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San Francisco Chronicle:
Getting in the game at Microsoft — Robbie Bach's job is to make software giant's entertainment division profitable — For all the challenges Microsoft Corp. faces as it moves into the future, the Redmond, Wash., software giant remains a formidable money machine.
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Kostas Tzounopoulos / Zune-Online.com:
Bach: More than 1 Million Zune players sold — According to Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Zune will meet the goal of 1.000.000 players sold by the end of June, set at launch. He also confirms that new Zune things will come in this fall, talks …
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Facebook's platform - or "what I did for my summer vacation" — I'm about to take my family to Europe for the summer. We'll start off in Amsterdam at 'the Next Web' conference and eventually end up in Trieste, using it as a base for European activity this summer. I'll even jump over to India for Gaurav's wedding.
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Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
Five most popular apps on Facebook — In my recent post 'More thoughts on Facebook's new platform', I likened the social network's new offering as having similar traits to an operating system: embracing third party developers who are given the hooks to build apps that take advantage of a unified UI, and large installed user base.
Ivan Pope / Vecosys:
Working with Facebook f8: you are not in control of your access — Facebook launched their Developer API last week to a lot of acclaim. Several commentators jumped in with the hyperbole, claiming that this platform, with its 20 million, and growing, users, would be a fine space in which to build a business.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
E-Commerce Report: Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One — THINK you have a good handle on the Internet economy? Try this one. — What Internet business has raised $120 million in financing in the last year, owns 725,000 Web sites, and has as its chief executive …
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Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Leading the charge on iPhone — Brace yourself for another tsunami of hype. — May's craze was "American Idol." June's will be the Apple iPhone, which is going on sale in a few weeks. As with "Idol," the iPhone show has lots of Seattle connections. — The season begins Wednesday …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
In Africa, Money not necessary for mobile banking — Necessity, they say is the mother of invention. It couldn't be more true in case of Africa, where pre-paid airtime is fast becoming the 'virtual' currency for Pan-African trade, overcoming conventional currency exchange and lack of banking infrastructure.
PC World:
Computer Glitch Tangles Japanese Flights — Hundreds of All Nippon Airways flights were cancelled or delayed Sunday because of computer error. — Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as a result of a glitch in the computer system of All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd.
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Allison Randal / O'Reilly Radar:
Beyond the Browser — At OSBC last week I gave a Radar talk on current technology trends. The trend of moving traditional desktop applications to massively networked, Web 2.0 online applications like Google Docs is well-known. The problem is, a web browser is a terribly limited platform …
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Jon Newton / p2pnet:
p2pnet talks to AllofMP3.com — p2pnet.net news special:- An incredible, and inordinate, amount of mainstream media time is devoted to spreading the wild fiction that copyright infringement of corporate movies and music is threatening world economies. — AllofMP3.com is a small Russian company …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity — Germany has just passed a new law that adds more "anti-hacker" provisions to the German criminal code. Although the new rules are meant to apply narrowly to hacking, critics are already complaining that they may prevent necessary security and network research.
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Alan Reiter / Reiter's Camera Phone Report:
Nokia N95 + PhotoShow: Vietnam Veterans Memorial 2007 tribute — Three times during the week I went to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to take photos (see above) with the five megapixel Nokia N95 that I received courtesy of Nokia as part of the Nokia Bloggers program.
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising:
The Difference Between Marketing, PR, Advertising, and Branding — Ads of the World is an online archive of the best and most interesting advertisements from across the world. Today I came across an advertisement on their site that uses four simple pictures to explain to you the difference …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
New: Google Image Search Categories — Last week a Google engineer told us "The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it." And now, Google Images allows you to restrict …
