Tech giants' lobbying effort at a crucial turning point
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| When Microsoft Corp. delivers a mysterious prototype for government
| testing this coming week, it will mark a crucial juncture for a
| high-stakes bid to change the way consumers get their Internet access.
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| That bid has cast Microsoft and a group of powerful allies fromS
| ilicon Valley in the relatively unfamiliar role of Washington
| policy players.
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| [...]
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| 'The telephone companies are terrified they'll lose 40% of their wireless
| minutes'
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/microsoft-google-face-key-test/story.aspx?guid=%7BB416D105%2DF083%2D463E%2DB026%2D4E9979C1021B%7D&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo
http://tinyurl.com/2v8dgz
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Gates calls for 'infinite' H-1Bs, better schools
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| Politicians indicated they're also willing to take cues from Gates
| as they craft new laws in the immigration area. In his testimony,
| Gates said there's only one way to solve what he deemed a
| "crisis"-level shortage of qualified scientific talent: "Open our
| doors to highly talented scientists and engineers who want to live,
| work and pay taxes here."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-11153_22-6165166.html
Bill Gates to address Senate panel
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| Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to descend on Capitol Hill
| next week to pepper a U.S. Senate committee with his suggestions for
| boosting American competitiveness.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6163930.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Politics and tech companies: follow the money
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| Microsoft took first place with $651,100 given out, while
| Hewlett-Packard gave only $185,550, and Gateway gave a paltry
| $2,000. Microsoft's donations certainly illustrate well the true
| size of the company and the extent of its political concerns.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html
Microsoft to join municipal Wi-Fi fray
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| Microsoft is jumping into the municipal wireless space with a deal
| to provide local content and ads for MetroFi's free wireless
| Internet service in Portland, Ore., by the end of this year,
| the companies are expected to announce on Wednesday.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6135679.html
FCC Endorses Broadband over Powerline
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| The Federal Communications Commission on Friday gave a big boost
| to Broadband over Powerline (BPL), classifying the technology as
| an "information service."
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/mobile/193501695;jsessionid=3LCXWIHLMJH0MQSNDLRCKH0CJUNN2JVN
Gates to generate your electricity
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| His personal investment vehicle -- a nice drive if you can afford
| it -- Cascade Investments is today expected to partner with New
| Mexico-based PNM Resources on electricity generation and trading.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35521
Microsoft Looks Within to Design and Test Chips
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| For more than two decades, Microsoft's software and
| Intel's processors were so wedded that the pairingc
| ame to be known as Wintel. But as that computing era
| wanes, Microsoft is turning to a new source of chip
| design: its own labs.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/technology/19soft.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
Microsoft takes it to the bank
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| Is the world ready for Microsoft Banking? Banks are traditionally
| very conservative with their software and hardware choices, and
| most still rely on expensive mainframes with multiple levels of
| failure protection. However, banks are also making a huge push
| to expand into other services, such as investment planning, and
| all these new services require new software. If they are
| successful, Microsoft will be laughing all the way to the, er, bank.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/11/14/5956
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