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Stocks : (F)(SNE)(MSFT)(CAG)(TRB)(NWS)(LINTA)(AAPL)(TWX) According to Reuters, Ford will offer buyouts to about 75,000 workers at its US plants. Reuters writes that Nintendo is offering competition to Sony's Playstation and Microsoft's Xbox with a new video game platform that is priced below other products, the Wii. According to Reuters, ConAgra will close five plants and cut 400 workers. The Wall Street Journal reports that News Corp is in takes with Liberty Media about exchanging its share of DirecTV for Liberty's share of News Corp. The WSJ writes that Microsoft unveiled its new Zune multimedia player. The product will be in stores for the holiday season to compete with the Apple iPod. The WSJ also reports that The Tribune Company is near a settlement with one of its largest shareholders, the Chandler family. The settlement would give the Chandlers the real estate on which many of the company's papers now sit. The New York Times reports that The Guidant Corp has settled a fraud suit over its defibullator devices. The New York Times also reports that Ted Leonsis, a Vice Chairman at Time Warner unit AOL and one of its longerst serving employees will give up his operating duties. Douglas A. McIntyre cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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Lucent Technologies, soon to be part of French concern Alcatel, has filed suit against Microsoft Corp. for patent infringement over technology used in its Xbox 360 game console. At the center of the dispute is Patent No. 5,227,878, "Adaptive Coding and Decoding of Frames and Fields of Video." Lucent claims Microsoft is using its patented technology in the Xbox 360's built-in MPEG-2 decoding capability. MPEG-2 is the latest industry standard for encoding video found on DVDs. There was previous litigation over the '878 patent; a judge last year granted summary judgment in Microsoft's favor because of a typographical error in the patent. Lucent has since corrected the error with the USPTO and received an official patent correction notice, according to the most recent court filing. One commenter on the macworld story stated: Well, at the very least, I imagine the lawyer who left that typo in the original patent document got fired. A different commenter effectively noted the "troll-like" behavior of Lucent: a company like Lucent makes most of its money from its patented products being licensed or paid for somehow by others who use it in their products. A company like MS makes money by trying to screw other companies as long as and hard as possible until a court says no, and even then... Query: is Lucent like NTP or MercExchange when it enforces a patent (whose claims cover no product of Lucent) against someone who does make a product allegedly falling within the scope of the claims? Separately, while Lucent and Microsoft are getting ready to spar, one notes that P&G and Coke are settling. According to an AP report: Procter & Gamble Co. has settled a lawsuit against Coca-Cola Co. that claimed the beverage maker was using P&G's patented technology that adds calcium to fruit juices. The lawsuit, filed in May 2002, said Coca-Cola's Minute Maid juice division was violating P&G's 1988 patent. P&G said that it had exclusively licensed the patented technology to Tropicana Products Inc., a division of Pepsi-Co Inc. cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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Via Thomas Hawk : USATODAY.com - Microsoft to offer two Xbox 360 options : "Video gamers pining for Microsoft's new Xbox 360 game system will have two different options to choose from, a fully-equipped $399.99 package that includes a 20 Gigabyte hard drive and a stripped-down $299.99 version." cheap corel draw cheap office

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Via eWeek: Drum roll, please! After endless speculation, musings and fanboy bitching, Microsoft has finally coughed up the North American and European pricing for its next-generation console, Xbox 360. You might want to sit down for this one. Last-minute rumors from the analyst crowd have actually turned out true; there will be two different hardware models at launch: Xbox 360 Core System priced at $299.99 (299.99 Euros / 209.99 pounds) and the Xbox 360 for $399.99 (399.99 Euros / 279.99 pounds). Scroll down further for all the juicy pricing information for the hefty list of launch-slated Xbox 360 accessories. Start savin' those pennies now, kids. cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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Via Thomas Hawk: Microsoft Has New Mission for Media Center Chris Lanier links to an eWeek article on the Media Center roll out. Although I'd love to beat the drum on this one I think the key ingredient still missing is premium HDTV (no surprise here from those that read this blog). "Price has played a major role in the increase in shipments of Media Center PCs seen of late. Manufacturers began offering the operating system in under-$1,000 desktops earlier this year, leading to huge year-over-year leaps in Media Center sales at retail in the United States, analysts said." Ummm... yes and no. Certainly opening up the operating system to any OEM on any PC vs. the previous method of only allowing approved PCs has been more responsible than anything. This is not new news with the rollout. Add to the fact that Dell and Gateway now configure all desktop PCs with Media Center by default and you get the numbers. The more meaningful number in my perspective is how many people are actually using the new Media Center to watch TV. I don't have the sales data on MCE units sold with TV tuners but I'd say factoring this in is a more relevant measure of the product's success. It's a cheap add on otherwise. The point of Media Center is to centralize and control all your media. If someone is watching TV on another device I don't consider that particular sale to be mission accomplished. The power of controlling your eyeballs is huge and TV plays a big roll in that. "Based on what Microsoft has said thus far, Rollup Update 2 is expected to be available as a free download and to include support for the Media Center Extender technologies that are being built into Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming consoles." Good news. I can't imagine the backlash if they tried to charge for it and it's in Microsoft's interest to give us extender functionality for free to try and get us all to buy XBoxes. Just smart marketing on their part is all. "The update will support 200-disc DVD changers that will come to market this fall, and will add a provision for a second high-definition tuner card for handling high-definition video and HDTV signals." 200-disc DVD changers? I could care less. I don't want to consume my movies on DVD, I want to consume downloads. Give me HDTV video on demand. And if I do watch a DVD I'm going to rent it from someone like Netflix not buy it. The exception would be kids movies and those are more for the car anyways. Two HD Tuners? Nice. Better than one. But people are not interested in consuming their television OTA. They want cable, satellite or IPTV. Perhaps this will change though. "It will also add a new "Away Mode," that will allow Media Center PCs to be shut down and started back up immediately, whereas it takes a few seconds to awake from sleep or hibernate modes at the touch of a button, the sources said." Irrelevant. "Microsoft also is expected to unveil a pack of new partners at this week's Update Rollup 2 launch. Among them, according to Microsoft partners who asked not to be named, will be Akimbo Systems Inc., America Online Inc., Comedy Central and MTV Networks. America Online is expected to support the platform with photo and on-demand music service, for example. Akimbo and MTV can provide video content to Media Centers." Interesting. How much of it will be high def? None? Photo service? AOL? Ugh. Come on give us Flickr. How hard can a Flickr plug in possibly be. They have an open API. You'll spend the time pushing AOL photo sharing but not Flickr? Music on-demand service? I won't pay for it. Akimbo is interesting as is Brightcove if they are going to be rolled out in this rollout. Long tail content is good. Again, probably not high def though. I've been meaning to write something up on Akimbo. Perhaps the most promising content yet. "Microsoft also is expected to add this week a new subsite to its Windows Marketplace shopping portal that will be dedicated to Windows Media Center plug-ins, including one for shopping on eBay Inc.'s online auction site. Windows Marketplace is Microsoft's one-stop shop for software and services from both Microsoft and third-party providers that support the Windows platform." Good for Microsoft and good for eBay. I could care less about it. I'd prefer they spend time developing things that will delight me rather than things that will make them money. Get the eyeballs and the money will follow later. I will not use shopping on my MCE machine and it will be yet one more thing I'll need to disable. "My guess is Microsoft's trying to save as much splash as it can for Vista," Kay said. Additions such as instant wake-up might "make sense as maintenance release elements. But to create a lot of new features, particularly when [Microsoft] has to come up with another splash for a year from now, doesn't seem like the thing to do," he said, adding that Microsoft should "save as much juice as possible for its long awaited premier operating system." Probably very, very true.

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Last week, I got the latest and greatest design tool, Adobe CS3, which has everything I'll ever need...at least until the next upgrade. I put it on my computer yesterday, but I can't bring myself to uninstall the CS2 programs. For some reason I'm afraid CS3 will be full of bugs or something. CS3 includes Dreamweaver, the gold standard of web developing programs. Dreamweaver used to be owned by Macromedia, which Adobe bought last year. So now Adobe has Dreamweaver. Adobe's web program, GoLive, is no longer available. GoLive is what I learned and used for my own website and anything I've done so far on the work website. I'm not very good at web stuff in the first place, and the learning curve just got a whole lot steeper! I'm going to have to find a Dreamweaver class pretty soon, or I'll be lost. This past weekend, I got to play with my mom's new iPhone. It's pretty neat! Some people bristle at all the hype, but you gotta admit, it's a well-thought-out phone. Things like seeing all your voice messages, and being able to pick which one to listen to (and fast forward and rewind) is brilliant. Also, simple changes like having a button on the phone to record your voice mail greeting solve the pain-in-the-neck problem of punching through options to finally get to record what you want. ("Press 1 if you would like to....") And then, beyond the phone functionality, the rest is pretty cool, too: iPod (of course), camera, widgets, internet. Everything carries the signature simple brilliance of Apple design. I only had a couple of problems: 1) you can't pick a song on your iPod for a phone ringtone. What's up with that?? and 2) there was one design element I thought should have been different, and I was really surprised it looked the way it did. Last night we had some friends over for burgers, so we bought some flowers for the occasion. This huge vaseful of flowers was only $4.50! And I set some aside for the table arrangement: Along with burgers, we served Caramel Frappuccinos, a new concoction Jon put together. We froze coffee in ice cubes, then added about a pint of cream (yep, whole whipping cream...yum...), and some caramel in the blender with the coffee ice. Top with with RediWhip, and you've got a good thing going! We had some cream left over, so I did something I've wanted to do for a long time...made butter! Do you remember making butter in class? I was in 1st grade maybe, and I remember passing a jar filled with cream along the rows of desks. We each got to shake the jar a few times, and then we had to pass it. That was so fun! So, I made butter last night, and used it on my waffles this morning. :) I found that the best way to shake cream to make butter is while playing Dance Dance Revolution!! Yep, Jon got the XBox fixed that Cliff gave him, and we headed to GameStop yesterday for some used games. I came home with DDR, something called Corvette (how could I pass it up??), and a racing game. Since the controllers are still in the mail, we couldn't play anything but DDR, since it uses a separate dance pad as a controller. I totally stunk it up, but it's still fun. And it passed the 20 minutes of shake time I had for making butter! In other news, I have my curtains up! Leanna and I have hemmed two of the panels, but the two shown here aren't hemmed, yet. I love the new colors in the house! I've also added a new welcome mat in the entryway, which Friday promptly claimed as his own: So, that's pretty much a recap of what's happened lately. It's been a busy week! But I'm so thankful for the blessing I have: a good job, family, friends, and a home that makes me happy.

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