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Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure at Professional Developers Conference — Company releases comprehensive Azure Services Platform for the cloud, offering unprecedented power of choice and open connections for developers. — Today, during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional …
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Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its “cloud OS” — Having spent billions constructing a data center network over the last couple of years, Microsoft this morning launched, in limited “preview” form, Windows Azure, its platform for cloud computing. The announcement was made by Microsoft's …
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Changes to Revision3's Programming Lineup — As any student of media knows, birthing new media can be a tremendously fun, engaging and rewarding endeavor, but it's also rarely a straight shot to success. — 15 years ago we were posting magazine articles to the web; fast forward to today …
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UPDATED: Revision3 Makes Layoffs, as Does Smashface — This story is developing. We'll get you more information soon. — Update: Revision3 has made layoffs, canceled some of its original shows, and discontinued its two new distribution agreements. The online video studio will no longer …
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Netflix finally brings ‘Watch Instantly’ to Macs via Silverlight — In a move that seemed like it would never, ever, ever happen, Netflix has finally managed to bring its streaming video technology (and decent library) to Macs everywhere, thanks to Microsoft's Flash-esque also-ran, Silverlight.
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Introducing Google Earth for iPhone — Even before we introduced Google Earth back in 2005, the team had long dreamed of being able to carry the Earth around in your pocket. Well, today that dream becomes a reality as we introduce Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch.
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Google Earth now available for iPhone
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Cable operator Cox to launch cellphone service — NEW YORK — Cox Communications (CCI) plans to rock the wireless phone business Monday by unveiling plans to launch cellphone service in the second half of 2009 that ultimately will make the No. 3 cable operator a rival of AT&T, (T) Sprint Nextel (S) and Verizon.
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Time to Leave the Laptop Behind — For more mobile workers, phones increasingly give them much of what they need — with a lot less hassle — It's time to think about leaving your laptop at home. — For years, mobile workers have been ditching their desktop computers for laptops that they can take wherever they go.
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Google Scrambles to Patch Buffer Overrun Exploit in Android G1 — Table of Contents: — Security expert Charlie Miller leverages a flaw within an SDK component of Google's open-source Android operating system. The buffer overrun flaw lets hackers hijack the Web browser …
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iPhone could hit $99, rule smartphones — Apple has the room to cut the price of the iPhone to where it could take command of the smartphone market, analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham Research says today in a research note. The financial expert estimates that the average …
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To Survive, Net Start-Ups Slow Their Metabolism — SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley has always been a land of big, bold dreams. In the first Internet boom its start-ups either grew fast or died trying, sometimes spectacularly. The casualties of the bust, like Pets.com and Webvan, became legendary.
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WORLD FIRST review of Inspiron Mini 12: Dell's super-slim netbook! … Let's set the scene. I'm in Shanghai attending a regional Dell event with selected media, analysts and partners. During a break between sessions I grab a much-need coffee in the ante room.
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LinkedIn Search: Finding that former colleague of yours just got easier — I'd like to announce today the launch of our new search platform, currently released to a small percentage of our LinkedIn users. In addition, a certain percentage of the remaining users can explore the new search experience …
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Finally Truphone for Blackberry Is Ready — Truphone, the service that allows you to make cheap long distance phone calls using VoIP technology on a mobile phone, is now available to users of BlackBerry devices as a beta offering. This product is called Truphone Anywhere for Blackberry.
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Twitter Goes Mainstream — A lot more people — and businesses — are finding new ways to tweet — One of the hottest technologies in Silicon Valley is also one of the simplest. — The online service from Web start-up Twitter Inc. prompts users to do one thing: answer the question, “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less.
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Apple to sweeten Snow Leopard with more Cocoa — According to developer build notes leaked on the web, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard's new Finder and “almost all” other graphical apps will be delivered using Cocoa. Here's why, and what benefit this additional use of Cocoa will provide to users.
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Online Video Streaming Going Mainstream — According To Recent Findings from Ipsos MediaCT's MOTION Study, Online Video Services Are Building a Mainstream Audience as the Number of Women and Older Adults Streaming Video Online Increases … New York, NY - Over the past six months …
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Microsoft About To Open Surface For Developers In Search For Killer App — At this week's Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft is set to make a slew of announcements about its product lines, and hopefully show a glimpse of some exciting new ones. One of the first gems to, um …
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Verizon's third quarter on target; iPhone dings wireless churn — Updated: Verizon's third quarter results were in line with Wall Street estimates courtesy of a solid performance in the telecom giant's wireless business. But wireless churn was up as the company did take a hit due to the popularity of the iPhone.
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Ubuntu goes more mobile with 8.10 release — Servers get better Java, RAID, and virtualization — The gradual and metered improvement with the Ubuntu variant of Linux created and supported by commercial Linux distributor Canonical takes another step forward this week with the release of …