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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - TV Guide is trying to muscle in on YouTube's considerable turf. ADVERTISEMENT
The publication famous for its television-centric editorial and show listings will launch at (http://TVGuide.com) on Tuesday its Online Video Guide, a search service that will attempt to filter out the junk and leave users with the best of Internet video that is related to television. (Read content ‘TV Guide cuts clutter with online video service (Reuters)’…)

LONDON: The Financial Times, preparing for a fierce battle with The Wall Street Journal over business readers and online advertising revenue, will give casual readers free access to its Web site this month, according to executives at The Financial Times.

The Web site of the London-based business newspaper, which currently charges for much of its content online, as of mid-October will allow users to get up to 30 articles per month for free, said John Ridding, chief executive of the newspaper.

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Microsoft is moving to deliver more software technology over the Internet as a service, forced to follow an industry trend led by Google, its newest archrival.

But its strategy is a careful balancing act, adding Internet services without offering online versions of its most lucrative desktop products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Microsoft is making announcements Monday that it plans to offer a free service, called Office Live Workspace, that will allow people to store, access and share documents online.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc (ADBE.O) released new software for its popular Flash Player on Sunday that promises to bring the quality of live video on cellular phones closer to that of video on computers. ADVERTISEMENT
Adobe, whose software made possible the rapid rise of pioneering online video site YouTube, said Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and NTT DoCoMo Inc (9437.T) would use its new Flash Lite 3 in their new cell phones. (Read content ‘Adobe releases new Flash software for cell phones (Reuters)’…)

PALO ALTO, California: 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.

The company, FriendFeed, is the brainchild of Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, two of the programmers who built Google Maps.

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It’s here friends, Sony’s is none other than their 3-mm thin, 1,000,000:1 , just announced official with a December 1st Japanese retail date. The 11-inch SonyDrive XEL-1 set features a 960 x 540 pixel resolution, terrestrial digital tuner, 2x 1W speaker, and HDMI, USB, and Ethernet jacks in a package measuring 287 x 140 x 253-mm and 2-kg (3.3-pounds). How much? Well, ¥200,000 or about $1,740 — That’s about $160 per inch of OLED. Rich indeed, but so it goes for first generation technology.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) was deep in discussions on Sunday night to buy navigation software maker Navteq Corp (NVT.N), the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. ADVERTISEMENT
With a market value of $7.61 billion, Navteq would be one of Nokia's largest-ever corporate acquisitions, the report said. (Read content ‘Nokia in talks to acquire Navteq: report (Reuters)’…)