Windows Platform Blog
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Here's an interesting website: http://www.windowshop.com It's sort of like Cooliris meets multimedia. Basically, it's javascript-driven access to samples of Amazon's best-selling multimedia on a big interactive canvas. I'm sure it's...
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The iTunes store is testing a bargain bin for movie sales. Not only is it not easy to find in the iTunes store (I couldn't find a link from the front page), it's only for a limited time. To see what's available, go to the iTunes store and...
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"The Biggest Little City in the World," Reno, Nevada, is where AT&T has rolled out the latest in the Internet service provider's plan to impose download limits on high-consumption users. The caps, which include both upload and download...
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In perhaps the most novel way yet conceived to penetrate corporate firewalls, Sony/BMG in England has made available a portion of a promotional video of Australian mega-group AC/DC's "Runaway Train" available in Excel format. Yes, Excel...
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In the Boston area and parts of New Jersey, Comcast is introducing 50 Mbps Internet service. It's $139.90 per month and it's called "Extreme 50." Although it's nice to see really fast Internet arrive, it's puzzling that these...
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From Mike Nash at the Windows Vista Team Blog . . . as you probably know, since we began development of the next version of the Windows client operating system we have been referring to it by a codename, "Windows 7." But now is a good time to...
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From StorefrontBacktalk.com : Gen Y, a loose term for younger shoppers ranging in age from about 14 through 28, is a demographic that most retailers are unprepared for. That’s partially because this is the first segment that has never not known...
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New from Google Labs and Gmail is an option to prevent you from doing something you'll regret the next day - intoxicated emailing. How it works - once you enable it and specify the days it runs and the times it's in effect, before you're able...
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Google, stumping to find ways to make money out of YouTube, for which they paid $1.65 billion a couple of years ago, will be adding purchase links to music tracks contained in videos. These links will offer music purchases from iTunes and Amazon. In other...
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There's no section in the Skpe settings that specifies the start up and shut-down sounds. I have a multimedia Vista PC that I usually keep the sound turned up on, and that startup sound - whoosh! - and shutdown sound - anti-whosh! - got on my nerves...
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