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Microsoft readies Office 2010 upgrade program

February 4th, 2010
An employee of the software maker briefly posted details of a "technology guarantee" program that will start next month. The post is now down, but lives on in a Google-cached version.

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Slacker Radio: Pandora’s Palm WebOS rival

February 4th, 2010
Streaming radio app Slacker Radio breaks into Palm's App Catalog for WebOS, creating rivalry for Pandora Radio.

Originally posted at The Download Blog

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Will you, like Sun’s CEO, become a Twitter quitter?

February 4th, 2010
CEO Jonathan Schwartz thought it best to announce his departure publicly via microblog. Was it offensive? Or might this be the start of a new trend?

Originally posted at Technically Incorrect

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PictureFox puts a little cover flow in your Amazon

February 4th, 2010
Tired of Amazon's clunky product image viewer? Check out PictureFox, a free Firefox add-on that turns Amazon product shots into a gorgeous, full-screen gallery.

Originally posted at Web Crawler

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Ex-Microsoft VP says Redmond a ‘clumsy’ innovator

February 4th, 2010
In a New York Times op-ed piece, former Tablet PC team member Dick Brass laments that people are turning to Apple, Amazon, and Google to find the next big thing.

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Microsoft gives researchers free Windows Azure access

February 4th, 2010
The software maker announces a partnership with the National Science Foundation to identify eligible cloud computing projects.

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Apple extends iTunes Web previews to apps

February 4th, 2010
Company now offering users a preview of what they can find in the App Store, but in their browser. The change comes just a few months after Apple first introduced the program for music albums.

Originally posted at Web Crawler

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Web video gets H.264 royalty reprieve

February 4th, 2010
The group that licenses the widely used H.264 video compression technology decides against adding a Web-streaming royalty charge that could have helped rival formats such as Ogg Theora.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

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