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Brad Stone / New York Times:
MySpace, Chasing YouTube, Upgrades Its Offerings — Two years ago, millions of MySpace users began adding video clips to their profile pages, helping to give rise to YouTube, which Google bought last October for $1.65 billion. — This week, MySpace, a division of the News Corporation …
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MySpace TV, and the Salary Story — In today's paper I wrote about MySpace TV, the social network's challenge to YouTube, a company it inadvertently helped emerge from the nursery when MySpace members began posting YouTube videos to their profile pages. After the jump is a first look …
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Microsoft:
Windows Live Moves Into Next Phase with Renewed Focus on Software + Services — Q&A: Chris Jones, corporate vice president, Windows Live Experience Program Management, discusses how a new Windows Live product suite planned for release in the coming months will help customers more easily and safely communicate and share online.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Next-gen Windows Live services to provide software plus a service
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N'Gai Croal / Level Up:
EXCLUSIVE: What is WiiWare? Level Up Gets the Scoop On Nintendo's Brand New Bag — Patience is a virtue, a wise man once said, and nowhere is this more true than the circumstances surrounding the story we're about to bring you right now. A month or so before the March Game Developers Conference …
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Nintendo:
NINTENDO'S WIIWARE PAVES THE WAY FOR FRESH GAMES, COOL CONSUMER EXPERIENCES — Nintendo Sets a New Paradigm: One Game Can Still Make a Difference — The search for the next ingeniously ground-breaking video game has begun. At a private developers conference this week …
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:Nintendo's WiiWare to sell new, downloadable games
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Valleywag:
Critical Consensus: The iPhone scorecard — The iPhone scorecard — The first four hands-on reviews of Apple's new wonderphone came out yesterday. The critical consensus? Buy the amazing device, if you can afford it. We gave scores out of ten — in ten categories.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
When You've Got To Go, Go To Mizpee.com — MizPee is a new service focused on delivering pertinent information regarding the location of nearby restrooms. — Using MizPee is as simple as surfing to mizpee.com via a mobile device browser. Users simply enter their location and MizPee delivers …
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BBC Press Office:
BBC iPlayer to launch on 27 July — The BBC's on-demand TV service, BBC iPlayer, is to launch on 27 July, it was announced today by Ashley Highfield, Director of Future Media & Technology. — "BBC iPlayer is a free catch-up service for UK licence fee payers," said Highfield.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Controversial BBC iPlayer launching this fall; open beta on July 27
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dslreports.com:
T-Mobile Launches UMA Service - Save your minutes by using Wi-Fi.... T-Mobile Launches UMA Service — Save your minutes by using Wi-Fi.... Posted 2007-06-27 09:32:11 by Karl — As had been leaked, T-Mobile today nationally launched their Hotspot@Home UMA service …
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Robert Mullins / PC World:
IBM, HP Share Bragging Rights on Supercomputer List — IBM Corp. still operates the fastest supercomputer in the industry, but rival Hewlett-Packard Co. has more of them in operation, according to a closely-watched global survey released Wednesday. — HP has passed IBM in the number …
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Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld:Top500 supercomputers: HP wins on share, IBM on performance
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Kennethn / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
An entirely new way to stay organized — Posted by: Ron Schneider, Technical Lead, Google Docs & Spreadsheets — Today we introduced some exciting changes to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. — Here's what's new: — Looking pretty - The entire document list has been given a complete visual overhaul …
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Evan Ratliff / Wired News:
Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World — In 1765, a 22-year-old British naval officer named James Rennell set out to map the entire Indian subcontinent. Traveling with a small party of soldiers, he used the advanced technologies of the day: a compass and a distance-measuring wheel called a perambulator.
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Jeremy Kirk / Computerworld:
Windows Server 2008 makes hosting debut at Microsoft.com — June 27, 2007 (IDG News Service) — About 2,600 Web sites are already running Microsoft Corp.'s forthcoming Windows Server 2008, a small but increasing number that indicates rising interest in the operating system, according to new statistics from Netcraft Ltd.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's iPhone dock includes Bluetooth headset charger — but is it free? — See that dock? Yeah, it's the first official confirmation of a rumored Bluetooth Headset port which allows the dock to simultaneously charge both your iPhone and Apple headset. It was just posted to Apple's new iPhone Q&A page.
Chippy / UMPCPortal feed.:
Raon Digital Everun. Exclusive preview video. — I feel very privileged to be able to air this introduction video of the Raon Digital Everun that will be on sale next month. Thanks to Raon Digital and a meeting schedule that took them through my neck of the woods I was able to meet up with them …
Tim Ferguson / ZDNet:
Vodafone to be iPhone operator in Europe? — Vodafone is among the frontrunners to become the network operator for Apple's iPhone when it comes to Europe, according to investment bank Credit Suisse. — A recent Credit Suisse research note said the U.K.-based mobile operator could walk away …
Eric Lempel / PlayStation.Blog:
Firmware 1.82 Coming Soon... Hey everyone, you told us you wanted to hear about updates a few days in advance, so here's a quick heads up that we have a PS3 firmware update in the works. Scheduled for release in the next few days, firmware 1.82 is an update that enables the playback of AVC High Profile (H.264/MPEG-4) files.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
ISP as copyright cop: Aussie ISP kills all user multimedia files nightly — Envision a world where your ISP does the copyright policing at the behest of the movie studios, television networks, and music labels, where no copyrighted content stays up on a user's account for more than 24 hours.
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