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Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:
Microsoft says Office unfazed by Google threat — SEATTLE (Reuters) - One of the two new heads of Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Office software team downplayed the threat from Google Inc.'s (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) Web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications, saying they are unlikely to appeal to corporate customers.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Microsoft vs Google Heats Up — I know, a predictable (almost tabloid-y) blog headline. But in this case, there really is some interesting back and forth going on between Microsoft and Google currently - especially with regards to office software. — Firstly Google CEO Eric Schmidt wrote …
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Nick / Rough Type:
Eric Schmidt's tough talk — Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been coy in discussing his company's ambition to create an online alternative to Microsoft Office. Just a few days ago, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Schmidt "played the semantic game" in discussing office suites, reported Dan Farber.
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Between the Lines, Digital Micro-Markets, Economist, Mickeleh's Take, Smalltalk Tidbits … and digg
Jensenh / Jensen Harris:
Licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface — For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?" — On one hand, it's an immensely satisfying question to hear, because it means …
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Microsoft to Share Significant UI Investment in 2007 Microsoft Office Applications with Partner Community — In the upcoming release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system, the most popular productivity applications have received a user interface makeover, and Microsoft is making elements …
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
CBS says YouTube is helping ratings — It's been a month since CBS began its partnership with YouTube, and the network has uploaded 300 videos. Since that time, the clips have racked up a total of 29.2 million views for an average of 857,000 views a day. Many of the clips are from CBS' Late Show …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The difference between TechCrunch and Valleywag — Dave Winer defends Nick Denton and Valleywag today. — Me? I see it a bit differently. I don't see that Valleywag has noticeably changed its stripes. Yeah, so far they haven't followed anyone into a bathroom and that is an improvement over the old Valleywag — if it holds.
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Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Video Marketplace now live — A couple of weeks ago we announced that you would be able to download complete HD and SD versions of your favorite movies and TV shows from the Xbox Live Markeplace. That day is now here...moments ago we flipped the switch and the service is now available for all U.S. Xbox Live members.
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Sam Sethi / TechCrunch UK & Ireland:
Million dollar MacBook!? — Last night was the Internet People event with Robert Loch. I turned up with Paul Walsh from Segala where earlier we had debated about what is Web 3.0? Basically we concluded that it's the Semantic Web with technologies like RDF, Microformats …
Auren Hoffman / VentureBeat:
Why big high tech companies are losing the talent war — [Disclosure: Auren works at Rapleaf, a startup, and is thus biased towards startups.] — Big companies are losing their "A" players and they're struggling to attract "B" players. In an industry where everything is about people …
Vanderwal / Personal InfoCloud:
Following Friends Across Walled Gardens — Phil Gyford makes his plea for a single social network sign-on or as it was stated last week by Jeremy Keith on Twitter, "portable social network with XFN". — The single sign-on is an often heard request these days.
Hitwise US:
Recipe Sites Embrace User Generated Content, Video, RSS — Every year at Hitwise we see huge Thanksgiving- and Christmas-related spikes in visits to the Food & Beverage - Lifestyle & Reference category as dinner hosts plan their holiday gatherings. In 2005, visits to the category increased …
Bob Garfield / Wired News:
You Tube vs. Boob Tube … LOOK, before you even get to the second paragraph, try this: Go to YouTube.com. In the search field, type in "boom goes the dynamite." A video thumbnail will pop up. Click on it and watch. (Or view the video below.) — It's just a little outtake from a Ball State University campus TV newscast.
J Mark Lytle / Digital World Tokyo:
Citibank Singapore debuts biometric fingerprint payment system — Citibank Singapore is offering a new way for credit-card holders to make payments — using their fingerprints instead of credit cards. — Citibank this month began rolling out biometric payment systems in Singapore …
David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:
The Truth About Digital Cameras — As loyal Pogue's Posts readers are no doubt aware, I've spent the last seven weeks in TV land, filming a first batch of six episodes of my new Discovery-network series, "It's All Geek to Me." It was an exhilarating, exhausting, enlightening journey.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Is Mesh a Problem for MuniFi? — The CEO of Israeli WiFi software equipment company InspiAir, Tamir Galili, says the inherent limitations of WiFi mesh technology are behind some of the slow MuniFi rollouts in U.S. cities — a lot of the test pilots that these cities are doing are failing, and mesh is just not suitable, he says.
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Chris Kohler / Game|Life:
Genji's Game-Killing Bug — So PlayStation 3 reviewers got an email this afternoon with helpful tips for Genji, straight from the development team. That's a real interesting coincidence, because I was playing Genji when I got that email and I was coming up with some tips of my own for the development team.
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