version of the Web-based software that they use to upload, manage, and distribute their videos is rolling out soon.  It will be called Brightcove 3. (For more background, read the preview of the Brightcove 3 beta we wrote last june, and our interview with Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire in August).

We received the leaked screenshots below, and paired them with the corresponding current sections of the Web software.  As far as we know, they've never been seen before.  Judging by the screenshots, Brightcove 3 is much more visual, intuitive, and offers Web video publishers a ton more options than before.  Click on each screenshot for a larger image.

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<title>MashLogic: Take Back The Web (By Getting Awesome Links)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Bessemer Venture Partners is launching an incubated startup called MashLogic into private beta today, with the audacious promise of helping people "take back the web." 

They say (and they're not alone) that the web today is driven by page view economics and search engine optimization goals, which leads publishers to link to themselves too often. The result is a less than optimal web experience.

There are Greasemonkey scripts that strip out these inefficient links, and various services like Adaptive Blue are adding browsing and link options for users via a plugin. Another startup, Sphere, acquired by AOL earlier this year, is a pop up window triggered by users that shows other content they might be interested in based on an index of the current page. It worked, well enough to get them acquired at least.

MashLogic is a more direct approach. Users must download a Firefox plugin to use it, but there's no toolbar. Instead, you simply change the settings to tell it what kind of information you'd like to have included on web pages. Links to Wikipedia is an easy one. But it also has company links to LinkedIn to show you people there you might know. And a currency converter. Etc. It's like a frickin Swiss Army Knife for hyperlinks.
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<title>Profit Maximization V. Survival Maximization</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A lot of criticism has been aimed at venture capitalists the last few days. The VCs are telling their portfolio companies to get ahead of the curve and conserve cash right now, and companies are starting to take their advice. 

The criticism is coming from people who don't understand that the world has changed in the last week and that companies need to change with it. And so they're asking why VCs waited until now to tell everyone to conserve cash. Others are saying the boom is the VCs fault, and for them to lecture companies on conserving cash is ironic.

Fred Wilson wrote about this issue today and says VCs have a responsibility to give their best advice to their portfolio companies: "It's all about acting responsibly and making sure we all survive to fight another day."

But he doesn't address the issue head on. I will. What we're talking about is the goal of profit maximization, which is what every for profit business needs to aim for or go out of business. In the good times, that means growing intelligently. In the bad, it means maximizing your chances of survival.

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<title>Forget the Front Desk: Hotels Go High Tech</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There's nothing like a bit of luxury when staying at a nice hotel. Be it in-room dining or the staff waiting on your every need, feeling like a king for a day is a matter of taking advantage of the hotel's services. Unfortunately, the systems in place for requesting such things are years behind, teetering on the edge of archaic. You can stare at the minuscule writing on the phone handset in hopes that dialing the listed numbers won't throw you into an infinite loop of forwards and "accidental" hang ups or, at some hotels, you can click your way through a sluggish and ancient feeling TV interface. They may as well be using pneumatic tubes.

Runtriz, a software firm out of Hollywood, CA, is aiming to bring hotels up to speed. Following a series of quiet test runs at other LA hotels, they've debuted a product called "Hotel Evolution" at the Malibu Beach Inn in Malibu, CA, which puts all of the hotel's offerings in the palm of your hand.
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<title>Twitter to IM: Drop Dead</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It took a worldwide financial meltdown for Twitter to finally cough up the IM hairball. At BearHug Camp, I spent about 10 of the 30 minute executive visitation trying to pin down Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Alex Payne on when exactly Track and IM would be back, and in what order. Turns out the IM part isn't coming back; it's been moved from Broken to Build.

Evan Williams delivers the bad news with a refreshing frankness, suggesting the ROI of IM services for a small percentage of Twitter users puts it down the list below other more pressing priorities. And at the bottom of the email, he points at a fledgling third-party service that gives you a way of "tweeting" over the Jabber XMPP gateway. The author is mulling how to provide access to users' follows. No mention is made of Track, of course.]]></description>
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<title>During Tough Times, The Echo Chamber Can Be Your Best Friend</title>
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We are witnessing either an epic financial meltdown or a long overdue resetting of existing business practices and the hollow markets they create. Or, perhaps we’re experiencing both of these phenomena. Either way, it has the nation gripped with fear, uncertainty, and an unsettling eruption of questionable advice confusing everyone, everywhere.

While the floor is crumbling for many industries much in the same way it did for Silicon Valley during the dotbomb years, the sky isn’t necessarily falling on the startup industry – at least not for those with marketable technology or products, dedicated and capable teams, an executable business plan, and access to the resources necessary to help it reach users and customers.

For those startups that are building and marketing something of value for consumers or businesses, there is much work to do. While there is always a need to attract mainstream users, this isn’t the time to stretch or over-commit resources to hit everyone all at once. Branding is an expensive proposition, one that requires time, capital, diligence, dedicated teams, enthusiastic customers, and patience. As counter intuitive as it may seem, this is exactly the right time to market into the echo chamber to earn the support of influentials who will create significant, concentrated brand visibility and momentum to carry you forward.

Your business can grow with the groundswell and doesn’t necessarily require the instant adoption by the masses in order to succeed in the short term.]]></description>
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<title>WeAre.Us is (Almost) Like Ning, But With A Heart. Wins First VenCorps Prize.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[

When you are suffering from a chronic disease, sometimes the only people who can understand what you are going through are other people with the same condition.  But when that condition is rare, it can be difficult to find them.  WeAre.Us wants to help.  It is a platform of 16 social networks that connect people with chronic illnesses.  And it just launched a revamped version (which mainly features an improved user interface). The site entered the crowded health 2.0 market last April, but stands out with its focused internal framework and commitment to supporting the patients who use it.

In contrast to health platforms like DailyStrength or Revolution Health, which serve as a contact point for health-related topics of any kind, WeAre.Us connects people affected by severe illnesses only. In that sense, it is more like  PatientsLikeMe.  But rather than create an all-encompassing site, WeAre.Us decided to take more of a niche social network approach.]]></description>
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<title>Yamli Makes It Easy To Use Arabic On The Web</title>
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Approximately 60% of Arabic-speaking Internet users dislike using an Arabic keyboard, according to Yamli, a Massachusetts-based startup that launched last year.  CEO Habib Haddad explains that many users have to use a Latin keyboard for their jobs or school, which makes the keyboards impractical (and many think they're just hard to type with).  When it comes time to type in Arabic, many Internet users have adopted a phonetic web language that spells out Arabic words with these Latin letters.  The result, Haddad says, is messy - especially when it comes to making sounds that don't exist in English.

Yamli has built a system that solves this problem.  Users enter words phonetically into a special text box that displays a list of matching words that are written in Arabic.  This allows them to keep using their Latin keyboard, without having the resulting text look like gibberish.  Because there are around 22 dialects in the Arab world, Yamli has to deal with multiple different phonetic spellings, which Haddad says it does with around 95% accuracy.]]></description>
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<title>As Rome Burned, Team Cyprus Danced</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ 

Yes, the meme is just getting started it seems. 1938Media does his own take of the Team Cyprus video, set to the tune of AC/DC's HighWay To Hell:]]></description>
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<title>Team Cyprus Move To Undo &#x201C;The Video&#x201D;</title>
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A group of twenty or so tech elite were partying 1999-style in Cyprusthis last week, and posted a lip sync video of the Journey song “Don’t Stop Believing” a couple of days ago. Among the group were Brittany Bohnet of Google, Mike Hudack of Blip.tv, Dave Morin and Aaron Sittig of Facebook, Sam Lessin of Drop.io and Jessica Vascellaro, the Wall Street Journal’s Silicon Valley beat reporter.

Team Cyprus: Alcohol + Bad Judgement + Really Poor Timing

The video was released just as Silicon Valley really began falling apart and the UnParty began in earnest - eBay’s 10% layoffs, Google's stock nosedive, Yahoo’s self destruction, VC’s bunkering down, etc. And more than a few people thought the ostentatious partying was a little, ahem, tasteless in light of the meltdown back home.

Now that video has been taken private, which is what it should have been marked as in the first place. But it’s too late - the video has spread to YouTube and other sites, and won’t be disappearing again. As I said yesterday, fair or not the video video will always be associated with the end of Web 2.0.
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<title>Sun Amps Up Midrange Server Offerings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Taking aim at the enterprise transaction market, not to mention the competition, Sun rolls out some powerful new servers.
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<title>Microsoft Sues DHL over Spilled Xboxes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Failed reimbursement talks following train derailment lead to court case.
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<title>Gartner: IT Spending Will Grow, Just Slowly</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sure, the financial industry is getting hammered, but the IT show must go on.
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<title>Microsoft Shines Silverlight on Eclipse</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Determined to make Silverlight more widely used, Microsoft will make its first major contribution to the Eclipse Foundation.
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<title>OpenOffice Hits 3.0: Can It Challenge Microsoft?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Latest release ups the feature count, but Microsoft still isn't worried about the open source world's alternative to Office.
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<title>AT&#x26;T to Put U-verse in Wal-Mart, Circuit City</title>
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<description><![CDATA[High speed service includes video too, putting pressure on cable rivals.
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<title>AMD Says Cleared in DoJ Graphics Pricing Probe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Antitrust regulators drop an investigation that had stemmed from the pricing and marketing practices of AMD's ATI unit.
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<title>FCC Report: Room For Advanced Wireless Services</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: Commission report finds no threat of interference with unlicensed mobile broadband.
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<title>Get Ready for Microsoft&#x27;s &#x27;Oslo&#x27; Modeling Tool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is set to preview a tool designed to help with more visual forms of application development.
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<title>Security Spending to Grow, Will Differ by Region</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Not all companies in the country have the same security needs or emphases.
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<title>Get Ready for Microsoft&#x27;s &#x27;Oslo&#x27; Modeling Tool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is set to preview a tool designed to help with more visual forms of application development.
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<title>Security Spending to Grow, Will Differ by Region</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Not all companies in the country have the same security needs or emphases.
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<title>Apple Shares Surge, Investors Like Valuation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's bargain hunting time.
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<title>AMD, HP, and Innovation in Financial Crisis</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The parallels between how AMD, HP and the presidential candidates handle challenges reveal that crisis can be an opportunity to move forward.
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<title>MessageLabs Buy a Headache for Symantec?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some think competitive issues and potential integration problems will be a serious challenge, but Symantec brushes such concerns aside.
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<title>Technical Analysis: Historic Sell-Off</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The year-long bear market has produced historic oversold conditions that could suggest at least a break in the selling.
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<title>Dow Ends Worst Week Ever with Wild Swings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dow ended the worst week in its 112-year history with only a modest loss on Friday, while the Nasdaq fared a little better.
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<title>Choosing the Right High-Performance File System</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With several high-performance file systems to choose from, we outline some of the options out there and which applications they may be best suited for.
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<title>YouTube to Carry Full-Length CBS Shows</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The move comes as the Google-owned video giant seeks to find ways to monetize its vast user base.
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<title>FCC Set to Weigh In on White Spaces Feasibility</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Regulators' report could support tech heavyweights like Google and Microsoft as they fight for unlicensed spectrum against big-name rivals in broadcasting and telecommunications.
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