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Microsoft's (MSFT) technical picture has been somewhat concerning in recent years, with the stock struggling to break through resistance levels, including the 30 level since 2002. The company's 10-month and 20-month moving averages have failed to provide significant support, leaving investors with limited options. Despite a
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AOL's new blogging network, bloggingstocks.com, is on a mission to provide investors with unconventional insights into eight well-known stocks, including Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Led by Web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, the site enlists bloggers, nonmainstream analysts, and journalists to share their thoughts on the companies. Calacanis, who
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Microsoft has launched a robust music service called Urge, which partners with MTV's 2-million-plus song catalog and integrates with new portable music players from Creative, iRiver, and others. The service offers a "all-access" subscription for $14.99 per month or individual song downloads for 99 cents
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Global corporations have announced significant investments in India's telecom and IT sectors, according to data compiled by the Ministry of Communications and IT. The investments, totaling $8.6 billion, are expected to boost the country's growth in these sectors. A consortium of non-resident Indians has proposed
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Ingate Systems has launched the MEDIAtor, a configuration of the Ingate SIParator, which enables companies to support media traversal for Federated and Remote users on Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) Access Proxy. This innovation extends the use of Live Communications functions, including Internet telephony and video, even for enterprises using
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The technological landscape is witnessing a titanic corporate clash between Microsoft and Google, two powerhouses vying for dominance in the realms of computing and Internet services. This rivalry has sparked concerns that Microsoft's past successes may be an anchor holding the company back, making it vulnerable to the
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Nintendo's upcoming Wii console is gaining attention as a strong contender in the next-generation game console war, analysts say. The console, announced this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, is expected to detail its strategy for Wii and how it plans to compete with rivals
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Layer 7 Technologies, a leader in XML Security and Networking, has announced successful Web Services Policy (WS-Policy) interoperability with top Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) application and middleware vendors, including SAP, IBM, BEA, Sun, and Microsoft. This achievement marks a significant milestone in the adoption of WS-Policy, an emerging W3C standard
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Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console is poised to revolutionize the gaming experience by supporting the delivery of high-definition (hi-def) video through an external HD DVD drive and its online subscription service, Xbox Live. The company announced its plans to release the HD DVD drive at the Electronic Entertainment
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At the National Association of Broadcasters convention, AMD showcased the growing momentum for AMD64 technology adoption in broadcast and digital media pipelines for the production, management, and distribution of digital media content. Solutions based on Dual Core AMD Opteron processors provide high performance-per-watt, low latency, high scalability, and lower power
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At the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) demonstrated its growing momentum in the broadcast and digital media industries through its Dual Core Opteron processor-based solutions. AMD showcased numerous customers and ecosystem solution providers whose systems are breaking down performance barriers while reducing power
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EBay, the world's largest online auctioneer, is considering a "mega-merger" with Yahoo! and Microsoft to counterbalance Google's growing power in the online market. The talks, which were initiated last autumn, aim to reallocate eBay's $400 million global online marketing spending towards its
