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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 …
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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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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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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Mary Colvig / The Mozilla Blog:
We're official! — The Firefox community is the proud new owner of a Guinness World Record — each and every one of you! Mozilla today received confirmation from Guinness World Records that we've officially achieved the record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.”
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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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 …
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 …
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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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.
