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Saturday, October 3, 2009
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Computer Industry

"Bing Starts To Lose Market Share" 24/7 Wall St. 8:35 AM
"Microsoft's Bing Slips a Bit" Computerworld 12:16 PM
"Microsoft CEO's Compensation Down 6 Percent In '09: Microsoft CEO Ballmer Receives Compensation Package Worth $1.28M In 2009, A 6 Percent Cut" Associated Press 10:04 AM
"Q&A: Steve Ballmer On Windows 7 Enterprise Deployment/In a one-on-one interview, Microsoft's CEO encouraged CIOs to carve out money for Windows 7, saying end users are going to demand it." InformationWeek 9:56 AM
"Windows 7 Already Edges Vista" Computerworld 12:15 PM
"Rolling Review: Windows 7 Deployment Tools/We put six software packages through their paces rolling out Windows 7." InformationWeek 9:55 AM
"Is Windows 7 Viable Replacement For XP?" Gerson Lehrman Group 10:08 AM
"Windows 7: Microsoft asking IT pros to meet them half way" Gerson Lehrman Group 10:04 AM
"How Microsoft Will Lift Us Out Of the IT-Spending Dumps" TechCrunch 12:15 PM
"Browser Wars: Firefox, Chrome Eat at IE" Computerworld 3:01 PM
"Internet Explorer Use Plummets in September" Softpedia 10:07 AM
"IBM Versus Google: You've Got To Be Joking" BNET 10:04 AM
"IBM to launch cloud computing offering LotusLive iNotes next week" domain-B 10:01 AM
"HP transforms from printers to diverse tech business" San Jose Mercury News [Free Registration Required] 10:18 AM
"Cisco Buys Norwegian Firm for $3 Billion" New York Times 10:09 AM
"Intel dual-core CULV laptop chips to come soon" CNET Asia 10:10 AM
"Adobe Flash Targeted By Web Heavy Hitters: Google, Apple, Microsoft and HTML 5 aim to make Adobe's browser plug-ins irrelevant." InformationWeek 9:55 AM
"Why Google Chrome Frame Makes Mozilla Firefox Folks Uneasy" eWeek 10:07 AM
"NetApp Has Its Price" Barron's 10:04 AM
"Microsoft battles class-action over WGA antipiracy technology: At risk, 'hundreds of millions of dollars' if millions of Windows XP users join case" Computerworld 10/2
"Is Wall Street warming to Yahoo's Microsoft pact? Some analysts are beginning to see value in the controversial deal" MarketWatch 10/2
"Report: It's Too Early To Rule Out Microsoft As A Powerhouse In Mobile" paidContent 10/2
"Bing search share starts sliding" iTWire 10/2
"Vista peaks, starts decline in share as Windows 7 surges: Microsoft's new OS already on 1 of every 67 personal computers" Computerworld 10/2
"Bias claim: Aussie to appeal against $445m Microsoft loss" Melbourne Age 10/2
"Google to Microsoft: Support SVG" InfoWorld 10/2
"IBM Aims To Undercut Gmail: Big Blue's new $3 a month enterprise e-mail service could steal market share from Google." Forbes 10/2
"IBM Takes on Google in Corporate Cloud: LotusLive iNotes launch puts Big Blue in direct competition with Gmail and Google Apps Premier for cloud-based enterprise apps." InternetNews 10/2
"IBM aims at Google, Microsoft with new Webmail" IDG News Service 10/2
"IBM takes on Google in business Web-mail market" Reuters 10/2
"IBM To Launch Web-Based E-Mail Platform" NewsFactor 10/2
"IBM Targets Google Apps in the Enterprise" Seeking Alpha 10/2
"LotusLive iNotes: Like Gmail, but Without the Outages" AllThingsD 10/2
"IBM closes acquisition of software maker SPSS: IBM closes acquisition of software maker SPSS, valued at $1.2 billion" Associated Press 10/2
"Sure I.B.M. Is Smaller. So What?" New York Times 10/2
"Analysts Positive on Cisco-Tandberg; Worries Abound for Polycom" Barron's 10/2
"Cisco's Downmarket Videoconferencing Move: Its $3 billion purchase of Norway's Tandberg will give Cisco videophones that sell for as little as $1,495 to complement its high-end TelePresence systems" BusinessWeek 10/2
"Cisco pays $3b to buy videophone company" Associated Press 10/2
"Netbook gets speed boost from dual Atom chips: Haleron aims to provide the performance of a standard laptop at a lower price by combining two Atom chips in its Swordfish Net N102 netbook" InfoWorld 10/2
"Sun's Senior VP of North American Sales Now HP's Senior VP of North American Sales" AllThingsD 10/2
"Dell Vostro 430 Packs Intel Core i7, Core i5 Punch" eWeek 10/2
"NVIDIA Launches Nexus Platform for Microsoft Visual Studio Developers" eWeek 10/2
"Cisco: 'In Norway We Trust'" New York Times 10/2
"Nvidia in bid to become key supercomputer player" ZDNet UK 10/2
"Can Google Stay on Top of the Web? As Bing, Facebook, Twitter, and less well-known upstarts nip at its heels, Google has hundreds of wizards racing to come up with smarter answers" BusinessWeek 10/2
"Google refines search to counter rival" Boston Globe 10/2
"ChipWatch - Could Chip Manufacturing Make A Return To The US?" Silicon Valley Watcher 10/2
"Green computing sector to reach almost US$224 billion in 2013, says NextGen Research" DigiTimes 10/2

General Interest

"Week in review: Mark Zuckerberg's evolution, Google Wave's preview, and more" VentureBeat 6:58 PM
"Will Books Be Napsterized?" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 6:54 PM
"Spyware Sneaks Past Facebook Safeguard" Network World 3:01 PM
"EcoATM pays you for used gadgets" CNET News 12:17 PM
"Time to ponder game console options" Brantford Expositor 10:08 AM
"Native Client in Chrome: Google flexes Web muscle" CNET News 9:56 AM
"For Americans, Plastic Buys Less" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 9:55 AM
"Android This Week: Donut Arrives; Developers Alliance Formed" GigaOM 8:55 AM
"HTC Hero voted Gadget of the Year" The London News 8:54 AM
"Conficker smites Oxford Brookes network: Conficker infected communal PCs used by students at Oxford Brookes University on Thursday, leaving sysadmins with a difficult clean-up job." The Register 8:54 AM
"Verizon wants to get more to cut the cord: Reliability of service is top goal for wireless provider" Appleton Post-Crescent 8:35 AM
"US gun maker arming Wii shooter game" AFP 10/2
"Verizon router glitch slams parts of U.S." Computerworld 10/2
"A Partnership Between Old and New Media" New York Times 10/2
"Yahoo to shut down Xoopit for Gmail users" CNET News 10/2
"Report: 2010 Acer smartphone lineup will be 50% Android" BetaNews 10/2
"Eric Schmidt's glass-half-full look at tech: Lots of smart people are concerned about how quickly technology is changing virtually everything it touches in the world, but count Google's Eric Schmidt among the optimists." CNET News 10/2
"Beware Hijacked Social Networking Accounts, FBI Warns: Social networking sites are becoming a more popular attack vector for cybercriminals because people trust those they believe to be friends." InformationWeek 10/2
"Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake" CNET News 10/2
"Google (finally) adds protection for common Web 2.0 attack" The Register 10/2
"E-readers seen as holiday hit" Reuters 10/2
"Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics" CNET News 10/2
"Facebook closes fake profiles spreading malware" CNET News 10/2
"McAfee online backup service offers unlimited storage" CNET News 10/2
"Twitter experimenting with a labs of its own" CNET News 10/2
"Get everyone in US online, high-level panel says" Associated Press 10/2
"America's High-Tech Sweatshops: U.S. companies may be contributing unwittingly to the exploitation of workers imported from India and elsewhere by tech-services outfits" BusinessWeek 10/2

Press Releases

"Dell Commences Tender Offer for Perot Systems; Acquisition Will Further Expand Company's IT Services, Solutions" Business Wire 10/2
"IBM Completes Acquisition of SPSS Inc." PRNewswire-FirstCall 10/2

Microsoft

"Week in Microsoft: MSE debuts, Windows 7 OEM prices revealed/This week in Microsoft we covered Microsoft Security Essentials, how an Ars reader got the Windows 7 Party Pack first, Windows 7 OEM prices, Windows XP Mode, August 2009 browser stats, Microsoft Courier, Microsoft Recite, and Uniloc." Ars Technica 10:24 AM
"Windows 7 to come in 'Steve Ballmer' edition" CNET News 10/2
"Why you'll love your on-screen keyboard: Apple and Microsoft want to kill your clicky-clacky keyboard and replace it with a smart sheet of glass" Computerworld 10/2
"Nvidia 'Fermi' chip for Mac, Windows too" CNET News 10/2
"Microsoft Touts Hyper-V Live Migration: Virtual machine live migration is the top new feature of Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft says." InformationWeek 10/2
"Is Microsoft the juggernaut of yore?" Neowin 10/2
"Vista/IE market share slide, Win 7/Firefox/Chrome surge" ZDNet Blogs 10/2
"Survey: Microsoft SQL Server Tops All Databases in Emerging Markets" eWeek 10/2

Government/Law/Politics

"Congress Weighs P2P File-Sharing Rules: Legislation would prohibit P2P software from plucking, sharing files without users' knowledge." Computerworld 3:00 PM
"Amazon Pays Out for '1984' Fiasco" Computerworld 12:16 PM
"Court dismisses two eBay claims in Craigslist case" Reuters 10/2
"Craigslist wins preliminary ruling in eBay lawsuit" Associated Press 10/2
"P2P warning bill passes House committee, will go to the floor" BetaNews 10/2
"Amazon settles Kindle lawsuit over '1984' copy" Reuters 10/2
"Secret Service says Facebook assassination poll posed no threat: Investigators find juvenile was behind the 'Should Obama be killed?' online poll" Computerworld 10/2
"DMCA takedown forces Google to remove links to Pirate Bay" ZDNet Blogs 10/2
"Red Hat Asks Supreme Court To Nix Software Patents: 'Our patent system is supposed to foster innovation, but for open source and software in general, it does the opposite,' said a Red Hat lawyer." InformationWeek 10/2

Analysis/Editorial/Help/Opinion

"Why Tech Mergers May End Up Hurting the Web" GigaOM 12:15 PM
"What Comcast Could Bring to NBC Universal" AdAge 8:55 AM
"Google Wave Explained In Two Minutes (Clip)" The Business Insider 10/2
"Universal Broadband Key to Saving Media: Panel/Report from broad-ranging Knight Commission offers policy framework to ensure universal access to vital civic information." InternetNews 10/2
"Touch Taste Tech: Microsoft Surface for Clubs" ReadWriteStart 10/2
"First Look: Ubuntu 9.10 beta 'Karmic Koala'" ZDNet Blogs 10/2
"Mark Zuckerberg: The evolution of a remarkable CEO" VentureBeat 10/2
"Cheap and easy ways to use your gadgets on the road" PC World 10/2
"Comcast, NBC Universal in advanced talks on merger" Philadelphia Inquirer 10/2
"Wall Street to Comcast: Are You Serious? Reports that the cable giant might want to buy NBC Universal sent its stock reeling. Media investors have seen this horror film before" BusinessWeek 10/2

Acquisitions/Deals/Investments/Mergers

"AT&T Buys VeriSign Security Consulting Unit: The deal could boost AT&T's network-based security offering to enterprise customers." InformationWeek 10/2
"Nortel To Sell GSM Business: The company's GSM and GSM-R operations are not expected to draw as much as the $1.13 billion Ericsson paid for Nortel's CDMA, LTE units." InformationWeek 10/2
"NPR Gets $3 Million Grant For Hyper-Local News Initiative" TechCrunch 10/2

Tech Stocks

"52-Week High Companies: Apple Inc., Google Inc., The CocaCola Company, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc., And The Colgate Palm Olive Company" GuruFocus 8:02 PM
"Tech Stocks: Tech stocks stay in the red as semiconductor sales decline/SIA says chip sales down again in August; Apple shares gain following upgrade" MarketWatch 10/2
"Stocks Slide for 2nd Week as Jobs Report Disappoints" CNBC 10/2
"Stocks stumble on jobs report: A weaker-than-expected Labor Department reports sparks a selloff as investors worry about the strength of the recovery." CNNMoney 10/2
"Stocks Slide on Jobs Report: Greater-than-expected job losses in September weighed on stocks early Friday as investors winced at the most anticipated data of the week." TheStreet 10/2
"Asia Markets: Japan auto stocks face serious challenges after 'clunkers'/Japanese auto makers have a tough road ahead of them, with some recently encouraging data likely proving insufficient to mark a true recovery for the sector, analysts said." MarketWatch 10/2
"Europe Markets: Losses accelerate in Europe after weak U.S. jobs data/Miners in decline, as are Oce, Renewable Energy and Carlsberg shares" MarketWatch 10/2

SectorWatch

BioTech

Broadcasting and Cable

CAD/CAM

Chips

Communication

Communications Equipment

Communications Services

Computers

Computer Services

Consultants and Integrators

Productivity Software

Telecommunication-Cellular

Telecom Equipment

Wireless

Wireless Communications

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Associated Press (Updated 9:40 PM CDT)

"Get everyone in US online, high-level panel says"

CNET News (Updated 9:40 PM CDT)

"WebOS 1.2.1 fixes Palm Pre iTunes syncing"
"Man accused of 'peephole hacking' ESPN star"
"Man arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot iPhone"
"Why CIOs are saying no to Macs"
"EcoATM pays you for used gadgets"
"Native Client in Chrome: Google flexes Web muscle"
"For the love of pinball"
"Researchers tally real-life mileage for plug-in cars"

New York Times (Updated 9:45 PM CDT)

"Will Books Be Napsterized?"
"Cisco: 'In Norway We Trust'"
"It's Brand New, but Make It Sound Familiar"
"For Americans, Plastic Buys Less"
"Cisco Buys Norwegian Firm for $3 Billion"
"M.I.T. Taking Student Blogs to Nth Degree"
"The Boss: Gridiron to Digital Grid"
"Corner Office: Want to Talk to the Chief? Book Your Half-Hour"
"Video Game Review | Dead Space: Extraction: Interstellar Target Practice With Zombies"
"Texting While Driving Banned for Federal Staff"

Reuters (Checked 9:45 PM CDT; no changes since Friday)

"Schmidt: Google-Apple board member should stay put"
"E-readers seen as holiday hit"
"Amazon settles Kindle lawsuit over '1984' copy"
"IBM takes on Google in business Web-mail market"
"Finnish startup bets on universal media manager"

TechWeb (Checked 9:45 PM; no changes since 9:55 AM CDT)

"Q&A: Steve Ballmer On Windows 7 Enterprise Deployment"
"Platform As A Service: What Vendors Offer"
"The Risks And Benefits Of Platform As A Service"
"Rolling Review: Windows 7 Deployment Tools"
"Adobe Flash Targeted By Web Heavy Hitters"
"Down To Business: The Tech Economy Data Tells Us Only So Much"
"Practical Analysis: Research Shows Cutting Costs Not A Gov IT Priority"

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