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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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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 …
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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Download Squad, The Microsoft Blog, LAPTOP Magazine, Inquirer, Hardware 2.0 and Boing Boing Gadgets
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
PDC: Windows 7 on tap — LOS ANGELES — It's Day 2 of Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference and the next version of the company's flagship operating system software, Windows 7, is on tap. — Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live engineering …
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All about Microsoft, The Microsoft Blog, InfoWorld, Beyond Binary, Windows-Now.com, Tech Beat, Microsoft Watch, The Register, TG Daily, TechFlash, AppScout and eWeek
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Microsoft Delivers Pre-Beta Release of Windows 7 to Developers and Previews New Web Applications Based on Office Software — Company showcases an early version of its next client operating system designed to be faster and easier and connect across PCs, devices and the Web.
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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InfoWorld:
Google settles copyright lawsuits with publishers, authors — Google has settled lawsuits brought against it by major publishers and authors that argued that Google's wholesale scanning and indexing of in-copyright books without permission amounted to massive copyright violations.
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, Gizmodo, MobileCrunch, Pulse 2.0, Maximum PC all, Android Phone Fans, PhoneNews.com and Phone Scoop
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.
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Rick Turoczy / ReadWriteWeb:Google Labs Adds More Gmail Goodness: Gadgets for Calendar, Docs
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ten Comments You Think Are Cool And Insightful But Aren't — Comments are the lifeblood of TechCrunch, and we love 'em. But we also get our share of the freaks, conspiracy theorists and jerks out there who have something to say and believe they have a constitutional or God given right to say it, right here.
Ira Teinowitz / TVWeek.com:
Parton Adds Voice to Argument Over White Space — Dolly Parton has stepped into the battle at the Federal Communications Commission over whether the agency should act now to begin allowing the marketing of devices that use the white space between digital TV channels.
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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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ZDNet Government, TechCrunch, New York Times, Mashable!, GMSV, Search Engine Land and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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 …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Seeking to Increase Participation in App Store Ratings? — iPhoneHellas.gr has published a screenshot from the latest iPhone 2.2 Beta 2 which reveals that Apple may be seeking to increase customer participation in reviewing iPhone and iPod Touch Apps.
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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 …
Gordon Haff / CNET News:
Ubuntu's breakout — Ubuntu and Canonical, the Mark Shuttleworth-founded commercial entity that supports it, have done something that seemed improbable a few years back. They've emerged as a third Linux distribution to have commercial market momentum on a worldwide basis.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / Computerworld Blogs:Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: “I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop.”
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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 …
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 …
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A VC, Outside the Lines, GigaOM, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Confidential, BlueBlog and Mashable!
BoomTown:
The Deal Dance: AOL and Yahoo (and even Google and Microsoft) Continue to Waltz — So-at this point-BoomTown feels it is not untoward in asking: What the heck is taking so long for Yahoo and AOL to decide whether or not to merge their struggling operations?
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google's Green Agenda Could Pay Off — SAN FRANCISCO — Google, the Internet search and advertising giant, is increasingly looking to the energy sector as a potential business opportunity. — From its beginning, the company has invested millions of dollars in making its own power-hungry data centers more efficient.
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Real Estate Crashes In Second Life, Too: Linden Lab's Bailout Plan — Linden Lab's new-ish CEO Mark Kingdon has been fond of telling reporters “there's no credit crunch in Second Life.” We'll see about that. Last night Linden announced it was jacking the prices on its “Openspaces” …
GamesIndustry.biz:
Avalanche prepares to lay off 77 staff — Avalanche Studios has confirmed that it is preparing to lay off 77 of its 160 staff due to losing two publishing contracts this year, worth around USD 34 million (EUR 27.2 million). — The studio is currently in negotiations with unions to let the staff …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Playfish Gets $17 Million More For Social Games — Over the past year video games have begun invading every computing platform, from social networks to mobile devices. They've also been picked up in the portfolios of a number of firms. — London based Playfish has just raised …
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TechCrunch UK, VentureBeat, All Facebook, PE Hub News, PE Hub Blog, TheNextWeb.org and Silicon Alley Insider
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 …
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