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CNET - With a tough economic climate figuring to put a crimp on IT spending, Microsoft is already working on honing a message that it can help businesses save money.

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Microsoft exec: Challenging times play to our strengths
(CNET)

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Reuters - Wannabe rock stars will have a greater choice of instruments and songs to choose from as videogames like “Guitar Hero World Tour” and “Rock Band 2″ introduce new features.

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A virtual battle of the bands
(Reuters)

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NewsFactor - For people who worry that it’s impossible to escape from Google’s amazing search capabilities, the ability to hide just got harder. Last month, Google helped sponsor the launch of the high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. After a month of calibration and testing, the satellite’s first image was released Friday by Satellite Imaging, a Houston-based remote sensing and survey company.

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Yoo-Hoo! Google’s Satellite Can See You Much Better
(NewsFactor)

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NewsFactor - Mozilla is doing its part in the battle against clickjacking. The open-source company is offering an updated plug-in for the Firefox browser that blocks what security researchers call one of the most dangerous problems on the Web.

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Firefox Plug-In Updated To Fight Clickjacking Attacks
(NewsFactor)

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NewsFactor - Research In Motion and its U.S. carrier, AT&T, are being careful to avoid the problems Apple had with its launch of the iPhone 3G.

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RIM, AT&T Want Bold 9000 To Avoid iPhone Woes
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InfoWorld - Shedding more light on its Oslo vision for model-based software development, Microsoft this week elaborated on plans to preview Oslo technologies, offering codenames and citing the company’s DSL (Domain Specific Languages) concept as a lynchpin of the platform.

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Microsoft elaborates on Oslo
(InfoWorld)

posted by on Oct 9

AP - IBM Corp. sold $3.9 billion in bonds on Thursday, a sign that the stalwarts of the corporate world are still finding lenders.

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IBM sells $3.9 billion in corporate bonds
(AP)

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AP - Even after IBM Corp. surprised Wall Street with a healthy profit in the third quarter and a reaffirmation of its earnings outlook for the rest of the year, the broader technology sector dived again Thursday. There’s just not enough of what lifted IBM to go around.

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Despite IBM profits, a tech gloom still looms
(AP)

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NewsFactor - Microsoft is raising Xbox 360 forecasts in Japan amid rumors Sony might drop the price of its PlayStation 3 even more. Meanwhile, Microsoft is planning to release an Xbox 360 with a Blu-ray drive, putting it on more equal digital-media footing with its main rival.

Microsoft, Sony will Launch Competing Virtual Worlds
(NewsFactor)

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The Motley Fool - Back when houses were making money hand over fist and everyone looked like a stock market genius, who had time to read all the fine print on that other stuff — you know, like cell-phone contracts and car lease clauses?

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Save Money by Dumping Dud Deals
(The Motley Fool)

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AP - Micron Technology Inc. will close a factory and cut about 15 percent of its work force around the world as part of a restructuring of its computer memory chip operations.

Micron Tech cuts global work force by 15 percent
(AP)

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AP - Stocks mostly declined Thursday, though with far less severity than in recent sessions, as weakness in the financial, energy and health care sectors overshadowed gains by technology issues.

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Stocks mostly lower as GM declines; Techs rise
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AP - Wall Street headed for a strong open Thursday after IBM Corp. reaffirmed its profit outlook and investors hoped the government might take ownership stakes in banks to help stabilize the financial industry.

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Wall Street appears headed for higher open
(AP)

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Reuters - IBM posted a higher-than-expected preliminary quarterly profit and affirmed its full-year outlook, calming some fears that the financial crisis is sparking a meltdown in technology demand.

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IBM’s earnings strength calms tech jitters
(Reuters)

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AP - Two former software executives grossly overstated their company’s revenue to attract more than $50 million in private investment, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding that the fraud was uncovered late last month when a worker found a set of cooked financial books as she was cleaning out a desk.

40 laid off at software company as execs arrested
(AP)

posted by on Oct 8

AFP - Microsoft’s research arm and a set of US universities are creating a first-of-its-kind institute devoted to using videogames to teach math, science and engineering to school children.

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Microsoft backs using videogames as teaching tools
(AFP)

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Reuters - IBM reported on Wednesday preliminary third-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ expectations, and it affirmed its full-year profit outlook, sending shares up 4 percent.

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IBM preliminary profit beats expectations
(Reuters)

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CNET - On Wednesday, HBGary announced that
Andy Purdy has joined their advisory board.

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Former ‘cyber czar’ goes corporate
(CNET)

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AP - In the world of sports video games, not much can really change year to year. The game at its core is the same, but it’s what video-game developers add that makes it worth spending the cash.

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‘NHL 09′ first star in hockey franchise
(AP)

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AP - Two former software executives have been arrested and charged with wire fraud. Prosecutors say the men falsely inflated their company’s revenue to attract venture capital.

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2 former software executives charged with fraud
(AP)