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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
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Virtual Earth - Now in 3D and With Billboards — Microsoft is unveiling its integration of detailed 3D imagery into its Virtual Earth this afternoon (see Live.com). US users with Vista-ready Windows computers and IE 6 or 7 will be able to navigate through an aerial view …
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Monkey Bites
Microsoft:
Xbox 360 Teams With CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting, UFC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to Digitally Deliver TV Shows and Movies to Gamers — Xbox 360 will become first gaming console to offer downloads of over 1,000 hours of TV shows such as "CSI," …
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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.
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Microsoft Moves Into Video Download Fray — Owners of Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console will soon be able to watch science fiction epics as well as play them. — Microsoft said tonight that it would offer movies and episodes of television shows for download through its Xbox Live online service …
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Time:
YOUTUBE — Meet Peter. Peter is a 79-year-old English retiree. Back in WW II he served as a radar technician. He is now an international star. — One year ago, this would not have been possible, but the world has changed. In the past 12 months, thousands of ordinary people have become famous.
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Silicon Valley Watcher
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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 …
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michael parekh on IT, HipMojo.com, The Blogging Times, VoIP Blog and Online Marketing Blog
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Barnett Takes 2nd Turn vs. Google — NEW YORK Jim Barnett knows the perils of competing with Google. He saw firsthand how the company's mastery of search vanquished early leaders like AltaVista (where he was CEO) and Excite. — Now, he's striving to take on Google in the online advertising realm …
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Adobe:
Unifies Modern Scripting Across Firefox and Flash and Advances Innovation on the Web — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and the Mozilla Foundation, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today announced that Adobe has contributed source code …
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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Darren Murph / Engadget:TiVo raises rates, limits WPA to own WiFi adaptor
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Zatz Not Funny
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 …
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 …
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 …
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).
Real-Time Clock / Real-Time Society:
The Proposal to Control Net Access — Senator Eduardo Azeredo (PSDB-MG) is the responsible for a bill that will end with Internet privacy and anonymity altogether. This bill, if passed into law, will require every ISP to store each connection performed by a user for at least 3 years.
