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Microsoft:
Microsoft Launches Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 to Consumers Worldwide — Flagship products available at over 39,000 retail locations and online around the world. — On Jan. 30 the most significant product launch in Microsoft Corp.'s history culminates in the release to consumers …
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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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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 …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Fox in talks to buy online ad company — Fox Interactive Media, after a period of relative quiet, is getting acquisitive again. The company is said to be in talks to acquire Strategic Data Corp., a company based in Santa Monica, California, that helps online publishers optimize their online advertising yields.
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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MacNN:
Apple pays $700,000 for bloggers' legal fees — Bloggers and online journalists have completed their final victory lap in a protracted fight against Apple. Earlier this month, a Santa Clara County Court ordered Apple to pay the legal fees associated with the defense of subpoenas issued …
AlwaysOn Feed:
Watch AO Media Live! — Click the image to the right to launch to live Webcast. — Viewers can join in the discussion by asking questions and sharing comments and see them beamed up on the big screen at our event. — No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction between its editors …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Whisher tackles FON — launches its own WiFi nation — Honestly, we never got FON, the company that sells a WiFi router so that you can share your WiFi with others. — FON claims 50,000 nodes, and that it is the "largest WiFi network in the world," so it appears to be having some traction.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Correct Me If I'm Wrong...: "Pilotless Drone" — Almost every day, The Chronicle hears from readers (and some non-readers). Most of these comments — voicemail, email and letters — don't make it into our letters column. But they can be unusually passionate, irate, confounding and creative.
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 …
Matt Asay / Open Sources:
Customer referrals that Microsoft licenses can't buy: Union Bank goes with Red Hat — I can't point to much that I'd call "positive" to come from the Microsoft/Novell pact. It makes no sense on a range of different levels. But one thing positive has come from it, and I hope it's not an isolated incident:
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BBC:
Mobile internet use 'increasing' — Mobile phone users in the UK accessed the internet via their handsets about 15.9 million times throughout December 2006, says the Mobile Data Association. — The association's report shows an increase of one million unique sessions over November 2006, the prior record.
Tom Lowry / Business Week:
HD Radio Still Taking the Rap — High-definition broadcasting faces big rivals—iPod, satellite, broadband—for the nation's ears, but radio executives hope folks tune in this year — The rap against the broadcast radio business has been that it was a laggard when it came to technology.
Robert MacMillan / Reuters:
Newspapers lose ground in Web-savvy schools: study — NEW YORK (Reuters) - More U.S. teachers are using national and international online news sites in the classroom, leaving behind newspapers that fail to grasp the Internet's importance in trying to reach students, a study found.
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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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Search Engine Journal
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.
