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[New Gadgets and Gizmos] MS Plots iPhone Rival, Vista PR, as MobileMe Draws Flak: In a memo distributed to Microsoft employees Wednesday, CEO Steve Balmer said Apple is good at “providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience.” As a result, he wrote, Microsoft will work with hardware vendors to make sure there are “absolutely no compromises.”

[MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT NEWS] SILICON ALLEY INSIDER | A Glimpse At Microsoft's Gadget Projects ...: - Sean Alexander joins to talk about mobile advertising. Somehow convinced that mobile advertising going to be an awesome experience for consumers.

[Gadget & Tech News] Microsoft to Return Focus On Windows, Apple Rivalry: Besides that, Apple was singled out to be the primary focus of the Windows team noting that both the desktop operating system as well as Windows Mobile provide a choice of hardware but aren’t as tightly integrated as Mac OS X or iPhone and thus

[Silicon Alley Insider] A Glimpse At Microsoft's Gadget Projects: Xbox Avatars, Mobile Ads ...: Bach also talked up mobile advertising -- and had a colleague show off a wonky, unimpressive, ad-supported mobile video game -- a throwback to "Space Invaders," in which Microsoft's "clippy" character (from MSFT's Office apps) danced around the cellphone screen as Microsoft's Sean Alexander shot at Dorito chips. We hope there's more to mobile advertising than this.

[Gizmo Spot] MS Plots iPhone Rival, Vista PR, as MobileMe Draws Flak: In a memo distributed to Microsoft employees Wednesday, CEO Steve Balmer said Apple is good at “providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience.” As a conclusion, he wrote, Microsoft will work with hardware vendors to manufacture certain there are “absolutely no compromises.”

[L-experiences] Top 20 technology world blogs by wikio: Valleywag China commemorates attack on Olympian Nancy Kerrigan Live Search deal is Facebook's price for dropping Microsoft ads Apple's Product Red iPhone -- hey, that was my idea .

[The Origin of Brands Blog] iPhone 3G: Totally new: To me, the original launch of the iPhone directly pitted your idea of convergence against Seth Godin's idea of the Purple Cow. The iPhone on the one hand shouldn't have succeeded because it was a convergence device with Internet, phone, and music all-in-one, and on the other hand, it should have succeeded because it was an entirely new and innovative way to interact with my phone (You mean I can use my finger to surf the web!)

[l . i . n . k . e . r] Ballmer Hints at Zune Phone in Memo to Microsoft Employees: Microsoft has always tried to copy Apple, whether is the Windows which is a copy of Mac, or to the latest Microsoft Phone in the makin, they call it a zune phone!, it is supposed to have all the features the iphone has + something more. If you recall Zune was microsofts answer to the ipod.

[DotGizmo: The Best gadget Blog Posts] Microsoft to Return Focus On Windows, Apple Rivalry: Besides that, Apple was singled out to be the primary focus of the Windows team noting that both the desktop operating system as well as Windows Mobile provide a choice of hardware but aren't as tightly integrated as Mac OS X or iPhone and thus suffer for it. Microsoft also plans to improve PCs' experiences with cloud computing, or the integration of PCs with Internet platforms, as well as to wage a "long-term battle" in search versus Google.

[Sipy] HyperOffice for the Apple iPhone: Where iPhone 3G users can now sync email, calendars and contacts to personal desktop computers, HyperOffice transforms the iPhone into a business collaboration tool. At the office, at home or while traveling, users of the iPhone with HyperOffice may also share group and project calendars with team members and clients who also use Outlook and HyperOffice.

[L-experiences] Top 20 technology world blogs by wikio: 12.-The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) RiftVault 1.0 First South Carolina Apple Store to open Saturday Mac 101: Pairing/Unpairing Apple remotes Apple posts 3 new iPhone 3G ads: Everyone, Unslow, Work Friendly .

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