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360 games to be installable to HDD News by
Microsoft has decided to let you install your Xbox 360 games to your hard drive. Xbox Live boss Marc Whitten revealed the feature on the Major Nelson blog , and boasted about it improving load times and stopping the need for the drive to make lots of spinning noise.
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EBay scores victory in Internet trademark case
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc scored a major legal victory on Monday when a federal judge absolved it of taking more steps to police fake Tiffany jewellery sold on its website and held that brand owners are ultimately responsible for protecting their own trademarks.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Sep 2007 20:01 UTC
Just weeks ahead of its public launch, Apple has updated the minimum system requirements for its next-generation Leopard operating system to exclude 800MHz PowerPC-based Macs, AppleInsider has learned.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Nov 2006 11:18 UTC
Last week, Microsoft announced that Windows Vista went gold, and was released to manufacturing. The release has been long coming (five years of work) and was surrounded by controversies, rumours of rewrites, and legal threats by Microsoft's competitors.
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E-commerce veterans launch a web design and development firm
Scott Robertson and Steve Thallman have launched Grand River, a web design and development company that specializes in e-commerce solutions for retailers and consumer brand manufacturers.
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CrossView names former Stylin’ Concepts web exec as director of marketing
E-commerce technology provider CrossView Inc. has hired Roy Bielewicz, former director of Internet marketing at Stylin’ Trucks, a retailer of automotive accessories, as director of marketing.
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Microsoft, Icahn Reply To Yahoo's Rejection
Microsoft and Yahoo both employ intelligent, well-educated men and women. Carl Icahn's pretty sharp, too. Recent acquisition dealings seem to have turned a great many people into finger-pointing fifth graders, though, and there's been another salvo of letters and statements to support this argument. read more
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Google exec says Yahoo deal won't expand its lead
A Google executive defends the company’s proposed search advertising partnership with Yahoo in prepared congressional testimony.
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FreshDirect’s chairman hopes to deliver the goods in bigger role
Online grocer FreshDirect LLC has announced that its chairman, Rick Braddock, is expanding his role to become the company’s new CEO. Braddock has been chairman of the New York-based company since 2004 and is also a significant investor in the business.
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One million users sign up for DED's eServices
DUBAI — The Information Technology Division at the Department of Economic Development (DED) announced that the DED's eServices launched at its web site have received strong response from customers, with over 1 million users logging in during the first six months of 2008.
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Icahn, Microsoft say Bostock twisted facts about weekend negotiations [Yahoo Raid]
In a letter to Yahoo shareholders, corporate raider Carl Icahn writes that he's never seen a company "distort, omit and twist" facts quite the way Yahoo did in a statement the company released... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Julia Allison's Wired cover -- yes, it's real [Internet Famous]
We knew you'd ask. So I called Wired executive editor Bob Cohn: He confirmed. August 2008, undeserving Internet fame recipient Julia Allison hits the newsstands, becoming an undeserving print fame... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Palm unveils new Treo in shadow of iPhone debut
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Palm Inc on Monday introduced a new high-end Treo mobile phone, hoping to challenge the BlackBerry's dominance with business users, but its debut fell in the shadow of the launch of Apple Inc's debut of its less pricey new iPhone which sold more than 1 million units over the weekend.
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E3 2008: Microsoft Unveils New 360 Dashboard, Avatars
Microsoft's answer to Nintendo Miis confirmed, along with new 360 dashboard features.
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EBay scores victory in Internet trademark case
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc scored a major legal victory on Monday when a federal judge absolved it of taking more steps to police fake Tiffany jewelry sold on its website and held that brand owners are ultimately responsible for protecting their own trademarks.
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Court Clears eBay in Sale of Counterfeit Items
Ruling against the jeweler Tiffany, a judge said eBay does not have to actively filter counterfeit items from its site.
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In Bid for Yahoo, Microsoft Turns More Aggressive
Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft’s new proposal to buy Yahoo’s search business.
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Play From Hard Drive: Microsoft Allowing Full Installs of All Games on Xbox 360 [Play From Hard Drive]
From a luncheon with Microsoft, we just learned that Microsoft will begin allowing full Xbox 360 game installs on ANY game with a new feature called "Play From Hard Drive." To avoid too much game...
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More Xbox 360 Goods: Play Games Directly From Hard Drive, Live Marketplace Online Purchases [Xbox 360]
Microsoft dropped a bunch of awesome bombs in their keynote, but there's more! Marc Whitten reveals that you'll be able to copy games and play them directly off the hard drive for faster loads,...
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Coming of age
Microsoft India is knocking on the doors of adulthood, hoping to find its own identity as distinct from its Redmond parent. Microsoft has seldom been good at making predictions.
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Isolated N.C. County Gets Wired
Living in a rural community is a larger impediment to Internet use than either race or class. The isolated rural community of Greene County, N.C., turned itself upside down to get its citizens online in five short years.
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Microsoft and Netflix Unveil Partnership to Instantly Stream Movies and TV Episodes to the TV via Xbox LIVE
Exclusive agreement creates game-changing home entertainment experience; more than 10,000 movies and TV episodes will be available to watch instantly at no additional cost to paying subscribers.
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AmeriGas Partners, L.P. to Hold Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast on July 30
VALLEY FORGE, Pa.----AmeriGas Partners, L.P. will hold a live Internet Audio Webcast of its conference call to discuss third quarter earnings and other current activities at 4:00 PM ET on Wednesday, July 30, 2008.
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Square Enix to offer 'Final Fantasy XIII' for Xbox
LOS ANGELES, July 14 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said Square Enix Co <9684.T> would launch the "Final Fantasy XIII" for its Xbox 360 video game console, sharing the upcoming version of the blockbuster role-playing game with Sony Corp's <6758.T> PlayStation3 (PS3).
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Xbox 360 Unveils Gameplay for Every Passion
Microsoft showcases groundbreaking approach to game shows; 'Final Fantasy XIII' to be available on Xbox 360 at launch in North America and Europe.
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