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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 …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft to ‘webify’ Office (sort of)
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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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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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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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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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Chris Crum / WebProNews:
MTV Offering...Music Videos? — Launches On Demand Music Video Site — With the launch of a single site, MTV has apparently put my biggest knock against the network to bed. That's the lack of music videos of course. — Many of you probably remember an era where MTV showed nothing but music videos.
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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Peter Ha / TechCrunch:Sonos Launches Free iPhone, iPod Touch App [Update]
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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 …
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 …
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.
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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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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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).
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.
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” …
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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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