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Matt Mondok / One Microsoft Way:
Skinkers, Microsoft announce live, streaming content venture — 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.
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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.
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Engadget, NewTeeVee, mathewingram.com/work, The Globe and Mail, The Next Net, HipMojo.com and Mobility Site
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 …
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 …
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Gadgetell, jkOnTheRun, JD on EP, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Mobility Site, GottaBeMobile.com, Engadget and Jeremy's Blog
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Global Business News Online:
exclusive: rupert murdoch buys dow jones, owners of the wall street journal — Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his $5 billion bid for Dow Jones. Negotiations are now complete and a formal announcement is expected next week. — Rupert Murdoch has succeeded with his $5 billion bid for Dow Jones …
Facebook Blog:
Do we really need to write our own search engine? — We asked ourselves this question more than once while working on improvements to search in March 2006. At the time, there were bigger search engines out there, including some good open source ones, that we could have used to power Facebook search results.
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HipMojo.com, WebProNews, All Facebook, Brij Singh's One More Idea, TechBizMedia, Inside Facebook and Techscape
Reuters:
INTERVIEW-Sony has no plans to cut PS3 price — TOKYO, July 6 (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) has no plans to cut the price of its PlayStation3 (PS3) at present to pep up demand and counter surging sales of Nintendo's (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) rival game console Wii, Sony's president said on Friday.
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Next Generation, Engadget, Kotaku, DailyTech, Tech Trader Daily, GameDaily, I4U News, High-Def Digest, ITWire, Slashdot and I, Platform
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Microsoft:
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.
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Richard Wray / Guardian:
Vodafone put off by Apple's demand for big iPhone slice — Apple is understood to be demanding that its European mobile phone partners hand over a significant proportion of revenues generated by the iPhone and restrict the content that users can access. — The portion of network revenues demanded …
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p2pnet, I4U News, The Next Net, Complete Tosh,, The Last Podcast, broadstuff and The Register
Yazan Gable / Symantec Corp.:
Scammers make friends with charities — Symantec has observed an interesting trend in the world of Internet-based credit card fraud: fraudsters are donating money to charity. How could this happen? In the world of carding, where stolen credit card information is bought and sold …
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My Mom Hand-Knit An iPhone — My mom was insanely cool even before she knitted an iPhone. Last week, as the hype was peaking, I braced for reports of kids across the country grabbing for their parents' new iPhones; it was a drool-soaked disaster waiting to happen, like all those people …
Alec Saunders .LOG:
Comscore's Fishy Facebook Numbers — Comscore published some web site usage metrics for Facebook yesterday. While the aggregate visitor growth of 89%, year over year, from 2006 to 2007 was impressive, the demographic information was puzzling, and just doesn't add up. … Age Segment — Facebook.com
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GigaOM, Epicenter, Tech Confidential Blog, Digital Media Wire, Searchviews, All Facebook and Global Neighbourhoods
Emre Sokullu / Read/WriteWeb:
So You Sold Your Company For Millions, What Next? — What would you do next if you sold your company to an Internet giant for millions of dollars? Existing examples show 4 different types of Internet millionaires: — Serial entrepreneurs - keep doing the same — Dreamers - expand their horizons
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
MediaDefender denies entrapment accusations with fake torrent site — Antipiracy agency MediaDefender flatly denies recent claims that it set up an entrapment scheme in order to catch pirates at downloading illegal movies and software. — Earlier this week, the Motion Picture Association …
