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Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2
At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the ...
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Salesforce CEO chatters about new social media platform
At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and technology head Parker Harris show attendees Chatter, a new collaboration and ...
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Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the companys Flash software is coming to new devices ...
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NBC brings new media player features to Winter Olympics and NFL
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Vertigo CEO Scott Stanfield shows new HD video player features for the Winter Olympic Games, adding ...
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Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center
CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.
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Facebook COO sees economic models changing on the Web
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about the how the Web usage patterns are shifting from an ...
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U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current ...
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HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing
At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., HP CEO Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure ...
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Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One ...
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GE shows off mini ultrasound device
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, GE Chief Executive Jeff Immelt introduces a handheld ultrasound gadget called Vscan. Immelt believes that the ...
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Twitter CEO: Why he turned down Facebook
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams explains to Federated Media CEO John Battelle his rationale for turning down ...
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Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending
At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending ...
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Oracle announces Exadata 2
At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is ...
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Michael Dell brings self-service IT to the enterprise
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Dell CEO Michael Dell talks about how his company is delivering a more efficient enterprise with its services. ...
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Nokia jumps into Netbook game with Booklet 3G
This Windows 7 Netbook is set to arrive on October 22 for $299 with a two-year AT&T wireless contract.
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Sony unveils new Windows 7 Vaio PCs
Just in time for the launch of Windows 7, Sony throws a party for the new additions to its Vaio lineup, from touch-screen all-in-ones ...
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Microsoft unveils Windows Phone
Microsoft's Robbie Bach gives details on a new platform called Windows Phone that features a mobile app store. The company also unveiled updates to ...
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Windows 7, a better power saver?
At Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus, ZDNet's Sumi Das talks to Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, about power-saving features in the new Windows 7 ...
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Intel unveils the Net-savvy CE4100
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Eric Kim, senior vice president at Intel, revealed a new Atom-based CE4100 chip. It is designed ...
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Microsoft's new version of Silverlight on Moblin
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Microsoft General Manager Ian Ellison-Taylor and Intel General Manager Renee James show attendees Silverlight 3 running ...
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Peering inside Microsoft's giant data center
CNET's Ina Fried speaks to two of the designers of Microsoft's just-opened data center in Chicago.
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Facebook COO sees economic models changing on the Web
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about the how the Web usage patterns are shifting from an information model to a more social model, which benefits Facebook rather than Google. In the future, she adds, more Web users will glean referral information from friends rather than strangers.
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HP CEO: The challenges of cloud computing
At the Gartner Symposium in Orlando, Fla., HP CEO Mark Hurd talks about how the company plans to layer cloud services on its infrastructure in the future. However, with more than 1,000 hacks a day, security creates an important need on differentiating what they put in public versus private clouds. "We wouldnt put anything material in nature outside the firewall," Hurd says.
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U.S. CTO: Health care needs better billing systems
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Franicsco, U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra talks about IT changes that need to be made to the current health care system. He believes one of the biggest areas of waste is the money spent on billing within the system, with 17 cents of every dollar going towards medical billing. He says his department is working on solutions to reduce these costs.
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Adobe CTO: Flash in the future
At the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talks about how the companys Flash software is coming to new devices such as game consoles, smartphones, and TVs. Lynch says Adobe is working with chip vendors and TV manufacturers on a variety of different television platforms to bring more interactivity to the living room.
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Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One of the interesting features he introduces is "hottest topics." He explains that the Bing-Twitter search will aggregate information around the most popular links shared on any given topic.
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Microsoft unveils Windows Phone
Microsoft's Robbie Bach gives details on a new platform called Windows Phone that features a mobile app store. The company also unveiled updates to Zune HD and Xbox 360, including the ability to stream HD video to Microsoft's gaming console.
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Twitter CEO: Why he turned down Facebook
At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter CEO Evan Williams explains to Federated Media CEO John Battelle his rationale for turning down Facebook in October of 2008. He says, "he didn't see a reason to sellthe point is really what we can build."
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Windows 7, a better power saver?
At Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus, ZDNet's Sumi Das talks to Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, about power-saving features in the new Windows 7 operating system. Bernard says Microsoft made energy efficiency a core design element, with better battery optimization, and Bluetooth and DVD features that won't be activated until necessary.
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Sony unveils new Windows 7 Vaio PCs
Just in time for the launch of Windows 7, Sony throws a party for the new additions to its Vaio lineup, from touch-screen all-in-ones to pencil-thin luxury laptops.
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Apple expands DRM-free music selection
At Macworld 2009 in San Francisco, Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announces a new music price plan and an expanded selection of digital rights management-free songs in its iTunes Store. Users will be able to strip their existing DRM-wrapped music of the controversial copy protection software, but doing so will cost 30 cents per song.
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>> So what's new with iTunes in 2009? I'd like to tell you about 3 things today that are happening. First, price. As you know, we've worked with all the major music companies as well as thousands of independents and over the last 6 years, we've had one pricing model for all songs, 99 cents. And the music companies have told us they want more flexibility. So starting in April, we're gonna give them more flexibility because we're gonna create 3 pricing tiers. It'll still be 99 cents plus it'll be a pricing tier at 69 cents and at a dollar 29, and based on how they choose to offer us their music, we'll sell them at 69.99 and 1.29. And I can tell you we know already that more songs are gonna be sold or offered at 69 than 1.29. So there's gonna be a benefit for a lot of customers. It's not the first thing, what we're doing with price and that comes in April. The second thing we're doing, iTunes Plus. If you follow what we've done with iTunes Plus, you probably already know what iTunes Plus is but for those who don't, iTunes Plus is a way that we offer music that is completely DRM-free. You can put it on as many computers that you own. It's also encoded in a much higher quality bit rate, 256 KB encoding of AAC, so it's nearly indistinguishable from the original recording. And for customers that have already purchased music, iTunes Plus offers a really easy way to upgrade your whole library to iTunes Plus. But what's new today is that we've worked with all the major music companies and starting today we're going to offer 8 million of the songs all DRM-free, 8 million.
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>> And by the end of this quarter, we'll finish out the 2 million more in all 10 million songs of iTunes will now be DRM-free.
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>> Just in case so we didn't understand, I had to make one more slide on it.
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>> All songs will be DRM-free in iTunes and in the iTunes Plus.
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>> Now as I said, it's really easy to go in and upgrade your entire library to iTunes Plus and upgrade all your music to now being DRM-free. So that's iTunes Plus. That's the second thing. The third new thing happening with iTunes has to do with the iPhone. As you know in the iPhone we have the iTunes WiFi music store and it's the most popular wireless music store for buying music on devices like cell phones and you can go in and you can see what's hot, you can check the top albums and songs, you can find an album you wanna buy, buy the album, buy the song and now, with the iTunes music store, it's no longer the iTunes' WiFi music store, it's just the iTunes music store because it supports downloading and buying your music on both WiFi and 3G cellular networks.
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>> So that means you get access to all these songs at the same price. A lot of others don't do that, at the same price that we've talked about. It's the same selection, all that incredible over 10 million songs available to you right on your iPhone. It's the same quality, up to 256 KB encoding of AAC you get right over the air on your iPhone. This means that you can, on your iPhone, preview and purchase music now anytime, anywhere whether on WiFi or 3G networks. And whenever you sync your iPhone back to your computer, we sync back the music. It's the same music on your iTunes in your computer and iTunes on your phone. This is a really big step for wireless music on cell phones and that starts today. Today you can start using iTunes over your 3G network.
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