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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
T-Mobile Loses Starbucks; AT&T Becomes Wi-Fi Hotspot Giant — Big news, and I had not an inkling of it, lest you think your loyal correspondent always has the inside track: Starbucks is shredding its deal in place since 2001, originally with MobileStar then T-Mobile, to switch to AT&T as their Wi-Fi provider.
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Starbucks:
MORE THAN 12 MILLION AT&T, STARBUCKS CUSTOMERS TO GET FREE WI-FI ACCESS FOR A RICH IN-STORE EXPERIENCE — New Offering Includes Two Hours of Free Wi-Fi Service Per Day for Starbucks Card Holders Beginning this Spring — All 100,000 U.S.-Based Starbucks Partners to Receive Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks Stores
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Caroline McCarthy / Crave:
Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T — Ubiquitous caffeine conglomerate Starbucks has ended its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile in favor of one with AT&T. — Under the existing plan with T-Mobile, Starbucks customers needed a paid subscription to access the in-store Wi-Fi …
Elizabeth M. Gillespie / Associated Press:Starbucks to Offer Free Wi-Fi With AT&T
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Danger Inc., Strengthens Mobile Consumer Vision — Acquisition of popular software and mobile services company will enhance Microsoft's ability to broadly deliver compelling mobile experiences. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has entered into an agreement …
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Microsoft:
Next Generation of Microsoft Innovation Focuses on Mobile Consumer — Company agrees to acquire Danger Inc., unveils additional industry partnerships to heighten connected entertainment and information experience for mobile customers. — Taking steps to place its technologies in the hands …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Microsoft Buys Sidekick-Maker, Danger — That Yahoo thing is going to take sometime, but acquisition hungry Microsoft isn't sitting idle. They have snapped up Palo Alto-based Danger Inc for an undisclosed amount of money. While they are not giving reasons as to why they are buying Danger …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:Microsoft To Acquire Sidekick Backer Danger Inc.; Bolsters Mobile Business
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Android Hands-On Video: It's Fast, It's Still Not There — We have been playing with the Android prototypes scattered through the Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona. ARM had theirs running on one of their lower-end processors. No fancy graphics demos, no iPhone-style multimedia fizzbang …
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Agence France Presse:
Google's Android software debuts in Barcelona — BARCELONA, Spain (AFP) - The first mobile phone fitted with Google's Android software platform has made its debut in Barcelona at one of the world's biggest telecom trade shows, Google said Monday. — Google is hoping Android will become …
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft's Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo! — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of Directors has carefully reviewed Microsoft's unsolicited proposal with Yahoo!'s management team and financial …
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Anthony Park / 100% Geek Content:
New Vista Media Center Plugin - MyNetflix (beta) — I've kept this pretty quiet, but I've been working on a new Media Center plugin for a little while now. It is now ready for beta testing, and I've decided to run a public beta for this one. — MyNetflix features … Public Beta Program
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Josh Lowensohn / Crave: The gadget blog:Windows Media Center plug-in puts Netflix in your living room
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
Netflix picks Blu-ray, good luck renting an HD DVD soon — In what can only be classified as yet another crushing blow to the embattled HD DVD camp, rent-by-mail giant Netflix has just announced its intention to only stock Blu-ray titles in the future. Netflix justified its decision …
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Mike Nash / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista SP1 availability for technical customers — On Monday (February 4th), we announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Overall, people are excited to hear that we have reached this milestone, but some are disappointed they are not able to immediately download it.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
MySpace Clips Facebook In January, But Both Slowing — Good news for MySpace: January comScore numbers show some audience metrics ticking up — and in many cases, outpacing rival Facebook. The bad news for both social networks: Those same numbers still indicate that American users, at least, may be reaching social network fatigue.
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:The Many Challenges of Social Network Sites
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
CNN Launches iReport.com — Since CNN embraced the citizen journalist movement back in August 2006 with the launch of its iReport initiative, the news organization has received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers, including nearly 10,000 this past January alone.
