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microsoft.com:
Microsoft and RealNetworks Resolve Antitrust Case and Announce Digital Music and Games Partnership — New partnership brings Rhapsody® subscription service and RealNetworks' games to millions of Microsoft's MSN users. — SEATTLE — Oct. 11, 2005 — Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Real, Microsoft reach truce — update Microsoft and RealNetworks announced a sweeping deal on Tuesday that puts aside their legal differences and aims to shore up their respective digital-music strategies. — Under the deal, Microsoft will pay $460 million in cash to RealNetworks to settle antitrust claims.
apple.com:
Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results — Apple Concludes Best Quarter & Best Year in Company History — CUPERTINO, California—October 11, 2005—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2005 fourth quarter ended September 24, 2005, reporting the highest revenue and earnings in the Company's history.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Yahoo News Search, Day 2 — Okay I've spent some time with Yahoo's news search and sent a note to Scott Gatz requesting a bit of advance notice next time, so we can review these things before they roll out. — There's a lot to like about their approach, but it is still not good enough …
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John Dempsey / videobusiness.com:
COMCAST PROPOSES DVD/VOD SERVICE — FROM VARIETY: Hopes to offer films on VOD in DVD window then sell disc — Comcast is quietly trying to wolf down Blockbuster's lunch. — Like other operators, the cable giant is hell-bent on tapping into the billions of dollars that people spend …
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Xbox 360 hands-on preview — Ok, technically I was just one of many journalists at yesterday's press preview event, but I did get a chance to spend a couple of hours with the Xbox 360. I wasn't exactly blown away with every title I saw, but overall I walked away impressed.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE ADDS TAGGING — Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you've visited. If Google in the future opens this up, letting users share their bookmarks and see bookmarking data in searches, we could see something very useful and popular.
Bink / Bink.nu:
20 Longhorn/Vista SKU's revealed — Raphael of Extended64 did some digging around in Vista: I came across an XML file filled with alpha-numeric gibberish, quickly identified as base64 encoded data. I slapped it into my favorite web-based decoder and found some interesting product key SKUs …
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Troy Wolverton / TheStreet.com:
Apple's Next Big Thing — Apple Computer (AAPL:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) reports fourth-quarter earnings later Tuesday, but it's what the company says on Wednesday that may grab investors' attention this week. — Apple has scheduled a press event Wednesday …
Tkeating / blog.tmcnet.com:
VoIP Blog - VoIP News, Gadgets — VoIP & Gadget News Blog with the latest news in the VoIP and gadget space, smart phones, product reviews, opinion & analysis. — Home Archives VoIP ForumsAboutContact — Linksys CIT200 Skype phone review — Linksys has partnered with Skype to offer …
Paul Thurrott / winsupersite.com:
MSN Mail Beta Preview — After several years of virtual stagnation, Web-based email solutions jumped to life again last year when Google announced that its free GMail service would offer users 2 GB of email storage space. For established companies like Microsoft/MSN and Yahoo …
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Eric Black / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Average age of newspaper readers: 55 … Newspaper readership is down. Fewer young people are picking them up, and the average age of a newspaper reader is now 55, according to a Carnegie Corporation study. Many papers have been losing circulation at alarming rates across all age groups.
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prweek.com:
Google carves new path by blogging to confront issues — Andrew Gordon PR Week USA Oct 10 2005 00:00 — Corporate blogs engage audiences, but how far can they reach? Google puts the medium's boundaries to the test by using its blogs for issues management.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
"Microsoft will acquire my company" — Entrepreneurs confidently tell Venture Capitalists "Microsoft will acquire my company". VCs roll their eyes...they have heard it a million times. But, Microsoft does have a rich tradition of acquisitions. The first, and most important …
