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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Embrace. Extend …. What Comes Next, Again?

In February, Microsoft surprised industry watchers and embraced the idea of data portability, throwing its support behind OpenID, a decentralized digital-identity protocol. This morning came the inevitable extension of that idea, the announcement of a partnership with five social networks on a new data-portability strategy.

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

And Trust Me, We Know All About Press Releases. Vista Was a Press Release for 6 Years.

When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told a departing Microsoft employee that he would “f*****g kill Google,” he forgot to mention that he planned to take his sweet time doing it.
Because here we are three years later, a few days after Google announced Android–an open mobile platform that could mean trouble for Windows Mobile, Google’s trading [...]

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The Tech 10: Wal-Mart Goes DRM-Free, MTV and RealNetworks Confront iTunes and a ‘Moviestar’ Is Born

Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won’t be writing or posting videos until he returns Monday. To keep you abreast of tech news while he’s away, we’re compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories. We’re calling it the Tech 10 and it appears here.

  1. Retailing behemoth Wal-Mart will sell digital-music downloads on its Web site without copy protection, Reuters reports. The so-called digital-rights management software insisted on by some record labels can stymie where the average user plays the songs.
  2. Taking on the juggernaut of iTunes, MTV and RealNetworks are forming an online digital music venture. According to The Wall Street Journal, Verizon Wireless has signed on as mobile distributor of the joint content.
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »

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