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Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Microsoft Aims to Outshine Adobe's Flash — In a bid to capitalize on the burgeoning online video market, the tech titan is launching Silverlight, its new video-player software — The explosion of Web video has opened a new front in the battle between Adobe Systems (ADBE) and Microsoft …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Adobe Showcases Media Player (with DRM) — Adobe will unveil Monday its business plan for a desktop Flash media player still in development. The product, due for beta release "this spring," will be a free platform monetized through licensing DRM and analytics tools.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Microsoft Unveils New Browser-Based Video Platform at NAB in Las Vegas — Major League Baseball, Netflix and Brightcove will use Silverlight — We've been reporting on developments with Microsoft's new online video platform which had been called Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E).
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Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:Flash Player 9 has 84.3% penetration as of March
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Urges Review of Google-DoubleClick Deal — Microsoft, a veteran defendant of epic antitrust battles in the United States and Europe, is urging regulators to consider scuttling Google's plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company. — Microsoft contends that the $3.1 billion deal …
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Google's DoubleClick bid draws complaints — Google's planned $3.1bn acquisition of DoubleClick ran into a storm of complaints on Sunday. Some of the companies biggest rivals claims the deal would create an advertising behemoth with the power to dictate terms to online publishers and service providers.
Duncan J. Watts / New York Times:
Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? — As anyone who follows the business of culture is aware, the profits of cultural industries depend disproportionately on the occasional outsize success — a blockbuster movie, a best-selling book or a superstar artist — to offset the many investments that fail dismally.
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Krucoff / Young Manhattanite:
YM Exclusive: Dodgeball Founders Leave Google — Getting Out of Dodge. Dennis Crowley, founder of the mobile social networking service Dodgeball, and Alex Rainert resigned from their positions at Google, which acquired the service in May 2005, effective Friday April 13th.
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Tims / Tim Sneath:
INTRODUCING MICROSOFT SILVERLIGHT — It is with tremendous pleasure that I can reveal Microsoft Silverlight: our next-generation, cross-platform, cross-browser web client runtime. Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web.
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Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
HOW WELL DOES OPEN SOURCE CURRENTLY MEET THE NEEDS OF SHAREHOLDERS AND CEO'S? — ["Science Project": part of the Microsoft Blue Monster Series. Backstory from Steve and Kris etc.] — This cartoon was an attempt by me to sum up the answer to a very simple question: If Open Source software is free …
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Gallery: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A410 — Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard build 9A410 to third-party developers late last week arrived on the heals of the company's announcement that Leopard's release would be delayed until October. — In two days of testing the build …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fotowoosh Will Turn Any Picture Into 3D Image — Fotowoosh Will Turn Any Picture Into A 3D Image — Fotowoosh, a new service from Maryland-based startup Freewebs, will turn any image (preferably an outdoor image) into a 3D model. They went live on Friday.
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Jay Palmer / Barron's Online:
High-Wired Act — YOU HAVE TO GET UP PRETTY EARLY in the morning to stay on top of the Internet. The number of active Websites has exploded fivefold since 2001, to about 50 million, led by the likes of MySpace and YouTube. That's to say nothing of the 75 million blogs …
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New York Times:
Google Reaches Deal With Clear Channel to Sell Radio Ads — Google will begin selling advertisements across all of the stations of Clear Channel Communications, the No. 1 radio station owner in the United States, at the end of June, the companies will announce today.
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Iain Thomson / iTNews Australia:
US military puts router in space — A — A — A — The US military is to trial putting internet routers into orbit in an experiment that could have important implications for civilian applications. — The internet routing in space (IRIS) project will be run over three years in conjunction with Cisco and Intelsat.
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Surprises @ Web 2.0 Expo — Surprise #1: It's early Sunday morning, and there's a huge crowd! Wow! ExpoCal only showed a few dozen names for the Sunday sessions, so I figured this was just for the crazy-enthusiasts, the real crowd hits tomorrow. It's great to see so many participants.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube Obeys Fake Takedown Request From 15 Year Old — Hello, Digg users. You can subscribe to the RSS feed here. Also check out the Digg-related article, Is Digg the Result of Cumulative Advantage? — Want a video removed from YouTube? Send along a fake takedown notice pretending to be from the copyright holder.
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