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Tech tidbits

Two interesting pieces of info today:

(1) According to rumors, the new MS Zune MP3 player is not compatible with Windows Vista - ouch! I am sure it will be compatible with the final consumer version, but apparently it is not with the betas. Not sure about the RTM version.

(2) Newscorp says it could sell MySpace for 6 billion now. Not bad, a 10x gain in a few months (from the $580M they paid for it.)

BTW, another thing that does not make sense: if you play with Gmail, .doc attachments cannot be open via Google Docs (formerly Writely) - only with Word - bad. Same thing happens with Adsense, the reports are .XLS that cannot be open with Google Spreadsheets, only Excel. Google seems to be rushing too much to release new products (they have up to 50 active projects now) and not paying attention to important details.