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Microsoft Launches Consumer Subscription Offering That Combines Microsoft Office and Windows Live OneCare — Microsoft Equipt gives consumers powerful productivity and security protection technologies in a single package through Circuit City. — Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Microsoft Equipt …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-July
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Mary Jane Irwin / Forbes:
Netflix's Online Movie Dreams — Can start-up Roku save DVD rental giant Netflix from the coming video-streaming onslaught? — Saratoga, Calif.-based Roku, best known for its networked music player SoundBridge, in May rolled out a set-top box that streams Netflix (nasdaq: NFLX - news - people ) movies.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
The Roku box to expand beyond Netflix. Living room Trojan horse? — If you're a subscriber to the DVD rental-by-mail service Netflix, you probably want to get your hands on the new Roku box. This device lets you stream any of Netflix's 10,000+ “Watch Now” movies (movies that can be watched immediately …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
AT&T says original iPhones can be inactivated and used as WiFi iPods — Original iPhone owners who prefer not to give away or sell their old iPhones after upgrading to an iPhone 3G can instead keep their devices and use them as WiFi-enabled iPods, AT&T has confirmed.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:How to launch an iPhone: A tale of two videos
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Charlene Li / Groundswell:
Why I'm leaving Forrester — I was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received — and it was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because research showed that people typically master a job in that time period and fall into a routine.
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Seeks Partners For a New Run at Yahoo — Plan Would Lead To Effective Breakup; Yang's Second Thoughts — Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.'s search business, has approached other media companies in recent days about joining it in a deal …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Ballmer on Yahoo Deal: The Bankers “screwed everything up.”
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Jobs, Apple directors face new backdating suit — Apple CEO Steve Jobs addresses the crowd at WWDC 2008. — (Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com) — Current and former members of Apple, including CEO Steve Jobs and several directors, have been sued again over their role in the company's stock options-backdating affair.
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Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Study Refutes Niche Theory Spawned by Web — Had PowerPoint been around 150 years ago, Thoreau might have warned us to beware not only of enterprises that require new clothes, but also of those that require new paradigms. — A book from 2006, “The Long Tail,” was one of those that appear periodically …
Google Mobile Blog:
Nicely said: Google Maps for mobile with voice search on BlackBerry Pearl — Posted by Jonathan Matus and Luca Zanolin, Google Maps for mobile voice search team — On the Google Maps for mobile team we're always experimenting with new technologies, so we're happy to announce that we've started testing voice search as a new feature.
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Search Engine Land, Google Operating System, WebProNews, Gear Diary and localmobilesearch.net
Josephine Lien / DigiTimes:
Samsung to reduce NAND flash supply in July amid Apple orders — Samsung Electronics has informed downstream customers it will start reducing its supply of NAND flash chips to them from July as its key customer Apple has placed a large batch of orders, according to sources at the company's customers.
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Palm:
Palm Treo 755p Software Update for Verizon — Do you need this update? — On your Treo 755p, press Phone . Then press Menu . From the Options menu, select Phone Info — Look for the Software item. If the version number is lower than 1.08 and the end of the string says VZW, you should install this update.
ISO:
PDF format becomes ISO standard — The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard - ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems Incorporated …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Identi.ca: May A Million Twitters Bloom — Identi.ca is a new microblogging service that launched today - but it's not just another also-ran. The service is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services.
Matt / WordPress.com Blog:
WordPress Gears — Some may have noticed the “Turbo” link in the upper right corner of the admin area. (Remember when computers used to have a Turbo button?) Behind it is a new feature of WordPress.com, support for Gears. — Gears? It is a browser extension like Flash or QuickTime/Media Player.
IEBlog:
IE8 Security Part III: SmartScreen® Filter — As someone whose email address is posted in thousands of forum posts, newsgroup discussions, and blogs, I get a lot of spam. Of the spam I receive, a significant number of messages represent phishing attacks.
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Blogged Tries To Make A Human-Powered Techmeme For Everything — Blogged, the blog directory that we introduced last February, has launched a news portal that aspires to hand-pick the most interesting stories from across the blogosphere. The company has employed a team of editors …
