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Millions using social media on Xbox Live

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:00:00 +0000

Microsoft has released its first figures on how well Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm have done on Xbox Live. They show substantial, though not huge, engagement.

Kotaku found this 7 hours ago on news.cnet.com

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WSJ Could Ditch Google For $15 Million From Microsoft (MSFT, GOOG, NWS)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:31:00 +0000

Negative Cashback from Bing Cashback

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:00:00 +0000

In a recent post that Microsoft made me take down, I wrote about some security holes in Bing Cashback. While technical flaws are somewhat interesting to me, most Bountii users don’t really care about them. Starting today, I’ll write about some non-technical flaws in Bing ...

TechWeb found this 19 hours ago on bountii.com

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Millions logging onto Facebook via Xbox Live

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:35:00 +0000

It looks like the introduction of social media services Facebook and Twitter to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Xbox Live has been an unqualified success. That is, according to Microsoft's latest figures, with company reps claiming that millions of Xbox gamers were using the new service in the first week ...

albertsquare posted 9 hours ago from techradar.com

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The Definition of Evil: Microsoft's Search Wars Hurt Us All

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:31:00 +0000

Microsoft may pay Murdoch to delist from Google. If it happens, it sets a bad precedent. Imagine if all the world's content is exclusive to some engines and we have to search them all to find what we want? Hell! This started when Microsoft and Google paid for access to Twitter's millions of ...

Gawker: valleywag found this 2 hours ago on gizmodo.com

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Microsoft and licensing taxes, on KUOW

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:00 +0000

Appearing on KUOW's "The Conversation" on Monday was Jeff Reifman, a former Microsoft employee who has been writing about Microsoft's software-licensing practices and whether they are illegal.

josephtartakoff posted 4 hours ago from blog.seattlepi.com

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tipzblog.com | My Technology Blog on Software and Internet

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:42:42 +0000

My Technology Blog on Software and Internet. News from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple etc. New software available.

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Google Brings AdSense To The Desktop For The First Time Via Google Earth

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:59:46 +0000

Yet another Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) property, Google Earth, is getting ads. The move comes as Google has introduced advertising over the last year to a set of its properties that were previously unmonetized, including Google Finance, Google Image Search, and even its “search suggest function”; the ...

paidContent found this 17 hours ago on paidcontent.org

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IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files • The Register

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:35:00 +0000

A bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser is causing more than 50 million files stored online to leak potentially sensitive information that could compromise user privacy, a security researcher said. The documents stored in Adobe's PDF format display the internal disk location where the ...

TechBlog found this 5 hours ago on theregister.co.uk

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Video: News Corp. and Microsoft Challenge Google

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:57:26 +0000

Microsoft and News Corp. are taking the search engine battle to another level, with Google potentially being excluded from certain news content.

MediaMan posted 102 minutes ago from marketnewslive.blogspot.com

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Microsoft’s Bing—Introducing One of Wolfram

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:00:48 +0000

Microsoft’s Bing—Introducing One of Wolfram

Xconomy found this 12 days ago on blog.wolframalpha.com

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News: 2 million 360 users log onto Facebook in first week

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:27:45 +0000

Microsoft has said that over two million Xbox Live users logged into Facebook from their consoles within the first week of the social networking site being integrated with the system. Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm integration went ...

T3.com News found this 6 hours ago on gamesindustry.biz

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News: Datel sues Microsoft over mem unit ban

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:12:36 +0000

Attacks "predatory conduct" in lawsuit. Datel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft after the Xbox 360 platform holder's most recent dashboard update disabled support for third-party memory units. ...

Bink.nu found this 7 hours ago on eurogamer.net

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Subsidized LG X120 Netbook Includes Instant On Feature

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:34:49 +0000

Another day brings another subsidized netbook to the U.S. This time it’s LG with their X120 , which has seen sights around the rest of the world for a while now. The X120 is your basic Intel Atom powered netbook with a 160 GB hard drive, 1 GB of RAM and Microsoft Windows XP. LG expects ...

GigaOM Network found this 2 hours ago on jkontherun.com

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Microsoft Windows 8 Due in 2012 - Slides

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:51:00 +0000

Microsoft Server Roadmap Reveals Windows 8 Release Time Frame

TechSpot found this 3 hours ago on xbitlabs.com

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Microsoft Pitch-man Seinfeld upgrades to an iMac

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:59:44 +0000

Faithful Macenstein reader William writes: “Curb Your Enthusiasm had its “Seinfeld reunion” episode on last night. To help bring it to fruition, the production crew faithfully reconstructed the original sets, modernizing them with some updates, which they highlighted in the fall promo: a ...

Gizmodo found this 4 hours ago on macenstein.com

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Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:33:00 +0000

By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles, Richard Waters in San Francisco and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York Published: November 22 2009 23:01 | Last updated: November 22 2009 23:01 Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company’s being paid to ...

Silicon Alley Insider found this 42 hours ago on ft.com

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Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:00:00 +0000

Howard Rice represents Datel in Antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation For Immediate Release: For more information contact: Datel Files Lawsuit Over Microsoft’s Anticompetitive Downgrade of Xbox 360 Suit Seeks to Restore Competition and Respond to Consumer Demand San Francisco, CA— ...

Joystiq found this 20 hours ago on hrice.com

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Microsoft and News Corp To Consider Web Pact?

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:55:05 +0000

"Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company being paid to 'de-index' its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry."

Search Engine Roundtable found this 5 hours ago on webmasterworld.com

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Description of Expression Web 3 Service Pack 1

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:35:03 +0000

Bink.nu found this 21 hours ago on go.microsoft.com

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