Behind YouTube's video ID system; Windows 7 fundamentals [TECH UPDATE]

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FINANCIAL UPDATE-->YouTube: Does your video ID system really work?
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Uploading videos is easy. The hard part is policing them effectively. Viacom still believes thousands of videos infringing on its content get uploaded to Google's video-sharing site every month. Just how accurate is YouTube's video identification system? YouTube doesn't want to talk about it. READ FULL STORY
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Obama's tech focus - how to ride the storm
Sam Diaz: At the Web 2.0 summit, venture capitalist John Doerr tells the incoming Obama administration what they can do to help the tech industry, starting with a focus on energy, basic research, and higher education.
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Jennifer Leggio: Obama won the election - not social media
Adam O'Donnell: Obama-related spammed trojan propagating worldwide
Election coverage sets Web record; Facebook releases data

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WinHEC: Microsoft shows off Windows 7 fundamentals
Mary Jo Foley: At this week's WinHEC, Steven Sinofsky and other Microsoft executives talk up some of the changes the company is making to Windows 7 to improve its reliability, battery life, standards support and other fundamental components compared to what's available with Vista.
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Ed Bott: A first look at Windows 7's pre-beta PDC release
Windows 7: What's coming for business users
Don't upgrade to Windows 7...clean install instead!
Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all
Microsoft: Virtualized streaming of 64-bit apps by 2010
Windows Azure is much more important than Windows 7
John Carroll: Windows Azure's role in the opening keynote of Microsoft's PDC is expressive of an internal ranking among Microsoft executives that, while Windows 7 is incredibly important, Windows Azure is more important for the company's long-term vision.
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Harnessing a multicore future
Ozzie responds: Is Microsoft Azure just 'Hailstorm' revisited?
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Kindle clamor keeps confusing
David Morgenstern: Despite being given the royal thumbs-up from Oprah last week, the Amazon Kindle looks to be a technology in search of a market. After some hands-on experience, I must say that the reality is much worse than I imagined.
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Amazon, open the Kindle before Apple eats your lunch!
Amazon Kindle: It's not for us, Jack
Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?
Google quits Yahoo ad deal - will Microsoft rebid?
Larry Dignan: Now that Google is scrapping its search advertising deal with Yahoo, could a Microsoft-Yahoo partnership come back into the picture?
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Jerry Yang at Web 2.0 Summit
Mission accomplished: Google's ad deal with Yahoo has already worked
Handicapping the neutered Google-Yahoo ad deal
Remote buffer overflow bug bites Linux Kernel
Ryan Naraine: A remote buffer overflow vulnerability in the Linux Kernel could be exploited by attackers to execute code or cripple affected systems, according to a new report. The flaw could allow malicious hackers to launch arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges, leading to complete system compromise.
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Obama-related spammed trojan propagating worldwide
Newsweek: Obama, McCain campaigns hacked by 'foreign entity'
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FCC opens up wireless 'white spaces;' Assessing winners, losers and wild-cards
Larry Dignan: The Federal Communications Commission has opened up so-called wireless white spaces - unused spectrum between broadcast channels - in a move the agency hopes paves the way for 'Wi-Fi on Steroids.'
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Reader TalkBacksSoftware as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn't"Who ya gonna call - Ghostbusters?" -- gypkap
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John Morris: Gateway announced its MC series notebook in late October, but so far it has received little coverage. The MC series is one of several recent laptops with 16-inch widescreen displays geared toward entertainment.
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EIC podcast: Tech demand murky
In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I devote our time to the technology economy. The market is mired in a funk and companies just can't seem to figure out what demand looks like. Dan and I talk netbooks, Microsoft and Apple.
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Dreamforce '08: New cloud applications revealed
At Dreamforce 2008, ZDNet senior editor Sam Diaz hits the show floor and talks to technology vendors about new applications they are developing for the cloud, including a new single sign-on solution for enterprise customers, a new Facebook application that helps users find jobs, and a social-networking interface that connects doctors to patients.
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Larry Brilliant outlines Google's giving strategies
At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google.org, declares that Google ripped off Salesforce's 1/1/1 model--and the company is proud of it. The model calls for a company to give 1 percent of its time, 1 percent of its equity, and 1 percent of its product to charity.
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Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure
At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the company's new cloud computing operating system, called Windows Azure.
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Comcast's speedier Internet - and its limits
ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz shares his take on Comcast's new wideband Internet service. He says the service will allow faster downloads of movies, but the company also needs to offer tools so users can track Internet usage since it is imposing a bandwidth cap at 250GB.
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