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Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:53 AM

BetaNews | Microsoft to end support for MSN Music DRM

Again, I have been bitten by DRM. I have stopped buying DRM, and now I have more songs I have to go re-download to replace the DRMed files and not pay for it as I already did. Microsoft to end support for MSN Music DRM By Jacqueline Emigh , BetaNews April...
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Monday, February 18, 2008 11:28 AM

Best Buy Loses Laptop: Owner Sues... for $54 Million : Christopher Null : Yahoo! Tech

Best Buy Loses Laptop: Owner Sues... for $54 Million Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:33PM EST Don't dismiss Raelyn Campbell as a crackpot. Not yet. Listen to her story, and then decide if she's doing the right thing by asking Best Buy to compensate her to...
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Friday, February 01, 2008 9:17 AM

Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share

Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share Transaction valued at approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock; provides 62 percent premium to current trading price for Yahoo! shareholders; combined entity to create a more competitive...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008 9:08 AM

TG Daily - Windows Vista successor scheduled for a H2 2009 release?

Windows Vista successor scheduled for a H2 2009 release? Business and Law By Wolfgang Gruener Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:28 Chicago (IL) - Several industry sources have confirmed to TG Daily that a very early version of Windows 7, previously code...
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Monday, December 31, 2007 9:41 AM

BetaNews | Loss of HP puts end to Wal-Mart's video download store

By Ed Oswald , BetaNews December 28, 2007, 12:10 PM The retailer decided to silently walk away from its planned video download service after HP ended its participation. BetaNews | Loss of HP puts end to Wal-Mart's video download store Look, another...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:06 AM

BetaNews | Vista SP1 to replace 'Reduced Functionality' with nagware

A service originally designed to compel unpaid Vista users to obtain genuine licenses is apparently being scrapped in Service Pack 1, to be replaced with a more "in-your-face" approach. BetaNews | Vista SP1 to replace 'Reduced Functionality'...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 7:12 PM

The Hidden Costs of Cheap PCs - Columns by PC Magazine

The Hidden Costs of Cheap PCs - Columns by PC Magazine
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Friday, September 14, 2007 9:02 AM

Microsoft Gets Patent for Automated Privacy Updates - Host security - Dark Reading

Microsoft Gets Patent for Automated Privacy Updates Courtesy of Information Week Microsoft has received a patent for a system that automatically notifies users of its software when there is a change to their application's privacy policies Microsoft...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:18 AM

BetaNews | Microsoft: Patch Tuesday Didn't Cause Thursday Skype Outage

Microsoft: Patch Tuesday Didn't Cause Thursday Skype Outage By Scott M. Fulton, III , BetaNews August 21, 2007, 12:32 PM Yesterday afternoon, Microsoft's security engineers formally ruled out the possibility of its regular monthly "Patch...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:05 AM

BetaNews | MTV Kills URGE, Joins Real on Rhapsody

MTV Kills URGE, Joins Real on Rhapsody By BetaNews Staff , BetaNews August 20, 2007, 9:47 PM MTV Networks is set to announce a joint venture Tuesday morning, which will tie the company's digital music offerings with RealNetworks' Rhapsody service...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:59 AM

BetaNews | Skype: Users Rebooting Brought Service Down

Skype: Users Rebooting Brought Service Down By Scott M. Fulton, III , BetaNews August 20, 2007, 12:03 PM A system outage that impacted Skype users for about 48 hours last week has officially been attributed to a multitude of Windows-based clients receiving...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:20 PM

LiveSide - News blog : Microsoft to extend social networking with Windows Live Events

LiveSide - News blog : Microsoft to extend social networking with Windows Live Events
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Friday, June 15, 2007 9:02 AM

Free The LiveEarth Themepack for Windows Live! Messenger

Nice little freebie from Microsoft / Windows Live! / MSN. The LiveEarth Themepack
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007 8:39 AM

BetaNews | Verizon Tapped for 'Click to Call' Integration

Microsoft has teamed with Verizon's business arm to provide consumers with one-click phone calls to businesses found on its Live Search listings, the telecommunications company said on Monday. BetaNews | Verizon Tapped for 'Click to Call'...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:00 PM

Windows Live! Writer Beta Released (and WLM Beta & WL Mail Beta)

Windows Live! Writer Beta has been released, alon with Windows Live! Messenger Beta and Windows Live! Mail . New Authoring Capabilities · Inline spell checking · Table editing · Ability to add categories · Page authoring for WordPress and TypePad · Support...
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:46 AM

BetaNews | Comcast Talks Up 150 Megabit Cable

Cannot wait for DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modems!! Comcast Talks Up 150 Megabit Cable
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:57 AM

BetaNews | MySpace to Acquire Photobucket

Link to BetaNews | MySpace to Acquire Photobucket
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Tuesday, May 08, 2007 8:53 AM

BetaNews | Dell Joins Microsoft + Novell Linux Pact

Link to BetaNews | Dell Joins Microsoft + Novell Linux Pact
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:52 AM

Microsoft Tagspace

I new bookmark / Tagging service from Microsoft. (In Beta) Link to Microsoft Tagspace
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:21 PM

GLITR - Wireless Oakland on schedule

Hmmm. How come no Farmington / Farmington Hill, or Southfield as early adopters? This is great, another competitor besides a cable provider and AT&T for high speed Internet. Also, no longer have to worry if a cafe has free wifi or not, the free level...
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