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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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Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its “cloud OS” — Having spent billions constructing a data center network over the last couple of years, Microsoft this morning launched, in limited “preview” form, Windows Azure, its platform for cloud computing. The announcement was made by Microsoft's …
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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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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:Ray Ozzie Keynote - Live!
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Windows Live Dev:
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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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:Windows Live Adds Support For OpenID, Calls It De Facto Login Standard
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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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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 …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Netflix finally brings ‘Watch Instantly’ to Macs via Silverlight — In a move that seemed like it would never, ever, ever happen, Netflix has finally managed to bring its streaming video technology (and decent library) to Macs everywhere, thanks to Microsoft's Flash-esque also-ran, Silverlight.
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David Lieberman / USA Today:
Cable operator Cox to launch cellphone service — NEW YORK — Cox Communications (CCI) plans to rock the wireless phone business Monday by unveiling plans to launch cellphone service in the second half of 2009 that ultimately will make the No. 3 cable operator a rival of AT&T, (T) Sprint Nextel (S) and Verizon.
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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 …
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Web Video: Not Just for Kids, Going Mainstream — New research indicates that online video is becoming more mainstream as it finds greater audiences with both women and adults over the age of 35. — Ipsos MediaCT released data from its MOTION study that found that since late last year …
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Time to Leave the Laptop Behind — For more mobile workers, phones increasingly give them much of what they need — with a lot less hassle — It's time to think about leaving your laptop at home. — For years, mobile workers have been ditching their desktop computers for laptops that they can take wherever they go.
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 …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Twitter Goes Mainstream — A lot more people — and businesses — are finding new ways to tweet — One of the hottest technologies in Silicon Valley is also one of the simplest. — The online service from Web start-up Twitter Inc. prompts users to do one thing: answer the question, “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less.
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 …
Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
Nintendo moves right along — FEMALE FANS: Women try out a Wii at a computer fair in Germany in August. Of those who play a Wii, 50% are female, a Nintendo executive says. — Sales of Wii and DS consoles remain strong even during the economic crisis, an executive says.
Peter Birch / The Official Google Blog:
Introducing Google Earth for iPhone — Even before we introduced Google Earth back in 2005, the team had long dreamed of being able to carry the Earth around in your pocket. Well, today that dream becomes a reality as we introduce Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch.
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CodeWeavers:
CODEWEAVERS' SOFTWARE FREE FOR DOWNLOAD THANKS TO GEORGE W. BUSH AND FALLING GAS PRICES — Giveaway Triggered in CodeWeaver's Great American Lame Duck Presidential Challenge; “We take full responsibility for global economic collapse,” says CEO — The catastrophic cratering of the global economy …
New York Times:
To Survive, Net Start-Ups Slow Their Metabolism — SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley has always been a land of big, bold dreams. In the first Internet boom its start-ups either grew fast or died trying, sometimes spectacularly. The casualties of the bust, like Pets.com and Webvan, became legendary.
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