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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft chops Vista retail prices — In what may be an unprecedented decision, Microsoft said Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vista. — For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista …
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Microsoft Reduces Price on Several Retail Stand-Alone Versions of Windows Vista — Q&A: Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing at Microsoft, discusses changes to pricing of Windows Vista retail stand-alone editions. — Since its release …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Don't get too excited about those Vista price cuts
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Steve Chen: YouTube to Add Live Video — YouTube will support live video before the end of this year, co-founder Steve Chen told Pop17 videoblogger Sarah Meyers. Check out the clip: — The background party music is thumping, so here's a transcript: — Meyers: “When are you guys gonna do live video on YouTube?”
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Confirmed: Live Video On YouTube This Year — First rumored in January, YouTube is definitely doing live video, and it's happening this year. — Sarah Meyers got the scoop (video above), transcript as follows care of NewTeeVee: … Now for the guessing game: which live video startup …
Sarah / Pop17:
Livecasting and Lifecasters — Story Links: — Live video is one of the latest mediums to be embraced online. A variety of live streaming platforms with social networks are propping up a new kind of online voice. — Justin Kan of Justin.tv is one of the first popular lifecasters.
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Vladimir Vukievi:
Finding the OS X Turbo Button — Some of you may have noticed that the Firefox 3 nightly builds have felt a lot snappier since a few weeks ago. There's an interesting story in that, one that I finally have time to write up. We've had a number of bugs on the Mac where people were complaining …
Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Will New Blu-ray Drives Suck Your Laptop Battery Dry? — Watching a Blu-ray movie in all its high-definition glory on your laptop may finally become an affordable prospect this year. Just don't wander too far from a power outlet. — With the Sony-backed HD format emerging victorious …
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Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Final goodbye for early web icon — A web browser that gave many people their first experience of the web is about to disappear. — Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said. — In the mid-1990s, as the commercial web began to take off …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
“Googirl” article vanishes from Web — 115,000 copies of San Francisco magazine, on newsstands throughout the city, name Marissa Mayer as Google's “Googirl.” But on the Web, the article has gone missing. Could the editors have belatedly Googled “googirl”?
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Survey: CIOs moderately upbeat about IT spending — Cisco, Dell and others have seen lumpy customer demand, but the folks that are producing those volatile sales patterns-CIOs-are moderately optimistic and expect solid technology spending in 2008, according to a survey by UBS. — In its survey, UBS noted that:
Jessica Dolcourt / Webware.com:
The many flavors of Twitter — Pedestrians repeatedly thumbing their cell phones could be playing the latest mobile game, but it's just as likely they're microblogging addicts updating their Twitter accounts. Twitter's short-form service makes it ideal for two-sentence contributions from mobile phones …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's MyBlogLog Adds An Activity Stream Feature — MyBlogLog, a blogger social network acquired by Yahoo about a year ago, launched v.2 of their service tonight, with a significant new feature. You can see the MyBlogLog widget in the right sidebar of this site - it shows pictures and names of recent visitors.
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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
News: iPhone/iPod SDK: Apple to approve, distribute apps, limit add-ons — iPhone/iPod SDK: Apple to approve, distribute apps, limit add-ons — According to several sources familiar with Apple's iPhone and iPod touch software development kit (SDK) plans, the company will use a March 6 event in Cupertino …
Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
Jeff Zucker to Print Reporters: Drop Dead — NBC Universal CEO on MSNBC, NBC News, Fox Business Network, the Newspaper Industry and CNBC — The future of NBC News is not on the broadcast network, but at MSNBC and online, said Jeff Zucker, president of CEO of NBC Universal.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple MacBook Pro Penryn tests: a little more speed, a lot less heat — Sure, more speed is great, but on OS X most bumps don't have an appreciable effect on everyday work (unless all you're doing is video encoding). We were more interested in what Intel's Penryn processors …
