Techmeme: Microsoft eases hardware terms for Windows XP on low-cost PCs (InfoWorld)

4:35 PM ET, July 2, 2008

Top Items:

Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering That Combines Microsoft Office and Windows Live OneCare — Microsoft Equipt gives consumers powerful productivity and security protection technologies in a single package through Circuit City. — Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft Equipt …

Discussion: Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Slyck, LiveSide, Portfolio.com, CyberNet, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Microsoft News Tracker, greg hughes, PR Newswire, AppScout and The Inquisitr

InfoWorld:

Microsoft to sell Office ‘value pack’ for $70 per year — Microsoft has chosen the name “Equipt” for a forthcoming package of products that includes its Office suite, Internet security software and other services, and will sell it for an annual subscription fee of $69.99.

Discussion: Microsoft Watch and TG Daily

Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Office subscription service ready to go

Discussion: Ars Technica, Neowin.net and Valleywag

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-July

Slash Lane / AppleInsider:

AT&T says original iPhones can be inactivated and used as WiFi iPods — Original iPhone owners who prefer not to give away or sell their old iPhones after upgrading to an iPhone 3G can instead keep their devices and use them as WiFi-enabled iPods, AT&T has confirmed.

Discussion: VentureBeat, CrunchGear, Technology Evangelist, I4U News, The Apple Core and Oatmeal Stout

John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Apple Confirms: No Online iPhone 3G Sales, In-Store Activation Only

Discussion: The Mobile Gadgeteer, CrunchGear and Lost Remote

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
How to launch an iPhone: A tale of two videos

Discussion: TidBITS, Computerworld, CrunchGear, Macworld, The Apple Core, Cult of Mac and FierceWireless

Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft Seeks Partners For a New Run at Yahoo — Plan Would Lead To Effective Breakup; Yang's Second Thoughts — Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.'s search business, has approached other media companies in recent days about joining it in a deal …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Ballmer on Yahoo Deal: The Bankers “screwed everything up.” — Interesting and surprisingly detailed story in the Wall Street Journal tonight about the ongoing (never ending) Microsoft/Yahoo deal. The headline is that Microsoft, apparently not happy with simply destroying Yahoo's credibility …

Discussion: eWeek, Electronista, Valleywag, The Open Road and TG Daily

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
The Humiliating Detail Yahoo (YHOO) Left Out of Its “Microsoft Timeline”

Discussion: Furrier.org and Deal Journal

Charlene Li / Groundswell:

Why I'm leaving Forrester — I was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received — and it was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because research showed that people typically master a job in that time period and fall into a routine.

Mary Jane Irwin / Forbes:

Netflix's Online Movie Dreams — Can start-up Roku save DVD rental giant Netflix from the coming video-streaming onslaught? — Saratoga, Calif.-based Roku, best known for its networked music player SoundBridge, in May rolled out a set-top box that streams Netflix (nasdaq: NFLX - news - people ) movies.

Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider

MG Siegler / VentureBeat: The Roku box to expand beyond Netflix. Living room Trojan horse?

ISO:

PDF format becomes ISO standard — The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems Incorporated …

Discussion: Startup Meme and BetaNews

Josh Lowensohn / CNET News.com:
Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard

Discussion: LinuxWorld.com and Z Trek

Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:

Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web — Had PowerPoint been around 150 years ago, Thoreau might have warned us to beware not only of enterprises that require new clothes, but also of those that require new paradigms. — A book from 2006, “The Long Tail,” was one of those that appear periodically …

Discussion: Venture Chronicles, Screenwerk, Natural Search Blog and rc3.org

Josephine Lien / DigiTimes:

Samsung to reduce NAND flash supply in July amid Apple orders — Samsung Electronics has informed downstream customers it will start reducing its supply of NAND flash chips to them from July as its key customer Apple has placed a large batch of orders, according to sources at the company's customers.

Discussion: CNET News.com, Engadget, Inquirer, Unwired View, Gear Diary, 9 to 5 Mac, Electronista, O'Grady's PowerPage, iLounge, IntoMobile, Macsimum News, Gizmodo, Insanely Great Mac and LOOPRumors

Tom Krazit / One More Thing:

Jobs, Apple directors face new backdating suit — Apple CEO Steve Jobs addresses the crowd at WWDC 2008. — (Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com) — Current and former members of Apple, including CEO Steve Jobs and several directors, have been sued again over their role in the company's stock options-backdating affair.

Discussion: InformationWeek, DailyTech, p2pnet and Tech Ticker

Macworld UK:
Steve Jobs, others accused of fraud

Discussion: Infinite Loop, TechWeb, iLounge, Macsimum News, The Mac Observer and O'Grady's PowerPage

Palm:

Palm Treo 755p Software Update for Verizon — Do you need this update? — On your Treo 755p, press Phone . Then press Menu . From the Options menu, select Phone Info — Look for the Software item. If the version number is lower than 1.08 and the end of the string says VZW, you should install this update.

Discussion: IntoMobile, SlashPhone, jkOnTheRun and Engadget Mobile

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Ask.com Drops Map Product & Outsources To Microsoft Virtual Earth — The LiveSide Blog reported that Chris Pendleton,Virtual Earth Evangelist posted the news that Ask.com has now dropped their own mapping product for Microsoft's Virtual Earth. — Virtual Earth can now be found on Ask Maps …

Discussion: One Microsoft Way, Virtual Earth …, Screenwerk, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Startup Meme, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, LiveSide, Kelsey Group Blogs and WebGuild

Mike Gualtieri / CIO.com:

9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless — From being a control freak to being a vendor puppet, here are nine behaviors management needs to steer clear of or risk being labeled “clueless.” — As CIO you hold one of the most important executive positions in your company.

Discussion: The Open Road, broadstuff, Parallax View and greg hughes

InfoWorld:

Microsoft eases hardware terms for Windows XP on low-cost PCs — Microsoft has loosened the hardware restrictions that PC makers must adhere to in order to install Windows XP on ultra-low-cost PCs, according to documents seen by IDG News Service. — While June 30 marked the last day for selling …

Discussion: GottaBeMobile and jkkmobile

Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:

Is Email In Danger? — Human history is one of progressive improvement in communication. From the 20th century mail was a fundamental form of communication. The invention of electronic mail (email) changed two things. It became cheap to send short mail, and delivery was instant.

Discussion: Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …, SheGeeks, broadstuff, Zoli's Blog, Mark Evans and Know It All

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