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Microsoft:
Zune Expands Beyond Music to Deliver Integrated All-in-One Entertainment Experience — New software updates bring popular television shows to online store, enhancements to online music community and subscription service. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Zune, the company's …
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Nancy Gohring / IDG News Service:
After Abandoning ITunes, NBC Shows up on Zune — After a pricing spat with Apple led NBC to pull its video content from iTunes, the broadcaster has struck a deal with Microsoft's Zune online store. — On Tuesday, as part of an announcement about new Zune features, Microsoft planned …
Vodafone:
Vodafone to Offer Apple's iPhone in Ten Markets — Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal …
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Robert Hof / Business Week:
Why Yahoo Shares Lost Only 15% — The bottom didn't fall out of the stock after Microsoft yanked its bid. One reason, says CEO Yang: “We have more alternatives” than before the offer — Justin Sullivan/Getty Images — When Microsoft (MSFT) pulled its sweetened, $33-a-share offer …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
We Lost A Blogging Giant Today: Duncan Riley Leaves TechCrunch — Today was Duncan Riley's last day at TechCrunch, and he will be greatly missed. — Duncan joined us exactly one year ago and was our most prolific writer, covering tech and startup news seven days a week.
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
UK sites scoop Webby Awards — UK online publishers have scored well at this year's Webby Awards, winning 26 awards across 119 categories. — The Financial Times website won best business marketplace blog for Alphaville, while the BBC World Service was awarded best radio site, and nature.com took best science site.
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Joshua Fruhlinger / Engadget:
HTC unveils new HTC Touch Diamond, “not too big, not too small” — Here we are in London at the Soho Hotel with HTC, and we are among the first to see their new Diamond handset. While we thought we may see three new products in three different form factors, HTC Prez and CEO Peter Chou led-off …
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:Live in London: ‘HTC Touch Diamond’ announcement
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Google's PR Head Elliot Schrage Heads to Facebook — The Googlefication of Facebook continues, as Elliot Schrage, the search giant's vice president of global communications and public affairs, takes the title of vice president of communications and public policy at the popular social networking site.
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Jenna Bilotta / Official Google Reader Blog:
Share anything. Anytime. Anywhere. — Have you ever wanted to share something that you were reading, but you didn't want to go through the hassle of subscribing to a whole feed for a single interesting article? And what about sharing content from sites with no feeds?
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
A Safer Way to Search — Today, we're announcing the beta release of SearchScan, a new feature from Yahoo! Search that helps protect users from viruses, spyware and spam. We've heard from users that security and privacy continue to be major concerns when they are online.
Pete Kazanjy / Team Fusion:
More Displays. More 3D. More to Love: VMware Fusion 2.0 Public Beta 1 Now Available — The VMware Fusion team is proud to announce VMware Fusion 2.0 Beta 1. — This public beta, a free download, boasts a handful of industry firsts for Mac virtualization, including true multi-display support …
Leigh / Leigh's Blitherings:
Have We Crossed The Chasm? — Geoffrey Moore wrote Crossing the Chasm over 15 years ago and it's still probably the foremost framework used for launching new technology products. Wikipedia gives a nice summary to the theories basic premise: — “Moore's key insight is that the groups adopt innovations for different reasons.
BBC:
Free satellite TV service begins — A free satellite television and radio service from the BBC and ITV is being launched across the UK. — Freesat is available to 98% of homes, including those that are unable to receive Freeview through a TV aerial. — It will carry 80 digital TV …
Mark / dive into mark:
The day the music died — This is a letter I sent to my father to explain what it means that Microsoft is pulling support for MSN Music. Tech issues like this often bubble up into the media that he reads, but they are rarely explained well. My father assumes I have an opinion on such stories, and he is rarely wrong.
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Google News Blog:
Related Searches in Google News — We're excited to share with you a new feature of Google News: related searches. Now, when you do a search in Google News, we'll show a list of related searches at the bottom of the search results page. We think that this feature can be useful …
Inside Higher Ed:
Mysterious Multiplication of Copyright Complaints — It'd be hard to argue that Indiana University doesn't take illegal downloading seriously. As noted on its “Are You Legal” Web site, the university imposes a $50 fine for the first notice university officials receive from entertainment companies …
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Comcast Abandons P2P Bill of Rights — Comcast SVP Rich Woundy told the audience of the DCIA's P2P Media Summit in Los Angeles on Monday that his company is not spearheading the creation of a P2P Bill of Rights anymore. Instead, Comcast will take part in a newly formed working group …
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Susan Stellin / New York Times:
Free Wi-Fi, but Not for All — The battle between free and paid wireless Internet access is starting to look like a draw. Or more accurately, a third variation is winning — a combination of the two. — Travelers want to log on everywhere at no charge, while hotels …
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