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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

WebbAlert : Interesting News Bits








Microsoft announced Office Live Workspace, which is basically an online document sharing system. TechCrunch and Read/Write Web are a little less than impressed, but the Between the Lines blog and InsiderChatter are a little more supportive.

Not wanting to feel left out of the mad dash for office suites, Adobe bought the maker of Buzzword.

eBay is not as excited about Skype as it once was. In fact, I think they're rather sorry about the whole thing.

An interview with Joost CEO Mike Volpi.

The techworld has a new Hot 100. Oh, here's the old Hot 100. TechCrunch has the write-up.

Radiohead's new album costs whatever you want to pay. Bob Lefsetz hopes it's for real.

Uh Oh, there STILL may not be enough Wii's for the holidays

Nintendo can't make Wii's, but they sure can make DS's. They sold more than 50 million of 'em in 3 years. That's twice as many as the poor PSP.





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Monday, October 01, 2007

WebbAlert : Interesting News Bits





Apple software upgrades are supposed to help you, but the latest one killed all third party software, such as GPS software that 80,000 people downloaded. This software isn't technically illegal but Apple is allowed to make whatever rules it wants. Gizmodo and Machinist both say forget about the iPhone.

The Internet can be dangerous to an oppressive regime, so the government of Myanmar shut it off. Fortunately there are still a few sites left reporting.

You can't deposit funds at Netbank anymore, but you can get a job there.

Disney's cell phone service going the way of Steamboat Willie.

Gamedaily estimates Microsoft sold 2.34 million copies of Halo 3 in 24 hours.

Newt Gingrich made a visit to Second Life. Yes, it was totally strange.

All Hail Elmosapien!


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