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Microsoft 'worked with Apple' for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb
Microsoft 'worked with Apple' for Silverlight on iPhone, says Goldfarb
betanews.com — By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews It was an impressive demonstration, once they got it working:... H.264 video streaming wirelessly (and slowly, at least during the caching sequence) using Microsoft's Silverlight video streaming, to an Apple iPhone. ... (more) Microsoft 'worked with Apple' for Silverlight on iPhone, ...
Clicker.com cuts through the Web video chaos
By Chris Maxcer, TechNewsWorld Let's put this simply: If you want to stream free, professional videos online, Clicker makes finding the video easier than most other solutions I've seen. In fact, it's one of the few online television and video search guides that I've felt compelled to create ...
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Microsoft's Ray Ozzie: 'Nobody's going to be 100% open'
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Over the last five years, Microsoft has undergone a gradual, but significant, shift in its public image, a shift toward interoperability and a willingness to play more fairly in competitive markets. At the same time, it remains a commercial software producer ...
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Nearly half the money spent at US retail on desktop PCs goes to Apple
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews In October, Mac US retail desktop PC revenue share was 47.71, percent up from 33.44 percent a year earlier, according to NPD. It's a stunning number, given just how many Windows PC companies combined command so much more market share, while competing for the same ...
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A case study in improving software: What Office 2010 can learn from Notion 3
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Download a 14-day trial of Notion 3 music composer, plus 10-day trials of IK Multimedia plug-ins, from Fileforum now. On the surface, this is a review of a music composition product entitled Notion 3, from Notion Software, priced at $249 suggested ...
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Kindle 2 update adds battery life, native PDF reader
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Today, Amazon announced that an automatic update to its popular Kindle 2 e-reader will extend the device's battery life by 85% and add a native PDF reader to its repertoire of functions. The Kindle 2 could previously stay on for four days with wireless ...
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Safari on iPhone gets competition from a $1 browser app
By Paul Hartsock, MacNewsWorld If you search for "browser" in the App Store, you'll get dozens of applications, each purporting to be an alternative to the iPhone and iPod touch's built-in Safari browser. In a sense, they are alternatives, since they look different and might have a few unique ...
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Will Firefox beat IE9 to Direct2D rendering?
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews It was a principal element of the Day 2 keynote at Microsoft's PDC 2009 conference last week in Los Angeles: an early demonstration of code being worked into Internet Explorer 9 that replaces the browser's outdated reliance upon the (very) old GDI rendering ...
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Action Replay maker sues Microsoft for Xbox 360 'predatory technological barriers'
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Microsoft's Xbox 360 is no longer compatible with the first -- and only -- third party memory card, Datel's Max Memory, after the distribution of a Dashboard software update. In response, Datel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. "Microsoft has taken ...
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Where there's smoke: Apple warranty stance raises troubling questions
By Carmi Levy , Betanews I'm the last person who would ever come out in support of smoking. It's a noxious, nasty habit that according to the US Centers for Disease Control kills 443,000 Americans every year. The CDC says smoking is the root cause of over 30% of all cancer-related deaths, 80% ...
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Can you come up with a better brand for AOL than 'Aol.'?
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews The new, much maligned "Aol." logo has upped its failworthiness. Newest buzz: A 27-year-old with no marketing expertise was the driving force behind AOL becoming Aol.; that has many people wondering what the company was thinking. Age isn't so much concern as lack of ...
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AOL's decision to rebrand as Aol. takes a bad brand and makes it worse
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Not since AT&T; gobbled up Cingular and rebranded as at&t; with that ugly Death Star-like logo has a company erred so far from sensibility. The new AOL brand, Aol., is coming soon to frighten you. AOL's attempt to be hip is anything but. Not that AOL, distributor of a ...
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Microsoft's Bob Muglia and Ray Ozzie on Silverlight vs. standards
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Last week at Microsoft's Professional Developers' Conference, Betanews had the honor of being invited to join a small cadre of reporters -- including noted blogger Long Zheng; TechCrunch's Steve Gillmor; and our good friend from SD Times and Technologizer, ...
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Uh-oh, netbooks -- not Windows 7 -- will lift 2009 PC sales
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Gartner is just full of bad news that will suck Windows PC manufacturers' thanks out of American Thanksgiving -- and Christmas along with it. Ho Ho Ho Ba Humbug. Today, the analyst firm predicted that based on fourth-quarter PC shipment estimates, for 2009, the market ...
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Microsoft's .NET Micro Framework is now free and open source
By Jack M. Germain, TechNewsWorld Microsoft announced at its Professional Developer Conference on Tuesday the release of version 4.0 under the Apache 2.0 license. The license transfer makes good on a longstanding promise from Redmond that it would make the popular .NET code base available as ...
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Google's value proposition for Chrome OS: Should we feel insulted?
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Let's be absolutely honest and straightforward about this right up front: Google Chrome OS is not an operating system . It's a device, like the iPhone, only that Google wants to license its specifications to OEMs. Any OEM that builds it is making a Chrome ...
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10 things about Microsoft's PDC 2009: The good, the bad and the ugly
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Microsoft's 2009 developer conference wrapped up yesterday in Los Angeles. Not since PDC 2003 has Microsoft talked so much and said so little. As I listened to the keynotes and have reviewed the sessions, words "series finale" repeatedly popped into my head -- like a ...
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E-book readers will be in short supply this holiday season
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Black Friday is just a week away and the demand for ebook readers looks to already be too great. Earlier this week, Sony said its 3G-connected Daily Edition Reader may not arrive in time for the holidays. Preorders for the device began on Wednesday, but it will ...
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Sony looks to finally open a single storefront for downloads
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Sony yesterday discussed its plans to open a download shop similar to iTunes or Amazon Digital Downloads. Reportedly given the tentative name "Sony Online Service," the online store would make the many different types of Sony digital content available in a single ...
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Tuning out the tablet: Time to give the endless speculation a rest
By Carmi Levy , Betanews I'm sure I'm not the only one who looks at renderings of Apple's long-rumored tablet - or iTablet, or whatever name the faithful have assigned to it this week - and wishes the FedEx truck would pull up to my door with an early demo in time for the holiday season. I'm ...
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