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• Black Friday Anti-Deals: What Not To Buy [Prof. Dealzmodo]

  
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            Black Friday may be when prices drop, but if you’ve carefully read the list of deals , you can tell it’s also a BS marketing gimmick. Here’s how not to get fooled (plus, what gadgets to avoid at any price): In other words, many of these “deals” really aren’t deals at all Read more: ...
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• Once upon a time before 4G

  
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  IT’s been a few weeks since news broke that Microsoft would be winding down the MSN Direct service in 2012, ending an eight-year run for the technology that used FM radio sideband to deliver snippets of information to low-power devices. I remember attending the CES keynote at which MSN Direct was unveiled and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft to bid adieu to MSN Direct service in 2012

  
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  Through a notice posted on the official website of MSN Direct, Microsoft informs the users that MSN Direct will discontinue its services from January 1st 2012. Thus, the users of certain satellite navigation devices can no longer receive traffic updates, weather reports and other real time information from 2012 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Microsoft Plans to Shut down its MSN Direct GPS service

  
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  Curtains are coming down on yet another Microsoft product. The company has announced that it is shutting down its MSN Direct GPS service.
  4 weeks ago

• Microsoft Finally Laying MSN Direct to Bed in 2012

  
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  Microsoft is always trying to work its way into new businesses. With that sort of approach, there are times that even Microsoft must admit defeat. One of those times is now. Microsoft has announced that the MSN Direct GPS service will be discontinued as of January 1st 2012 . MSN Direct is a service integrated into ...
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• Microsoft’s MSN Direct service to shut down in 2012

  
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  Well, it’s quite the day for any GPS-related announcement, but Microsoft has nonetheless made a fairly big one of its own, with it dropping word via a simple service announcement that it’s killing off its MSN Direct live information service for navigation units (among other devices — even the odd coffeemaker ). ...
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• Korg Nanokey controller repurposed into MIDI foot pedal

  
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  Korg’s Nanokey MIDI controller is pretty awesome in its own right, but using it with your feet gets a little difficult under “normal” conditions. We can’t say for certain why Marc Fischer decided to convert his perfectly good control board into a MIDI foot pedal, but frankly, that’s beside the point. The ...
  5 weeks ago

• Microsoft’s MSN Direct service to shut down in 2012

  
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  Well, it’s quite the day for any GPS-related announcement, but Microsoft has nonetheless made a fairly big one of its own, with it dropping word via a simple service announcement that it’s killing off its MSN Direct live information service for navigation units (among other devices — even the odd coffeemaker ). ...
  5 weeks ago

• Microsofts MSN Direct service to shut down in 2012

  
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  Well, its quite the day for any GPS-related announcement, but Microsoft has nonetheless made a fairly big one of its own, with it dropping word via a simple service announcement that its killing off its MSN Direct live information service for navigation units (among other devices -- even the odd coffeemaker ). ...
  5 weeks ago

• Microsoft Pulling The Plug On MSN Direct In 2012 [GPS]

  
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  While its probably not the first casualty of the Google GPS navigation bombshell, the fact remains—Microsoft is pulling the plug on their MSN Direct service on January 1st, 2012. Fortunately,...
  5 weeks ago

• 2012 to claim at least one victim: MSN Direct

  
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  MSN Direct will be killed off in just over two years. Microsoft has posted an MSN Direct Service Announcement (via The Los Angeles Times ) that says the service will only be available until January 1, 2012. Microsoft wouldnt reveal how long products on the market supporting MSN Direct would still be sold for, ...
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• MSN Direct service to be discontinued

  
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  It looks like I’ll need to get a new watch before then end of 2011. At the end of 2011, Microsoft’s “MSN Direct” (formerly known as S.P.O.T. or SPOT) service will be discontinued . MSN Direct enabled devices used a subscription model to have data pushed to them via unused FM spectrum. This data included ...
  5 weeks ago

• MSN Direct 服务将于 2012 年 1 月 1 日关闭

  
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  MSN Direct 主页 公告称，微软 MSN 将于 2012 年 1 月 1 日正式停止全部 MSN Direct 服务，由于 MSN Direct 采用的是服务订阅模式，因此相关服务使用期限问题可 访问 FAQ 了解。   微软于 2004 年推出了 MSN Direct ...
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• MSN Direct to end January 1, 2012

  
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  MSN Direct has announced that they will cease operations on January 1, 2012. This will effect owners of Garmin nuvi x8x units, although with plenty of lead time, I doubt that it will be a huge issue for them. Garmin however, may have trouble marketing any backlog of these units they have on hand. You can read all the ...
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