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Monday, 27th October 2008

Ray Ozzie Announces Windows Azure - "Windows in the Cloud"

Ray Ozzie opened the Microsoft PDC '08 this morning with a keynote speech. In it he announced Windows Azure, Microsoft's "Windows in the cloud". It is a new service based operating environment. He described it as a massive highly scalable service platform. What is being released today is just a fraction of what it will become. It will be…

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Google Earth Comes to the iPhone

Google just released an iPhone version (iTunes link) of its popular Google Earth desktop mapping application. We have seen a wide range of interesting iPhone applications lately, but few have been as impressive as Google Earth on the iPhone. Google has taken the basics of the Google Earth interface and brought them to the iPhone. The app feels…

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Some of The Smartest Companies on The Internet Sponsor ReadWriteWeb

Here at ReadWriteWeb, we work hard to provide you with the smartest Internet news and reviews each and every day. The sponsors that give us the opportunity to spend our time writing are companies that appreciate the thoughtfulness of the whole community here, including our readers. Once a week we like to write a post about them; here's who they…

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Sunday, 26th October 2008

Go Virtual Window Shopping at Amazon's New Windowshop.com

Amazon's Windowshop.com is a new site introduced late last week which allows you to virtually browse through the best-selling Amazon.com products in various categories. You can scroll through the content and zoom in and out on product previews in a style that very much reminds of how the Cooliris browser plugin works. With Windowshop.com, you can…

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Qik Teases BlackBerry Users with Alpha for Pearl and Bold

Qik, the service that turns mobile phones into handheld streaming video cameras, is pushing to make mobile streaming video accessible to the masses - no matter what handset they're carrying. Earlier this month, Qik announced that it had added support for consumer-focused phones - generally falling outside the "smart phone" category - like the…

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