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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Office Ultimate 2007: Just $60! (for students) — Starting in 59 minutes, 35 seconds, Microsoft will begin offering Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 for students for the amazing price of just sixty dollars. This special offer for students only represents a $620 discount off the retail price of $680, a 91% savings.
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Student Promotion Provides Steal of a Deal for Office Ultimate 2007 — Q&A: Alan Yates, Microsoft general manager of Worldwide Education, highlights how Microsoft is providing college students with easier access to tools for academic success. — Microsoft today announced The Ultimate Steal …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:Microsoft says college students can 'steal' Office
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Journalism.org:
THE LATEST NEWS HEADLINES—YOUR VOTE COUNTS — If someday we have a world without journalists, or at least without editors, what would the news agenda look like? How would citizens make up a front page differently than professional news people? — If a new crop of user-news sites …
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Nick / Rough Type:
The people formerly known as informed — So what happens when "the people formally known as the audience," as the citizen journalism hypesters like to say, take charge of the dissemination of news? A study released today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism provides a hint, and it's not exactly encouraging.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Google founders pay NASA $1.3 million to land at Moffett Airfield — (09-12) 12:31 PDT MOUNTAIN VIEW — Google Inc.'s founders will carry scientific equipment for NASA on their private Boeing 767 as part of a deal that grants them landing rights at Moffett Federal Airfield, near Mountain View, NASA and local officials said.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:For Google's Founders, a Coveted Landing Strip
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
New York Times Launches Facebook App — The New York Times takes a step into the social networking realm today by launching a Facebook application called the New York Times News Quiz. The simple application presents users with a daily (Monday-Friday) 5 question, multiple choice quiz …
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Facebook Apps Are Pointless If They Don't Work — Surj Patel is discussing an important issue about Facebook applications over at The Future of Software. — Facebook applications deal with the same, if not greater, scalability issues as regular websites.
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Yahoo's Open Invitation — Like counterparts at Facebook, CEO Jerry Yang plans to give developers more leeway in building tools designed to keep users on its pages longer — Last year it was the so-called Peanut Butter Manifesto, a sharply worded internal memo from a Yahoo! (YHOO) …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Breaking: False Hacker Poses as iPhone Dev Team Unlock Author, Tries to Grab $41,560 Donation — A false hacker going by the alias of haRRo has tried to trick everyone by posing as the "sole developer" of a graphical tool to unlock the iPhone. The GUI application is really the work of Erica Sadun …
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Infinite Loop, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, iLounge, Apple 2.0, iPhone Central, dailywireless.org and Digg
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Austin Modine / The Register:
Cisco and VMware buddy up for VFrame Data Center — You want to put my hypervisor where? — Cisco put some flesh onto its scrawny "Data Center 3.0" virtualization initiative at VMworld today, by announcing the union of its VFrame Data Center provisioning appliance with VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3.
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Internet Ad Spending Not-So-Recession — The latest data from TNS Media Intelligence shows how U.S. advertising spending in the first half is heading into a downturn — except for online spending, which remains up remarkably. — Note, of course, that these results do not include search ads …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hulu Makes First Acquisition; Chinese Video Startup To Form Backbone Of New Service — We haven't heard much about Bejing-based startup Mojiti before this week. They popped up in the TechCrunch Forums in January and are notable because the founder, Eric Feng, was previously at Microsoft Research Asia.
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Read/WriteWeb, paidContent.org, Silicon Alley Insider, Valleywag, Contentinople, NewTeeVee and Searchviews
Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Are Technology Limits In MP3s and iPods Ruining Pop Music? — If it seems like you are listening to music more but enjoying it less, some people in the recording industry say they know why. They blame that iPod that you can't live without, along with all the compressed MP3 music files you've loaded on it.
Microsoft Help and Support:
Overview of Windows Vista desktop search Changes in Windows Vista Service Pack 1 — View products that this article applies to. … Beta Information — This article discusses a beta release of a Microsoft product. The information in this article is provided as-is and is subject to change without notice.
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All about Microsoft, InfoWorld, BetaNews, CNET News.com, Windows Connected and Zoli's Blog
Mariko Sanchanta / Financial Times:
Nintendo's Wii takes console lead — Cumulative sales of Nintendo's Wii have overtaken those of the Xbox 360, making it the world's best-selling next-generation games console in spite of having been on the market a year less than Microsoft's machine. — The move puts Nintendo …
Edward Cody / Washington Post:
Official: 'Massive' Damage to China From Hacking — Charge Seen as Response to Reports of Chinese Hacking in Western Countries — A senior Chinese official said foreign intelligence agencies have caused "massive and shocking" damage to China by hacking into computers to ferret out political, military and scientific secrets.
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Dan Ackerman / Crave: The gadget blog:
Microsoft sneaks 1GB of memory into new laptop mouse — Microsoft has a handful of new laptop mice the company wants you to know about this morning. And while Microsoft isn't usually the first brand name that springs to mind when you think of computer hardware (software's another story) …
