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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 …
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) …
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 …
Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:Ozzie, Muglia, and Srivastava on Windows Azure: Video
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
The layoff lie — A wave of layoffs is sweeping startupland. But why? “Today is my last day at Revision3,” writes Damon Berger, one of the victims, in a mass email. “Due to budgetary cutbacks that are a direct result of the economic meltdown, I will no longer be employed at the company.”
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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 …
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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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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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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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 …
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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 …
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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Brad Stone / Bits:
A Site for Workplace Scuttlebutt Gets More Funding — Plenty of people are likely to be bookmarking Glassdoor.com soon. The four-month-old Web site can come in handy for navigating an era of heavy layoffs and endemic unemployment. — Glassdoor.com, based in Sausalito, Calif. …
Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Calendar and Docs gadgets — Gmail Labs has been a really fun way to easily try out new ideas and get some of our pet feature requests implemented quickly. We wanted to take this to the next level and let you start adding your own stuff to Gmail.
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.
Brian Solis / PR 2.0:
Where the Streets Have Names: Learning from Bono's Facebook Dilemma — What happens in the real world can usually end up on the Web for all to discover, share, and assess with or without your knowledge. — According to The Mail, even Sir Bono, lead singer of U2, couldn't escape the global distribution and network effect of Facebook.
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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John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Darkstrand lights up LambdaRail for commercial use — The Internet started out as a government-funded effort to link up disparate academic institutions. Over time, however, it morphed into a commercial venture, and the public gradually hopped online. Unfortunately, the commercial Internet …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Zuora raises $15M to manage online subscriptions — Zuora, which offers online services to automate customer subscriptions and payments, has raised $15 million in a second round of funding. — Chief executive Tien Tzuo said he wants Zuora to be the web's top “online subscription platform …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
Study: When it comes to influence, bloggers beat friend lists — Facebook likes to trumpet the value of “trusted referrals”—recommendations and ads with the endorsements of members of your friends list. But a new study from Jupiter Research, commissioned by analytics company BuzzLogic …
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Bryan Adams pulls a Prince on fan sites — Web Sheriff: No more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas — Canadian soft rocker Bryan Adams is the latest star to grumble at fans for plastering his name and face on unofficial websites. — The crinkly Eighties star and sometime number …
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