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BusinessWeek June 24, 2009 Peter Burrows	Microsoft Defends Its Empire Microsoft is under siege from rivals offering cheap or free software on the Web. So it's revamping its Office suite and shifting into online services.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	An Intuitive Move From Microsoft? Mr. Softy's personal-finance program is going away, and Intuit looks to gain.
Wired June 22, 2009	How to Live by the Numbers: Exercise The principle is that workouts you measure are workouts that make you fitter -- because you train more precisely and work harder when you're getting quantitative feedback.
Wired Mark McClusky	The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics Few things illustrate the power and promise of Living by Numbers quite as clearly as the Nike+ system. By combining a dead-simple way to amass data with tools to use and share it, Nike has attracted the largest community of runners ever assembled.
InternetNews June 16, 2009 David Needle	iPhone's Next Phase: 'How Can I Help You?' Siri shows off its virtual personal assistant at the Semantic Web conference.
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Seth Porges	How to Open .Docx Files with Microsoft Word Just go to Microsoft's Web site and download a free update.
InternetNews June 10, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Says Goodbye to Money Microsoft quietly revealed Wednesday afternoon that it plans to cut off sales of its long-running Microsoft Money Plus product as of the end of June.
Inc. June 2009	Tools That Make Password Protection Simple RoboForm and myOneLogin keep all your passwords in one place.
Inc. June 2009	How Google Voice Helps Me Run My Start-up An entrepreneur's review of Google Voice, which retains all the basic functions of GrandCentral, which Google acquired in 2007.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Susan Karlin	Getting Getting-It-Done Done There's now an entire category of productivity software, called GTD, that lies somewhere between the to do list and project management.
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