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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft's Windows 7 line-up: The good, the bad and the ugly — If you were one of those individuals holding out hope that Microsoft might go the way of Apple and move to one or two SKUs for Windows 7, your prayers have gone unanswered. But there still is some good news in what's on tap …
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Windows 7 Lineup Offers Clear Choice for Consumers and Businesses — Q&A: Windows General Manager Mike Ybarra discusses how Windows 7 editions are being designed to make buying simple, while serving the needs of more than 1 billion customers worldwide. — Last month Microsoft delivered …
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Windows 7 Wins on Netbook PCs — Q&A: Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing, discusses Microsoft's take on netbook PCs and how Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7, will support these small computers. — Small, mobile and affordable PCs …
Geekzone Blog:
Microsoft unveils Windows 7 SKU lineup — Microsoft is annoucing the Windows 7 SKU lineup with different Windows 7 editions for specific market requirements. Each SKU is a superset of the previous SKU. This means that each higher edition SKU will have every feature lower edition SKUs have.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:Windows 7 SKUs announced: your worst nightmare has come to pass
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Allow Background Tasks on iPhone? — With the release of iPhone Firmware 2.2.1, many were left wondering what had become of the Push notification system that Apple had announced at the Worldwide Developer's Conference back in June. — While Apple had originally set a September 2008 deadline …
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint.co.uk:
Toshiba TG01 mobile phone debuts … Trying to pip the crowds at mobile phone expo, Mobile World Congress, Toshiba has announced a new phone that promises to “revolutionise the mobile entertainment world”. — Saying that it “has listened” to what consumers want, the company has announced the TG01 …
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Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Toshiba TG01 announced: iPhone 3G and Touch HD killer? — Toshiba this morning announced their latest smartphone, the TG01, set to take on the HTC Touch HD and iPhone 3G. The Toshiba TG01 is a 9.9mm thick Windows Mobile 6.1 smartphone, with a 4.1-inch WVGA 800 x 480 384k pixel resistive touchscreen, 3G HSPA, WiFi, GPS and A-GPS.
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Report hints at next-gen iPhone in June — Coverage of Apple's plans to launch the iPhone 3G in the United Arab Emirates later this month appears to also signal a June release date for the handset's successor. — On Monday, Emirates Telecommunications - Etisalat said that it had struck …
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Sascha Segan / AppScout:
Motorola: Windows Mobile 7 Coming in 2010 — Motorola had an earnings conference call today with some juicy tidbits embedded in it. Primarily, Moto confirmed that they're losing tons of money and that their handset business is not doing very well at all. So how are they going to turn it around?
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Motorola: Microsoft Windows 7 Coming Next Year (MOT, MSFT)
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Emil A Eklund / Gmail Blog:
New ways to label with “Move to” and auto-complete — One of the features that makes Gmail different is its use of labels instead of folders. Sure, labels can serve pretty much the same purpose — they can help organize mail or flag messages for follow up.
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Jim Courtney / Skype Journal:
Skype for Windows 4.0 Goes Gold; Improved UI, Audio and Video Performance — Over the past eight months 1.2 million Skype users have participated in the Skype for Windows 4.0 beta program (stage 1, stage 2, stage 3). During this beta period, not only current user feedback was sought …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Thousands Of MySpace Sex Offender Refugees Found On Facebook — MySpace is in the spotlight today because it revealed that 90,000 registered sex offenders have been kicked off its site in the past two years. But where did all of those sex offenders go? Some evidence suggests that a portion of them are now on Facebook.
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Mike Harvey / Times of London:
Man killed by ‘exploding mobile phone’ — A man has died after his mobile phone exploded, severing a major artery in his neck, according to reports. — The man, thought to be a shop assistant in his twenties at a computer shop in Guangzhou, China, died after he put a new battery in his phone.
Mike Fahey / Kotaku:
Amazon Casually Launches Digital Game Downloads — Amazon.com has officially launched the beta version of their Game Downloads section this morning, offering more than 600 casual titles for digital download, each under $10. — Kotaku spoke to Greg Hart, Vice President of Video Games …
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
India's $10 Sakshat Laptop “Announcement” Is a Complete Bust — While we thought that we'd see some incredible unveiling of the India's $10 but really $20 but really $10 laptop, their public announcement today was a complete waste of time and hype. — We know nothing new, save for the name.
David Gonzales / Electronic Pulp:
Apple patent shows possible design for upcoming Tablet PC/MID — On the last day of 2008, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington sparked a rumor about Apple's plans to unveil a “large sized iPod touch with a 7 or 9 inch screen” in the fall of 2009 that will be their very first tablet PC.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Citi Says Amazon Sold 500,000 Kindles Last Year; $1.2 Billion Business Next Year — Amazon is set to unveil Kindle 2.0 next Monday at a New York press event. But how many of the original e-book readers has it sold already? Don't ask Jeff Bezos and company-the Amazon folks delight in keeping …
Windrago / Mario Esposito:
Microsoft Gaze - sneak peek — As passionate inventor that works for the AdLab organization I feel very excited to share the last ad-baby that my team and I brought to life. It's a public beta, invitation only. Drop me a comment if you would like to receive an invitation.
Geoff Gasior / The Tech Report:
Nvidia's Ion platform — A GeForce for Atom — Although Intel's wildly popular Atom processor was originally conceived for mobile Internet devices with an eye toward eventually trickling into smartphones, it quickly caught on with netbooks and has since carved out a sizable chunk of the mobile landscape.
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Google's new Ajax-powered search results breaks search keyword tracking for everyone — Google is currently testing search results delivered via “Ajax” from google.com itself. Big deal? Yes. This change breaks search/keyword tracking for every single analytics app in existence.
Fred von Lohmann / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
YouTube's January Fair Use Massacre — Privacy info. This embed will serve content from youtube.com. — This is what it's come to. Teenagers singing “Winter Wonderland” being censored off YouTube. — Fair use has always been at risk on YouTube, thanks to abusive DMCA takedown notices sent …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
VMware launches open source virtual desktop software; Assessing the fallout — VMware on Tuesday launched an open source client for virtual desktops in a move that mixes a little bit of offense and defense. — In a statement, the company said its VMware View Open Client would allow compnaies …
Adam Feldman / Google News Blog:
Adding Google News to Your Site — Today we are launching a Google News-based element for the Google Search API. — With this element, you can embed a news slideshow on your page, showing headlines and previews of Google News Search results based on queries that you've selected.
