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David Richards / smarthouse.com.au:
60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten — Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN. — In an effort to meet a dealine …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft: Office 2007 to be late, too — update Fresh on the heels of a delay in broad availability of Windows Vista, Microsoft confirmed late Thursday that it is also pushing the mainstream launch of Office 2007 to next year. — As with Vista, Microsoft hopes to finish the code for Office 2007 this year.
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing — Panic at the Volehill — MICROSOFT appears to be in a state of panic, ordering 60 per cent of its new operating system to be re-written amidst a major shake-up of its troubled Windows division. — The news follows another delay …
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Google Seeks Patent for Targeting Ads on Wi-Fi Hotspots — Google engineers have applied for a patent on a way to target ads based on the location of the wireless access point to which a user connects, among other factors. — The patent application, filed by Google employees Wesley Chan …
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Google GeoAds beta — Google GeoAds beta has been out for less than 2 weeks. CPC's are super cheap. — Wanna see it? Go to Google Local and type in the search box, "booksellers nyc". You should see a little coffee cup in addition to the little red ballons.
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John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Five years of Mac OS X — The road behind — Mac OS X 10.0 was released five years ago today, on March 24th, 2001. To me, it felt like the end of a long road rather than a beginning. At that point, I'd already written over 100,000 words about Apple's new OS for Ars Technica …
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Keith Teare / edgeio corporation:
New edgeio features to be launched tonight — Later tonight we will be releasing a new version of the edgeio web site. It has a number of new features that we are really excited about. The new site should go live sometime after midnight Pacific time. — 1. The ability to post an item for sale directly onto the edgeio web site.
Steven Johnson / Wired News:
When Virtual Worlds Collide … Sometimes futurists get the future right. Millions of us now commute to massively multiplayer online games in worlds much like the metaverse predicted by William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and the Wachowski brothers. We live vicariously through …
Hugo 'poogie' Ortega / Uber Tablet:
While you slept I hunted down Toshiba's UMPC - your turn now! — While you were sleeping, Australia was still awake. Knowing that I was nearing Toshiba Utopia (UMPC), infamous bloggers like James Kendrick and Rob Bushway did some investigating of their own.
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Ben Elgin / Business Week:
Google's Print Auction Fizzles — The search giant's auction of magazine ad space didn't generate much enthusiasm — or business, in the case of one successful bidder — Google's effort to roll its advertising juggernaut beyond digital and into the world of print publications is struggling.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Telecom Gear Mergers Ahead — With the telecom service providers contracting faster than a bride's waist in weeks leading up to a wedding, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Lucent and Alcatel are entertaining thoughts of a $33 billion merger, that would combine two of the biggest equipment suppliers to the "phone companies."
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Coming soon: Download-to-own films — LONDON, England — Universal Pictures and the online rental firm Lovefilm are launching what they say is the world's first download-to-own movie service in Britain next month. — Starting with "King Kong" on April 10, the companies say the new service …
Lora / What Is New:
One 12-year old's opinion of TabletKiosk's Ultra-Mobile PC — Mix06 has ended and I've returned home to Prescott. My 12-year old niece latched on to the black and white Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC or Origami) by TabletKiosk. I followed her around while she was playing with it …
Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
Map Mashups Get Personal — A women named "Paiges" recalls hearing the band Portishead for the first time at a spot in New York's Upper West Side, while she was meeting a man with whom she was having a torrid affair. "I was in NYC, your wife was out of town," she writes.
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Intel Inside for cell phones—sort of — A branding effort similar to "Intel Inside," the ad and marketing campaign that helped make the chipmaker a household word, is coming to cell phones. — Some cell phone makers in Asia will soon put an Intel badge on their phones …
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Now Playing On Your Cell Phone — Advertisers are jumping on the mobile marketing bandwagon. Will subscribers join them? — Discovery Channel's I Shouldn't Be Alive profiles people who have survived some pretty unusual (and life-threatening) ordeals, from shipwrecks to snowstorms.
