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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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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Office subscription service ready to go — If you are looking for “Albany,” you might want to try heading to Circuit City. — Microsoft on Wednesday announced that Circuit City will be the first to offer a new Office subscription service, first known by its Albany code name and now dubbed Equipt.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:New Microsoft Office subscription bundle to hit in mid-July
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:Microsoft Equipt: 3 Office, OneCare licenses for $70/year
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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.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Guinness bestows download record on Firefox — The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox. — Mozilla's Download Day on June 17, whose server-crippling success delayed …
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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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Scott Ferguson / eWeek:
IBM Acquiring PSI — IBM will buy Platform Solutions and plans to blend the company's technology into its own System z mainframes. IBM and PSI have a longstanding legal rivalry that involved accusations about intellectual property and unfair competitive practices.
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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 …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Says CD-ROMs Of Magazine Archives Don't Violate Copyrights Of Article Authors — There have been a series of lawsuits over the years concerning whether or not magazines could create CD-ROM archives of their magazines without having to pay all their freelance authors again.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Baseball Boss: If You Don't Love Baseball Yet, You Will Now — First off, if you love Baseball, skip this post for a minute and go claim one of the 1,000 beta accounts we have for Baseball Boss - click “register” on the top left and use the code “techcrunch” to get in.
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.
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 …
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.
