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Ryan Blitstein / origin.mercurynews.com:
Microsoft CEO meets with Stanford students — Microsoft, according to Stanford business school Dean Robert Joss, has reached a plateau. In January, it released new versions of its Windows Vista computer operating system and Office productivity software, and faces threats …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft tells MVPs "we're in it to win" — Really? — Look at my last post. Now read this one over on LiveSide. It's a short report that Microsoft executives are bragging to MVPs that "we're in it to win." — I don't think Microsoft is. The words are empty. Microsoft's Internet execution sucks (on whole).
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
How to run Vista legally without activation ... for at least a year — Microsoft calls it a 'hack,' researcher, a 'documented feature' — Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end run around one of Microsoft Corp.'s key antipiracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today.
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Brian Livingston / WindowsSecrets.com:
Microsoft allows bypass of Vista activation — Microsoft always says it opposes "software pirates" who sell thousands of unauthorized copies of Windows. — But the Redmond company has made things a lot easier for pirates by adding a line to the Registry that can be changed from to 1 …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Europe exec confirms Google Phone — The head of Google in Spain and Portugal has confirmed that Google is working on a mobile phone. "Some of the time the engineers are dedicated to developing a mobile phone," Isabel Aguilera is quoted as saying on the Spanish news Web site Noticias.com.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google should buy Intuit — Google has begun to nibble at the business market, introducing its $50-per-employee-per-month package of personal productivity applications, Google Apps, and buying up some little companies like JotSpot, a purveyor of corporate wikis.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
QuickBooks Enterprise: The forgotten mid-market ERP player — What happens when the mom and pop businesses grow up to become mid-market companies? Conventional wisdom dictates that they graduate to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application like Microsoft Dynamics GP, Sage MAS90 or an on-demand service from NetSuite.
Andrew Lavallee / Wall Street Journal:
Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration — New Real-Time Messaging Services Overwhelm — Some Users With Mundane Updates From Friends — Though she already has a blog, a podcast and a character in the virtual world of Second Life, Kera Richard has recently become obsessed with a new online tool for connecting with friends.
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Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Get a more complete picture about how other sites link to you — For quite a while, you've been able to see a list of the most common words used in anchor text to your site. This information is useful, because it helps you know what others think your site is about.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Now Reporting Anchor Text Phrases
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Switchtoamac / Switch To A Mac:
Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 - a May 2007 release? — As a followup to yesterday's post about the Mac OS X 10.4.9 update, we indicated that we would put forth our prediction of when Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard would likely be released by Apple. This post provides a prediction — Key Facts and Items
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Flickr China Coming — It may be renowned for censoring all kinds of content on the Internet, but the Chinese market is too huge for Yahoo to ignore. That's why Yahoo is planning to launch a version of the popular photo sharing site Flickr in China this year.
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Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Summize: Enhancing Search With Heatmaps — We wrote about Abdur Chowdhury in our recent coverage of the Open Data 2007 Workshop. Until recently he was running AOL Search, but left to start a new venture. Abdur is an impressive thinker and articulate speaker, with a great track record in the industry.
Johnporcaro / Gamerscore Blog:
Castlevania: Symphony of Night on Xbox Live Arcade — Next Wednesday, you can play Castlevania: Symphony of Night on Xbox Live Arcade for Xbox 360 (Wednesday, March 21 at 0900 GMT, 2 a.m. PDT). — In "Castlevania: Symphony of Night," the 12th iteration of the series, you take on the role of Alucard …
ZDNet:
EMERGING TECH TOOLKIT — Microsoft: OneCare should not have been rolled out — Microsoft has said that its OneCare security suite has "a problem" with the underlying antivirus code, and admitted that security is just "a little part of Microsoft". — Speaking to ZDNet UK exclusively …
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
Commodore launches new range of gaming PCs — Complete with customisable cases — Commodore Gaming has unveiled a new range of PCs specially designed for gamers at the CeBIT technology show in Germany. — There are four models to choose from - the entry level Cg, the Cgs, Cgx and …
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Gizmodo:
And On The First Day of CeBit, Philips Said, 'Let There Be AmbiLight Everywhere' — You might think that taking the AmbiLight idea and applying it to speakers is a bit whack. Well, you're wrong. Imagine having 16 million colors illuminating your computer corner, desk or batcave, responding to the sound and vision in your home.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Socializr, for planning events online — Socializr, a new San Francisco-based company that wants to help you plan events online, opens to the public today. — It is owned by Jonathan Abrams, the founder of the early social networking site, Friendster. When Friendster emerged four years ago …
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