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Toshiba:
Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses — Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition Content — TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop …
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Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC NEWS | dot.life:HD-DVD - They think it's all over — The message from Japan …
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Reuters:
Microsoft targets Web with Yahoo or alone: Gates — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc, the company's chairman Bill Gates said on Monday. — Gates, who called Microsoft's offer for Yahoo …
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Arnold Kim / MacRumors:
Apple Depicts Advanced Multitouch Gesturing Control Panel in Mac OS X — In case there were any doubts that Apple was exploring the use of advanced multitouch gestures under Mac OS X, a recent Apple patent application authored by Wayne Westerman (of Fingerworks) shows mockups …
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Electronista:
Apple filing points to user-set multitouch — Apple has developed a system that will allow users to define their own gesture-based commands in Mac OS X, according to a recent patent filing. Co-invented by Wayne Westerman, who helped found the FingerWorks company largely credited …
Max Zuckerman / Channel 8:
Bill Gates talks about Free Software, Students, and Technology — How would you like a free copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008? How about the entire Microsoft Expression Studio? Not enough...... how about Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and more? — For once, something that sounds …
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Microsoft Giving Away Free Developer Software To Students — Microsoft is announcing right now DreamSpark, a new program that gives free developer, designer and related software to college students in 11 countries. DreamSpark goes live today in Belgium, China, Finland, France, Germany …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bungee Connect Launches Ambitious New Online Development Product — Yeah, we've seen a ton of online application builders before - DabbleDB, Zoho Creator, LongJump, Coghead and WyaWorks, among others. And Salesforce weighed in with their own Force.com in late 2007.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft To Announce WorldWide Telescope On February 27 — A source close to Microsoft says the company will launch new desktop software called WorldWide Telescope on February 27 at the TED Conference in Monterey, California. Our guess is that this is what Robert Scoble was talking …
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Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog:
‘DVD Jon’ frees your media with DoubleTwist — The man notorious for cracking the DVD code, and Apple's FairPlay DRM, is looking to make a legitimate business out of his expertise. — Beginning Tuesday, the first product from his company DoubleTwist Ventures, will enter open beta.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Did A California Court Hide All Of WikiLeaks Over A Single Document? — Over a year ago, we wrote about the Wikileaks project, designed to allow government and company officials to anonymously leak documents as a way of whistleblowing questionable activities. Apparently, it's been quite successful at times.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
The Most Frequently Used Features in Microsoft Office — Online office suites like Google Docs are often criticized because they have a very basic feature set, but the advanced features from software packages like Microsoft Office are rarely used. Jensen Harris, Group Program Manager …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Will YouNoodle Predict Its Own Inevitable Failure? — New startup YouNoodle debuted to some first class press coverage this morning - a headline in the NYTimes that reads “A Start-Up Says It Can Predict Others' Fate.” The really choice quote from the article from CEO/co-founder Bob Goodson is this:
