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Steve Jobs on Why Facebook Is Not Part of Apple's New Ping Music Social Network: "Onerous Terms"

September 2, 2010

BoomTown / Kara Swisher

Yesterday, at the Apple music event in San Francisco, I had a short chat with Apple CEO Steve Jobs about its new social music service, called Ping.

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Autodesk Will Reintroduce Its AutoCAD Design Software for Macs

August 31, 2010

New York Times / By MIGUEL HELFT

As Apple’s line of Mac computers has staged a comeback, more customers have asked that Autodesk make its flagship product available on the platform again.

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iTunes Ping And Facebook: What’s Going On?

September 2, 2010

Cult of Mac / Giles Turnbull

It seems the situation is more confused than I thought; some people have been able to connect Facebook with Ping, and other haven’t. See end of post for a number of updates. OK, I give up.

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Game-addicted man scores rare win over software lawyers

August 31, 2010

The Register: Sci/Tech News for the World

Lineage II and the unenforceable EULA A Hawaii man who sued a company over his crippling addiction to the computer game Lineage II has gone where few litigants have managed to go, defeating the ...

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Software Startups Realizing That Cookie-Cutter Freemium Doesn't Always Work Well

September 2, 2010

Techdirt / Mike Masnick

A few weeks ago, we ran a webinar about "using free as a part of your business.

Tech ETF: New Faces on the Block

September 2, 2010

TheStreet.com / twocents@thestreet.com (Fred Meissner)

We may be seeing a shift in the way the markets are viewing technology stocks.

Hands-on: Twitter officially comes to the iPad

September 2, 2010

Ars Technica / jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)

When we interviewed Tweetie developer Loren Brichter in June, he made two things clear: 1) Tweetie (now branded simply as "Twitter" after the company was acquired by the ...

Adopting Enterprise Open Source Software

September 2, 2010

OStatic Blogs / Jon Buys

Nagios sent me a reminder yesterday, which I finally got around to reading today, to update to the latest version of Nagios Core, 3.2.2. We were running 3.2.

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From Apple, a Step Into Social Media for Music

September 1, 2010

New York Times / By MIGUEL HELFT

Apple on Wednesday introduced a social media service geared to music lovers that is built into iTunes, revamped its lineup of iPods and unveiled an upgraded version of its set-top box.

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Windows Phone 7 to launch in Canada at same time as USA, will be available on multiple carriers

August 30, 2010

WMPoweruser.com / Surur

At the Microsoft’s X’10 event in Toronto,  Microsoft Canada Mobility Solutions Manager Greg Milligan has again been caught on video being pretty forthcoming with the Windows Phone 7 info.

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A Software License Agreement Takes it On the Chin

August 31, 2010

Freedom to Tinker / Steve Roosa

[Update: This post was featured on Slashdot.

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iTunes 10: Out With the CD, In With the Social Network

September 1, 2010

The Apple Blog / Darrell Etherington

After nearly a decade, iTunes is getting a new icon with the release of version 10. Jobs also introduced Ping, a social network Apple created specifically for iTunes.

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AutoCAD comes back to the Mac

August 31, 2010

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / Chris Rawson

Autodesk, proprietor of popular 2D/3D design software AutoCAD, is about to bring AutoCAD back to the Mac after a nearly two decade estrangement.

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Exclusive Preview: Courier for Mac by Realmac Software

August 30, 2010

Last week, Realmac Software, the makers of RapidWeaver, LittleSnapper and other applications for the Mac, had released a teaser video of its upcoming Courier application.

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Cisco IOS XR Software Border Gateway Protocol Vulnerability

August 28, 2010

Cisco Security Advisories

Cisco IOS XR Software contains a vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) feature.

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These 10 Software Stocks Are Rated to Crash and Burn

August 30, 2010

Fool.com: The Motley Fool / Anand Chokkavelu, CFA

You may be surprised.

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IBM Unveils BigFix Software

August 30, 2010

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Helping IT companies and manages to automate some of the most mundane but essential tasks, IBM has introduced new software to deliver greater security and compliance to thousands of laptops, PCs and ...

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Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Selects Send Word Now's Software

August 30, 2010

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Officials with Send Word Now said that the Regional Food Bank will use the company's communication platform to reach staff members and delivery truck drivers during emergencies such as ice storms, ...

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StarCraft 2 1.1 patch detailed

August 29, 2010

DigitalBattle / Mark Briggs

Blizzard has released some of the details about the upcoming 1.1 patch for StarCraft 2.

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OilRush Coming to PC, Linux, Looks Stunning

September 2, 2010

Tom's Hardware

Unigine Corp's upcoming OilRush game combines strategy and tower defense. Tower defense - Personal computer - Linux - OilRush - Games

GlobalAutoIndustry.com: GlobalAutoIndustry.com Online Seminar on September 7 to Focus on "The European Automotive Aftermarket" Featuring Leading Aftermarket Expert Dr. John Wormald

September 2, 2010

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How to restore the horizontal red/yellow/green buttons in iTunes 10

September 2, 2010

Appletell / Indraneel Purohit

Section: iTunes, Mac Software, Apple Software, Features, How-To Since its release, iTunes 10 has drawn the ire of users, graphic designers or otherwise, because of its peculiar interface.

Summary Box: New AOL search deal with Google includes mobile

September 2, 2010

Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog » Diabetes / AP

Summary Box: Google, AOL reach new search deal THE DEAL: Under a new five-year agreement, Google Inc. will continue to provide the search results on AOL Inc.'s websites.

Runescape Publisher Denied Preliminary Injunction Against Maker of Auto-Player Software -- Jagex Ltd. v. Impulse Software

September 2, 2010

Technology & Marketing Law Blog / Venkat (venkat@focallaw.com)

[Post by Venkat] Jagex Ltd. v. Impulse Software, et al., Case No. 10-10216-NMG (D. Mass.) (Aug. 16, 2010) Jagex operates...

LXer: Open Source Software is “coming of age”: Accenture

September 2, 2010

LinuxQuestions.org / LXer

Published at LXer: A new survey by management consultants Accenture has shown that Open Source Software (OSS) has reached what the firm describes as a ‘turning point’ in the corporate sector. ...

iOS App Review: Air Display Becomes Your Extra Computer Monitor

September 2, 2010

Unwired View / Brad Molen

Apple developers have discovered a need to become more and more innovative in designing apps for iOS as time goes by.

Faster Chrome browser gives JavaScript a boost

September 2, 2010

TG Daily - All News / Trent Nouveau

Google is marking the second anniversary of Chrome with the launch of a newer, optimized version of the popular browser. read more

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