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Why Apple Needs a New Social Network
Technology firms play ping pong with their customers' affections. 2010 09 02 17:18

Low Mortgage Rates, Pampers: Hot Trends
'Low mortgage rates,' Pampers, 'oil rig explosion,' Burger King, 'Windows mobile phones' and 'retirement planners' are the trending topics on Google and Yahoo. 2010 09 02 17:12

($) How Microsoft Can Avoid the HPQ Trap
Increasing a regular quarterly dividend is better than special dividends and buybacks. 2010 09 02 17:00

6 Companies Hating the New iPod Touch
The new iPod touch is so cool, it makes other companies shiver. 2010 09 02 16:03

Delivering Happiness - A Billion Dollar Business Lesson From Zappos
Zappos wants to deliver happiness to the world in every way possible. This has helped the company reach way beyond its brand and reputation to a movement. 2010 09 02 14:59

As Chrome Turns Two, Google Celebrates
2010 09 02 14:58

Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks (Sept. 2)
Investors and traders in China's main financial district in Shanghai are talking about the following before the start of trade today:Industrial activity in China improved in August. The purchasing managers index of the China Federation of Logistics increased to 51.7 percent from 51.2 percent. Hints of economic improvement in China helped to boost the ... 2010 09 01 22:10

'Fast Money' Recap: A Bottom?
The trading panel discussed whether the market turned or whether it was a short squeeze. 2010 09 01 18:57

Microsoft at PAX Prime in Seattle: booths, schedule, map
On my plane Monday from L.A. to Sea-Tac, I sat next to a nerdy gentleman who was visiting Seattle for the first time. His destination? The Penny Arcade Expo.

Gartner cuts second-half PC shipment growth outlook
Research firm Gartner has cut its PC-shipment outlook for the second half of the year, but still expects worldwide PC sales to grow 19.2 percent over last year -- from 308.3 million in 2009 to 367.8 million in 2010. That prediction is down from earlier this year, when Gartner said it expected 376.6 million PCs to ship in 2010. "Recent dramatic shifts in the PC supply chain were in no small part a reaction to fears of a sharp slowdown in mature-market demand," Ranjit Atwal, Gartner research director ...

Lenovo to enter gaming with Ebox, an Xbox Kinect clone
It's a gaming console that uses sensors, cameras and sophisticated software to capture and record a gamer's movements, allowing them to play without controllers. It's Microsoft's Xbox 360 with Kinect the Ebox system from Beijing eedoo Technology, a Lenovo spin-off firm.

Q&A with Microsoft's China boss: Bing, Xbox, Apple, piracy
The Wall Street Journal caught up with Simon Leung, president and chief executive of Microsoft Greater China Region, to ask about Microsoft's expansion in what will likely soon be the world's largest software market. On the interview docket: Bing, Xbox 360, piracy, smart phones and Apple. Here's an excerpt.

Bill Gates pushes for R&D on renewable energy
Bill Gates is pushing for research into and investment in multiple energy solutions, not just one or two. "Without R&D investments, we are not going to be able to address climate problems in time," he told The New York Times. "We need solutions that are economic, reliable in almost all conditions and that work at scale." My colleague Amy Rolph wrote at more length about Gates' recent remarks over on The Big Blog.

Microsoft's bizarre concept video on the 'experience user interface'
I'm going to have to spend time figuring out just what the heck is going on in this Microsoft concept video about the "experience user interface."

Dude ... Microsoft enlists 'double rainbow' guy for Windows Live ad
OK, what marketing maven came up with this idea? Microsoft has enlisted Paul Vasquez, who likes to be called Bear but is best known to the world as the "double rainbow guy," for a new ad for Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Chrome the only mover (sorta) in newest browser shares
Up a few points, down a few points -- essentially flat. That's how the worldwide browser market-share numbers were for August. Only Google's Chrome moved in any significant way, its share rising 5 percent month to month.

Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 to manufacturers
Microsoft today said it has released Windows Phone 7 to hardware manufacturers, marking the last major milestone before the mobile operating system is launched for the holiday shopping season.

Apple TV to rival Xbox+Windows; Game Center to rival Windows Phone 7
PlayTo media streaming is an often-overlooked feature built into Windows 7. Xbox Live is being integrated into Windows Phone 7. And Apple now has products to rival both.

Windows 7 family-pack discount returning in October
Microsoft today said it will offer another "family pack" discount on Windows 7 starting Oct. 3, just about a year after first releasing the operating system. For $150, for a limited time, people can get three licenses for Windows 7 Home Premium, which they can use to upgrade their Windows XP or Vista PCs. The discount also will be available in Canada, France, Germany, Australia and the U.K. after Oct. 22, Microsoft said. Users can see what versions of Windows 7 can run on their computer via the ...

Today's Apple media event (live blog)
Apple is holding one of its famous media briefings at 10 a.m. today in Cupertino, Calif. There's no official word on what the company will announce, but most people are guessing it will have something to do with iTunes.

Microsoft (officially) announces Arc Touch Mouse
Surprise! Microsoft has produced the Arc Touch Mouse, a wireless mouse with a touch-sensitive scroll bar and a body that curls and straightens for easy transport.

Windows Live Sync now Windows Live Mesh ... again
A news item I missed while on vacation this weekend: Windows Live Sync, part of the Windows Live Essentials 2011 suite that's currently in its second beta, is getting some updates ... including a (sort of) new name: Windows Live Mesh. The name's not actually new -- Microsoft combined Sync and Mesh into one for the new suite, but initially called it Sync. I guess they changed their mind. Also new is a 5GB limit for online storage, instead of 2GB. More information from Microsoft is here. Reports from ...

Microsoft, Yahoo begin paid-search transition
Last week, Yahoo search officially became powered by Bing in the United States and Canada. We're talking organic search results -- those links not sponsored by an advertiser.

Delivering Happiness - A Billion Dollar Business Lesson From Zappos
Zappos wants to deliver happiness to the world in every way possible. This has helped the company reach way beyond its brand and reputation to a movement.

Co-worker Sabotage! How One Savvy Professional Turned a Dirty Trick Around
Ever been sabotaged by a co-worker? Check out these tips to overcome sabotage at work.

Allscripts Wants To Play Nice With The Competition
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions CEO Glen Tullman wants to share health care information with his newly expanded company's competitors.

Helping Small Businesses Use The Cloud
What vendors will win in the SMB space?

Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks (Sept. 2)
Investors and traders in China's main financial district in Shanghai are talking about the following before the start of trade today: Industrial activity in China improved in August. The purchasing managers index of the China Federation of Logistics increased to 51.7 percent from 51.2 percent. �� Hints of economic improvement in China helped to boost the [...]

VMWare Sees Big Business In Becoming The Internet Operating System
VMWorld offers a chance to catch up with VMware's business strategy.

Allscripts CEO On New Merger
Glen Tullman discusses the health IT provider's acquisition of Eclipsys.

Young, Cool and Techy Females
The number of women who study science, technology, engineering and math is increasing.

Public Vs. Private
EMC's Pat Gelsinger on the cloud computing models popular in the enterprise.

A Better Way To Manage All That Virtual Paperwork
Tame the entropy with Microsoft's Sharepoint 2010.

VMworld 2010: A Chat with Xsigo CEO Lloyd Carney
As part of my VMworld 2010 coveragge, I had a chance to chat with Xiso CEO Llyod Carney. Xsigo has been making a lot of noise in the virtualization and cloud computing industry for few years now, winning VMworld 2009 best of show finalist award amongst others. This year at VMworld, Xsigo has is announcing that its flagship product will now be supporting 10GbE.

IBM Names Itself Worst Company For Fixing Critical Software Security Bugs
After Google criticized the methodology of an IBM ranking of companies' software patching practices, the revised study points a finger back at IBM.

VMworld 2010: Day 0 - Registration & Warm up Party as a Service (WuPaas)
VMworld Day 0: Warm Up! Registration through Warm up Party as a Service, the atmosphere at VMworld 2010 is exciting and upbeat.

Just Schedule It Already!
Frankel's rules for scheduling meetings, dinners, movies, or any other get-together with colleagues, clients, friends, or family

Wikileaks Servers Move To Underground Nuclear Bunker
As the whistle-blower site prepares to release another trove of classified documents, it's looking for every protection it can find.

Microsoft Raises Price For Xbox Live Gold Membership
Microsoft raises the price of a premium subscription on the games network to $60 per year.

Early Diagnosis Of The P/E Problem
Today the WSJ discovered a P/E Problem Forbes saw nearly a year ago.

Intel-McAfee, Take Two
If the deal works as planned, it's likely just a first step in a multi-threaded strategy.

Lujiazui Breakfast: News And Views About China Stocks (Aug. 30)
Investors and traders in China's main financial district in Shanghai are talking about the following before the start of trade today: U.S. stocks rose on Friday after a week of poor economic news. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose on Friday by 1.65% to 10150.65.�Shanghai’s main stock�index�slid 0.3%. � Almost one trillion RMB of funds will be [...]

Best Questions To Ask In Your Job Interview
The five most important questions to ask at an interview--and a debatable no-no--so that you'll make the right impression and get the job offer.

The Inside Scoop on Paul Allen's Big Patent Lawsuit
Here is a quick analysis of today’s Paul Allen patent lawsuit from a court-certified commentator in the case. This is yet another example of the cynical use of the American legal system to extort money out of successful companies — in the name of protecting innovation and innovators. Shame on Paul Allen for being part of [...]

Paul Allen Is Suing Half Of Silicon Valley, Here's The Document Dump
Paul Allen is suing Google, Apple and others. We're publishing the legal documents.

Will the iPad Prevail in the Battle for Business Tablets?
The battle for dominance in business tablets has yet to be fought. Virtually all of the top tech companies will be in the ring.

Not Much Upside At AOL Thanks To AWOL Search Business
AOL is losing share in the Internet search market, where it competes with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.

Konami On Motion-Control Gaming
''Dance Dance Revolution'' publisher discusses Microsoft's Kinect, Sony's Move and social games.

Microsoft finalizes Windows Phone 7 code for fall release
Microsoft announced that the code base for Windows Phone 7 1.0 has been finalized. The software has been "released to manufacturing," meaning that this version is the one handset makers will deploy on the first devices to feature the radically redesigned mobile OS.

VMware customers cast a wary glance at Microsoft's virtualization tools
VMware customers attending VMworld are taking a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software, but say it would be problematic to start over after investing heavily in VMware.

Microsoft to VMware: Windows is still relevant in the virtualization era
Virtualization has not stripped Windows of its relevance, a Microsoft official said in response to VMware CEO Paul Maritz’s argument that operating systems are no longer the center of innovation in the IT world.

VMworld 2010: Virtualization, The Matrix, and the VMware/Microsoft rivalry
Ten highlights from VMworld, the massive virtualization conference.

IBM X-Force backs-off Google as major patch offender
IBM has overhauled its list of worst security patchers among software vendors, putting Microsoft at the top of its list and shifting Sun from No. 1 to No. 5.

VMware aims to displace Windows with cloud-based desktop apps
VMware is developing a new hosted service that will allow delivery of cloud-based desktop applications to any sort of user device.

VMware's ex-Microsoft exec Paul Maritz says Windows no longer center of innovation
Windows and operating systems in general have lost their status as the center of innovation in the IT industry, VMware CEO Paul Maritz, himself a former Microsoft executive, said as VMworld kicked off Tuesday.

Microsoft flaunts customer dumping VMware
Microsoft is touting customer CH2M Hill's plan to dump its VMware deployment in favor of Hyper-V.

Report: Sun, Microsoft and Mozilla leave the most vulnerabilities unpatched
Sun is the king of unpatched software vulnerabilities followed closely by Microsoft and Mozilla, according to the mid-year security report by IBM's X-Force.

Windows and Linux servers grow at Unix's expense
Demand for Windows and Linux servers is increasing at a rapid pace, at the expense of Unix servers and other non-x86 machines, according to IDC.

Anti-Google video ad on privacy running in Times Square

AOL renews deal with Google for search

Ex-Microsoft employee suing American Airlines for bad landing

[video] Intel's Hexed

Bid hopes help FTSE stay positive
[at Financial Times] - The outbreak of bid speculation on the London equities market continued to help the FTSE 100 stay positive on Friday, while its September rally faced a stern test from US data.

FTSE up for sixth day, U.S. payrolls in focus

Toshiba to Launch New Tablet Computer

Ex-Googler Lee Backs China Companies to Foster Startup Culture

EBay, Facebook, Vivendi, GM, Ford: Intellectual Property

A New Digital Battlefield

[$$] Google, AOL Extend Search Partnership
[at The Wall Street Journal] - Google, AOL Widen Alliance Google and AOL have reached a five-year global partnership pact, extending their cooperation into video and mobile search.

Why Apple Needs a New Social Network

Samsung tablet throws down gauntlet to iPad
[at Financial Times] - Samsung Electronics and Toshiba launched tablets to challenge Apple's iPad on Thursday as leading consumer electronics manufacturers said they could also compete with Apple on content, services and a greater range of devices.

6 Companies Hating the New iPod Touch

Most active Nasdaq-traded stocks
[AP] - A look at Nasdaq 10 most-active stocks at the close of trading: Applied Materials Inc. rose .7 percent to $10.79 with 19,072,200 shares traded.

Digital River stock up on Microsoft deal

FCC to finalize rules on 'white spaces' Web use

Speculators push up United Utilities and water groups
[at Financial Times] - United Utilities was among the risers as bid speculation helped the FTSE 100 inch higher to its fifth consecutive gain.

[$$] How Microsoft Can Avoid the HPQ Trap

U.S. Technology Companies Go Shopping Aboard to Avoid Taxes

Digital River shares boosted by Microsoft deal
[AP] - Shares of Digital River Inc. jumped Thursday after the company said it has extended and broadened its contract with Microsoft Corp.

U.S May Ease Path to New Devices for Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard

AOL and Google expand advertising deal
[at Financial Times] - AOL on Thursday renewed a deal with Google GOOG on internet search advertising, expanding it to include searching on mobile devices and on the YouTube online video service.

Think the Mouse Is Dead? Think Again With Microsoft’s Arc Touch Mouse
Microsoft’s newest mouse flattens to be the ultimate portable device.

Microsoft and Temenos Prove Scale of Support for the Largest Retail Banking Operations
Performance testing reveals revolutionizing technology options for large banks and dramatically reduces core banking transaction processing costs.

Microsoft Announces Upcoming Events with the Financial Community
Events with Microsoft leadership slated for September.

Microsoft Dynamics Cited as an Order Management Hub Solutions Leader by Independent Research Firm
Microsoft Dynamics AX is one of the vendors that provides strong support for end-to-end order management processes and forward-looking product strategies.

Customer Spotlight: CH2M HILL Expects to Save Millions Moving to Microsoft Virtualization Software
Global engineering firm expects to reduce server management by 30 percent with a switch to Microsoft from VMware.

Bing Launches Search for World of Warcraft Gamers
Bing launches a visual search gallery this week to help millions of World of Warcraft players find and learn about armor, weapons, and other in-game gear.

Microsoft Engkoo Helps Teach English to Chinese Internet Users
Engkoo, a new language assistance search technology released by Bing in China, helps Chinese speakers learn not just English words but the language itself, complete with slang and idioms.

Windows Phoenix Flies for Brief Moment at Flugtag
Windows Business Group employees designed, built and launched a human-powered aircraft in Red Bull’s Flugtag competition. The Windows Phoenix flew (briefly) in front of more than 100,000 people in Long Beach, Calif., on Saturday.

Windows 7 to Turn Up the Decibel(s) at Music Festival
Windows 7 will be a presenting partner for Decibel (dB) Conference, the educational component of the Seventh Annual Decibel International Festival of Electronic Music, Visual Art, and New Media.

I.R.S. Plan to Uncover Companies’ Tax Strategies
The I.R.S. plans to make companies provide a description of their uncertain tax positions and their rationale.

A Decade of Wooing Wins a Harlem Store for Target
Target, which opened its first Manhattan store last month, has made an ambitious effort to avoid local opposition that has hurt other big retailers.

Bing and Google in an Arms Race for Features
While Google is dominant in search, it has been watching Bing and in some cases mimicking some innovations.

Nuance Tweaks Its Dictation Software, Wringing Out Errors
The company Nuance offers a new version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, proving that even near-monopolies like to tinker with their products.

Even With All Its Profits, Microsoft Has a Popularity Problem
Microsoft’s success in selling software to big companies hasn’t impressed investors as much as new consumer products like Apple’s iPad.

Microsoft Reports a 48% Rise in Profits
The strong performance of Windows and Office software contributed to the company’s record sales of $15.7 billion in its last quarter.

Concern for Those Who Screen the Web for Barbarity
Internet companies must screen content submitted by users, and the firms that sell the screening services are weighing the emotional toll on their workers.

Technology Rivals Lobby to Break Microsoft’s Hold
A European plan to advise local governments on software purchases has set off a battle this summer between Microsoft and its rivals Google, International Business Machines, Red Hat and Oracle.

Lead Owner of the San Francisco Giants Relishes His Seat
Bill Neukom, 68, relishes his status as the lead owner of one of the more prestigious teams in baseball.

Smartphone Patent Suits Challenge Big Makers
Patent-holding company NTP is suing major players in smartphone market, including Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG and Motorola, charging that cellphone e-mail systems used by those companies are infringing on NTP's patented technology; critics say NTP has consistently inflated importance of their innovations, saying company produces no product or service other than licensing demands and lawsuits; NTP is best known for winning $600 million after long, drawn-out legal battle with BlackBerry mak...

A Youthful Market Spurns the Wares of Microsoft
Its recent cancellation of the Kin smartphone adds to a long list of product misfires — from watches to music players — that have plagued Microsoft’s consumer division.

SMARTER THAN YOU THINK; Computers That Listen to You Make Strides in Talking Back
Article in series Smarter than You Think; recent years have brought rapid progress in development of computers that can listen, speak, see, reason and learn, in their way; researchers like those at Microsoft's medical avatar project predict that artificial intelligence will transform the way humans and machines communicate, changing nature of work and daily routines; Microsoft research photos and chart demonstrate how avatar could be used to staff medical office; photos; illustrations

New in Gadgetry: 3-D Escapades Without Glasses
Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony demonstrated new technology at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video-game industry’s annual showcase.

Microsoft Introduces a Motion-Control Game System
Microsoft challenges Nintendo with a new camera-based, motion-control game system and an improved Xbox 360 console.

Awaiting Holidays’ Electronics (and Sales)
E3, the video games expo, will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. These products have prominent positions in the desktop computer market, with market share estimates as high as 90% or more as of 2003 for Microsoft Office and 2006 for Microsoft Windows. One of Bill Gates' key visions is "to get a workstation running our software onto every desk and eventually in every home"

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