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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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InfoWorld:
Microsoft to sell Office ‘value pack’ for $70 per year — Microsoft has chosen the name “Equipt” for a forthcoming package of products that includes its Office suite, Internet security software and other services, and will sell it for an annual subscription fee of $69.99.
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.” — Interesting and surprisingly detailed story in the Wall Street Journal tonight about the ongoing (never ending) Microsoft/Yahoo deal. The headline is that Microsoft, apparently not happy with simply destroying Yahoo's credibility …
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 — With the July 11 launch of the iPhone 3G less than two weeks away, Apple and AT&T each posted videos Tuesday designed to soften the ground for what's shaping up as another frenzied triumph of Apple event marketing.
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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.
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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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 allows you to stream any of Netflix's 10,000+ “Watch Now” (movies that can be watched immediately …
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 …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Ask.com Drops Map Product & Outsources To Microsoft Virtual Earth — The LiveSide Blog reported that Chris Pendleton,Virtual Earth Evangelist posted the news that Ask.com has now dropped their own mapping product for Microsoft's Virtual Earth. — Virtual Earth can now be found on Ask Maps …
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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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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 …
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Daniel Langendorf / last100:
Radiohead teams with Last.fm to offer “In Rainbows” for free, on-demand streaming — Leave it up to Radiohead to find every new distribution method possible for their latest effort “In Rainbows.” This time the band has teamed up with Last.fm to offer the album in its entirety for free, ad-supported, on-demand streaming.
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Alex Iskold / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Email In Danger? — Human history is one of progressive improvement in communication. From the 20th century mail was a fundamental form of communication. The invention of electronic mail (email) changed two things. It became cheap to send short mail, and delivery was instant.
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Mike Gualtieri / CIO.com:
9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless — From being a control freak to being a vendor puppet, here are nine behaviors management needs to steer clear of or risk being labeled “clueless.” — As CIO you hold one of the most important executive positions in your company.
