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Sprint Launches Revolutionary $99.99 “Simply Everything(SM)” Plan — Plan Defines Simplicity, Offers Customers Unlimited Voice and Data — In an industry-defining move, Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced it will launch a domestic unlimited pricing plan that gives customers unlimited voice …
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Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:Sprint Posts $29.5 Billion Loss on Nextel Writedown
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Sprint Q4 Results Disappoint; Dividend Suspended; Unveils $99.99 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot — Google acquired hosted wiki service Jotspot in October 2006. The service immediately stopped taking new users, although existing users were supported. Now, nearly sixteen months later, Jotspot has been relaunched under the Google Apps team, as Google Sites.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Goes After Another Microsoft Cash Cow — Google is adding a new front to its assault on Microsoft's software applications business. — The Internet search giant on Wednesday is rolling out a rival to Microsoft's SharePoint, a program used for collaboration among teams of workers.
Dan Farber / CNET News.com:
Google Sites: What's all the fuss? — The launch of Google Sites is like the opening of a movie or play. The critics (including myself) feast on it, churning out copy and opinions as to whether Google Sites is a Microsoft SharePoint killer or merely the McDonald's of wikis …
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Official Google Blog:
Google Health, a first look — It's been a busy week for the Google Health team. Last week we announced our partnership and pilot with the Cleveland Clinic. This week, the team has been at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference in Orlando, Florida, where Eric
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
More Vaporware From Google Health. Just Launch It Already. — Google's Marissa Mayer put out another teaser today about its long-anticipated, much-delayed Google Health service. The post on the Official Google Blog offers some screen shots (below) and lays out what consumers can expect.
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Julian Guthrie / sanfranmag.com:
Googirl — The serious power and glam passions of Marissa Mayer, the gorgeously geeky Googler who's generating a new kind of Silicon Valley notoriety. — A week before Christmas, Marissa Mayer, the most closely watched woman in the most closely watched company in the world …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Marissa Mayer gets the cupcake treatment — The only shocker in Julian Guthrie's profile of Marissa Mayer for San Francisco magazine: That the “gorgeously geeky Googler” is well-respected within the Googleplex. Perhaps among the executives Google PR trotted out for the ritual encomiums, but not among the rank and file.
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Under the bonnet of Android — I had the chance this week to meet Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms. — He's the man behind Android, the open source operating system that is at the heart of the Open Handset Alliance. — He was kind enough to give me a demo of Android running on a handset and the video is here.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhone — Apple has dropped some serious hints that its iPhone strategy will at least be tweaked-mostly in ways that will court business users. — First up, Apple has sent invitations for the launch of the iPhone SDK next week …
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Kevinle / Windows Live Dev:
David Treadwell on New and Updated Windows Live Platform Services — Hey folks, Dave Treadwell here. For those who don't know me, I run the Live Platform Services team here at Microsoft. Before coming over to the services world, I spent many years working on .NET, and I feel really fortunate …
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CNN:
3G iPhone To Include Infineon Chip, Launch By Mid-Year: UBS — German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG (IFX) likely will be supplying the new systems solution to Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) next-generation iPhone, UBS analysts told clients in a note published Thursday.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All — Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0.
