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Beth Snyder Bulik / AdAge:
Microsoft Pumps $500 Million Into Vista Marketing Campaign — Seeks Global 'Wow' Reaction to New OS Features — YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — "There won't be a PC sold anywhere in the world that doesn't have Vista within six months," said Endpoint Technology Associates analyst Roger Kay …
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Microsoft Launches Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 to Consumers Worldwide — Flagship products available at over 39,000 retail locations and online around the world. — On Jan. 30 the most significant product launch in Microsoft Corp.'s history culminates in the release to consumers …
Anildash / Movable Type News:
Movable Type Enterprise and Microsoft Office 2007: Blogs for Business — Today, Microsoft is making some of their biggest announcements ever — if you're even remotely interested in technology news, you're going to hear about the launch of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.
Josh Goldman / CrunchGear:
Six Good Reasons Not To Upgrade To Vista — I use computers running on Mac OS X and Windows XP. I fully intend on upgrading to Leopard when it launches, however, I'm staying away from Vista for the time being. I was planning on going into a full-on diatribe of why, but Computerworld/PC World managed …
Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:@ Vista Launch: Ballmer: Vista Is The Center of Connected Entertainment Strategy
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
News Corp. Shuns Fox Interactive Group in ROO Deal — News Corp. Shuns Fox Interactive in ROO Deal — The Wall Street Journal reported (behind paywall) this morning that News Corp would announce a $12 million investment in online video startup ROO. However, unlike other investments …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Fox in talks to buy online ad company — Fox Interactive Media, after a period of relative quiet, is getting acquisitive again. The company is said to be in talks to acquire Strategic Data Corp., a company based in Santa Monica, California, that helps online publishers optimize their online advertising yields.
Dave Girard / Ars Technica:
Adobe announces pricing, availability for Lightroom — Well, it's official: after an initial public beta test that seems to have gone pretty smoothly, Adobe's first major RAW-oriented photography workflow app is set to hit the shelves on February 19. The Windows and Universal Mac versions …
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Adobe sets mid-February ship date for Lightroom — After getting downloaded more than 1 million times as a beta, Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom is ready for prime time. Adobe announced that version 1.0 of its photography workflow application will ship on February 19; it's available for pre-order now.
Alex Ionescu / Alex Ionescu's Blog:
Update on Driver Signing Bypass — I apologize for the lack of news, but after attending CUSEC, I had to spend my time on catching up the two weeks of school and work that I had missed, and exploiting Vista ended up going on the backburner, especially as I had to re-install VMWare 6.0 …
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ROBERT SCOBLE: Shilling for Intel — Shilling for Intel — No wonder Robert Scoble was so upset that his latest report, a tedious video from Intel's Oregon fab, got so few links. The former Microsoft geek, now reinvented as a video blogger and one of Forbes Magazine's top web celebrities …
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10layers.com:
2010: Apple larger than Microsoft? — We are not talking about an Arthur C. Clark space odyssey, but could it be that Apple has a shot at outgrowing Microsoft within the next 5 years? — Both Microsoft and Apple have seen healthy revenue growth in the last 5 years.
Molly Graham / Official Google Blog:
New sunrise layer on Google Earth — Posted by Clint Stinchcomb, EVP & GM, HDTV & New Media, Discovery Networks U.S. — Many of us aren't lucky enough to experience one of nature's most glorious sights—the beauty of the sunrise—every day, let alone on demand. That is, until today.
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New York Times:
Levi's Turns to Suing Its Rivals — United States Patent and Trademark No. 1,139,254 is not much to look at: a pentagon surrounding a childlike drawing of a seagull in flight. — But the design for a Levi's pocket, first used 133 years ago, has become the biggest legal battleground in American fashion.
USA Today:
Verizon rejected Apple iPhone deal — NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple's rich financial terms and other demands. — Among other things …
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