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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 …
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 …
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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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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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Open XML voting ends with both sides predicting victory — A pivotal meeting of international delegates to decide the fate of Microsoft's Open XML finished on Friday with advocates and foes of the standards bid predicting victory. — Brian Jones, a program manager at Microsoft involved …
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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.
Magid Abraham / comScore Voices:
Why Google's surprising paid click data are less surprising — James Lamberti, SVP of Search and Media at comScore, is a co-author of this post. — Earlier this week, comScore released its January 2008 qSearch paid click report, which showed a 7% sequential decline vs. December '07 …
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.
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 …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
At FOWA, WordPress' Mullenweg talks about scaling and spamming — MIAMI—"I'm Matt Mullenweg, and I'm famous for eating 108 Chicken McNuggets and surviving," the eccentric 24-year-old WordPress founder said in his talk at the Future of Web Apps conference, explaining that he's no longer continually the No. 1 …
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 …
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 …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
XM And Sirius Extend Merger Agreement Until May 1 — This should be long enough: XM (NSDQ: XMSR) and Sirius (NSDQ: SIRI) have extended their merger agreement to May 1, as the clock continues to tick on regulatory approval. Both companies have said they expect approval in the near future …
