Monthly Archives: August 2006

Windows Live ‘Agora’ to Take Cues From Xbox Live Marketplace

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From Microsoft Watch: When we first stumbled onto the Windows Live 'Agora' code name a month or so ago, we weren't quite sure what...

Update: Microsoft’s Availability Plans for Vista 5536

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Following some confusing back-and-forth with Microsoft, we believe we now have an accurate update on exactly who is designated to receive (legally) Windows Vista...

Microsoft Readies Windows Live Marketplace

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Microsoft is expected to field a public beta of its new "Windows Live Marketplace" site, possibly as early as Aug. 28. Code-named Agora—the Greek term...

Microsoft Seeks Testers for ‘Windows Live Essentials’

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Here's yet another new Windows Live service that Microsoft is launching. Known as "Windows Live Essentials" – not to be confused with Office Live...

Toshiba to Manufacture Microsoft Zune Devices

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Looks like Microsoft won't be taking a page from its Xbox playbook – not in its entirety, at least – with its Zune portable...

Lessons of Katrina

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The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, spurred enterprises to new kinds of thinking about disaster recovery. Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall Aug. 29,...

Robot-Based System Streamlines Genetic Testing

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A trio of companies is offering a genetic-testing system that sounds like the height of high tech. A robot will perform a series of...

Katrina: What Have We Learned?

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Tom Oreck began shopping for a second manufacturing facility for vacuum cleaner maker Oreck in December. Tulane Universitys Paul Barron now plans for a...

Digging Out from Telecom Mess

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Fourth Dell Executive Joins Lenovo

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Lenovo Group has poached its fourth Dell executive and will tap him to lead a new business unit that will address customer service. Christopher J....