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Matt Mondok / One Microsoft Way:
Skinkers, Microsoft announce live, streaming content venture — Sometimes it seems like Microsoft just can't be happy with improving its current software lineup. Instead, the company feels the need to reinvent, or flat-out buy, what someone else has already done.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft LiveStation: Slingbox Without the Box — The video above shows a demo of a new product called Livestation, a peer-to-peer live television broadcasting application build on the Microsoft Silverlight platform. This is a Microsoft Research initiative, built in partnership with a London company called Skinkers.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
LiveStation and Silverlight deliver Live TV to your PC — LiveStation built on Silverlight brings Live TV to your PC. LiveStation is a project, currently in controlled beta, that uses technology from Microsoft and Skinkers, a UK based company. LiveStation currently rebroadcasts the BBC live …
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Quim Gil / maemo.org:
Feature upgrade release to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition — Nokia has just announced an update to the Internet Tablet OS 2007 edition, feature upgrade release is now available for download. The update (version number 4.2007.26-8) includes Skype client support, Adobe® Flash® 9 browser plug-in …
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Reuters:
INTERVIEW-Sony has no plans to cut PS3 price — TOKYO, July 6 (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) has no plans to cut the price of its PlayStation3 (PS3) at present to pep up demand and counter surging sales of Nintendo's (7974.OS: Quote, Profile, Research) rival game console Wii, Sony's president said on Friday.
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GameDaily:Report: PS3 $499 on July 12
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Katie Hafner / New York Times:
IPhone Futures Prove to Be a Bad Investment — David Flashner thought he had it wired: buy two iPhones last Friday when they first went on sale, keep one and sell the other at a profit so big it would pay for most of the first one. — Mr. Flashner wasted no time.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple Restocks: iPhones Available in 72 of 164 Stores — Apple (AAPL) seems to have absorbed the lesson that Nintendo learned the hard way with the Wii: short supplies of a popular product are good for whetting consumer appetite, but you don't want to run so short that you leave money on the table.
comScore:
Facebook Sees Flood Of New Traffic From Teenagers And Adults Open Registration at Facebook.com Spurs 89 Percent Visitor Growth versus Last Year — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the visitation to Facebook.com …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Statement About GPLv3 — A Microsoft statement about GPLv3. — Microsoft is not a party to the GPLv3 license and none of its actions are to be misinterpreted as accepting status as a contracting party of GPLv3 or assuming any legal obligations under such license.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Faster iPhone faster! Kill!! Kill!! — My challenge here is to write the one zillionth iPhone story (and MY third) without repeating too much what has been written before or failing to include at least a couple new items which — trust me — you'll find below.
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Robert McMillan / Techworld.com:
eBay for hackers launched — A Swiss security firm called WabiSabiLabi has opened a web marketplace for zero-day security vulnerabilities. — The site will sell details on unpatched software flaws. The site is currently offering details on four bugs in products such as the Linux kernel and Yahoo Messenger.
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
eBay Takes on Craigslist — Will the online auctioneer's Kijiji.com be able to lure advertisers away from the popular local classified-ad site? — Online commerce giant eBay knew Craigslist had the right idea when it purchased a 25% stake in the online classified ad site three years ago.
CBC News:
Microsoft to start up Vancouver software development centre this fall — TORONTO (CP) - Microsoft Corp. plans to set up house in the Vancouver area this fall with a new software development centre that would attract talent without encountering U.S. immigration issues.
Mitchell Bingemann / Computerworld:
Music starts to fade on Russian download site AllofMP3.com — Users of the shutdown AllofMP3.com site can still download music if they have existing credit with the online music store — Although the controversial online music store AllofMP3.com was officially shutdown by the Russian Government …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
A Word of Caution About Google Calendar — I've been playing around with Google Calendar, a beta service from the search-engine giant that lets users store — and share — calendar data online. It's a great Web-based tool, but in experimenting with it I found that far too many people …
