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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
No one is lining up for Windows Vista in San Francisco — Earlier tonight I attended a Windows Vista launch event in San Francisco and was surprised to find not a single person in line to buy the software less than an hour before launch. CompUSA stayed open late to provide hands-on demonstrations …
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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.
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 …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
A Lively Market, Legal and Not, for Software Bugs — Microsoft says its new operating system, Windows Vista, is the most secure in the company's history. Now the bounty hunters will test just how secure it is. — When its predecessor, Windows XP, was released five years ago …
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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.
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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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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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Zink presenting at DEMO 2007 — Zink, the Zero Ink printer company, is coming out of stealth mode and presenting at DEMO 2007 today. The Boston Globe , San Jose Merc, and Cnet have stories on Zink today. Zink is a spin-out from Polaroid's research labs, and is headed by Wendy Caswell …
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Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Ask a Ninja Makes $300K Plus Ad Share — Update: John Battelle, chairman of Federated Media, emailed to deny that any payments have been made to Ask a Ninja. Our sources maintain that a portion of the ad revenue guaranteed by Federated Media is to be 'floated' up front to the Ask a Ninja team …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Adds Local Reviews In Search Results — The Google Blog also announced that now when you conduct searches at Google.com for local specific information, you may get local reviews and business comparisons. For example a search on pizza 10010 returns three results, all with five stars, from pizza restaurants in NYC.
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MacNN:
Apple pays $700,000 for bloggers' legal fees — Bloggers and online journalists have completed their final victory lap in a protracted fight against Apple. Earlier this month, a Santa Clara County Court ordered Apple to pay the legal fees associated with the defense of subpoenas issued …
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The Blog Herald, The Apple Core, O'Grady's PowerPage, Scobleizer, Cult of Mac, Texas Startup Blog, MacUser and digg
Google:
Google Mini™ Integrated Solution Now Offers Secure Search for Businesses of All Sizes — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) - Google today announced that the Google Minii now offers sophisticated search features for finding and sharing information within small businesses and departmental groups …
The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Announcing the Network2 "How to Watch Internet TV" Contest: — I'm announcing our first internet video contest where I'm giving away a total of US$ 40,000 and where the Grand prize is US$ 25,000. Submit an episode of your Internet TV show or a videoblog entry dealing with "How to Watch Internet TV …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Devicescape connects your device to WiFi hotspots — Devicescape releases a software today that connects any of your WiFi devices automatically to a WiFi hotspot or muni network. — This is significant, because more cellphones are being equipped with WiFi, as the cost of WiFI chips hit bottom rates of $2.
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.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Tribune Co. partners with video start-up for user content — Tribune Co., a card-carrying member of the old-media establishment, has turned to video-sharing start-up vMix to add a "user-generated" presence to its 50 newspaper sites. — One-year-old vMix will supply the technology …
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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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.
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.
