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4:25 PM ET, October 11, 2006

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The Web According to Ballmer — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer chats with BusinessWeek editors about Web 2.0's sky-high valuations and the new competition the company faces — Even the people running the richest tech companies are awestruck by Web 2.0 valuations.

Discussion: Mathew Ingram, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and Slashdot

Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:

Coghead Goes Live: Build Applications Visually — The online application building space is one that is getting more interesting by the week. We have previously reviewed a number of apps in this space (sometimes referred to as the 'online access' space, a reference to Microsoft Access) including Dabble DB, Zoho Creator and WyaWorks.

Discussion: Signal Without Noise, Anne 2.0 and B2Day

John Markoff / New York Times:

U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren — The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008.

Discussion: Engadget, IP Democracy, CrunchGear and TeleRead

qualcomm.com:

QUALCOMM Launches Project in Collaboration with Mozilla Foundation to Develop Open Source Version of Eudora Email Program — Open Source Version of Eudora will be Free of Charge; Final Commercial Versions of Classic Eudora for Windows and Mac Available Now — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq …

Discussion: The Unofficial Apple Weblog, TechBlog, MacMegasite, The Mac Observer, NewsForge and Slashdot

Nwhite / Windows Vista Team Blog:

Closure of RC2, Feedback Handling in the New York Times, and Licensing Information for Windows — As you've probably already surmised, downloads of Windows Vista RC2 for the Customer Preview Program (CPP) have now closed and the links are no longer active. We were bowled over by your response …

Discussion: All about Microsoft and Slashdot

Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:

YouTubers Ponder Google — On YouTube, where members are encouraged to express themselves through amateur video, it took only a few hours before they started chiming in on Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of the popular online video site. — Dozens of YouTubers turned their cameras …

Discussion: Valleywag, Tech Confidential Blog and digg

Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:

After YouTube: The beginning of the end? — Now that Google has snatched up the leading online video site, will rivals shell out big bucks, or will the competition dry up for smaller sites? — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Has the online video shakeout only begun or is the bubble about to burst?

Discussion: Blogging Stocks, Open The Dialogue, Web Strategy, HipMojo.com, John Battelle's Searchblog and digg

Microsoft:

Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 With GPS Locator Helps Consumers Take the Tension out of Travel — Updated trip-planning software and more powerful GPS receiver team up to resolve the battle for the driver's seat. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft® Streets & Trips 2007 …

Discussion: Gizmodo

Rod Boothby / Innovation Creators:

Enterprise 2.0 = Emergence Software — There is something very interesting happening in the field of enterprise technology. I called part of it Web Office. Ismael Ghalimi called it Office 2.0. Ross Mayfield calls it Social Software in the Enterprise. Dion Hichtcliff calls it Enterprise Web 2.0.

Discussion: Ross Mayfield's Weblog and Between the Lines

Nokia:

Nokia marks WiMAX milestone with Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station — Boston, MA, USA and Espoo, Finland -Nokia today announced the Nokia Flexi WiMAX Base Station, an innovation that will revolutionize the way broadband wireless networks will be built while minimizing operating and capital expenditures for broadband wireless operators.

Discussion: dailywireless.org and 21talks

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