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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students) — Starting in 59 minutes, 35 seconds, Microsoft will begin offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for students for the amazing price of just sixty dollars. This special offer for students only represents a $620 discount off the retail price of $680, a 91% savings.
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Student Promotion Provides Steal of a Deal for Office Ultimate 2007 — Q&A: Alan Yates, Microsoft general manager of Worldwide Education, highlights how Microsoft is providing college students with easier access to tools for academic success. — Microsoft today announced The Ultimate Steal …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Sun to ship Microsoft Windows Server on its hardware — Longtime rivals and occasional collaborators Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Sun will ship 64-bit servers with Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 operating system. — Within 90 days, Sun will offer Windows Server 2003 …
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Journalism.org:
THE LATEST NEWS HEADLINES—YOUR VOTE COUNTS — If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people? — If a new crop of user-news sites …
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Nick / Rough Type:
The people formerly known as informed — So what happens when "the people formally known as the audience," as the citizen journalism hypesters like to say, take charge of the dissemination of news? A study released today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism provides a hint, and it's not exactly encouraging.
Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Microsoft sneaks 1GB of memory into new laptop mouse — Microsoft has a handful of new laptop mice the company wants you to know about this morning. And while Microsoft isn't usually the first brand name that springs to mind when you think of computer hardware (software's another story) …
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Peter Ha / CrunchGear:MS Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 Has Something Under The Hood
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
New York Times Launches Facebook App — The New York Times takes a step into the social networking realm today by launching a Facebook application called the New York Times News Quiz. The simple application presents users with a daily (Monday-Friday) 5 question, multiple choice quiz …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hulu Makes First Acquisition; Chinese Video Startup To Form Backbone Of New Service — We haven't heard much about Bejing-based startup Mojiti before this week. They popped up in the TechCrunch Forums in January and are notable because the founder, Eric Feng, was previously at Microsoft Research Asia.
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Are Technology Limits In MP3s and iPods Ruining Pop Music? — If it seems like you are listening to music more but enjoying it less, some people in the recording industry say they know why. They blame that iPod that you can't live without, along with all the compressed MP3 music files you've loaded on it.
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Overview of Windows Vista desktop search Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 — View products that this article applies to. … Beta Information — This article discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product. The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft details search changes coming in Vista Service Pack 1
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google secures GoogleDrive.com and updates name servers — Google already owns GDrive.com, but it's unlikely that will be the final name of the service. Like Gmail is technically "Google Mail", the real name for GDrive will likely be "Google Drive". So that got me wondering about the domain "GoogleDrive.com".
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Yahoo's Open Invitation — Like counterparts at Facebook, CEO Jerry Yang plans to give developers more leeway in building tools designed to keep users on its pages longer — Last year it was the so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto, a sharply worded internal memo from a Yahoo! (YHOO) …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
First free, open, GUI iPhone unlock software tested: it works! — HaRRo over on the iPhone Dev Team has already upped the ante — just hours after the release of the first free, open source iPhone SIM unlock software, he's already got an early beta version of the graphical one-click iPhone-based software cooking.
journalist.org:
2007 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists — Finalists for the 8th annual Online Journalism Awards, honoring excellence in digital journalism, have been announced by the Online News Association and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. — A total of 70 finalists ranging …
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
IBM finds a way to translate spoken words to sign language via virtual characters — In the realm of cool stuff, IBM has developed a way to take spoken words and immediately translate them into sign language that can be expressed by an animated character in a virtual world or game.
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The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Juno? Yes! — Remember the HTC Juno? It is most certainly going to T-Mobile USA. While Juno is the codename, we haven't got word of the official launch name yet. It's a Windows Mobile based device and has a "consumer friendly interface, most likely HTC's TouchFlo," says our source.
Navneet Kaushal / WebProNews:
Google Promoting Mobile Ads! — For quite some time, Google is showing interest on mobile ads. And now the search giant is all set to formally promote mobile to its advertiser base and SEM firms. For the time being, any AdWords campaigns that conform to Google's mobile ad requirements and limits …
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