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virtualearth.spaces.live.com:
Spaceland is Live! — The next major release of Virtual Earth is out the door and flowing to our production app server cluster. It should be live as you read this, but if you try it out and it appears to be the previous version wait a minute or 2 and refresh your browser to load the latest.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Adds 3-D City Models to Live Search — Microsoft Virtual Earth platform powers Live Search and provides a more immersive mapping experience for consumers, enterprises and developers. — Microsoft Corp. today announced U.S. availability of Virtual Earth™ 3D …
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LiveSide, dailywireless.org, MSTechToday, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and Microsoft News Tracker
CNET News.com:
Microsoft mapping goes 3D — Microsoft on Monday unveiled a new, downloadable browser application that brings the photorealism and maneuverability of gaming into its online mapping and local search service. — In Virtual Earth 3D, which is part of Microsoft's Live Search, users can "fly" …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:Microsoft Virtual Earth - Now in 3D and With Billboards
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Monkey Bites
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Microsoft's Xbox Live Video: HDTV and HD movie downloads for your 360 — This may sound a bit familiar to those paying close attention, but on November 22nd — the year anniversary for the Xbox 360 — Microsoft is announcing something fairly momentus, not for the gaming community, but for the CE industry.
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Microsoft:
2007 Microsoft Office System Is Golden — 2007 Office system released to manufacturers; the company looks ahead to worldwide business availability. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the completion of the 2007 Microsoft® Office system code and confirmed its release to manufacturing (RTM).
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MSDN Blogs, Microsoft Monitor, The Tech Report, Pocket PC Thoughts, Full of I.T. and Microsoft News Tracker
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Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Wikipedia used to spread malicious code — A Wikipedia page has been used by hackers in an attempt to spread malicious code. — The entry for the MSBlast worm in the German version of the popular online encyclopedia was altered to include false information about a new version of the Lovesan/MSBlast worm …
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tivo.com:
TiVo Package Payment Plans (Includes TiVo DVR and Service): Monthly or Prepay — Unless otherwise stated, TiVo Package Payment Plans include an 80-Hour TiVo® Series2™ DVR, included as part of the price of the package, and a subscription to the TiVo Service for one combined fee (a "TiVo Package").
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Zatz Not Funny, PVRblog, PVR Wire, TechEffect, CrunchGear, Geek News Central and Paul Colligan's …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:TiVo raises rates, limits WPA to own WiFi adaptor
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Zatz Not Funny
Muhammad Saleem / The Blog Herald:
The Digg Economy: Socialist Bookmarking — Here's what the University of Chicago free-market economist in me has to say: Laissez-Faire Kevin Rose. Let it be. … It appears that Digg has changed their stance towards their 'economy'. — The Digg economy is the reward system for the users …
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Rick Broida / Lifehacker:
8 killer Windows Media Center plug-ins — Just as extensions make Firefox better, so do plug-ins add extra goodness to the Windows XP Media Center Edition operating system (MCE). — For the uninitiated, MCE provides DVR and other multimedia features wrapped in an attractive 10-foot interface.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube is Time's Invention of the Year — Everyone has been surprised with YouTube's near-exponential growth since its launch in February 2005. Now Time Magazine is recognizing that success, naming YouTube their "Invention of the Year". The phenomenon that gave birth to lonelygirl15 …
Lee Odden / Online Marketing Blog:
Interview with Adam Lasnik of Google — Spotlight on Search - Interview with Google's Adam Lasnik — One of the fun things about being involved with the search marketing industry is getting to meet really bright and interesting people. Whether they are long time SEO gurus …
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Jeremiah headed to Podtech! — This is a bittersweet post, it's also a bit awkward as I'm traveling on vacation right now through Asia. I'm currently in Hong Kong but have some important news to share... Deployed Social Media — Over the last year, I've been very thankful …
CNET News.com:
NTP slaps Palm with patent infringement suit — NTP, the company behind the epic patent infringement lawsuit against BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, is now going after Palm. — In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Virginia on Monday, NTP asserted that Palm's products, services …
Kenneth Li / Reuters Blogs:
CBS stages open call for tech entrepreneurs — Veteran dealmaker Quincy Smith has joined CBS Corp. as president of CBS Interactive. Reuters caught up with the 35-year-old executive, who returns to an operations role after spending the last few years negotiating deals at media …
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PaidContent, Mathew Ingram, IP Democracy, HipMojo.com, CNNMoney.com, BeyondVC and Beet.TV
Dave Sifry / The Technorati Weblog:
State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006 — Hey, it's that time of the year again! We're well into the crisp days of autumn and its time for the quarterly State of the Blogosphere report. — The State of the Blogosphere continues to be strong. — The last few months have prompted …
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Silicon Valley Watcher, IP Democracy, Deep Jive Interests, Bloggers Blog, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, A View from the Isle, Cymfony's Influence 2.0, LIVEdigitally, Joe Duck, The Blogging Times, Resonance Partnership Blog, Digital Inspiration, UMBC eBiquity, Sparkplug 9 >> bizhack, Geek News Central, Online Marketing Blog, Unit Structures, Blog Business Summit and Open (finds, minds …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fox Interactive Launches Desktop/Website Widget Platform — Fox Interactive Media will announce a new widget platform called SpringWidgets on Monday morning at the Widgets Live Conference in San Francisco. It is a unique offering in the increasingly complicated widget space …
