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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Looking back and looking ahead: Bill Gates leaves Microsoft — Although describing things as the “end of an era” is something of a cliché, Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft today surely deserves the label. Gates announced two years ago that he would be reducing his workload …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Audio: Bill Gates says so long to Microsoft — Bill Gates and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer both fought back tears as they concluded a farewell event for the Microsoft co-founder on the company's Redmond campus this morning. Ballmer presented Gates with a bound scrapbook of photos and memories …
Reuters:
Gates bids farewell to Microsoft — Factbox: Microsoft's post-Gates leaders — INSIGHT AND ANALYSIS — FACTBOX — Who will fill Bill Gates' shoes? — Who will fill the void left by Bill Gates? Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of TechCrunch, picks the leaders to watch. Full Article
Benjamin J. Romano / The Seattle Times:Gates' big-picture memos shaped Microsoft, changed tech world
David Garcia / Inside Google Desktop:
From the desktop to your TV — In the old days, we used to watch a simple device called a television. Nowadays, all the stuff worth watching and listening to tends to be stored on or accessed through a computer. To help remedy this, we are pleased to release the Google Media Server.
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Steve O'Hear / last100:
Google enters the PC to TV arena — Google today made its own contribution to solving the PC to TV problem with the release of Google Media Server. The Windows-only software works in conjunction with Google's desktop search application - Google Desktop - to locate various media (photos …
The Earth Times Online Newspaper:
Rogers Launches Flexible Price Packages for Apple iPhone 3G — Starting at $60 for voice and data combined TORONTO, June 27 — TORONTO, June 27/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Rogers Wireless, Canada's — largest wireless carrier with Canada'sfastest wireless network, today announced a variety …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Rogers announces iPhone 3G plans, unlimited data isn't one of them — Here we have it, iPhone 3G pricing for our better mannered, gun-toting friends up north. All the plans from Rogers Wireless require that lovely, three-year contract and include visual voicemail, free evenings and weekends …
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
EXCELLENT HBR PIECE CHALLENGING THE LONG TAIL — Anita Elberse, a Harvard Business School associate professor, has a really interesting article in the new Harvard Business Review that analyzes some Long Tail data and challenges some of the theory's predictions.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Virgin Mobile USA buys Helio for $39 million — Virgin Mobile USA will pay $39 million in stock to buy operator Helio, the company said Friday. — The deal ends more than a month of speculation that the two troubled mobile virtual-network operators would combine forces.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:Virgin Mobile Acquiring MVNO Helio For A Paltry $39M In Equity …
Zhu Shenshen / ShanghaiDaily.com:
Apple plans a core for Beijing — APPLE Inc will open a retail store in Beijing this summer, its first shop on the Chinese mainland, to attract fans of iPod, Mac computers and perhaps iPhones. — Apple's new store will open in the Sanlitun, a fashionable bar area of the capital city …
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost Publications:
Judge: Complaint Web Site Protected From Suit — A federal court has thrown out a defamation lawsuit against the site ConsumerAffairs.com, which posts people's complaints about retailers. — Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of Alexandria, Va., ruled that the site is protected from suit based …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Are Web Sites Responsible For Their Commenters? No, Thank God
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
.rose — Identity just got more complicated. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has decided to open up top-level domains to most any suffix we can imagine — from .com, .net, .org, .co.uk, etc. to .anything. So there will be an explosion in what we nerdily called the internet namespace.
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple makes example of iPod repairman in lawsuit — The owner of an iPod repair shop is being sued by Apple for misuse of the coveted iPod trademark — and of allegedly manipulating Apple to both send him replacement units for free as well as tricking the electronics giant into repairing out-of-warranty iPods.
Robert Palmer / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Are iPhone app devs getting a raw deal? — We mentioned yesterday a rumor that Apple won't cut a check for iPhone application developers until the dev's share of the sales tops $250. A lot of commenters were upset about this, if it's true: TomWBrowning said “So if you make an app that costs $1 …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Elevator Pitches, Now Ready For Your Uploads — Earlier this month we launched Elevator Pitches, a site for startup CEOs and founders to upload a 60-second video explaining what their companies do and how they make money. As I explained in the launch post, the idea is to create a repository …
Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
Microsoft fires shot across VMware bow with Hyper-V release — Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization platform today moved out of beta. The RTM version is now available for download, and will be released to Windows Update on July 8. Hyper-V, previously codenamed “Windows Server Virtualization” …
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