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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Reports Third-Quarter Results — Strong momentum of new products drives 13% revenue growth — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — REDMOND, Wash. — April 27, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced third-quarter revenue of $10.90 billion for the period ended March 31 …
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
MICROSOFT FISCAL 2006 Q3 RESULTS — This afternoon, Microsoft announced results for its fiscal 2006 third quarter, ended March 31. While the company's seven business units report separate P&Ls, the units are now contained within three larger business groups.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
BloggingStocks — Update: Seems like the issue of can bloggers hold stocks is generating some buzz. This is blogging, so of course the bloggers can hold stocks *provided* they disclose what they are doing, obey all the SEC rules, and don't trade on inside information/tips.
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Heather Green / Blogspotting:AOL Launches New Network of Financial Blogs
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE RELEASES SKETCHUP FOR FREE — Google has released Google Sketchup, the first Google version of the 3D modeling software they acquired recently, and it is absolutely free. — The 19.2 megabyte download is for Windows 2000+ systems with a minimum of a 600 MHz processor, 128 megs of RAM, and an OpenGL compliant video card.
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PR Newswire:
SideStep Enters New Market Expanding the Power of Travel Search into Local Attractions, Events & Activities — New Offering Allows SideStep to Better Serve Travelers and Locals Alike — SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 27 /PRNewswire/ — SideStep, Inc. (www.sidestep.com), the Web's leading travel search engine …
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Stephen Totilo / MTV:
The Revolution Has A Name: Nintendo Wii — Console's new name, pronounced 'we,' causes a firestorm of online bashing. — The Revolution is over. Make way for the Wii. And pronounce it "we." — That's the official name Nintendo announced Thursday (April 27) for its next home console, formerly code-named Revolution.
Vladimir Cole / Joystiq:
Verizon, Cingular whitewash mobile content [update 1] — If you were hoping to download saucy content (games, ringtones, music, videos, text) of any sort from Verizon, forget about it. The company has created ultra-conservative new internal guidelines that ban a variety of edgy content …
Michael McDerment Blog:
An Audience for Every Cause — At one point in planning mesh, we were on the verge of turning the event into a Blogger's conference, but we steered away. — Why did we consider blogs? Blogs are gaining influence - it's undeniable. All you need to do is look south of the 49th and observe …
Warren St. John / New York Times:
Rituals of Grief Go Online — Like many other 23-year-olds, Deborah Lee Walker loved the beach, discovering bands, making new friends and keeping up with old ones, often through the social networking site MySpace.com, where she listed her heroes as "my family, and anyone serving in the military — thank you!"
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Dungeons & Dragons Laptop — Archi-Tourist Architecture Wiki — Second SOCOM Coming to PSP — ADVERTISEMENT — Dungeons & Dragons Laptop — READ MORE: ATARI, D&D, GAMING, LAPTOPS, NERDS — We're not quite sure what the point of having a Dungeons & Dragons laptop is …
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Aperture future in question as Apple axes bulk of team — April 27, 2006 - Apple recently asked the engineering team behind its Aperture photo editing and management software to leave, Think Secret has learned. The move, which resulted in the departure of several engineers while others …
Justin.Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook expands to corporate social networking; again with staggered rollout strategy — Earlier today Facebook publicly opened registration beyond the world of students for the first time (!) to people with select corporate email accounts. — But, like Facebook's limited initial availability …
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Valleywag, Don Dodge on The Next …, Minority Rapport, Techdirt, Susan Mernit's Blog and Bloggers Blog
Niall McKay / Wired News:
Art Flicks Sparkle on Cell Phones — Art-house flicks for cell phones and iPods might teach Hollywood a thing or two about mobile entertainment if the movie bigwigs would just pay attention to the tiny screen, experts say. — This week at the San Francisco International Film Festival …
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Inking in Firefox — TabletPCBlogs has a cool feature that enables you to author a post with ink. However, in order to blog in ink, you have to use Internet Explorer. This isn't a bad thing—at least to me—but there are quite a few people I know that prefer not to use IE and are Firefox fans instead.
Nick / Rough Type:
Web 2.0's numbskull factor — On his blog, Harvard's Andrew McAfee mulls over some of the barriers to the successful adoption of Web 2.0 collaboration technologies by businesses. He points out that even the most prominent examples of Web 2.0 platforms, such as Wikipedia …
Mary Madden / pewinternet.org:
Internet Penetration and Impact — Over time, internet users have become more likely to note big improvements in their ability to shop and the way they pursue their hobbies and interests. A majority of internet users also consistently report that the internet helps them to do their job …
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QuadsZilla / SEO Black Hat:
SEO No Limit Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament — On Saturday, May 27th at 12:15 Eastern, SEO Black Hat will be running a private No Limit Texas Hold'em Poker Tournament at Party Poker for the SEO and Blogosphere Community. The entrance will be $110 and prizes will be paid out based on the number of entrants.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Is the Palm OS missing the multimedia boat? — The Palm OS may be losing its mojo with software developers. — It's been two years since the release of the last major upgrade to the Palm operating system for mobile devices, not counting the upgrade that never appeared in public.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Varying Number Of Ads Displayed & Revisiting Search Engine Ad Breaks — Wow — Google may be about to do what was so annoying and eventually abandoned by Ask, dump more ads into its search results. (Note: see postscript below, overall number of ads won't change, Google says).
Dean Takahashi / A+E Interactive:
Exclusive: Nicole Wong Reveals Identity Of EA Spouse — EA Spouse shook up the video game industry in November, 2004, when she posted an anonymous letter that detailed the harsh working conditions that led to overtime lawsuits against Electronic Arts and other big video game companies.
seagate.com:
SEAGATE EXPANDS DESKTOP HARD DRIVE LEAD WITH 750GB MONSTER BUILT ON PERPENDICULAR RECORDING TECHNOLOGY — With the introduction of Barracuda 7200.10 family, Seagate now leverages perpendicular recording technology across its desktop, notebook, enterprise, consumer electronics and retail hard drives
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Melissa J. Perenson / PC World:First Look: Seagate's New Giant Hard Drive Screams to the Top
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