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Nick / Rough Type:
Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push — I've received a few more hints about the big cloud-computing initiative Microsoft may be about to announce, perhaps during the company's Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this coming week. One of the cornerstones of the strategy, I've heard …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Offline Wars about to heat up? — Ryan Stewart (who works at Adobe) wonders if Microsoft is bringing an offline version of Silverlight out this week at Mix. — I'm hearing that Google is about to ship something major offline too. — So, for the next month we might hear “go offline” …
Nick / Rough Type:
Rumor: Microsoft about to unveil web-apps strategy — Put your ears to the ground, my friends, for the Beast of Redmond may be stirring. I've heard that Microsoft has begun briefing its large enterprise clients on an expansive and detailed strategy for moving its software business into the cloud.
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CNET News.com, Silicon Alley Insider, LiveSide, TechBizMedia, VoIP Blog, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Mashable!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Office Online and Attacking The Innovator's Dilemma — Nick Carr has a lead on the story that we all knew was coming eventually: Key Microsoft applications, including Office, may be moving online, soon. Carr's source says to look for enterprise applications to move online …
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CNET News.com, Irregular Enterprise, Silicon Alley Insider, Scobleizer, Team Think, Mike Stopforth and SmoothSpan Blog
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:Is an offline version of Silverlight coming at MIX next week?
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Mark Bittman / New York Times:
I Need a Virtual Break. No, Really. — I TOOK a real day off this weekend: computers shut down, cellphone left in my work bag, land-line ringer off. I was fully disconnected for 24 hours. — The reason for this change was a natural and predictable back-breaking straw.
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood, Silicon Valley and AT&T? It's a Deal — Hollywood and Silicon Valley have something of a Mars/Venus problem: the two sides are talking but they don't speak each other's language. A new venture involving a phone company may just add Pluto into the mix.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Will RealNetworks Buy Scrabulous? — Scrabulous is like Danger Mouse's The Grey Album of Facebook Apps. Everyone loves it except the guys who own Scrabble (Mattel and Hasbro), the board game that inspired Scrabulous. — The legal troubles of the game cooked up by Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla …
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Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words — NEW DELHI — The latest bane of office productivity is Scrabulous, a virtual knockoff of the Scrabble board game, with over 700,000 players a day and nearly three million registered users. — Fans of the game are obsessive.
Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
Intel Drops an ‘Atom’ Brand — The chip maker's new Atom brand includes its Diamondville chip for low-cost laptops and its Silverthorne processor for mobile Internet devices. — Intel's latest branding scheme is truly atomic. — Starting March 3, Intel will corral all its processors for MIDs …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The verdict is in: The Pownce API kicks Twitter's ass — Sorry Ev and Biz and Jack, but they got your number over there at Pownce. — I've been asking Twitter to support payloads for months now, and now I have what I was asking for, but it came from Pownce, and it's beautifully implemented …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
i-mate's US outpost implodes, most laid off — We've caught wind from a number of employees — or ex-employees, as the case may be — that i-mate's US division in Redmond, Washington has all but disintegrated after a Friday bloodbath that saw the entire engineering, QA, and tech writing departments laid off, among others.
Greg Linden / IEEE Spectrum:
People Who Read This Article Also Read... The recommendation systems that suggest books at Amazon and movies at Netflix will soon bring you personalized news — The newspaper, that daily chronicle of human events, is undergoing the most momentous transformation in its centuries-old history.
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