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John Paczkowski / D6 Highlights:
Windows 7 at D6 — So those rumors about Microsoft Windows 7 making an early debut at D6? — They're true. During tonight's interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft (MSFT) will demonstrate Windows 7's all-new user interface.
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Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch — For years Microsoft has been investing in many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices. The advent of the original Windows graphical user interface forever changed the way people used their PC's.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Live From All Things Digital: Gates and Ballmer Preview Windows 7, Multi-Touch — Michael is at the All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California where Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates are set to take the stage this opening night and preview the user interface of Microsoft's next operating system …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Live at D6: Windows 7 — Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer share the stage at D6 on Tuesday with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. — (Credit: Dan Farber/CNET News.com) — Tonight at the D6 conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates will take the stage together.
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Gates and Ballmer to show a little Windows 7 skin at D6 — The sixth version of the D: All Things Digital conference will begin Tuesday night with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer onstage. The two legends of Microsoft will offer the first public peek at Windows 7, although Ballmer told …
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Windows 7 screen grabs look better than they sound — So Microsoft's Sinofsky had a pretty good dance with CNET about Windows 7, really not saying much of anything. But a picture's worth a thousand words, right? Howzabout a ton of pics? — We can confirm these are indeed screen shots …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Windows chief talks ‘7’ — REDMOND, Wash.—Since taking over the Windows development reins from Jim Allchin, Steven Sinofsky has chosen to fall almost completely off the public radar. — It's not that he hasn't been busy getting Vista Service Pack 1 out the door and starting work on Windows 7.
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Microsoft Watch, All about Microsoft, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise, The PC Doctor's blog, Between the Lines, WinExtra, I4U News, CNET News.com, CyberNet, DailyTech, CrunchGear, Microsoft News Tracker, Gizmodo, Windows Connected, InformationWeek Weblog, Tech Tracks, Scobleizer, TG Daily, Electronista and TechBlog
Chris / LiveSide:Why Sinofsky's head-in-sand approach doesn't work for Windows Live
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Mobaganda: A Dead-Simple Invite Site Built On Google's App Engine — If you like your invite apps dead-simple, check out Mobaganda. You don't even have to log in. Just click on start, add the name, date & time, and location, and create an event. The site, which is built on the Google App Engine …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:Why Google is Wooing Web Developers
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oag.state.ny.us:
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE WINS MAJOR SUIT AGAINST DELL — Court Rules that Dell Engaged in Fraud, False Advertising, and Deceptive Business Practices — Companies to Pay Restitution and Forfeit Unlawfully Earned Profits — The Office of the Attorney General today won a groundbreaking lawsuit …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform — A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to us that the social networking company will announce an open-source initiative around its Facebook Platform sometime today or tomorrow. We originally broke this story we broke yesterday.
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Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Amazon Slashes Kindle Price (AMZN) — The Kindle, Amazon's (AMZN) hyped-up e-book reader, is in stock but with a new price — $359, $40 cheaper than it has been in the past. — There's been a lot of speculation surrounding the Kindle over the last two weeks as analysts have weighed …
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iPhoneclub.nl:
Exclusive: More proof of curved, white iPhone 3G — Slow news day? Not anymore! Dutch communitysites iPhoneclub.nl and Macfreak.nl both received a couple of pictures of the supposed new casing of the second generation iPhone. These pictures haven't surfaced on the internet before.
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Intel's Centrino 2 Platform Delayed (Upshot: No New MacBooks at WWDC) — TGDaily is reporting that Intel's next-gen Centrino 2 platform (aka Montevina) has hit a series of snags and won't launch until July 14 at the earliest. Aside from delaying new Centrino 2 notebooks generally (duh) …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Web 2.0 = Bubble 2.0? — At TiECON East, Friday, May 30th Fred Wilson and I will be debating “Web 2.0: Viable Business Model or Bursting Bubble?”. David Cancel (Lookery) will be moderating, and we will be joined by Brian Balfour (Viximo) and Nabeel Hyatt (Conduit Labs). — All booms eventually go bust.
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US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Announces Settlement with the National Association of Realtors — Settlement will Result in More Choices, Better Services and Lower Commission Rates for Consumers — WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a proposed settlement …
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von FAZ-ht / Netzökonom:
Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “The next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet” — FAZ: Search marketing works very well. But where is the growth potential for Google? Mobile Internet, video, web 2.0? — Eric Schmidt: First: There is still a lot of revenue in search …
Hank Williams / Why does everything suck?:
Arrington On Copyright: Wrong — I have always disagreed with Michael Arrington's position on copyright, which seems to be that people are going to steal, no one should do anything about it, and that copyright based businesses are going to die and that's not bad in his mind. — In January, Michael wrote:
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Sony + Tru2way = No More Set-top Boxes? — Sony has joined forces with six of the top cable companies in the U.S. to adopt tru2way technology in its TVs, thus eliminating the need for a set-top box when accessing television and other interactive services. Apple, Netflix, Sezmi …
