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WINDOWS 7 SALES ARE GREAT (JUST LIKE VISTA SALES IN 2007) [FLASHBACK]

March, 2007 : Windows Vista ’s primary sales have been great, “more than doubling” those of the predecessor, Windows XP .

THIS WEEK ON TECHCRUNCH: REAL-TIME DISTRACTIONS, INDIAN OUTSOURCING, RUMOURS, LAYOFFS AND SCOBLE’S BRAVE NEW WORLD OF TWEETS

Honestly, it’s unfit to work in these conditions. I’m essay this from a TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp ; a one-day eventuality in San Francisco celebrating a joys of a ‘real-time’ web. Sounds awesome, right? It is. I’ve been on stage, heckling participants on a selling panel, I’ve been Tweeting from a audience, I’ve been following a live-blogging of a panels.

MY DREAM COFFEE CUP IS NOW REALITY [USB]

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THE ELLERDALE PROJECT MINES THE SEMANTIC WEB TO HELP YOU MAKE SENSE OF REAL-TIME STREAMS

Extracting definition from the Web is the formidable undertaking. Keyword poke skims the aspect of contextual definition that is sealed in Web pages, Tweets as well as feeds. That’s where semantic poke comes in. The semantic web deals with seeking over elementary links that have up the web to assimilate the deeper definition as well as context at the back of that content. The Ellerdale Project, that launched in alpha this past week, is anticipating to supplement context to poke by regulating semantic record to energy the real-time poke platform

THIS MICROSOFT STORE IS TRYING TOO HARD

This is embarrassing. Not usually have been a Microsoft Stores a transparent duplicate of Apple Stores, though right away a employees have been perplexing to be extemporaneous as well as stir up patron reactions with a uncanny bastardization of Improv Anywhere. See what we meant after a jump.

MICROSOFT’S LOSS, GOOGLE’S GAIN. DON DODGE GETS A NEW JOB

It was only eleven days ago which Microsoft’s “ambassador to startups” Don Dodge was laid off as partial of the broader workforce reduction. Last week he showed up in Silicon Valley to “see friends” as he put it. But it was transparent which he was additionally interviewing for jobs

IT’S GOOGLE’S WORLD AND HANDSET MAKERS JUST LIVE IN IT

When the Motorola Droid launched this month everybody was vacant which the association so down on the fitness was means to put together the well-designed phone using the powerful, “brand new” OS. The total package – hardware, software, as well as selling – seemed flawless.

ARCHOS 9 PMP SNEAKS INTO THE FCC, GETS DISSECTED WHEN CAUGHT

Archos has already done it extravagantly transparent which a Windows 7-based Archos 9 media player is US-bound, though only in box we were disturbed over legalities, this FCC filing should holder your highlight turn down a notch. Best of all, this sold entrance includes outmost as well as inner photographs, definition which a camera-toting employees inside of a deep, dim FCC labs have been essentially credited with doing a (admittedly messy) dissection. Shocking pixels await we in a review link, so have certain we go in entirely prepared. [Via jkkmobile ] Filed under: Handhelds Archos 9 PMP sneaks in to a FCC, gets dissected when held creatively appeared on Engadget on Sat, fourteen November 2009 09:43:00 EST.

GAMESTOP TO START TESTING GAME DOWNLOADS EARLY NEXT YEAR

GameStop has been dropping hints about the digital download skeleton for the small whilst now, though it looks to have finished the many endless as well as central articulate about the make the difference nonetheless during the new BMO Capital Management Digital Entertainment conference, where it reliable which it will begin contrast the module “early subsequent year” with kiosks in an vague series of stores. That module will assumingly work in as well as with services “such as Microsoft Corp’s Xbox Live as well as Sony Corp’s PlayStation Network,” as well as will concentration essentially on appendage calm rsther than than full diversion downloads. Why’s that, we ask? Well it seems which GameStop thinks “a vast marketplace for full diversion downloads is not imminent, (but) the appendage downloadable marketplace will grow” — the perspective which a little would patently desire to talk about with. [Via Joystiq ] Filed under: Gaming GameStop to begin contrast diversion downloads early subsequent year creatively appeared on Engadget on Fri, thirteen November 2009 02:33:00 EST.

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