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The New York Times to Enhance Online and Offline Reading Experience With Times Reader — New application uses Microsoft software to benefit readers. — SEATTLE — April 28, 2006 — Today at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, The New York Times and Microsoft Corp. unveiled …
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Microsoft Software Will Let Times Readers Download Paper — SEATTLE, April 28 — Microsoft and The New York Times unveiled software on Friday that would allow readers to download an electronic version of the newspaper and view it on a portable device. — With Microsoft's new Windows Vista software …

Two steps backward — Microsoft is offering a means to read newspapers designed as newspapers on computers. Why? There are other methods of doing this now and I find them all not only awkward and unsatisfying but wrongheaded. Why not design the next frontier for the sharing of news …

Your Tube, Whose Dime? — NEW YORK - — The Web lets users watch whatever they want, whenever they want to watch it. So what do they want to see? A home-made video of two boys lip-synching along to the Pokémon television theme song. Internet video site YouTube has streamed …

What I Said at Columbia University … I'm honored to have been invited. I'm also grateful. During the past few years I've had the privilege of working in a field that really led to this conversation we're going to have tonight. There have been ups and downs along the way. But it's been a great ride so far.
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Cheap Trick, Allman Brothers Sue Sony — NEW YORK - Rock bands Cheap Trick and The Allman Brothers Band are suing Sony Music, claiming they are being shortchanged on royalties for songs downloaded legally over the Internet. — The suit, filed at a federal court in Manhattan …
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Some AMD Opterons suffer heat issue — update Advanced Micro Devices is trying to track down and replace as many as 3,000 Opteron processors that could produce "inconsistent results" under an unusual, high-temperature circumstance. — The potential problem affects a number of single-core Opteron 152 …

More On Yahoo & AT&T VoIP Messenger Deal — Based on some G2 I've been able to discover from some well healed off-shore type players in telcom who have played in the telco game for many years and made a bundle off of selling things to SBC I was able to ferret out a bit about the Yahoo/AT&T VoIP marriage and what it may mean...
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Building a Google? Microsoft pouring cash into Web fight — Microsoft is supercharging its business in the coming year with a spending burst that made some Wall Street analysts do a double take Thursday. — The company plans to plow perhaps $2 billion more than expected …

Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping — It didn't take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users' activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress. — Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a Republican, gave a speech saying …
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Suffolk County Plans to Offer Free Wireless Internet Access — Suffolk County Plans to Offer Free Wireless Internet Access — Suffolk County is planning a wireless system to provide free access to the Internet to the 1.5 million residents who live throughout its 900 square miles.

Sony Readies iPod Rival — Company is developing a new digital music player that will go on sale later this year. — Sony is preparing to take another swing at Apple Computer's iPod digital music player, a top Sony executive said today. — The company is developing a new music player …


Q to be launched May 22nd? — Alright Q fans, we've got some good news for you. We've received word that Verizon and Motorola are holding a joint news conference in New York this May 22nd — no, not May 22nd 2007, though we should qualify that — to announce the Q. We know …
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