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Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 — Broad customer momentum and feedback advances vision of Your Data, Any Place, Any Time. — REDMOND, Wash. — April 19, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the availability of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Service Pack 1 …
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Microsoft Brings Programming to the Masses With Visual Studio Express — Company brings the power of code to growing community of hobbyist programmers who seek to integrate technology and software into their everyday lives. — REDMOND, Wash. — April 19, 2006 — At this weekend's Maker Faire …
Danielfe / Dan Fernandez's Blog:Visual Studio 2005 Express Announcements!
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Staska / UMPC News:
Apple Origami UMPC? Looks likely — Is Apple working on it's own Origami UMPC device? Well, judging from patent applications filed by Apple in recent months, it seems so. — Does this picture look familiar: — It looks just like variation of Microsoft Touchpack software …
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Apple Working on Origami UMPC? — With all the UMPCs being rolled out lately, Apple appears to be preparing one of its own, filing patents for a number of telltale technologies. First, in a patent application dated today, we see a single-arc QWERTY keyboard similar to Microsoft Touchpack software …
Red Herring:
Facebook Gets Another $25M — Greylock Partners leads new investment round in social network site as its valuation soars. — Privately held Facebook received $25 million in its second round of venture financing Wednesday to help the social network web site expand features for sharing information as its market value soars.
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Business Week:
Social Networking's Gold Rush — The movement continues to defy doubters and draw big investments. The latest includes $25 million for a piece of Facebook — Just a few months ago, many experts and investors were inclined to dismiss social networking sites as a mere fad.
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Study: Use of Mobile Devices Is Growing — LOS ANGELES - Although most people still access the Internet on a computer, the use of mobile devices to check e-mail or browse the Web is growing, outpacing even laptops in some markets, according to a new study. — That's particularly the case …
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Macgyver / Forever Geek:
Digg Corrupted: Editor's Playground, not User-Driven Website — As a follow up to an earlier post (Digg Army: Right in Line), there have been some vibrations that I think not only our readers would find interesting, but also all Digg users. — To quickly summarize the earlier post …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's flagship MacBook Pro to arrive at NAB — Apple Computer at the National Association of Broadcasters conference next week will unveil its most poweful Intel notebook yet, a 17-inch MacBook Pro strung with a few bells and whistles, AppleInsider has learned.
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Microsoft Readies Storage Service to Rival Google's 'Gdrive' — Microsoft's "Live Drive" will provide users with a virtual hard drive, according to Redmond officials. — The MSN team is working on a new Windows Live service, code-named Live Drive, that will provide users with a virtual hard drive for storing hosted personal data.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
YahooNoFi — For past few days, a screenshot captured by a Yahoo user is leading to a lot of speculation about Yahoo coming up with its answer to Google's WiFi efforts. There are a couple of reasons why this isn't going to happen - and none of them have to do with the fact that it was a screenshot …
CNN:
Swapping job security for a startup — Why did Toni Schneider leave a good job at Yahoo to dive back into the fray with blog-software maker Automattic? Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. — John Battelle, Business 2.0 Magazine — (Business 2.0 Magazine) …
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Philips device could force TV viewers to watch ads — An invention from Royal Philips Electronics prevents TV viewers from switching the channel during commercials or fast-forwarding past commercials when watching DVR content. — Viewers would be released from the freeze only after paying a fee to the broadcaster.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
INTERESTING NEW GOOGLE RESULTS TEST — Check this out. Thanks, reader Doug. — "Search this site" is integrated into the results, allowing a searcher to drill down into a particular site, right there in the SERPs. Interesting.
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free411.com:
Jingle Networks Secures $26 Million of New Financing After Explosive Growth of 1-800-FREE411 Service — Additional Financing Includes Comcast Interactive Capital, Liberty Associated Partners and IDG Ventures; New Directory Service Receiving Seven Million Calls Per Month and Growing
Adam Thierer / The Technology Liberation Front:
A Paranoid Parent Ponders GPS Tracking His Kids — Well it didn't take long for a young, rebellious punk to turn into a paranoid, condescending parent. I'm already talking to my kids in ways that used to make me resent my own parents. And I'm already beginning to think about how to watch …
The Beat / MILE HIGH COMICS presents …:
Chris Ware moves ACME to FSG — As picked up on by various bloggers who got hold of Drawn & Quarterly's fall catalog, Chri Ware's much-lauded and now self published ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY is switching distributors from Norton to FSG. Fantagraphics, the former ANL publishers …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
What is click fraud ? — I was perusing my Icerocket RSS feed on my name. (Got to see who is saying what about me right :). Lo and behold, there was an article on click fraud saying that it was lower than some, namely me and Henry Blodgett had predicted, from former Alta Vista-ite and current Microsoftie Don Dodge.
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
ShopWiki tries to push into shopping search space — The shopping comparison site space seemed crowded a couple of years ago. But Shopzilla honed its way in, eventually selling to E. W. Scripps for $525 million last summer. Is there room for yet another player? ShopWiki, a start-up out of New York, hopes so.
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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
FT: Zennström confirms Skype filters text; questions he would not answer — The Financial Times' Alison Maitland scored an interview with Niklas Zennström that ran yesterday. In it Zennström confirms the TOM-Skype joint venture censors text messages on behalf of the Chinese government.
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