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VIDEO: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel — A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference. — The complete Steve Jobs and Bill Gates interview videos: — Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Prologue
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Todd Watson, Wall Street Journal, Publishing 2.0, Connecting the Dots, D: Notebook, Tech~Surf~Blog, Gizmodo, www.rahulsood.com, Apple 2.0, The Tech Report, The Apple Core, Marketing Nirvana, Epicenter, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, CinemaTech, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, jkOnTheRun and TechSpot News
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs … The great Silicon Valley soap opera has come full circle. Not since Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously interviewed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as a possible suitor during the "Macintosh Dating Game" back in 1984 have the two men appeared in a joint bill.
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Epicenter, D: Notebook, New York Times, Good Morning Silicon Valley, CyberNet Technology News, Gizmodo, Macworld, The Huffington Post …, O'Reilly Radar, Valleywag, Engadget, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, TechSpot News, Microsoft News Tracker, MacDailyNews, Paul Kedrosky's …, Guardian Unlimited, Ubergizmo, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Between the Lines and i-boy
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With success, a kinder, gentler Steve Jobs — Success, they say, mellows out even the fiercest of tyrants, making their dictates seem almost benevolent. Steve Jobs, the enfant terrible of yesteryears, whose unrelenting quest for perfection has driven many to Ole Tennessee or an asylum …
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Steve and Bill reminisce at D: All Things Digital
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D: Notebook
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Online and offline worlds merge — Google has launched a tool designed to make it easier for computer users to use online applications offline. — One of the key limitations of web services such as e-mail, word processing and calendars, is that they require a net connection to function.
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Bombshell from RealNetworks: Rip/Save/Burn "All" Online Video Fomats with New Player...Clips from YouTube and Yahoo Are Easily Downloaded — Just a few minutes ago at the "D" conference in Carlsbad, California, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser made a bombshell announcement about a new product from RealNetworks.
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NEWS: Real Networks Takes YouTube (and other Flash) videos offline — Real Networks new Real Player now will take YouTube videos offline. Here's an interview I did with Real's Vice President, Jeff Chasen where he gave me a demo of the new player (coming soon, I'll let you know where it's up).
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TiVo's Q1 Call: Series3 Lite, Comcast Rollout, Down Under — As I've mentioned before, I'm not a financial guy — it just doesn't interest me and early on I decided not to buy or sell TiVo stock given the leaks and embargoed info that comes my way. Forbes seems to think TiVo posted a …
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Seeking Alpha, Reuters, Associated Press, PVRblog, Gadget Lab, Engadget HD and paidContent.org
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TiVo prepping a "mass appeal" HD DVR priced below Series 3 — Everyone knows that true DVR nirvana requires support for sweet, sweet HD video. Yet while the cost of HDTVs has dropped sharply in the last 5 years, the cost of getting an HD TiVo up and running has not.
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EMI Music, Google and YouTube strike milestone partnership — Fans to have on-demand access to videos from EMI Music's roster of artists on YouTube — EMI Music - one of the world's leading global music companies, Google and YouTube, the leader in online video - today announced …
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TechCrunch, Between the Lines, VentureBeat, Reuters, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Search Engine Land
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YouTube, EMI sign breakthrough licensing pact — update Google struck a deal with EMI Group on Thursday that will allow it to show the record label's collection of music videos and artist performances on YouTube. — In addition, EMI said it will work with YouTube parent company Google …
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Highly flexible Fedora 7 Linux arrives — On May 31, Red Hat's sponsored and community supported open source Fedora Project released the latest version of its distribution: Fedora 7. Besides being a cutting edge Linux distribution, it features a new build capability that enables users to create their own custom distributions.
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Multiverse Wins $4 Million in Funding — Multiverse, the open virtual-world building platform complete with universal browser being developed by some early Netscape employees, has just won $4.175 million in funding, according to a press release I've just been emailed.
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Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt — Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.
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Antiphonal, Compiler, Mashable!, community.livejournal.com, femmequixotic.livejournal.com, Boing Boing and digg
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Nokia outs midrange 6500 in slider and candybar flavors — It may not be the biggest news today out of Espoo, but Nokia has brought out a pair of very capable midrange handsets — so capable, in fact, that we're kinda surprised Nokia is voluntarily using the term "midrange" to describe them.
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D5: YouTubers and Viacom CEO weigh in on copyrights — Before coming on stage at the D conference, a cute video about the making of YouTube was shown, where co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are talking about coming up with a business idea while they are eating huge burritos, and how they wish their friends could watch them eat.
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Microsoft Data Centers - getting bigger and better — I sit down with Michael Manos the senior director of Data Center Services here at Microsoft. Microsoft is building some massive facilities in various places around the world. It houses everything from Live to Hotmail. Can you imagine a building 1.3 miles big?
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'Spam King' suspect seized — Feds say arrest may lead to sharp drop in illegal e-mail — The Seattle man is accused of illegally clogging the planet's inboxes with billions of illegal e-mails using hijacked computer networks. — You've probably heard from him, federal authorities say.