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Matt Mondok / One Microsoft Way:
Microsoft announces Joost killer — Sometimes it seems like Microsoft just can't be happy with improving its current software lineup. Instead, the company feels the need to reinvent, or flat-out buy, what someone else has already done. Although some of these ventures are duds (think OneCare) …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft LiveStation: Slingbox Without the Box — The video above shows a demo of a new product called Livestation, a peer-to-peer live television broadcasting application build on the Microsoft Silverlight platform. This is a Microsoft Research initiative, built in partnership with a London company called Skinkers.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
LiveStation and Silverlight deliver Live TV to your PC — LiveStation built on Silverlight brings Live TV to your PC. LiveStation is a project, currently in controlled beta, that uses technology from Microsoft and Skinkers, a UK based company. LiveStation currently rebroadcasts the BBC live …
GameDaily:
Report: PS3 $499 on July 12 — Although Sony has yet to confirm a price drop officially, GameDaily BIZ has received confirmation from the retail sector that the PS3 will be dropped to $499 next week. Sony itself recently talked about "refining" the PS3 price. Now it appears to be happening.
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Quim Gil / maemo.org:
Feature upgrade release to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition — Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8) includes Skype client support, Adobe® Flash® 9 browser plug-in …
comScore:
Facebook Sees Flood Of New Traffic From Teenagers And Adults Open Registration at Facebook.com Spurs 89 Percent Visitor Growth versus Last Year — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the visitation to Facebook.com …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
eBay Takes on Craigslist — Will the online auctioneer's Kijiji.com be able to lure advertisers away from the popular local classified-ad site? — Online commerce giant eBay knew Craigslist had the right idea when it purchased a 25% stake in the online classified ad site three years ago.
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Robert McMillan / Techworld.com:
eBay for hackers launched — A Swiss security firm called WabiSabiLabi has opened a web marketplace for zero-day security vulnerabilities. — The site will sell details on unpatched software flaws. The site is currently offering details on four bugs in products such as the Linux kernel and Yahoo Messenger.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Faster iPhone faster! Kill!! Kill!! — My challenge here is to write the one zillionth iPhone story (and MY third) without repeating too much what has been written before or failing to include at least a couple new items which — trust me — you'll find below.
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Microsoft Expands Xbox 360 Warranty Coverage — Microsoft Expands Xbox 360 Warranty Coverage. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it will expand its global Xbox 360™ warranty coverage. Any Xbox 360 customer who experiences a general hardware failure indicated by three flashing red lights …
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Microsoft Statement About GPLv3 — A Microsoft statement about GPLv3. — Microsoft is not a party to the GPLv3 license and none of its actions are to be misinterpreted as accepting status as a contracting party of GPLv3 or assuming any legal obligations under such license.
CBC News:
Microsoft to start up Vancouver software development centre this fall — TORONTO (CP) - Microsoft Corp. plans to set up house in the Vancouver area this fall with a new software development centre that would attract talent without encountering U.S. immigration issues.
Woodrow / The Ponderings of Woodrow:
NetSuite IPO...Another SaaS horseman braves the public markets — NetSuite filed its S-1 this week, with an eye toward an IPO in September if the market conditions permit. The SaaS darling is looking to raise up to $75mm; Credit Suisse is the book runner and WR Hambrecht + Co is co-managing the deal.
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Mitchell Bingemann / Computerworld:
Music starts to fade on Russian download site AllofMP3.com — Users of the shutdown AllofMP3.com site can still download music if they have existing credit with the online music store — Although the controversial online music store AllofMP3.com was officially shutdown by the Russian Government …
Nick Bevens / Scotsman:
Gates' stock sales set to net $3bn this year — BILL Gates is reaping nearly $50 million (£25m) a week by selling Microsoft shares and is on course to earn $3 billion this year through stock sales. — The figures put the Microsoft co-founder, who was usurped this week …
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
A Word of Caution About Google Calendar — I've been playing around with Google Calendar, a beta service from the search-engine giant that lets users store — and share — calendar data online. It's a great Web-based tool, but in experimenting with it I found that far too many people …
