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Microsoft Help and Support:
The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer … SYMPTOMS — Consider the following scenario. You have an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer through a USB connection.
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Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:Final iPod update is available via Download Center
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Wall Street Journal:
EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio — EBay Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire StumbleUpon Inc., an Internet company that helps people discover Web pages that match their interests, according to people familiar with the matter. — The potential price for a deal is in the range of $75 million, these people say.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Analytics Launches New Version With New UI & Features — Google Analytics today has released a new version of their web analytics tool. I spoke with Brett Crosby, Senior Manager of Google Analytics about the release, which he explained was a completely "new platform" to enable …
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Google Analytics Blog:New Version of Google Analytics!
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age — Online radio station Last.fm is adding a video section to its site this week, enabling users to create their own personalised video channels - similar to how users can already create radio stations based on their music tastes.
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John Cook / John Cook's Venture Blog:
Mpire and the year of the widget — Looking to capitalize on its shopping analytics, Seattle's Mpire today is rolling out about 80 new e-commerce "widgets." — The free "widgets" — small online applications or tools that easily plug in to Web sites — will allow bloggers and online publishers …
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Gamerscore Blog:
Windows Live Messenger Comes to Xbox LIVE, Uniting Friends and Families on the TV, PC and Mobile Phone — Starting tomorrow more than 6 million members of Xbox LIVE can instant message with people on PCs and mobile phones, one of the hundreds of enhancements coming with the Xbox 360 Spring Update
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Engadget, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Kotaku, Joystiq and Xbox Live's Major Nelson
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
RateItAll Launches Read/Write Widget — RateItAll, a social network based around online reviews and opinions, has released a new distributed rating widget. It enables users to not only view (read) a widget, but to interact with it and enter data (write). The initial application …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Screen Shot of Truemors: Guy Kawasaki's Rumor Service — We mentioned Guy Kawasaki's newest venture, Truemors, last week along with some early comments we got from the private beta testers ("rumor reporting bulletin board with twitter-like capabilities"). — We've now gotten …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple To Reveal Secret Leopard Features in June — "Feature-complete." That's the key phrase in the e-mail memo sent to Mac developers yesterday and posted on MacRumors. It's a signal to programmers that any major surprises contained in the latest version of Apple's (AAPL) …
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Donald Bell / CNET News.com:
First 1 trillion-pixel image — Medical imaging specialists Aperio have broken the 4GB file size limit on the TIFF image format by creating their own format called BigTIFF and offering the format into the public domain (an amazing fact in its own right). To showcase the power …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
The High Price of Getting Paid for Content — For YouTube's top video creators, being compensated for the Web traffic and ad impressions they generate isn't all it's cracked up to be — When Christine Gambito first uploaded a video to YouTube, she had more in mind than sharing her creative side with strangers.
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Peter Rojas / Engadget Mobile:
Palm Treo 755p hands-on — Let's be real: the new Treo 755p is more or less what the 700p should have been. There's not exactly anything wrong with it, just that it's been a year since the 700p came out and all the improvements to the 755p are rather minor.
BBC:
Touch-and-pay cards get go ahead — UK consumers will soon be able to settle bills of less than £10 with a touch of their credit and debit cards. — The system, which is being led by Visa and Mastercard, will be running from September, said payment group Apacs.
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Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
Microsoft Flies A Blimp Into Second Life — Mysterious news on the Millions of Us blog this evening: it seems there's now a Microsoft island in the virtual world of Second Life. At least, that's what the »teleport link« in the blog entry implies.
Sol Invictus / Hellgate Guru News:
Elite Subscriptions - $9.95 a month and other details! — The latest issue of Games for Windows Magazine has revealed the elite subscription pricing behind Hellgate: London, which will be free to play online should you opt out of subscribing for additional features.
