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Microsoft Delivers the Future of Productivity With Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 — New products and cloud services available to businesses today. — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced the worldwide availability of Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 …
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Dina Bass / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Predicts Fastest-Ever Adoption of New Office Software — Microsoft Corp. expects customers to adopt the new version of Office at the fastest pace in the software's 20-year history, helping reverse a sales slump and fend off competition from Google Inc.'s Web-based programs.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Forrester: Google still a distant Office competitor — For all the noise about — and from — Google giving Microsoft a run for its money in the office/productivity market, the reality is rather different, according to Forrester Research. — New Forrester data, released on May 11 …
BBC:
Microsoft Office 2010 takes aim at Google Docs — Microsoft is preparing to launch its latest weapon in its ongoing battle with Google. — The software giant will launch its flagship product Office 2010 to businesses on 12 May. — The latest version of the software has a free online component - called Office Web Apps.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Next generation iPhone unscrewed from Vietnam (update: video!) — The kids at Taoviet have really outdone themselves. From the looks of these images, the Vietnamese site has nabbed an honest to goodness 4th generation iPhone — a 16GB model to be exact. It's clearly pre-production judging …
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HTC:
HTC SUES APPLE FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENT — Complaint outlines five HTC patents infringed by Apple products — HTC Corporation today took legal action against Apple Inc., filing a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) to halt the importation and sale of the iPhone, iPad and iPod in the United States.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HTC files patent complaint against Apple, asks for ban on iPhone, iPad, and iPod — We'd been wondering how and when HTC would respond to Apple's patent lawsuit, and here we go: the Taiwanese phone manufacturer just filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission …
Gmail Blog:
Drag images into messages — Recently, we launched a feature that allows you to drag an attachment from your computer right onto Gmail. — I've always been a fan of the inserting image lab, so I naturally wondered if it would be possible to combine the two.
Artem Russakovskii / Android Police:
EXCLUSIVE: AndroidPolice.com's Nexus One Is Running Android 2.2 Froyo. How Fast Is It Compared To 2.1? Oh, Only About 450% Faster — Folks, we have a Nexus One. We also have Froyo. In fact, we have the two mixed together in the most delicious frozen-yogurty Android 2.2 kind of way you can imagine.
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Eric / Erictric:
Android 2.2 Froyo Nearly 5 Times Faster Than Android 2.1
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Alex Payne / Why Microsoft:
Google Docs does not make Office better — Hi, I'm Alex Payne and I'm a Director in our Online Product Management team. A couple of news articles and blogs landed today where Google is trying to make the case that existing Office customers (and there are over 500 Million of them worldwide) …
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Jeff Bertolucci / PC World:
Google: Skip Office 2010, Use Docs Instead
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand — Last Wednesday, 10AM, Las Vegas. The South Point Hotel and Casino, a couple of miles off the strip. The kind of hotel where you can get steak and eggs for $2.99-24 hours a day. Cashier: “How would you like your $200,000, Mr. Calacanis?
John Provine / The Official Google Blog:
Understanding the web to find short answers and “something different” — One year ago today we announced Google Squared in Labs, an early attempt to find and extract structured data from across the web, such as a detailed table of [dog breeds] or [broadway shows].
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Chris Dale / YouTube Blog:
More Choice for Users: Unlisted Videos — Melinda teaches high school in the Bay Area and recently reached out to us with a problem. Her students just finished a video history project that she wanted to share with their parents and classmates. But she was concerned about posting …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
‘HURT LOCKER’ PRODUCERS ABOUT TO SUE AN ARMY OF PIRATES — EXCLUSIVE: The war against movie piracy is getting downright explosive. We've learned that the producers of the Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker” are preparing a massive lawsuit against thousands of individuals who pirated the film online.
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Creating a Network Like Facebook, Only Private — How angry is the world at Facebook for devouring every morsel of personal information we are willing to feed it? — A few months back, four geeky college students, living on pizza in a computer lab downtown on Mercer Street …
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Niraj Sheth / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon, Google Developing iPad Rival — Verizon Wireless is working with Google Inc. on a tablet computer, the carrier's chief executive, Lowell McAdam, said Tuesday, as the company endeavors to catch up with iPad host AT&T Inc. in devices that connect to wireless networks.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Biggest Problem Is Its Users And Their Constant Opinions On Things — There's a saying I love: “a camel is a horse designed by committee.” A variation is “a volvo is a porsche designed by committee.” Some of the best product advice I've ever heard goes something like “damn what the users want, charge towards your dream.”
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
‘Secret’ telecom anti-Net neutrality plan isn't — The Center for American Progress seemed to have blockbuster news on Tuesday: an expose titled “Telecoms' Secret Plan To Attack Net Neutrality.” — On its Think Progress blog, the liberal advocacy group announced it had “obtained” …
Valve / Steam:
Steam For Mac Launch Details Revealed — May 11, 2010 - Valve announced that Steam will launch on the Mac platform this Wednesday, May 12. — On subsequent Wednesdays, additional collections of Mac titles will become available, each designed to highlight specific functionalities of Steam on the Mac.
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Nick Saint / Silicon Alley Insider:
iPhone Game Maker Ngmoco Acquires Another iPhone Game Developer, Stumptown Game Machine (AAPL, ERTS) — iPhone game developer Ngmoco has acquired fellow gaming company Stumptown Game Machine. — The two developers have already been collaborating on the successful “Touch Pets Dogs” …
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