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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Microsoft management changes in the works]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=report-microsoft-management-changes-in-the-works</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>MayogFakapono</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is said to be on the brink of another shuffle among its senior management.Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plans to make changes to the company's senior management in order to improve the company's competitive edge in Web services, smartphones, andtablet computers, according to a Bloomberg report that cites unnamed sources.Those changes, Bloomberg says, will be announced &quot;this month.&quot; What remains unclear is whether the changes will bump out any of the existing division heads, in place of talent from within or outside of the company, versus changing the number of business units and their executive make-up. Bloomberg did say that a central part of the company's plan was to &quot;promote managers who have engineering chops and experience executing on product plans,&quot; which would imply moving someone at the top to make way for that promotion. A Microsoft representative declined to comment.Microsoft has a long history of making changes to its management structure. While Ballmer has stayed at the helm for a little more than 11 years now, the company has made drastic changes to the number and depth of its business units. Microsoft's last big management shuffle took place back in October, with Ballmer naming Kurt DelBene to the head of Microsoft's Office Division, Don Mattrick to the head of the Interactive Entertainment Business, and Andy Lees to the head of Microsoft's Mobile Communication's business. That was following the departures of Stephen Elop, who left to become the CEO at Nokia, as well as Robbie Bach, who retired from his spot as the president of the Entertainment and Devices unit last May.More recently, the company had a shake-up in its Server and Tool Business, with the company announcing the planned departure of Bob Muglia, who had served as president for the division. Muglia had been promoted just two years prior as part of Microsoft's elevation of the server unit into a larger part of the company's business.Updated at 4:20 p.m. PT with additional background information and links to previous coverage.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Comcast testing combo TV-Internet service]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=comcast-testing-combo-tv-internet-service</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 08:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>MayogFakapono</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=comcast-testing-combo-tv-internet-service</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Comcast is trying out a new service that would provide both TV and Web content through a single set-top box.The service, codenamed Xcalibur, would outfit subscribers with a set-box that lets them watch certain Web videos and search for live, on-demand, and recorded shows, according to The Wall Street Journal. Currently being tested by Comcast customers in Augusta, Ga., the service is seen as Comcast's response to competitors such as Google TV and Apple TV as well as subscribers cutting the cord on their cable TV subscriptions in favor of online content.But from the Journal's description, Xcalibur so far seems limited in scope. It doesn't let subscribers freely surf the Web but rather offers access to limited Web programming and basic connections to social networks. Of course, this is just a first, trial step, and Comcast could beef up the service should it catch on. At this point, the cable company hasn't even decided yet whether to launch the service or how it would be priced.&quot;We are testing many technological approaches to understand how best to meet consumer interests, and this small trial is one of those experiments,&quot; a Comcast spokeswoman said in a statement e-mailed to the Journal.Comcast has been working on the project for more than a year, said the Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. The boxes receive TV programming through traditional cable but get their Web content via IP technology. That same IP technology could also help Comcast deploy new interfaces and other changes to the system more quickly, added the Journal.The cable giant has seen an ongoing dip in the number of cable TV customers over the past year, though growth in Internet and voice subscribers has more than compensated.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Today&'s Lesson: Make Facebook Angry, And They&'ll Censor You Into&nbsp'Oblivion]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=todayrsquos-lesson-make-facebook-angry-and-theyrsquoll-censor-you-intonbspoblivion</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=todayrsquos-lesson-make-facebook-angry-and-theyrsquoll-censor-you-intonbspoblivion</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>MayogFakapono</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=todayrsquos-lesson-make-facebook-angry-and-theyrsquoll-censor-you-intonbspoblivion</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Facebook is well on its way to becoming the most popular way that people share links, photos, and other content with their friends. For many sites it&amp;'s becoming a powerful new driver of traffic a4&quot; get people to &amp;8216'Like&amp;' your stuff, and Facebook&amp;'s network effects will expose it to dozens of their friends.Just make sure not to do something that might make Facebook angry. Otherwise it might nuke every link to your site, choking off this river of traffic that you&amp;'ve worked so hard to build.That&amp;'s the message Facebook sent today with its censorship of links to Lamebook, a humor site that posts lewd conversations spotted on the social network. Facebook has confirmed that it is automatically blocking all links to Lamebook and that it has also removed the company&amp;'s &amp;8216'Fan&amp;' page. Not because the content was offensive, mind you, but because Facebook doesn&amp;'t like Lamebook.Update: Facebook CTO Bret Taylor has written this statement, explaining that this was a mistake. Note that this story originally broke this morning and I&amp;'ve been in contact with Facebook most of the afternoon, so this clearly wasn&amp;'t just a bug:This was a mistake on our part. In the process of dealing with a routine trademark violation issue regarding some links posted to Facebook, we blocked all mentions of the phrase &amp;''lamebook&amp;'' on Facebook. We are committed to promoting free expression on Facebook. We apologize for our mistake in this case, and we are working to fix the process that led to this happening.Bret TaylorCTOThe move was precipitated by a legal battle between the two companies. Lamebook filed for a declaratory judgement earlier this month that would assert that it is not violating Facebook&amp;'s trademark (the two parties have apparently been in negotiations over this for some time). Unsurprisingly, Facebook followed that up with a suit alleging that Lamebook violated its trademark.Okay, so Facebook doesn&amp;'t like Lamebook&amp;'s name.  I don&amp;'t agree with Facebook&amp;'s stance, but fair enough a4&quot;a4sit isn&amp;'t the first big company that&amp;'s overzealous when it comes to protecting its trademark. But by blocking Lamebook&amp;'s content, Facebook is crossing a line.Not only is it currently impossible to share a Lamebook link to your News Feed or a friend&amp;'s Facebook Wall a4&quot; you can&amp;'t even include them as part of a direct message or email to friends (you get an error message indicating that it&amp;'s &amp;''abusive or spammy&amp;'', which isn&amp;'t even accurate). That&amp;'s completely outrageous, and it&amp;'s a warning flag that comes only a few days after Facebook announced a new hybrid email/IM/SMS product. Do you really want someone to be censoring your outbound emailOne reason why Google has done so well is that people trust it. If you sue Google, it isn&amp;'t going to threaten to delist your company from its search index. Likewise, Facebook needs to keep its distance from the content its users are sharing. No, it won&amp;'t be getting rid of its terms any time soon, which forbid content that is &amp;''hateful, threatening, or pornographic' incites violence' or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.&amp;'' But there&amp;'s a difference between blocking content as a matter of principle and doing it to deter companies from suing you. This is setting a disturbing precedent.I reached out to Facebook to ask if there was any reason beyond the trademark claim that drove its decision to block Lamebook a4&quot;a4smaybe there&amp;'s something else going on here that would make their decision seem slightly less Orwellian. I also asked if Facebook has previously blocked content to other sites it had a legal dispute with.A Facebook spokesman said he was unable to answer those questions. He did, however, give me the following statement, which is similar to what Facebook has said before about the issue:We&amp;'re disappointed that after months of working with Lamebook they turned to litigation. We believe their website is an improper attempt to trade off of Facebook&amp;'s popularity and fame and we will continue to protect our brand and trademark. As I told Robin earlier, our terms prohibit posting of material or other activities on Facebook that infringe the rights of others. We reserve the right to pull down any content we believe is infringing. That includes linking to material we believe to be infringing. We also specifically prohibit use of any Facebook or confusingly similar marks (See SRR Sec. 5.1, 5.2 &amp;amp' 5.6 http://www.facebook.com/terms.php).Update: It looks like Lamebook links are working again as of around 6:00 PM PST. I&amp;'ve asked Facebook if they&amp;'ve changed their decision or if this is simply a bug.CrunchBase InformationFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[About.Me Has 400,000 Beta Testers, Opens Doors To&nbsp'All]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=about-me-has-400000-beta-testers-opens-doors-tonbspall</link>
<comments>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=about-me-has-400000-beta-testers-opens-doors-tonbspall</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>MayogFakapono</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=about-me-has-400000-beta-testers-opens-doors-tonbspall</guid>
<description><![CDATA[In September About.me started letting people reserve names for its personal profile page. They guaranteed your name (I&amp;'m about.me/mike, for example) and started letting those people in slowly in batches.Well, not so slowly I guess, since the company says 400,000 sites have now been created, and another 20,000 on the waiting list were let in overnight. And starting today anyone can go to the site and start using it immediately.The site offers people free profile pages. You can include your name, bio and links to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites that have information about you. But what makes About.me really pop are the high resolution images people upload to go with their profiles. Just click the icon of a person with a right arrow on the top left of my page to start scrolling randomly through profiles to see what I&amp;'m talking about.About.me also provides data and analytics to users to show total profile views, links to your profile, etc. Additional analytics layers are being added to show your activity on various social networks as well, if you&amp;'ve authorized About.me to access those services.The company has raised just $425,000 in angel funding to date. CrunchBase InformationAbout.meInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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