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Beth Snyder Bulik / AdAge:
Microsoft Pumps $500 Million Into Vista Marketing Campaign — Seeks Global 'Wow' Reaction to New OS Features — YORK, Pa. (AdAge.com) — "There won't be a PC sold anywhere in the world that doesn't have Vista within six months," said Endpoint Technology Associates analyst Roger Kay …
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Dave Girard / Ars Technica:
Adobe announces pricing, availability for Lightroom — Well, it's official: after an initial public beta test that seems to have gone pretty smoothly, Adobe's first major RAW-oriented photography workflow app is set to hit the shelves on February 19. The Windows and Universal Mac versions …
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Adobe sets mid-February ship date for Lightroom — After getting downloaded more than 1 million times as a beta, Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom is ready for prime time. Adobe announced that version 1.0 of its photography workflow application will ship on February 19; it's available for pre-order now.
Valleywag:
ROBERT SCOBLE: Shilling for Intel — Shilling for Intel — No wonder Robert Scoble was so upset that his latest report, a tedious video from Intel's Oregon fab, got so few links. The former Microsoft geek, now reinvented as a video blogger and one of Forbes Magazine's top web celebrities …
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Alex Ionescu / Alex Ionescu's Blog:
Update on Driver Signing Bypass — I apologize for the lack of news, but after attending CUSEC, I had to spend my time on catching up the two weeks of school and work that I had missed, and exploiting Vista ended up going on the backburner, especially as I had to re-install VMWare 6.0 …
10layers.com:
2010: Apple larger than Microsoft? — We are not talking about an Arthur C. Clark space odyssey, but could it be that Apple has a shot at outgrowing Microsoft within the next 5 years? — Both Microsoft and Apple have seen healthy revenue growth in the last 5 years.
Molly Graham / Official Google Blog:
New sunrise layer on Google Earth — Posted by Clint Stinchcomb, EVP & GM, HDTV & New Media, Discovery Networks U.S. — Many of us aren't lucky enough to experience one of nature's most glorious sights—the beauty of the sunrise—every day, let alone on demand. That is, until today.
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USA Today:
Verizon rejected Apple iPhone deal — NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone carrier, passed on the chance to be the exclusive distributor of the iPhone almost two years ago, balking at Apple's rich financial terms and other demands. — Among other things …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
News Corp. Shuns Fox Interactive Group in ROO Deal — News Corp. Shuns Fox Interactive in ROO Deal — The Wall Street Journal reported (behind paywall) this morning that News Corp would announce a $12 million investment in online video startup ROO. However, unlike other investments …
Anildash / Movable Type News:
Movable Type Enterprise and Microsoft Office 2007: Blogs for Business — Today, Microsoft is making some of their biggest announcements ever — if you're even remotely interested in technology news, you're going to hear about the launch of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007.
Josh Goldman / CrunchGear:
Six Good Reasons Not To Upgrade To Vista — I use computers running on Mac OS X and Windows XP. I fully intend on upgrading to Leopard when it launches, however, I'm staying away from Vista for the time being. I was planning on going into a full-on diatribe of why, but Computerworld/PC World managed …
New York Times:
Levi's Turns to Suing Its Rivals — United States Patent and Trademark No. 1,139,254 is not much to look at: a pentagon surrounding a childlike drawing of a seagull in flight. — But the design for a Levi's pocket, first used 133 years ago, has become the biggest legal battleground in American fashion.
Tom Hume:
To bluespam or not to bluespam, that is the question — Am I in a rotten mood tonight? I seem to have inadvertently bookmarked a few news stories that get me spitting on the inside... I've seen some quite frankly ridiculous numbers being quoted by providers of Bluetooth marketing recently.
Google Blogoscoped:
Mathias, Wikipedia Admin — Mathias Schindler is a 25 year old university student in Frankfurt, Main, Germany. He was among the people who started the Wikimedia Germany association, where he's currently board member. Wikipedia is often confronted with accusations of all kind …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Patents for dynamic Web pages to get another look — U.S. patent examiners are poised to take another look at two controversial patents that critics say may sweep up the dynamic Web page systems commonly used by search features, online merchants and millions of other sites.
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
More Free WiFi: Fon Gets Competition From Whisher — Tomorrow a new startup from Spain called Whisher will launch that is adding a new twist to the concept of a WiFi sharing community. Like Fon, another Spanish startup backed by Google and Skype that is up and running with 50,000 shared WiFi hotspots around …
Seeking Alpha:
Verizon Q4 2006 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Ron Lataille - Senior Vice President, Investor Relations — Doreen A. Toben - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President — Ivan G. Seidenberg - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer — Dennis F. Strigl - President, Chief Operating Officer
