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Microsoft blocks dirty dozen apps from mobile store
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| When it comes to Microsoft's planned Marketplace for Mobile, you can forget
| about making or installing software that changes Microsoft's default browser,
| search client, or media player on a Windows mobile phone. Also out are VoIP
| calls on an operator's network and ads for carriers.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/06/windows_marketplace_mobile_prohibited_apps/
Apple fine-tunes app censorship
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| Apple will extend parental controls to applications in its upcoming iPhone
| 3.0 software and iTunes 8.2, thus helping to calm some of the ongoing
| brouhaha over its erratic App Store censorship policies.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/06/age_ratings_for_iphone_apps/
Microsoft to forbid VoIP, rival stores at mobile market
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| Voice-over-IP applications will be forbidden from Microsoft's Windows
| MarketPlace for Mobile store, along with programs that are larger than 10MB
| or that change the default browser on a device.
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| They are among 12 prohibited application types that Microsoft listed for
| developers who register to create software for the store. Marketplace for
| Mobile is due to launch in the second half of the year, along with Windows
| Mobile 6.5, the next version of Microsoft's mobile OS.
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http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/67492/microsoft-forbid-voip-rival-stores-mobile-market
More deaths:
Duke Nukem developer goes bust
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| Veteran games developer 3D Realms has closed down because of a lack of funds.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/8037688.stm
Recent:
Microsoft layoff buzz intensifies
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| We received a tip last week, from a usually reliable person, that Microsoft
| would be making more job cuts this week. The company so far isn't commenting,
| and we haven't been able to get confirmation elsewhere. But independent of
| our inquiries, the online buzz increased over the weekend to the point that
| Microsoft employees will no doubt be a little nervous when they check their
| email tomorrow morning.
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| "Rumors of more Microsoft layoffs being announced on May 5th," wrote former
| Microsoftie Jeff Erwin in one of several posts on the subject by people on
| Twitter and elsewhere. "Lots of panic in the employee base."
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_layoff_buzz_intensifies_44295192.html
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