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Peter Bright / Ars Technica:
First look at Windows 7's User Interface — At PDC today, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 7. Until now, the company has been uncharacteristically secretive about its new OS; over the past few months MS has let on that the taskbar will undergo a number of changes …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Windows 7 details galore: interface tweaks, netbook builds, Media Center enhancements — Microsoft's Windows 7 announcement earlier today was followed up by an extensive demo of the new features during the PDC keynote, and since then even more info about the new OS has flooded out …
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One Microsoft Way, Liliputing, Technologizer, LAPTOP Magazine, Charlie Owen, ProgrammableWeb and TechSpot
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Windows 7 Walkthrough, Boot Video and Impressions — Like Elvis in '68, Microsoft is itching for a “comeback,” and Windows 7 is the perfect excuse. In fact, this week in LA at the Professional Developers Conference, Windows 7 officially shoved Vista aside.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft Office Comes to the Browser (Finally) — Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.
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Download Squad, The Register, InfoWorld, Silicon Alley Insider, Channel 9, Electronista, WebProNews, Maximum PC all, Lifehacker and webmonkey
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Microsoft:
Microsoft to Extend Office to the Browser — Q&A: Microsoft Senior Vice President Chris Capossela discusses how extending Office applications to the browser will increase choice and flexibility for customers. — As part of a strategic companywide shift toward embracing web-based solutions …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft to ‘webify’ Office (sort of)
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The Official Google Blog:
New chapter for Google Book Search — Google was built on the principle of making the world's information more accessible and useful. Before the company was even founded, Larry and Sergey imagined a way to make it easier for anyone, anywhere, to access the information held within the world's books.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Short Term Profits Over Long Term Principles; Google's Caving On Book Scanning Is Bad News — Today the tech/business press was filled with stories about how Google has settled the lawsuits from authors and publishers over its book scanning project. Google is paying $125 million …
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CNN:
Wal-Mart To Sell Google's G1 Phones At Discount Starting Wed — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Wal-Mart Inc. (WMT) will start selling the G1 phone at a discounted price starting Wednesday, a Wal-Mart spokesman confirmed Monday night. — Wal-Mart will carry the Google Inc. (GOOG) G1 phone …
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Engadget, IntoMobile, Crave, Gizmodo, Maximum PC all, Android Phone Fans and MobileCrunch
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
The Monitor Ends Daily Print Edition — After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only, its publisher announced Tuesday. The cost-cutting measure makes The Monitor the first national newspaper to largely give up on print.
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David Cook / Christian Science Monitor:
Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy — In 2009, the Monitor will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website; the 100 year-old news organization will also offer subscribers weekly print and daily e-mail editions. — Republish
Miguel Bustillo / Wall Street Journal:
Retailers Slash Blu-Ray Player Prices — Electronics manufacturers and retail chains are slashing prices of Blu-ray players in a bid to boost adoption of the high-definition movie format, which has yet to catch on with American consumers. — Entry-level Blu-ray players have dropped …
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Jordan Golson / Industry Standard:
A lesson for bloggers: go to the source or look like a fool — The Hill, a popular newspaper covering D.C. and Congress, wrote a story claiming iPhones were well on their way to being offered to members of Congress and their staff. However, the piece, entitled “iPhones are a must-have for Congress …
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Gabe Cohen / Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Apps Goes Experimental with Google Labs — There is a widely held belief that technology progress in the enterprise is slow and methodical, that adoption cycles are long, and that experimentation is inappropriate. Here at Google we believe that experimentation is a good thing - even in the enterprise space.
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Google App Engine Blog, Webware.com, ReadWriteWeb, PC World, Rough Type, WebWorkerDaily, InformationWeek and webmonkey
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Shakeout Threatens to Thin Out Web-Ad Brokers — As the Economy Sours and Venture Funding Grows Scarcer, Some Networks Have Begun to Exit a Crowded Niche on the Internet — More than 300 online-ad networks have cropped up over the past couple of years, making the business of brokering ads …
Yahoo! Developer Network Blog:
Introducing Y!OS 1.0 - live today! — Earlier this month, we introduced a revamped universal profile to all Yahoo! users - but that was just the tip of the iceberg. With the new profile page, you got a peek at our open vision, but today's Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) 1.0 platform launch gives you something to get your hands on.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Blip.tv Figures Out How To Serve Ads In iTunes Videos — For most people, watching Web video is predominantly a streamed experience on their computers. But an important and substantial portion of Web video is still downloaded to be watched later, or transferred to a different screen (usually an iPod, but sometimes a flat-screen TV).
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
MTV: Just Ignore That Nice New Video Site We Rolled Out Yesterday — I've just heard back from the folks at MTV.com, who've explained what they're up to with MTV Music, the nifty video archive site they quietly rolled out yesterday. — The answer: They really haven't rolled out the site.
Electronista:
Rogers sells 255,000 iPhones, hurts rivals — Rogers today reported a large leap in its results for the summer quarter that were highlighted by the Canadian launch of the iPhone 3G. The telecoms company sold and activated a total of 255,000 iPhones between the device's July 11th launch …
Christina Warren / Download Squad:
NuConomy: Next-gen web analytics — Web analytics is an increasingly important metric for web publishers. It used to just be about tracking how many visitors you get and how many pages they view. Technology has improved so that you can now track site entry points, popular keywords …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Google is oddly silent about Grand Central — Google is being very quiet about Grand Central, the virtual phone service it acquired in July 2007 but hasn't really done anything with since. In my opinion, Grand Central is already a good service. There are a few features I'd like to see added but …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Set Common Voice Abroad — Principles Aim to Define Conduct With Nations That Restrict Speech, Lack Privacy Protections and Censor Search Results — Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. will announce Tuesday that they have agreed to a common set of principles …
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
AdaptiveBlue takes a fresh tack with Glue, a semantic social network — AdaptiveBlue's latest version of its browser plug-in is a complete revamp of its BlueOrganizer product. Now called Glue, it aims to synthesize semantic technology that connects information about books, music …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Feeds for Google Alerts — Google Alerts has a new option: you can now subscribe to feeds instead of receiving periodic email messages. Google Alerts notifies you if there are new pages in the list of top results for a certain query. You can subscribe to alerts for web search, Google News …
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