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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Strong Quarter at Microsoft, and an Upbeat '08 Outlook, Bring Wall St. a Sigh of Relief — Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profits that surpassed Wall Street's expectations yesterday, suggesting that early sales of its new Windows Vista operating system were off to a solid start.
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Derek van Vliet / Neothoughts:
Firefox Extension: Smart Digg Button — The Smart Digg Button extension for Firefox places a button in your status bar. It uses the newly released Digg API to determine if the web page you are currently viewing has been submitted to Digg. — If the page you are viewing has been submitted to Digg …
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Startup Meme, Pronet Advertising, Lifehacker, Laughing Squid, www.josschuurmans.com and digg
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Negroponte suggests the OLPC can support Windows, may hit US schools — Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about the OLPC, Negroponte, and the Sugar interface, in comes the man himself using the "W" word in an open-sourced conversation.
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Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:'$100 laptop' to cost $175 — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. …
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Download Squad, Open Source, Compiler, dailywireless.org, Hardware 2.0, Gadgetell and GigaOM
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Microsoft's OLPC coup and unintended consequences
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Nat Torkington / O'Reilly Radar:
Six Basic Truths of Free APIs — Amazon and Google have recently shattered a common misconception: that free APIs are a commons of goodies to be built on top of for fun and profit, like open source software. If you think that, then here are six things you need to know about free APIs:
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Vincent Maher
Serdar Yegulalp / InformationWeek:
Ubuntu Linux Vs. Windows Vista: The Battle For Your Desktop — Is Linux finally ready to take on Windows as a desktop OS? We tried out both Vista and Ubuntu on individual PCs to see which works better. Here's who won. — The prevailing wisdom about Linux on the desktop runs something like this …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon.com — Your next eBay purchase could arrive at your door in a brown Amazon.com box. — Amazon.com, the online retailer, is expanding a program designed to allow independent sellers to use its network of distribution centers to store and ship their products …
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Download Squad, Techdirt, Mashable!, Soaring on Ridgelift, TechFold and Lorcan Dempsey's weblog
Bloomberg:
GE Shares Rally on Citigroup's Push for Unit Spinoffs (Update7) — General Electric Co. shares staged their biggest rally in more than four months after Citigroup Inc. analysts said the company should spin off NBC Universal, GE Money and the real-estate division.
P2P Blog:
Foxtorrent: First review of Akamai's new Firefox Bittorrent extension — It's been only a couple of weeks since word got out about a new Firefox Bittorrent extension called Foxtorrent. Yesterday Red Swoosh released the Fox into the wild, announcing both Mac and Linux support and version 1.0 on the same day.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Akamai Releases FoxTorrent 1.0 - Firefox BitTorrent Add-on
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Social Media Club, FoxTorrent Blog, James Governor's Monkchips, Lost Remote, Zatz Not Funny!, P2P Blog and digg
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
At Mix, Microsoft's Windows Live platform group loosens up — Microsoft next week at its Mix07 conference plans to detail more generous business terms for partners to use its Live online services and to open up new application programming interfaces for Windows Live Spaces.
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InfoWorld Tech Watch, Mashable!, LiveSide, Vecosys, The Paradigm Shift and Microsoft News Tracker
Seeking Alpha:
Microsoft F3Q07 (Qtr End 3/31/07) Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Analysts — Kirk Materne - Banc of America Securities — Presentation — Operator — Welcome to the Microsoft 2007 fiscal year third quarter earnings conference call.
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PC World: Techlog, mocoNews.net, Search Engine Watch Blog, Search Engine Land and WMExperts
Kevin Newcomb / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Is Zunch Communications' Bankruptcy a Sign of Things to Come? — Zunch Communications has declared bankruptcy, but Zunch Worldwide lives on. The new entity bought the assets and took on some of the debts of SEM firm Zunch Communications in October 2006, and that company finally filed for bankruptcy last week.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
EconSM Conference: Social Media Sans Search — Yesterday's Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference in LA, the first event from the team at PaidContent, was an impressive debut, both in terms of attendance and the range and "quality" of speakers on the stage.
Kotaku:
Blizzard Working on "Next-Gen MMO" — 360 Launches in the Middle East — While we were busy yesterday following the Kutaragi news, over in the United Arab Emirates they were celebrating the launch of a brand new video game console for the region, the Microsoft Xbox 360.
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
Second Life Build Tools Support More Formats — Without an announcement on its official blog, Linden Lab, makers of the virtual world of Second Life, seems to have introduced a new capability for its in-world building tools that will allow them to better support established formats …
Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
A tale of two Web 2.0 conferences and mashups — I've just come off a whirlwind conference tour that started in San Francisco last week with Web 2.0 Expo and ended with the Web 2.0 Kongress yesterday in Frankfurt. I was fortunate enough to be able to speak at both conferences and it was fascinating …
David / Ironic Sans:
Idea: Uncensor the Internet with Greasemonkey — There's an article on-line from Money Magazine called "50 Bulls**t Jobs." That's right. Bulls**t. With those two asterisks in there. Come on. We know what word they mean. So why not just say it? If they think we're adult enough …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
ScratchYourself: Viral Sweepstakes That Brands Could Love — A new service called ScratchYourself came to our attention today. It's a fairly simple Flash application that lets users upload an image and build a lottery-style scratch card from it. During the beta period people have a chance …
Don MacAskill / SmugBlog:
The Perfect DB Storage Array — I've long known that YouTube had a secret weapon in their datacenter by the codename 'Colin', but yesterday at the MySQL Conference, I met three more secret weapons - codename 'Paul' and his team (sorry, guys, I've forgotten your names!). — Paul and his team are incredible.
