The Barbarians Are At The Gate, But Microsoft Moves To Protect Office Revenues  —  The barbarians are at the gate, a new horde is on the way, but no one seems to be defending the castle.  Instead, the Microsoft Office warriors are rebranding, repackaging and relaunching old products and calling them new.

Source:   TechCrunch
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Google’s Friends And Family Plan  —  The drumbeat has started in Silicon Valley: Google phones are coming.  —  It’s no secret that Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is keen to become a pivotal player in the mobile phone world.  And one of the companies often mentioned behind closed doors …

Source:   Forbes
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A new top 100?  —  12PM: The TechMeme Leaderboard site is live.  —  Like almost everyone else, I keep track of who’s pointing to me in Technorati, a service that was created in a Thanksgiving programming binge by David Sifry, based on the output of (my own labor of love) weblogs.com.

Source:   Scripting News
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A new top 100?  —  Like almost everyone else, I keep track of who’s pointing to me in Technorati, a service that was created in a Thanksgiving programming binge by David Sifry, based on the output of (my own labor of love) weblogs.com.  —  Technorati grew to become a blog search engine …

Source:   Scripting […]

Nokia unlocks anti-Apple campaign  —  The quartet of posters above was photographed in New York city over the weekend by a MacRumors forum jockey.  Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen Nokia pounce on Apple foibles, and it certainly won’t be the last.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Thomas Ricker
Link:   http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/01/nokia-unlocks-anti…

Joost Launches: Video Interview With Mike Volpi  —  Joost, the impeccably pedigreed, funded, and hyped Internet TV platform is releasing its software to the general public on Monday.  For those of you beta testers (like us) who’ve griped about the reliability and usability of the application …

Source:   NewTeeVee
Author:   Liz Gannes
Link:   http://newteevee.com/2007/09/30/joost-launches-video…

Radiohead Fans to Name Their Price for New Album  —  In an unusual test for the music industry’s transition to digital sales, the superstar British rock band Radiohead said its much anticipated new album will initially be available only as a digital download on the band’s Web site — with fans choosing the price they […]

Service Helps Friends Share Their Online Discoveries  —  Four software designers who were instrumental in the creation of Google’s popular e-mail and mapping services have founded a new company with the intent of making it easy for people to find out what Web material their friends are enjoying.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   John Markoff
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Think Different: Think Again, Apple  —  I shed a tear while watching the video after the jump.  Watch ^ first then the subsequent one.  Awesome.  —  This entry was posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 at 10:26 pm and is filed under Tags: apple, think different, video, YouTube.

Source:   CrunchGear
Author:   Peter Ha
Link:   http://crunchgear.com/2007/09/30/think-different…

Radiohead’s New/Old Business Model: Free Music  —  Alterna-band Radiohead will give away its new album via digital download.  The band is ostensibly giving fans the chance to pay what they think “In Rainbows” is worth; in practice that means they’re willing to take almost nothing …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Peter Kafka
Link:   http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/09/radioheads-newo…