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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports 27% Revenue Growth; Fastest First Quarter Since 1999 — Broad-based strength drives operating income and EPS growth each in excess of 25% — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.76 billion for the quarter ended September 30 …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Microsoft's $30 Billion Vista Bump — It turns out someone does like Windows Vista, along with Office and the other stuff Microsoft sells. Indeed, the company sold $1.1 billion more of that stuff in the second quarter than analysts expected. The company's profits rose by 23 percent.
LabRats / Mozilla Labs Blog:
Prism — Personal computing is currently in a state of transition. While traditionally users have interacted mostly with desktop applications, more and more of them are using web applications. But the latter often fit awkwardly into the document-centric interface of web browsers.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
More Goodies in Apple's New Operating System — In today's Times, I reviewed Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard." I noted that Apple claims to have added over 300 new features. — Trouble is, if I tried to describe them all in my 1,280-word column, I'd have 4.3 words to describe and assess each one.
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Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Magazine:
Exclusive First Review: Asus Eee PC 701 — Pound for pound, the best value-priced notebook on the planet. — Price: $399 — This past weekend a circular advertised a Vista-powered laptop equipped with a Celeron processor, 14.1-inch display, an 80GB hard drive, and a DVD drive for only $399.
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New York Times:
Merrill's Chief Is Said to Consider a Bid to Merge — Facing billions of dollars in losses from the subprime mortgage crisis, Merrill Lynch chairman and chief executive, E. Stanley O'Neal, floated the idea of a merger with a large bank, a foray that angered Merrill's board and could cost him his job …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
AdSense Disallowed On URLs Containing "Google", Google Says — Google informed me that they banned showing AdSense from my account on Google.blogoscoped.cn (a site which I don't run, but they are nice enough to rotate my AdSense code every couple of times as they're translating posts from here).
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Hiroko Tabuchi / Associated Press:
Nintendo rules out Wii price cut — TOKYO - Fresh off bumper earnings, Nintendo Co. ruled out a price cut for its smash-hit Wii video game console Friday and announced the company will being selling the Wii in China next year. — Profits at Nintendo have surged on the runaway success …
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Facebook's Stock Options — Cash is good, and Facebook, following its $240 million investment from Microsoft, now has plenty of it. It might have much much more if reports prove true that other investors have, or will soon, join in. With those lofty sums, Mark Zuckerberg and his crew …
Rob Greenlee / Zune Insider:
Zune 1-Click Podcast Subscriptions — Podcasters can now plan to display a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on their websites to enable an easy "1-Click Podcast Subscription" process for podcast listeners or viewers. This 1-Click process will launch the new Zune Marketplace software and place …
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CenterNetworks:
Metrofunk.com, The World's First Invite-Only Social Network Built by Trendsetters FOR Trendsetters ... Are you invited? — New York, NY - October 25, 2007 - Metrofunk announced today that on November 15, 2007 they will launch Metrofunk.com, the world's first invite-only social network devoted entirely …
canada.com:
UBC tracked his 'theft of time' — Use of spyware in firing of web-surfing employee violated his privacy — The University of B.C. wants the right to keep using "spyware" to monitor its employees' Internet use. — And the university — which used the software to fire a worker …
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Fastest Growing Facebook Group Now Has A Million Members — Unfortunately, the fastest growing Facebook group ever is not a very spontaneous affair; it's part of a US presidential candidate's campaign. However, the results are quite astonishing. — Responding to Barack Obama's Facebook …
Wily Ferret / Inquirer:
Russians use Geforce to crack Vista passwords — GPGPU given a new spin — PESKY RUSSIANS have come up with a novel way of using Nvidia's graphics hardware - cracking passwords. — INQ readers will long be familiar with the concept of the GPGPU, and the green team's latest CUDA development kit.
