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it's Tuesday July 10 2012 I'm Nilay Patel do you shut the front door all the way cuz we're about to spend 90 seconds on the verge microsoft CEO steve ballmer wants to make it clear he plans to take on apple in every single way in an interview with CRN the boastful executive said the company is quote not going to leave any space and covered that his apples Ballmer still plans to lean on hardware partners like HP Dell and Samsung he estimates Microsoft may sell just a few million of its surface tablets in the first 12 months they're on sale that's less than 1% of the estimated 375 million windows pcs microsoft expects to sell over the same period a $99 android game console is poised to be the next Kickstarter success story it's called the Ouya in its first nine hours and Kickstarter the LA based company behind urea has met its funding goal and raised over a million dollars if this momentum keeps up it could beat the ten-million-dollar record set by the pebble smartwatch louia hopes to launch in March of next year starting tomorrow directv customers will no longer have access to MTV Comedy Central and 24 other Viacom channels due to contractual disputes negotiations are still ongoing but one thing is clear no one cares about the h1 and finally blackberry maker researcher motion held an investor meeting today after putting on an aggressive media blitz the past two weeks CEO thorsten heins continues to deliver his optimistically confusing message saying that since rim already owns the qwerty smartphone market the company will target the full touch market blackberry 10 a clever plan seeing as the quarry market is all the day that's it for my 45x to tune in tomorrow to find out how the twentieth amendment will forever change love in the metaverse