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Barryg / Announcements:
Update on the Windows Ultimate Extras — When we launched Windows Vista in January 2007, we identified Windows Ultimate Extras as a unique series of add-ons that would be available to Windows Vista Ultimate customers. To date, we have released four sets of Extras - Windows Hold'Em …
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Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Ultimate team provides an update on Extras — The Windows Ultimate Extras Team today posted a short notice on the Windows Vista Ultimate site updating the community on the status of Ultimate Extras; go here to read their post. To sum it up for you here, the team recognizes that they've …
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:Microsoft says more Vista Ultimate add-ons are in the pipeline
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Wesley Chan / Official Google Blog:
All aboard — We're pleased to announce that we have acquired GrandCentral Communications, a company that provides services for managing your voice communications. GrandCentral is an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Should Announce GrandCentral Acquisition Today or Tomorrow — A follow up to our post a week ago: A source close to the deal has confirmed to us that Google has closed the acquisition of GrandCentral and will be announcing it this week, probably today or tomorrow.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:Grand Central acquired by Google for $50 million?
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Yahoo!'s New ''SmartAds'' Meld Brand and Direct Response Advertising — Innovative, Patent-Pending Ad Delivery Platform Allows Marketers to Present Highly Targeted Online Display Ads in Real Time to Match a User's Distinctive, Expressed Interests — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jul 02, 2007 …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Online Customized Ads Move a Step Closer — Yahoo will announce new tools for online advertising today that could pull the company ahead in the race for what is called "behavioral targeting," that is, the ability to better tailor online advertisements to the people most likely to buy.
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Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Ellison's NetSuite Headed for IPO — Oracle's chief executive plans to take his accounting software company public in a September auction. Critics worry about his role — Make way for Larry Ellison's other company. NetSuite, begun in 1998 with a slice of the personal fortune of the Oracle …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Universal in Dispute With Apple Over iTunes — Steven P. Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple, is an emerging force in the mobile phone business, thanks to the snaking lines of gadget fans who queued up last week to buy the iPhone. But now he faces a headache in an industry Apple already dominates — digital music.
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Harrison Hoffman / Webware.com:UNIVERSAL MUSIC IS BATTLING WITH STEVE JOBS
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Reuters:
Local.com shares soar after mobile local search patent win — BANGALORE, July 2 (Reuters) - Shares of Local.com (LOCM.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose 52 percent, after the Web search services provider said it received a patent for mobile local search. — The Irvine, California-based company …
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CNNMoney.com:
iPhone sales said to hit half-million — New Apple device lives up to the hype, though some buyers have activation woes; availability mixed at Apple Stores heading into new week. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Opening weekend sales of iPhones may have reached 500,000, according to an analyst's estimate …
Tony Halpin / Times of London:
Russia shuts down Allofmp3.com — The music download website whose activities threatened to scupper Russia's entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been shut down. — The site, Allofmp3.com, was quietly closed as the Kremlin sought to end criticism from the United States …
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Are my online friends for real? — As Facebook continues its explosive growth here's one question troubling me. Are my friends for real? — This week I received this intriguing message from a man who moves in London's new media circles. — He wrote: "I met somebody the other day who told …
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Taking the iPhone Apart — An analysis from teardown firm Portelligent estimates that the new smartphone costs Apple a mere $220 to make — As the creator of the iPhone, the most highly anticipated piece of consumer-electronics equipment in a decade or more, Apple (AAPL) certainly has much riding on the device's success.
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
A Player of Video Games and Politics — Michael D. Gallagher does not make video games. He doesn't review them. He doesn't sell them. But recently he became one of the most important people in the video-game industry and, by extension, a powerful shaper of the digital entertainment consumed …
