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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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Ars Technica, Christopher Null, The Digital Home, Mark Evans, Electronista, The Register, Bloomberg, Techlog, TECH.BLORGE.com, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Inquirer, Slashdot and WinBeta
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Microsoft:
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 …
Reuters:
Microsoft cuts Vista prices to urge upgrades — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it plans to cut prices of its Windows Vista operating system sold at retail outlets in a move aimed at pushing customers to switch to the newest version of Windows.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Don't get too excited about those Vista price cuts — Microsoft announced price cuts for Windows Vista on February 28, but only for standalone boxed copies sold at retail. — The price cuts are not Vista copies preloaded on new PCs or sold through volume-licensing contracts.
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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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 …
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Engadget, Apple 2.0, The Boy Genius Report, Gizmodo, O'Grady's PowerPage, Boing Boing Gadgets and MacRumors
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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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
IAC: Ready To Bail On Ask? — More on the impending shakeup at IAC's long-suffering Ask. An insider tells us that IAC is considering finally pulling the plug on Teoma, the engine that powers Ask's search, and just using Google: — There is indeed a big shakeup coming. A new Ask.
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews.net:
Sprint: WiMax Partnership With Clearwire Still Possible; Dual-Mode Handsets Out This Year — Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel's CEO Dan Hesse confirmed a partnership of some kind with Clearwire (NSDQ: CLWR) may still be in the cards although he wasn't prepared to elaborate during today's earnings call.
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Sunshine / LiveSide:
Office Live Workspace - first feature update goes live — Office Live Workspace launched last December and just got it's first update, what's new: … Besides these, other fixes and improvements have been made and the Office Live add-in has been updated. — Note on Office Live Workspace Registration:
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Anthony James / Yanko Design:
Curved iMac has your back... Many things come to mind when I imagine new features that might be useful on my Mac; a touch screen, integrated 3G connectivity, pop-out remote control, integrated LCD projector, and maybe even a ninja bear defense radar system... I had an incident, let it go.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
US Air Force shoots down blogs, airmen frustrated — The United States Air Force has stirred up controversy with a new Internet filtering policy that aims to prevent Air Force personnel from reading blogs while on the job. The ban has been implemented by the Air Force Network Operations Center …
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 …
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 …
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Compiler, Ars Technica, MacUser, Well, I'm Back, Ajaxian, Insanely Great Mac, Mashable! and Asa Dotzler
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 …
