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Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide — Built from the ground up, the new Windows Live Hotmail is now safer, more powerful and available virtually anywhere. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live™ Hotmail®, the successor to MSN® Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Windows Live Hotmail Debuts — Hotmail, perhaps the first major success of Web 1.0, has evolved. — Microsoft has announced the launch of Windows Live Hotmail globally in 36 languages, complete with AJAX goodness. — The new service has been built to be a vast improvement …
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Windows Live Hotmail launches; "Windows Live Mail" to succeed Outlook Express and Windows Mail — Microsoft just announced that Windows Live Hotmail is launching globally in 36 languages, double the number of languages offered by its predecessor MSN Hotmail. You can read the press release here.
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Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order:
Switching Back — I have been using Mac OSX as my primary OS for almost a year now, but last night I switched back. What spurred it is that my Mac OSX partition crashed and it wouldn't boot back into the OS - I used rescue tools and drive scanners but it appears that the partition just dissapeared.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Comcast goes with Zimbra for new collaboration suite — Comcast plans to launch SmartZone, a major replacement for its current and uninspired consumer email service. At the core of SmartZone is a new version of Zimbra's open source, brower-based collaborative suite that includes email, instant messaging and voice mail access.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen. Advertisers Don't. — Superman has the power to leap tall buildings. But leaping onto a cellphone screen is proving a little trickier. — Warner Brothers recently created a six-episode series of short videos for mobile devices based on the popular Superman television show, "Smallville."
Ouriel Ohayon / MYBLOG by Ouriel:
LGiLab invests in OutBrain and Timeless Cities — Today we are announcing two new investments with the Internet Lab of LightSpeed and Gemini. Number 3 and Number 4. — The news just broke on TheMarker by Raphael Fogel (website and newspaper). — Unfortunately there are some imprecisions i will try to highlight here.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
America: The Growing Digital Divide — A new study (pdf) published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that there is a growing digital divide across America. — John B. Horrigan's analysis of America's use of Web 2. and information and communications technology …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Silverlight Poll Results: Majority Impressed, But Not a Flash Killer Yet — Last week's Read/WriteWeb poll asked what you thought of Silverlight, Microsoft's newly improved rich internet app plug-in that was launched to (unusually) rave blog reviews at MIX on Monday.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Fear of Google — Yesterday, during his speech at the Forbes shindig I attended, Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer's funniest remark was when he told us that the "Fear of Google" was so prevelent that it even had a three-letter acronymn: FOG. — Anyway, I've been hearing more and more about FOG …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Sphere focuses search on time and connections — You may have noticed we have a Sphere link for every ZDNet blog post, which brings up a widget (below) that offers up related blogs posts and other articles. It's part of our ongoing effort to surface relevant related content from both inside ZDNet and from across the Web.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Obscure mobile company Mig33 grows quickly, raises $10M — Unheard of mobile service company Mig33 is showing explosive growth — by offering a simple way to text, IM and make cheap voice calls. — The company has gained four million subscribers in less than eighteen months …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Do standalone boxes have a chance? — Akimbo, the San Mateo, Calif.-based start-up, was one of the first to develop a new Internet video on demand box, betting that is content package service will benefit from the integrated hardware+service experience. — The company is throwing in the towel …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Tech Investors Cull Start-Ups for Pentagon — The nation's military, in its search for the next surveillance system, bioterror vaccine or robot warrior, has decided to take a peek into the garage. — Through a program that recently emerged from an experimental phase …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Attack of the Advertising Widgets — Widgets are being turned into advertising delivery systems. Their nature - rich media applicatons that are easy to build, customize and add to a site - also make them an attractive way to add advertising to small sites.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
NBC lines up against YouTube in copyright case — NBC Universal and Viacom have come out against YouTube in a legal case that could help to determine whether the video-sharing site is culpable for copyright violations committed by users. — On Friday, NBC Universal and Viacom filed a request …
