links for 2007-10-04
Posted by derickson on Oct 4th, 2007
2007
Oct 4
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Microsoft has revamped its slow-selling Zune digital music players and created a MySpace-style social-networking site in its drive to compete with Apple’s market-leading iPod player.
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Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, vowing that the company’s $6 billion plunge into the ad business two months ago was not just an experiment, said today that advertising would become 25 percent of the company’s business within a few yea
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Late last month, Verizon Wireless denied an application from Naral Pro-Choice America, a reproductive rights group, for a “short code,” a few numbers that a mobile phone user can use to subscribe to a particular source of text messages.
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A federal judge in California certified a class action lawsuit against Target Corp (TGT.N) brought by plaintiffs claiming the discount retailer’s website is inaccessible to the blind, according to court documents.
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Google Inc. is sprucing up its corporate e-mail service by adding new security tools and more than doubling the storage capacity of e-mailboxes, underscoring the online search leader’s ambition to enlarge its role in the business software market.
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Verizon Wireless unveiled three new cell phones on Wednesday for the holiday season, including a high-end handset named Voyager that will compete with Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone.
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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo are among the well-heeled suitors generating headlines about their interest in Facebook, a white-hot commodity that has quickly become a major force in social networking.
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Science writer Sharon Begley was interviewed about neuroplasticity. on the [listen] August 7 episode of Science Talk, the podcast from Scientific American.
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History of the word "grassroots."
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To help you keep your writing and speaking free of jargon, we are pleased to present Jargon Finder - an online collection of foundation jargon.
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ActionStudio is an affordable, easy to use online Web service for implementing email and fax campaigns to Congress, state legislators, city officials, corporate leaders and individual decision makers.
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Maximize your professional opportunities by promoting your good name in our Reputation Community
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Do you already use services like del.icio.us, flickr, blogger, typepad, etc? SuprGlu is a new way to gather all your content from those sites.
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The concept behind SMO is simple: implement changes to optimize a site so that it is more easily linked to, more highly visible in social media searches on custom search engines (such as Technorati), and more frequently included in relevant posts on blogs
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I have received several emails from many people over the last few days having some interesting thoughts about what the 17th rule in the SMO list might be.
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AOL today launched a new version of its AIM instant messaging client, introducing new media, mobile and presence features. The company said it plans to use the version bump as a springboard to new social networking features later on this month.
