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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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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
First the Wait for Microsoft Vista; Now the Marketing Barrage — Microsoft's power in the technology industry, some analysts insist, is waning. It faces a host of rivals from a reinvigorated Apple on the desktop to Web-based challengers like Google, delivering services and software online.
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Live at the Windows Vista launch event — Alright, so we're reporting to you live from the big Windows Vista launch; you might not stand in the freezing cold for Vista, but we did for the big launch event here in NYC. It's bones-cold, but we're hoping they're gonna let us all in shortly …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Zoho Notebook Sneak Peak — Zoho continues to rock along, releasing new products every few weeks (see Zoho Wiki for example) that have turned their Ajax office suite into the best on the web, bar none. See here for all of our previous Zoho coverage.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Zoho Announces Notebook - "Not Just Online OneNote" — Disclosure: Zoho is a sponsor of R/WW. — At DEMO today Zoho, the Web Office suite company, will announce an interesting new preview product called Zoho Notebook. I was given a run-through of the product by Raju Vegesna.
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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 …
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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 …
Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:
Seagate introduces "Dave," portable wireless storage device — You must have JavaScript and Flash 8 enabled to view this content. See http://www.adobe.com/products/ flashplayer to download Flash. — Post to your WordPress.com blog » — Here, my sponsor, Seagate, releases a new product …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Getting printers down to iPod size — Zink wants to take the printer off your desk and put it in your pocket. The question now is whether you want it there. — The Waltham, Mass.-based start-up has created—with help from Polaroid—a way to print photographs or documents without ink or an ink cartridge.
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Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Ask a Ninja Makes $300K Plus Ad Share — Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, the dynamic duo behind the web's most deadly source of advice, Ask a Ninja, have struck gold with a Federated Media payday, which includes a $300,000 upfront payment along with 60 percent of ad revenue, according to our sources.
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Find and compare local businesses — Many people come to Google.com to navigate the web, but are you aware that you can use it to navigate the real world as well? Over the past few months, we've been hard at work making it easier to find and compare local businesses and services right from the standard web results page.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google Adds Local Reviews In Search Results
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Screenwerk
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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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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Karen Freifeld / Bloomberg:
Priceline, Travelocity, Cingular Settle Adware Probe (Update6) — Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Priceline.com Inc., Travelocity.com Inc. and Cingular Wireless LLC agreed to pay a total of $100,000 to end a probe by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of secretly installed ``adware'' to promote products and services.
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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.
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Lost Remote
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.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
How Will Microsoft Respond To Online Office Threat — Written by Jay Fortner and edited by Richard MacManus — With the consumer release today of Microsoft Office 2007, it's a good time to look at the online office space - and what, if anything, Microsoft will do to address this growing market.
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The Last Podcast
Cameron Olthuis / Pronet Advertising:
Serph's Up — Last spring we started developing Serph, a tool that helps you find what other people are saying on the web right now. For a couple of months now we have slowly been inviting a handful of people into our closed beta for testing and feedback.
tomtom.com:
Isolated number of TomTom GO 910's may be infected with a virus — Isolated number of TomTom GO 910's may be infected with a virus — It has come to our attention that a small, isolated number of TomTom GO 910's, produced in one week in the last quarter of 2006, may be infected with a virus.
