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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Adobe Raises The Stakes For Web Documents With Buzzword and Share — The list of companies offering free, Web-based word processors just got longer. Today, Adobe is entering the Webtop game (watch out, Microsoft Office) with its announcement that it will purchase Boston-based startup Virtual Ubiquity, the company behind Buzzword.
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Adobe to Acquire Virtual Ubiquity — For immediate release — Collaborative Online Word Processor, Buzzword, builds on Adobe AIR Momentum — ADOBE MAX 2007, CHICAGO — October 1, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:ADOBE'S NEW WORD PROCESSOR: GORGEOUS BUT UNDERPOWERED
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Adobe joins rest of industry in going for Microsoft's throat
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft finally unveils its answer to Google Docs — After months of speculation about what it would do to stave off potential encroachments on its Office turf by Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Microsoft has spelled out its strategy: Office Live Workspace. — Office Live Workspace is …
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Microsoft Helps Businesses Achieve More with Better Connected Computing — Q&A: Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's Business Division, outlines how the company's new services offerings and investments help overcome the challenges of information overload, as well as connecting …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Radiohead's New/Old Business Model: Free Music — Alterna-band Radiohead will give away its new album via digital download. The band is ostensibly giving fans the chance to pay what they think "In Rainbows" is worth; in practice that means they're willing to take almost nothing …
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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Radiohead Fans to Name Their Price for New Album — In an unusual test for the music industry's transition to digital sales, the superstar British rock band Radiohead said its much anticipated new album will initially be available only as a digital download on the band's Web site — with fans choosing the price they are willing to pay.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati's Last Stronghold — Blog search engine Technorati's founding CEO is gone, its traffic party has ended and its core search functionality is under long term fire from competitors like Google Blog Search, Ask.com and Sphere (among others).
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Service Helps Friends Share Their Online Discoveries — Four software designers who were instrumental in the creation of Google's popular e-mail and mapping services have founded a new company with the intent of making it easy for people to find out what Web material their friends are enjoying.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget Mobile:
HTC's HSDPA toting S730 QWERTY and P6500 GPS phones get official — That was quick. Just a few hours after peeping their S730 in the wild, HTC has upped and made it official. They also pushed out the P6500 enterprise phone to keep it safe and feeling protected.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Joost Launches: Video Interview With Mike Volpi — Joost, the impeccably pedigreed, funded, and hyped Internet TV platform is releasing its software to the general public on Monday. For those of you beta testers (like us) who've griped about the reliability and usability of the application …
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Think Different: Think Again, Apple — I shed a tear while watching the video after the jump. Watch ^ first then the subsequent one. Awesome. — This entry was posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 10:26 pm and is filed under Tags: apple, think different, video, YouTube.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
The Sony Drive XEL-1 OLED TV: 1,000,000:1 contrast starting December 1st — It's here friends, Sony's Drive teaser is none other than their 3-mm thin, 1,000,000:1 OLED TV, just announced official with a December 1st Japanese retail date. The 11-inch SonyDrive XEL-1 set features …
David Smith / Guardian:
Computer turns prosaic dunces into lyrical poets — Software claims to hone anyone's written English — It may come as a godsend to George Bush, John Prescott and any others who sometimes struggle to explain themselves in plain English. A computer software program claims …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
At Starbucks, Songs of Instant Gratification — Like that song you hear playing at Starbucks, but just cannot wait until you get to a computer to download the song? — Starting tomorrow at certain Starbucks stores, a person with an iPhone or iTunes software loaded onto a laptop can download …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Day 76: The Yahoo Revival Meeting (Starring His Digital Holiness Steve Jobs)! — What do you do when you want to inject a little inspiration into a company that needs a lot of it? — Do you hold an all-day meeting of top execs where you actually outline specific goals and exhibit better leadership?
