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Microsoft-Tellme: How the deal went down

News.coms Ina Fried has some of the inside story on how the Microsoft-Tellme deal went down on Superbowl Sunday. It was only a few hours before kickoff on Super Bowl Sunday, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasnt at home getting ready to watch the Bears take on...

Tags: Tellme Networks Inc., Microsoft Corp., News.coms Ina Fried

Blog posts 2007-03-15

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Report: Vista's business sales stronger than expected

Sales of Windows Vista to businesses were stronger than expected during the operating systems debut month, according to a report from NPD Group. The sales outpaced the first months tally for Windows 2000 and only slightly trailed that for Windows XP, the market researcher said Thursday. News.coms Ina Fried reports....

Tags: General, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, sales

Blog posts 2007-01-11

CES: Gates and team show off Microsoft's consumer chops

Ive been watching the Bill Gates keynote from CES. He declared that next year will be his last CES keynote, as he devotes his time to his foundation, unless the CES powers that be want a speech about eliminating infectious diseases from the planet. At the top of his keynote...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Game players, Intellectual property, Desktops, Microsoft Corp., team, Microsoft Windows Vista, Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft Xbox, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows

Blog posts 2007-01-07

I guess "squirting" (a la Zune) didn't turn out to be so fashionable

Its no secret that since its first weeks out around Thanksgiving, Microsofts Zune iPod-killer isnt exactly flying off the shelves. Today, News.coms Ina Fried reports that Microsoft appears poised to reach deeper into its warchest in hopes of driving more buyers to Zune:...now that the music player has spent a...

Tags: Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft, Apple, Berlind, Hollywood on Demand, Entertainment, Wired & Wireless, Personal Technology, General

Blog posts 2006-12-12

Doctorow: Only masochists will buy Microsoft's Zune

So far, by the looks of Microsofts official site for Zune (which will no doubt get activated with a full blown iTunes Music Store-like store come Zunes anticipated launch date of Nov 15), Microsofts fashion strategy for Zune which is it really what it needs to succeed is to go...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Mobile, Entertainment, Digital Restrictions Management, Hollywood on Demand, Microsoft Zune

Blog posts 2006-11-06

Microsoft's PlaysForSure partners in denial?

Last week, just before signing of on Friday, I pointed to the news that Microsoft had confirmed it's intentions to launch it's own portable media playback device. At that time, there were already a few reports on the Web including the original newsbreaker on Billboard Magazine but no...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., PlaysForSure

Blog posts 2006-07-25