Byte Into It - 28th May 08

Microsoft surrenders libraries to Google - Business - iTnews Australia
Writing in his blog, Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s search and advertising group said Microsoft would kill off two sites for searching the contents of books and academic journals.
Live Search will send Web surfers looking for books to non-Microsoft sites.
Instead, Microsoft will be focusing [...]

May 28, 2008
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Byte Into It - 21 May 08

Free Scheduling Software | Integrate Outlook, Google Calendar & Exchange Availability - TimeBridge
TimeBridge’s free scheduling software helps you share availability and schedule meetings easily with individuals or groups across time zones
Napster goes DRM-free MP3 - Boing Boing
“It’s great that we have finally gotten here,” said Chris Gorog, Napster’s chairman and chief executive. “It is really [...]

May 21, 2008
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Byte Into It - 14 May 08

Ed’s interview with Martin Krafft - one of the lead Debian developers - available in Ogg Vorbis format (20MB):
http://www.rrr.org.au/archive/byte/MartinKrafftInterview.ogg
For more from Martin:
http://debiansystem.info/
http://madduck.net/
BBC NEWS | Technology | Virtual telescope opens night sky
Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes.
Collections include pictures from [...]

May 14, 2008
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