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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's Azure cloud platform: A guide for the perplexed — Now that the initial Microsoft PDC pixie dust has settled, developers are trying to digest exactly what Microsoft's cloud platform is. Here's my attempt to explain it. — Microsoft layed out its “Azure” …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft launches Windows Azure — LOS ANGELES—Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the Internet from inside Microsoft's own data centers. — Dubbed Windows Azure, it's less a replacement for the operating system that runs on one's own PC than it is an alternative …
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Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure at Professional Developers Conference — Company releases comprehensive Azure Services Platform for the cloud, offering unprecedented power of choice and open connections for developers. — Today, during a keynote speech at the Microsoft Professional …
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Microsoft offers cloud computing a hearty handclasp — Microsoft and Ray Ozzie cracked the door half open this morning on Windows Azure, the infrastructure formerly known as Windows Cloud. In the process, Ozzie served notice that IT will remain in the Windows/Office grip but with an abstraction layer …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft Azure Aims to Re-define the OS — I'm at the Microsoft PDC in Los Angeles, where I was among a small group of bloggers and analysts who had a roundtable today with Microsoft executives Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect), Bob Muglia (Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business) …
Nick / Rough Type:Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its “cloud OS”
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:Ozzie, Muglia, and Srivastava on Windows Azure: Video
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Windows Live ID Becomes an OpenID Provider — Windows Live ID Commits to Support OpenID — Beginning today, Windows Live ID is publicly committing to support the OpenID digital identity framework with the announcement of the public availability of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Windows Live ID OpenID Provider.
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Revision3 » blog:
Changes to Revision3's Programming Lineup — As any student of media knows, birthing new media can be a tremendously fun, engaging and rewarding endeavor, but it's also rarely a straight shot to success. — 15 years ago we were posting magazine articles to the web; fast forward to today …
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Kentnichols / Kent's Official Blog:
Add Rev3 to the Deadpool — From NewTeeVee: … In financial markets, we have been seeing what's termed as flight to quality. Basically that means investors are abandoning the stock markets for the safer places to put their money. — You should be doing the same thing for your career.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows 7 (M3) pre-beta features detailed in privacy statement — God I love privacy, or to be more exact, privacy statements. Microsoft today has just published the “Windows 7: Pre-release privacy statement” detailing some new and very interesting features which we're expected to see tomorrow …
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Electronista:
iPhone could hit $99, rule smartphones — Apple has the room to cut the price of the iPhone to where it could take command of the smartphone market, analyst Charlie Wolf of Needham Research says today in a research note. The financial expert estimates that the average …
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George Colony / George F. Colony:
Why this tech recession will be different — Quickly: For tech, this recession will be different than 2001-2003 — Content: I'm not an economist. But I've been present for a bunch of recessions and watched how technology markets survived. And I spend a lot of my time talking …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
T-Mobile G1 coming to Walmart at a slashed price? — Word on the street is that the top ten Walmarts in each market will be getting hooked up with the T-Mobile G1 on the 24th of November. That in itself isn't really news — big boxes have really been ramping up their wireless sales as of late …
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Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Google Scrambles to Patch Buffer Overrun Exploit in Android G1 — Table of Contents: — Security expert Charlie Miller leverages a flaw within an SDK component of Google's open-source Android operating system. The buffer overrun flaw lets hackers hijack the Web browser …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Helium Raises $17 Million, Lays Off 30 Percent of Employees — The bomb-shelter mentality among startups is now so severe that even companies raising money are announcing layoffs in response to diminished economic prospects. Boston-based Helium just closed a $17 million series A financing …
Josh Catone / SitePoint Blogs:
Aviary SaaS Image Editing Software Leaves Beta — ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Aviary, a much-hyped and long awaited suite of online image editing tools, is about to leave private beta. Aviary was developed by the people behind the popular Photoshop contest site Worth1000 using Adobe's Flex …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
iPhone Apps Could Be the New MySpace Page — Artists and labels have a new way to strengthen ties to fans and make them buy more music: mobile phone apps, which could be the new MySpace page. — An iPhone app might seem like an awkward way to distribute music when the device also supports podcasts …
Geoff Ramsey—CEO / eMarketer:
Online Ad Spending Will Keep Growing — eMarketer will be giving another haircut to its online ad spending predictions next month. But that's not necessarily bad news for online marketers. — Need data for presentations? eMarketer subscribers can download charts instantly — over 50,000 choices.
Alan Wolf / TWICE:
Toys ‘R’ Us Expands CE Assortment With iPods, Asus PCs — WAYNE, N.J. — Toys “R” Us will begin carrying Apple iPods and Asus ultraportable notebook PCs this month in a major expansion of its CE assortment. — The products will be sold in Toys “R” Us stores nationwide.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amazon's WindowShop Offers A Sleek Interface For The Online Megastore — Today Amazon has launched a new storefront called WindowShop, which presents some of the store's newest and most popular movies, books, and video games in a way that makes browsing the online megastore actually fun.
