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San Francisco Chronicle:
Getting in the game at Microsoft — Robbie Bach's job is to make software giant's entertainment division profitable — For all the challenges Microsoft Corp. faces as it moves into the future, the Redmond, Wash., software giant remains a formidable money machine.
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Kostas Tzounopoulos / Zune-Online.com:
Bach: More than 1 Million Zune players sold — According to Robbie Bach, Microsoft's president of the Entertainment and Devices Division, Zune will meet the goal of 1.000.000 players sold by the end of June, set at launch. He also confirms that new Zune things will come in this fall, talks …
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Facebook's platform - or "what I did for my summer vacation" — I'm about to take my family to Europe for the summer. We'll start off in Amsterdam at 'the Next Web' conference and eventually end up in Trieste, using it as a base for European activity this summer. I'll even jump over to India for Gaurav's wedding.
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Josh / Redeye VC:
Myspace - the next Prodigy? — Over the last year, there's been a tremendous amount of focus on the "Widget economy". Newsweek has even dubbed 2007 as the "Year of the Widget." While the concept of a "widget" might seem trivial to many outside of Silicon Valley, the ability to automatically embed …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
E-Commerce Report: Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One — THINK you have a good handle on the Internet economy? Try this one. — What Internet business has raised $120 million in financing in the last year, owns 725,000 Web sites, and has as its chief executive …
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Jon Newton / p2pnet:
p2pnet talks to AllofMP3.com — p2pnet.net news special:- An incredible, and inordinate, amount of mainstream media time is devoted to spreading the wild fiction that copyright infringement of corporate movies and music is threatening world economies. — AllofMP3.com is a small Russian company …
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Dj Flush / Sizlopedia.Com:
Top 20 Temporary and Disposable Email Services — Temporary Mailbox Services — Now a days Internet has become a home to spam. Millions of spam bots crawl the web daily to find email addresses and then bombard them with spam emails thus destroying their efficiency and creating problems for users.
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Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Desktop Tower of Money: 3 tips to profit from casual games — So here's a couple ways to a create successful game online: a), Find an investor who's crazy enough to give you millions of dollars, or b), Put it on a distribution network and hope you get enough customers willing to buy it as a download.
PC World:
Computer Glitch Tangles Japanese Flights — Hundreds of All Nippon Airways flights were cancelled or delayed Sunday because of computer error. — Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as a result of a glitch in the computer system of All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
In Africa, Money not necessary for mobile banking — Necessity, they say is the mother of invention. It couldn't be more true in case of Africa, where pre-paid airtime is fast becoming the 'virtual' currency for Pan-African trade, overcoming conventional currency exchange and lack of banking infrastructure.
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Steven Chang / GeekNUZ:
Apple iPhone In The Wild! — Update: First of all, thanks to everyone for commenting about this story. I didn't think it would be so upsetting to some people that my camera took some bad pictures, or that I didn't make a scene and go back to ask the the Apple guy to pose with the iPhone for me in the middle of his dinner.
Emre Sokullu / Read/WriteWeb:
2007 Semantic Technology Conference - Showcased Big Internet Potential — The Semantic Conference was held last week in San Jose. I went along to check it out. In the keynotes, Oracle's Robert Shimp noted that the attendance has never been so great and remarked that this as a clear proof …
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
NSF picks ARPANET creator to build new experimental network — The National Science Foundation has tapped BBN Technologies to build and manage the GENI project, intended as a proving ground for next-generation network technologies. For BBN, this is a bit of a return to its roots …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity — Germany has just passed a new law that adds more "anti-hacker" provisions to the German criminal code. Although the new rules are meant to apply narrowly to hacking, critics are already complaining that they may prevent necessary security and network research.
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