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Reuters:
Microsoft CEO sees $7.5B for R&D in 2007 — Steve Ballmer says No. 1 software maker, under pressure to stay competitive, will boost next year's research and development budget by $1.3 billion. — MADRID (Reuters) — Microsoft Corp will spend around $7.5 billion on research and development …
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Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Microsoft and Yahoo Prepare to Battle Google — Google's momentum was echoed publicly by both Microsoft and Yahoo today. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, stated that Google is making it difficult for them to recruit top talent. Also, in a move to likely earmark more dollars towards acquisitions …
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules — THE Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube. — The European Commission proposal would require websites …
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Yahoo! Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Terry S. Semel - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer — Susan L. Decker - Chief Financial Officer; Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration — Daniel L. Rosensweig - Chief Operating Officer — Analysts
Robert Tait / Guardian:
Iran bans fast internet to cut west's influence — Iran's Islamic government has opened a new front in its drive to stifle domestic political dissent and combat the influence of western culture - by banning high-speed internet links. — In a blow to the country's estimated 5 million internet users …
Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
Universal sues video-sharing websites — Universal Music, the world's largest record company, has launched the established media industry's first legal action against user-generated internet sites in the wake of its distribution deal last week with YouTube, the most popular video-sharing website.
Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Teams With QUALCOMM and Lucent Technologies to Extend Industry-Leading Push-To-Talk Services with QUALCOMM'S QChat Solution — Technology to Enable High Performance Push-to-Talk (Walkie-Talkie) Calls On AND Between All Sprint Networks, Beginning in 2008
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
PayPerPost tests your ethics, & Edelman's fake blog for Wal-Mart — PayPerPost is a Florida start-up that lets bloggers get paid for writing about products and other companies. — It has just got $3 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture firm Draper Fisher Jurveston and others.
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Xbox HD DVD drive to connect to PCs via USB — While we've got our eye on that new Xbox HD DVD drive that's about to drop next month, one thing we didn't know is that it'll be able to connect to your regular ol' PC via USB — so that basically means you can get a sweet external HD DVD drive for $200.
Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony to recall own batteries — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Tuesday it may change its full-year earnings forecast because of costly recalls of its batteries and a price cut for its PlayStation 3 video game console. — Sony also said it would recall 90,000 …
Dave Johnson:
Flex Ajax Dashboard — We have just made a quick Flex/Ajax dashboard to show how Flex and Ajax can work together to make a very compelling user-interface for something like a corporate information dashboard. You can check it out the demo here and an article about the demo here.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google: Security Mishaps and User Trust — Google is pushing full steam ahead with their office strategy, and their hope is to convince a lot of individuals and businesses to trust Google enough to store their documents on Google's servers instead of their own computers, or servers under their control.
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Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
T@lkster: A New Voice 2.0 Company — The preferred attack point for cellular VoIP plays today seems to be disintermediating mobile long distance from the handset. For the last few weeks I've been playing with and alpha release of T@lkster, a new Voice 2.0 offering which does exactly that.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Toy Quest intros Rip Roar Video Free PMP / PVR for kids — Joining the seemingly endless amount of toys that adults wish they had as children is a kid-friendly portable media player / PVR designed to keep 10-year olds satisfied while their teenage peers sport iPods.
Think Secret:
Briefly: Apple to back HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? — Apple joined the Blu-ray Disc Association in March 2005 but has kept largely mum on its support and adoption of the next-generation disc technology. At the time, Apple's decision to put its weight behind Blu-ray was seen as a coup for Blu-ray …
Aaron Rutkoff / Wall Street Journal:
Back to the Drawing Board — Using Mouse-Made Sketches, — Retrievr Searches Flickr Photos — Text-powered search is so fundamental to life online that alternatives seem like far-flung fantasy. — Programmer Christian Langreiter, a 27-year-old Austrian, was hired by a European software company to make one alternative real.
Curtis / You NEWB:
Blue Dragon bundles sell out in Japan — True this is only the case from apparently this one store, but Microsoft is probably loving to hear about this. This Japanese blog is reporting that Japanese retailer Edigi sold out of all of the Blue Dragon Xbox 360 bundles they had, within five minutes.
Jane Wardell / Associated Press:
Music Companies Sue 8,000 More in Anti-Sharing Fight — The international record industry filed thousands more lawsuits around the world Tuesday against people it accuses of illegally sharing digital music. — The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry filed 8,000 cases in 17 countries …
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