How's the Reception at Channel 9?
Next week, Microsoft's Channel 9 video blogsite celebrates its third anniversary. Channel 9's creators, three of whom have left Microsoft, positioned the blogsite as a "a way to listen in to the cockpit" of the company. Is it still? Was it ever?
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31.3.2007 Gates: Windows Vista Has Had 'Incredible Reception'
Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, predicted that consumers would move to Vista faster than they did to past Windows upgrades.
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22.2.2007 Microsoft: Good Reception of Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801
Microsoft revealed that it was happy with the way Windows 7 was received at the Professional Developers Conference 2008 in Los Angeles, at the end of October.
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17.11.2008 Microsoft readying Channel 8
While rumors swirl that Microsoft might be considering buying FaceBook, the company is continuing to build out its own family of blogs, wikis, video and other community-outreach tools to connect with current and potential users.
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15.7.2007 Office Trial Causes Channel Conflict
Microsoft's Office Trial conversion program is so successful, the company now clearly competes with its retail and dealer partners.
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10.10.2007 Channel 10 Bill Gates Interview
This is an important night for Bill Gates, after 15 years and 11 keynote addresses, this will be his last as he begins the transition from Microsoft FTE (full time employee) to being a full-time Gates Foundation employee.
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7.1.2008 NBC to Control Cable Channel After Deal With Microsoft
NBC Universal is taking control of its flagging cable venture, MSNBC, ending the decade-old broadcast partnership with Microsoft Corp., the two companies said yesterday.
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26.12.2005 MSN Direct Goes High Def with Clear Channel
Companies collaborate to deliver rich data services on HD digital radio format to smarten everyday objects.
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10.1.2007 Vista Sales Estimates Indicate Dwindling Retail Channel
Comparing preliminary information released by NPD this morning regarding launch week sales for Microsoft Windows Vista versus historical NPD data for prior years, BetaNews has learned the news for Microsoft may seem even more daunting than at first believed:
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16.2.2007Back from the PDC¦next up, WinHEC
Steven Sinofsky: This has been an amazingly special week for the Windows 7 team. Were all incredibly appreciative of the reception of Windows 7 this
week at the PDC. Thank you!
All of us on the team have been closely watching the news reports and blogs of those who have been
œkicking the tires of the Windows 7 pre-beta. The reception has been fantastic and were humbled by the excitement and enthusiasm for the release.
We know we have a ton of work ahead of us to get to beta and then the path to RTM, and the reception has definitely given us an extra special
motivation (though we were already pretty motivated).
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02.11.2008How's the Reception at Channel 9?
Next week, Microsoft's
Channel 9 video blogsite
celebrates its third
anniversary. Channel 9's
creators, three of whom have
left Microsoft, positioned the
blogsite as a "a way to
listen in to the cockpit" of
the company. Is it still? Was
it ever? Channel 9 was a
radical development for
Microsoft, because it sought
to provide developers with an
unfiltered inside view. The
rawness of the early videos
contributed to that sense of
being inside the company.
Lenn Pryor, then
Microsoft's director of
Platform Evangelism, was the
mastermind behind Channel 9.
In the year before he left
Microsoft, Channel 9 certainly
offered more view inside the
company, but it's debatable
how unfiltered. In past
conversations with Pryor, he
indicated the site worked
largely independent of public
relations influence. The
Channel 9 Doctrine makes a
similar position. However,
some developers see the video
blogsite differently.
"Channel 9 is little more
than a PR machine," said
Chris Martindale, a developer
with Interactive Business
Systems, in Oak Brook, Ill.
"I haven't really found much
use for that site since it was
first announced. Same with
their Channel 10 site."
Marindale emphasized, "I
absolutely love Microsoft
products, but I feel the
Channel 9 site is more of a
way for them to play at being
hip and cool as well as show
off their products and only
give their view on them."
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30.03.2007Full length Channel 4 shows available for UK Youtube users
Channel 4's 4oD shows are now available for UK users of Youtube. Following the deal that was brought up a while ago, Youtube is now starting to
host full-length episodes of top Channel 4 series, such as Peep Show and Gordon Ramsay's F Word, according to The Guardian. Youtube has posted
5,000 videos on the Channel 4 Youtube channel, 4,000 of which are full-length shows. The number is going to increase though, as sometime in early 2010
the full range of Channel 4's shows is expected to be available to UK users.
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19.11.2009Add Channel Logos to Windows 7 Media Center
When youre browsing through the TV guide in Windows Media Center, have you ever thought it would be nice to see the logos for the television channels
in addition to their name? Well, theres an add-in application that can do this. The program called My Channel Logos comes bundled with a number of TV
channel logos and provides a simple application that lets you assign them to any channel in your TV listing.
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13.02.2009TNT to Start Broadband Video
Channel
Cable network TNT will launch
a broadband video channel next
week called
"Dramavision."
Initially, the channel plans
to offer some of its original
programming, it said Thursday...
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10.08.2006MTV Launches 24-Hour Online
Channel
MTV earlier this week
re-launched its college
channel MTV Uber (mtvU),
making it the first channel
from the network to be
available in its entirety
online. Previously, mtvU was
only available on the cable
systems of about 730 college
campuses...
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14.10.2005Microsoft, Fujitsu Tune In Digital TV
XP Media Center Edition products will have Fujitsu's digital reception technology built in...
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03.09.2005AT&T to begin femtocell tests for improving cellular reception
A report from analysts at ThinkPanmure indicates AT&T will be releasing its own femtocell system with hardware provided by UK-based ip.access Ltd...
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26.04.2008Waiting for iPhone: Reading, PA
For all the buzz surrounding
the iPhone, the reception here
in Reading, a town about 65
miles northwest of
Philadelphia has been somewhat
muted...
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30.06.2007Microsoft launches its own blog for 'Windows 7'
The official marketing channel for the next edition of Windows was opened this afternoon, as Microsoft quietly raised the curtains on what it's
positioning as an open channel for ideas regarding what the company should add to its next OS...
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15.08.2008FCC's Martin resurrects 'a la carte' proposal, content providers respond
While Congress looks into the strange way the FCC chairman advanced his first, failed attempt to inject channel-by-channel programming into US law,
cable programmers set up a proactive defense against a possible second attempt...
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17.04.2008Channel 4 strikes deal with iTunes
Channel 4 is to make a selection of its hit shows available through iTunes in the UK, including Shameless, Skins, Peep Show and Black Books. The
latest episodes of current shows will not be available for download until the day after transmission. Channel 4 is pricing the cost of its shows to
match the BBC at £1.89 per episode.
The announcement is part of an escalation of Channel 4's digital media strategy following
news of a £50m creative fund for digital media projects.
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20.03.2008Gizmondo Getting Cool US
Reception
If you heard a loud thud over
the weekend, it may have been
Tiger Telematic's Gizmondo
finally launching in the
United States. The device,
whose sales in the UK -- where
it has been available since
March -- have been somewhat
disappointing, has received a
cool response from US
reviewers as well...
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25.10.2005Clear Channel to add 800+ station streams to Reciva device
To expand its already large base of listeners, Clear Channel announced it will make content from more than 800 stations available nationwide to users
who own Internet radio receivers made by a producer of parts for XM and Sirius...
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20.05.2008Broadcom Demos Integrated Comm Chip
Chipmaker Broadcom has
developed a way to integrate
Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM
reception capabilities onto a
single chip, allowing
manufacturers to produce
devices with the functionality
without sacrificing cost, size
or battery life...
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02.02.2007MS Begins Exit of MSNBC
Partnership
Microsoft continued to quietly
back away from its partnership
with NBC Universal for MSNBC
Friday. The two companies
announced that NBC had
acquired a controlling
interest in the cable channel,
and has the ability to
exercise an option that would
allow it to buy the entire
channel in 2007...
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23.12.2005Fibre Channel gets an 8Gig kicker
The first 8Gbit/s Fibre
Channel storage networking
products are out, and could
drive the final nail into the
coffin of 10Gbit/s Fibre
Channel. However, the new
technology seems unlikely to
stem the drift to iSCSI over
10Gbit/s Ethernet, although it
might perhaps slow it a
little.
8Gbit/s has the advantage
that it uses the same
infrastructure as 1, 2 and
4Gbit/s Fibre Channel - in
fact, it is just the latest
doubling of speed - and like
4Gbit/s and 2Gbit/s it is
backwards-compatible. Speed
matching allows 8Gbit/s
devices to be added to
existing SANs where they
should interoperate, running
each link at the highest speed
that's supported by both
ends.
The
first 8Gbit/s products are
promised by Emulex and QLogic.
The technology will be
available in the same formats
as 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel -
switches, host bus adapters
(HBAs), etc - for just a 10 to
20 per cent price-premium, the
companies suggested.
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10.08.2007Microsoft Launches Video
Podcast
Looking to expand on the
success of its Channel 9
developer site, Microsoft on
Monday rolled out a new
community called 10. Each day,
On10.net will host a video
highlighting new technologies
and the people behind them.
Unlike Channel 9, however, the
site will not only cover
Microsoft...
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13.03.2006Sirius to Launch New Satellite
Sirius said Thursday it will
spend $260 million to launch a
new satellite to improve
reception and enhance
coverage. Built by Loral Space
& Communications, the
satellite is expected to be
completed by 2008...
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08.06.2006Discovery Offering TV Shows on
iTunes
Discovery Communications
announced on Tuesday that it
had added programming to the
iTunes Music Store, including
television shows from its TLC,
Animal Planet, Travel Channel,
Discovery Health Channel and
Discovery Kids networks...
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