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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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Microsoft Unveils Silverlight to Power the Next Generation of Media Experiences on the Web — Leading media companies and solution providers announce support for new solution for video and interactivity on Mac- and Windows-based Web browsers. — Today at the 2007 National Association …
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft, Adobe Set A Collision Course on Web — Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Inc. are on a collision course as they seek to dominate a new kind of software that will change how personal computers and the Web work together. — The companies have been partners in the past …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Adobe to take Flash videos to desktop — Not content with having a dominant position in Web video, Adobe Systems on Monday is expected to launch Adobe Media Player for playing Flash videos offline. — At the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas next week …
Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:"WPF/E" becomes Silverlight, struts its video side
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:Microsoft Unveils New Browser-Based Video Platform at NAB …
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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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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Rivals Start Weighing on Google-DoubleClick Deal; Want Close Regulatory Scrutiny — A flurry of activity over the weekend after Friday's announcement about Google's intention to buy DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash. Competitors like Yahoo, Time Warner and Microsoft, all of whom did bid for DCLK …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
DodgeBall founder quits Google — Dennis Crowley, founder of DodgeBall, a hipster SMS-social networking service that Google bought back in May 2005 has quit Google, reports Young Manhattanite. Alex Rainert, employee #2 for DodgeBall has also left the company. They both resigned on April 13th, 2007.
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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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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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Clear Channel Radio and Google Will Jointly Drive Radio Advertiser Expansion — Agreement Makes Guaranteed Inventory Available to Google Advertisers On More Than 675 Clear Channel Radio Stations — SAN ANTONIO AND MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 16, 2007 — Clear Channel Radio and Google Inc. …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Intel's MID UMPCs: So long XP/Vista, hello Linux — Big news on the UMPC front this morning folks. Looks like Intel is shedding the Origami gorilla (read: Microsoft) as they prep a Linux-based platform to compete with Vista and XP-based UMPCs. Intel will unveil their new MID …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Digg, the echo chamber and Matthew — Paul Kedrosky points to a fascinating study that was written about in the New York Times magazine this weekend (it figures that the one time I put aside the mag without reading it, it will have a fascinating story in it), which looked at the theory of "cumulative advantage."
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Duncan J. Watts / New York Times:Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?
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Mashable!, Virtual Economics, MediaVidea, Publishing 2.0, The Webpreneur, Paul Kedrosky's … and UMBC eBiquity
Nokia:
Highly desirable handset dressed in 18-carat gold plating — Espoo, Finland - Inspired by nature, and one of its most beautiful elements, gold, Nokia today unveiled the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Gold - a bold and prestigious new style statement. Encased in a luxurious 18-carat gold plating …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
New Form of Impulse: Shopping via Text Message — IMPULSE shoppers, watch out. Your cellphone might soon get you into trouble. — A company called ShopText has introduced a system that lets people buy products instantly using text messages, a process that eliminates the need to go to a store or even visit a Web site.
Vivek / StartupSquad.com:
Coghead launches; Undercuts Salesforce pricing by 23% — Coghead, which was part of my 8 startups to watch-out for in 2007, is finally going live with it's DIY web-based application development platform. Coghead had been under private beta since last year and is now available for customers to register for free single-user accounts.
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