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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Unified Communications Product Road Map and Partner Ecosystem — New 2007 Office system products to deliver enterprise communications solution that unifies voice, conferencing, IM and collaboration. — SAN FRANCISCO — June 25, 2006 — Jeff Raikes, president …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Plans to Blend Phones With Computers — SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 — Microsoft plans to offer a strategy on Monday describing how it intends to transform the telecommunications world in much the same way it changed the computing world in the 1980's. — Its new approach centers …
Peter T Davis:
Podcasts, an efficient means of content delivery? — I've been following some podcasts on and off for the past six months or so, and have begun to question whether it's an efficient use of my time. The content of the shows I listen to are generally very high.
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
No Neutral Ground in This Internet Battle — Net neutrality. — Sounds benign, but no two words have stirred more passion this year. The mere mention of the issue is enough to make a wonk explode. — Yet the public advocacy on this important topic has concealed far more than it has illuminated.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Automattic now offers enterprise WordPress support — How do you make money by giving away free software? Automattic, the company that's home to several key developers of the free open source blogging software WordPress (used by this blog and many more) has announced today a new service called the Automattic Support Network.
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Bloggers Find Financial Backers For Their Independent News Sites — As the print media ponder the possibilities presented by blogs, some journalists are raising money to turn their own independent blogs into businesses. — In the latest example, Rafat Ali, the 31-year-old editor and publisher …
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog, Techdirt, Mathew Ingram, BuzzMachine, B.L. Ochman's weblog and Message
Ken Belson / New York Times:
What if They Built an Urban Wireless Network and Hardly Anyone Used It? — TAIPEI, Taiwan — Peter Shyu, an engineer, spends most of his day out of the office, and when he needs an Internet connection he often pops into one of the many coffee shops in this city that offer free wireless access.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
As Online Ads Grow, Eyeballs Are Valuable Again on the Web — THE great eyeball chase is back in full swing. And it does not matter that the eyeballs may not be buying anything. With online advertising revenues growing quickly, new information-rich sites of all kinds are mushrooming across the Web.
ftc.gov:
FTC Issues Statement on Whois Databases — Access to Databases Critical to Enforce Consumer Protection Laws — The Federal Trade Commission today told a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers that access to the Whois databases is "critical to the agency's …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Skip the Sitter, and Feed Your Virtual Pet by Cellphone — For those who argue that young people are spending too much time in front of computers, MTV Networks has an answer. It will now let them feed and dote on virtual pets using cellphones. — MTV, a unit of Viacom …
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Research: Internet Users Plagued by 'Banner Blindness' — An eye-tracking study conducted by the Nielsen/Norman Group finds Internet users avoid viewing banner ads. Text advertising is read more often than display ads, according to the research. — Banner blindness means Internet users focus …
Business Week:
Inside Nathan Myhrvold's Mysterious New Idea Machine — As his cash-rich firm snaps up thousands of patents, fears emerge that it will become a leader in litigation—not innovation — A rocket scientist, a mathematician, a brain surgeon, and a lawyer walk into a room.
Reuters:
Tower stacking up downloads — Music retailer Tower Records is preparing to take the shrink-wrap off its digital download store on Tuesday, when Tower.com/Digital goes live with a comprehensive service powered by Puretracks. — Tower will market the digital alternative across all media …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
MICROSOFT BURIES CAIRO — Late Friday, Microsoft quietly dropped another bombshell announcement: WinFS is dead. I almost blogged Friday night, but decided to wait until this morning instead. — News media and any Microsoft watchers, including partners and competitors, should view Friday's nuclear softball as an ongoing trend.
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tecosystems, Windows Vista Weblog, Todd Bishop's Microsoft …, Joseph Scott's Blog and Office Evolution
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
RSS: The new intranet protocol? — In a story he headlined Web 2.0 sews grassroots collaboration, CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica wrote: … LaMonica's story goes on to say that Microsoft is responding by building wiki functionality into a forthcoming version of its Sharepoint collaboration technology.
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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Windows Vista Build 5456 Overview and Screenshot Gallery — Little more than a month after issuing a bug-laden Windows Vista Beta 2 (see my review), Microsoft has shipped its first post-Beta 2 interim build of the next Windows and it makes up a lot of lost ground.
