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Chris Flores / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Microsoft demonstrates Multi-touch — For years Microsoft has been investing in many forms of natural input in order to simplify the way people interact with their PC's and devices. The advent of the original Windows graphical user interface forever changed the way people used their PC's.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
D: Amazon's Bezos: To Launch For-Pay Movie Streaming Service; Stays Bullish On Kindle; Books Are Like Horses — In the first session at the D: All Things Digital conference at the Four Seasons Aviara in Carlsbad, California this morning, it's Amazon.com (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos.
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TechCrunch, eWeek, paidContent.org, Between the Lines, Engadget, Forbes, Electronista, Technology Live, Gizmodo and O'Reilly Radar
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:Amazon's Jeff Bezos: A passion for Kindle and digital content delivery
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Amazon Launching Pay-Per-View Streaming Next Week (AMZN)
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Sony CEO Stringer: You can't afford our best TV — Walt Mossberg interviewed Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, at D6. He started by pointing out the failures of Sony's digital music player and interactive TV ventures. Stringer said that Sony is now running about 5% margins …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
LIVE Sony CEO Howard Stringer At D6 — A couple of years ago Howard Stringer had high hopes for his e-reader. But Jeff Bezos Kindle has stolen that thunder, and we assume we might hear about that when Walt Mossberg chats with him. We definitely know we're about to see a very, very thin TV.
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Earth Escapes the Client and Comes to the Browser — Google's 3D data has escaped the client and is now a welcome addition to the browser! Today at Google I/O a Google Earth Browser plugin is going to be released. With the plugin installed anybody with a Windows machine will be able …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
D: Activision's Kotick Unveils Guitar Hero World Tour — Next up at D6 in Carlsbad, it's the guitar hero himself, Activision (ATVI) CEO Robert Kotick. The news here is supposed to be a demo of the yet-to-be shipped Guitar Hero World Tour. He's being interviewed by Kara Swisher.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Shows Facebook How It's Done: Google Gears To Power Messaging — The Google I/O conference in San Francisco kicks off today with a really welcome announcement: MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user's local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting.
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Office of the United States Trade Representative:
U.S. Files WTO Case Challenging EU Tariffs on Certain Technology Products — WASHINGTON - United States Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab announced today that the United States has requested World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement consultations with the European Union (EU) …
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Gene Marcial / Business Week:
Yahoo's End Game — Negotiations with Microsoft and Google are taking place behind the scenes, writes BW's Gene Marcial. A deal of some kind is imminent, according to his sources — Yahoo! finally looks ready to do a deal, according to people familiar with the situation.
InfoWorld:
Belgian newspapers ask Google for $77.5 million in damages — A group of Belgian newspaper publishers wants Google to pay up to €49.2 million ($77.5 million) in damages for violating copyright law by publishing their articles on Google News and caching their Web pages.
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mathewingram.com/work, Mashable!, Search Engine Watch Blog, TG Daily and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Apple:
About the Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update — The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update is recommended for Mac OS X 10.5, 10.5.1, and 10.5.2 Leopard. It includes general operating system improvements that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. For detailed information about security updates, please visit this website.
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Man Allegedly Bilks E-trade, Schwab of $50,000 by Collecting Lots of Free ‘Micro-Deposits’ — A California man has been indicted for an inventive scheme that allegedly siphoned $50,000 from online brokerage houses E-trade and Schwab.com in six months — a few pennies at a time.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
SezWho acquires Tejit to expand commenter reputations — Distributed commenter reputation service SezWho is growing a little bigger Wednesday morning with the acquisition of Tejit, an engine that tracks content around the Web to see how it links up with people, events, places, and more.
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek:
Google Opens Google App Engine — Google also announces pricing for the development technology.
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Search Engine Journal, Silicon Alley Insider, Open Source, TechCrunch, Rev2.org and STARTUP CHATTER
Qualcomm:
Qualcomm and Adobe Collaborate to Empower Developer Ecosystems With BREW Mobile Platform — BREW Mobile Platform Integrates Adobe Flash to Accelerate Advanced Application and Web Content Development for Mass Market Devices — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and Adobe Systems Incorporated …
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Flash Devices, VentureBeat, Phone Scoop, biskero.org, The Blogging Times, Macsimum News and Reuters
Vator.tv:
Video - the next acquisition for CBS Interactive? — CBS, which just recently swallowed up CNet for a cool $1.8 billion, is still on the prowl. That's according to Mike Marquez, the head of mergers and acquisitions and business development for CBS Interactive.
Market Wire:
D-Link Introduces Ethernet-to-Coax Kit for Extending the Home Network Using Existing TV Cabling in the Home — Easy-to-Use Adapter Kit Enables Fast Transfers of HD Video, Music, Gaming; Quick Solution for Connecting Devices in Multiple Rooms — D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider …
