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8:00 PM ET, October 27, 2008

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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure at Professional Developers Conference  —  Company releases comprehensive Azure Services Platform for the cloud, offering unprecedented power of choice and open connections for developers.  —  Today, during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed  —  Now that the initial Microsoft PDC pixie dust has settled, developers are trying to digest exactly what Microsoft's cloud platform is.  Here's my attempt to explain it.  —  Microsoft layed out its “Azure” …
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft launches Windows Azure  —  LOS ANGELES—Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft's own data centers.  —  Dubbed Windows Azure, it's less a replacement for the operating system that runs on one's own PC than it is an alternative …
Nick / Rough Type:
Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its “cloud OS”  —  Having spent billions constructing a data center network over the last couple of years, Microsoft this morning launched, in limited “preview” form, Windows Azure, its platform for cloud computing.  The announcement was made by Microsoft's …
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Microsoft offers cloud computing a hearty handclasp  —  Microsoft and Ray Ozzie cracked the door half open this morning on Windows Azure, the infrastructure formerly known as Windows Cloud.  In the process, Ozzie served notice that IT will remain in the Windows/Office grip but with an abstraction layer …
Windows Live Dev:
Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider  —  Windows Live ID Commits to Support OpenID  —  Beginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Windows Live Adds Support For OpenID, Calls It De Facto Login Standard
Discussion: BetaNews and CloudAve
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Windows Live is now an OpenID Provider
Discussion: webmonkey and The Real McCrea
Revision3 » blog:
Changes to Revision3's Programming Lineup  —  As any student of media knows, birthing new media can be a tremendously fun, engaging and rewarding endeavor, but it's also rarely a straight shot to success.  —  15 years ago we were posting magazine articles to the web; fast forward to today …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
UPDATED: Revision3 Makes Layoffs, as Does Smashface
Electronista:
iPhone could hit $99, rule smartphones  —  Apple has the room to cut the price of the iPhone to where it could take command of the smartphone market, analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham Research says today in a research note.  The financial expert estimates that the average …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Netflix finally brings ‘Watch Instantly’ to Macs via Silverlight  —  In a move that seemed like it would never, ever, ever happen, Netflix has finally managed to bring its streaming video technology (and decent library) to Macs everywhere, thanks to Microsoft's Flash-esque also-ran, Silverlight.
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George Colony / George F. Colony:
Why this tech recession will be different  —  Quickly: For tech, this recession will be different than 2001-2003  —  Content: I'm not an economist.  But I've been present for a bunch of recessions and watched how technology markets survived.  And I spend a lot of my time talking …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Goes Mainstream  —  A lot more people — and businesses — are finding new ways to tweet  —  One of the hottest technologies in Silicon Valley is also one of the simplest.  —  The online service from Web start-up Twitter Inc. prompts users to do one thing: answer the question, “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less.
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google Scrambles to Patch Buffer Overrun Exploit in Android G1  —  Table of Contents:  —  Security expert Charlie Miller leverages a flaw within an SDK component of Google's open-source Android operating system.  The buffer overrun flaw lets hackers hijack the Web browser …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
T-Mobile G1 coming to Walmart at a slashed price?  —  Word on the street is that the top ten Walmarts in each market will be getting hooked up with the T-Mobile G1 on the 24th of November.  That in itself isn't really news — big boxes have really been ramping up their wireless sales as of late …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Time to Leave the Laptop Behind  —  For more mobile workers, phones increasingly give them much of what they need — with a lot less hassle  —  It's time to think about leaving your laptop at home.  —  For years, mobile workers have been ditching their desktop computers for laptops that they can take wherever they go.
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Web Video: Not Just for Kids, Going Mainstream  —  New research indicates that online video is becoming more mainstream as it finds greater audiences with both women and adults over the age of 35.  —  Ipsos MediaCT released data from its MOTION study that found that since late last year …
Discussion: WebProNews
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Adam Wright / ipsos-na.com:
Online Video Streaming Going Mainstream
Discussion: Podcasting News and Slyck
Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
Nintendo moves right along  —  FEMALE FANS: Women try out a Wii at a computer fair in Germany in August.  Of those who play a Wii, 50% are female, a Nintendo executive says.  —  Sales of Wii and DS consoles remain strong even during the economic crisis, an executive says.
Discussion: Engadget and TechSpot
CodeWeavers:
CODEWEAVERS' SOFTWARE FREE FOR DOWNLOAD THANKS TO GEORGE W. BUSH AND FALLING GAS PRICES  —  Giveaway Triggered in CodeWeaver's Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge; “We take full responsibility for global economic collapse,” says CEO  —  The catastrophic cratering of the global economy …
Esteban Kozak / The LinkedIn Blog:
LinkedIn Search: Finding that former colleague of yours just got easier  —  I'd like to announce today the launch of our new search platform, currently released to a small percentage of our LinkedIn users.  In addition, a certain percentage of the remaining users can explore the new search experience …
David Lieberman / USA Today:
Cable operator Cox to launch cellphone service  —  NEW YORK — Cox Communications (CCI) plans to rock the wireless phone business Monday by unveiling plans to launch cellphone service in the second half of 2009 that ultimately will make the No. 3 cable operator a rival of AT&T, (T) Sprint Nextel (S) and Verizon.
Josh Catone / SitePoint Blogs:
Aviary SaaS Image Editing Software Leaves Beta  —  ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Aviary, a much-hyped and long awaited suite of online image editing tools, is about to leave private beta.  Aviary was developed by the people behind the popular Photoshop contest site Worth1000 using Adobe's Flex …
Discussion: Webware.com and ReadWriteWeb
Mark Ward / BBC:
Alarm raised on teenage hackers  —  Chris Boyd on how to track a teenage hacker  —  Increasing numbers of teenagers are starting to dabble in hi-tech crime, say experts.  —  Computer security professionals say many net forums are populated by teenagers swapping credit card numbers, phishing kits and hacking tips.
 
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InfoWorld:
Microsoft to open up ‘M’ language
Discussion: eWeek
Kim Dixon / Reuters:
Microsoft's Gates steps up FCC “white space” lobbying
Discussion: Electronista and The Register
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Bryan Adams pulls a Prince on fan sites
Discussion: CNET News
Mike Snider / USA Today:
David Cook flicks ‘Light On’ his new single
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Geoff Ramsey—CEO / eMarketer:
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Lee Mathews / Download Squad:
FlickrDown: bulk photostream downloader
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Video game legend Miyamoto talks ‘Wii Music’
Discussion: DailyTech
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple to sweeten Snow Leopard with more Cocoa
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
IT pays the price for your fun at work
Discussion: Epicenter, WebProNews and VentureBeat
 

 
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