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YAHOO! SEEKING OPEN ALLIANCE WITH GOOGLE

May 16, 2008

NY Post: All / By PETER LAURIA and HOLLY SANDERS

Yahoo! executives are scrambling to finalize a search-advertising pact with Google in the face of a fresh challenge to its independence from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, The Post has learned. Acc ...

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Breaking: Condé Nast/Wired Acquires Ars Technica

May 16, 2008

TechCrunch / Michael Arrington

Condé Nast has acquired popular technology blog Ars Technica, we’ve confirmed. The site will become part of Wired Digital (which in turn is under CondéNet, run by Sarah Chubb). Wired Digital a ...

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Woman Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case

May 16, 2008

NYT > Technology / By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

A Missouri woman is accused of using a phony online identity to taunt a girl, who then committed suicide. ...

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Spit and polish for a Seattle icon | KOMO-TV - ...

May 16, 2008

A Whole Lotta Nothing / mathowie

Awesome shots of the Space Needle getting a steam cleaning for the first time ...

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News-starved Burmese snap up grim cyclone videos

May 17, 2008

Reuters: Technology News

YANGON (Reuters) - With state TV only showing footage of generals handing out food at model tented villages, people in Myanmar are snapping up bootleg video discs of bloated corpses, desperate refugee ...

Police seek author of Daley threat after Michigan fire

May 17, 2008

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When Richard J. Daley bought a vacation home in 1964 in Grand Beach, Mich., the seven-room, $41,000 house was supposed to allow the family to escape their responsibilities and celebrity in Chicago. ...

Signs point to imminent Ashlee Simpson wedding (AP)

May 17, 2008

Yahoo! News: Technology News

AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Though Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz are keeping a tight lid on their nuptuals, it's looking like a wedding is imminent. Aerial photos posted Friday at several celebrity Web s ...

CIO Values: Steven McIntosh, Senior VP And CIO, Jackson Family ...

May 16, 2008

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"You have to understand how to apply technology to business problems and apply solutions." ...

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Google Translate adds 10 new languages…

May 16, 2008

Rex Is Excited / (author unknown)

Shared by Rex Pechler a little closer to the global village... Posted by Jeff Chin, Product Manager...and that's great news any way you say it. Language is one of the biggest challenges we have in ...

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Jerry To Yahoos: Please Keep Working! Jerry To Bosses: Here's ...

May 16, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider / Peter Kafka

Carl Icahn's moves prompted a flurry of paperwork at Sunnyvale yesterday: First Roy Bostock responded to Carl, then Jerry Yang sent out two memos -- one to all the proles, and one just for "SVPs and a ...

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Blackberry Bold release dates, pricing leak out

May 16, 2008

Engadget Mobile / Nilay Patel

Filed under: Handsets, RIM, ATT, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless Those of you dying to get your QWERTY on with RIM's hot new Blackberry Bold can start marking your calendars and stashing cash unde ...

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Nokia Talks, N95-3 Firmware Update Coming In June

May 16, 2008

Symbian-Guru.com / The Guru

Wow, all I can say about this is *FINALLY*. Through this thread on HowardForums, I was linked to a statement by Vandelay, an administrator on the official Nokia Discussion Boards. Vandelay states that ...

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Dear Google: Facebook Is Just Not That Into You

May 16, 2008

Search Engine Watch Blog

Google FriendConnect friended Facebook. It looked as if Facebook (stocked with former Google executives) might become BFFs (best friends forever). Then Facebook blocked Google FriendConnect. The m ...

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Component report pins MacBook overhaul for third quarter

May 16, 2008

AppleInsider

The next update to Apple Inc.'s line of 13-inch MacBook consumer portables will arrive sometime during the third quarter of the year, Far Eastern component suppliers are reported to have revealed. Wi ...

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Fedora 9 Puts Your Desktop on a USB Drive [Linux ...

May 16, 2008

Life Hacker / Kevin Purdy

This week's release of the Fedora 9 Linux distribution makes putting a full-fledged desktop on a portable USB thumb drive a three-click affair. Even better, you don't need Linux installed to create it ...

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Confirmed: Wired Buying Ars Technica

May 16, 2008

Mashable! / Sean P. Aune

It seems the rumors reported earlier today by TechCrunch were spot on, and Wired is the proud new owner of Ars Technica. In a call to Alexandra Constantinople, Executive Director of Communications fo ...

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Nintendo Wii outsells 360, PS3, PS2, PSP combined in April

May 16, 2008

Ars Technica / bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)

Nintendo remains high above Microsoft and Sony in hardware sales, and Mario Kart Wii proves a strong competitor to Grand Theft Auto on the sales charts.Read More... ...

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Better the Google You Know Than the Microsoft You Don’t

May 16, 2008

Digital Daily / John Paczkowski

Can a search advertising alliance between Yahoo and Google possibly pass regulatory muster? We may soon find out. Now that investor-tormentor Carl Icahn has filed a proxy slate to unseat Yahoo’s boa ...

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'$100 laptop' platform moves on

May 16, 2008

BBC News | Technology | World Edition

An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the $100 laptop is launched. ...

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Dell spikes game site with Alienware systems

May 16, 2008

CNET News.com

Dell is taking steps to promote Alienware PCs on its Web site as the PC maker tries to colloborate more--rather than compete outright--with Alienware. ...

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Can We Send A Moron In A Hurry With A ...

May 16, 2008

Techdirt / Michael Masnick

The company Monster Cable has a rather infamous reputation for way too aggressively trying to enforce its trademark on the word "monster." It's sued or threatened just about everyone, including the T ...

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Google Feeling Green: Testing Green Color Scheme

May 16, 2008

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing / Barry Schwartz

iCrossing reported noticing that Google is showing a green user interface within the Google Directory search results and also, in some occasions, for main Google web search results. The most shocki ...

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John Mayer found cheating on Apple, again

May 16, 2008

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / Cory Bohon

Filed under: Cult of Mac, AppleJohn Mayer has been closely related with Apple for years. He has played after multiple keynotes and he got his MacBook Air earlier than anyone else. I wonder how Apple f ...

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Tips: Canadian iPhone in June with $7 data

May 16, 2008

Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks

The Canadian iPhone is set to be launched in June and will potentially have the least expensive data plan of any carrier announced to date, Electronista has heard. Sources from inside Rogers claim th ...

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Obama Girl Directors Get Feature Gig

May 16, 2008

NewTeeVee / Liz Shannon Miller

Larry Strong and Kevin Arbouet, who directed the first few Obama Girl shorts for Barely Political, are shifting gears this summer — the two have tipped NewTeeVee that they’ll be producing ...

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Report from the Data Sharing Summit #2

May 16, 2008

Marc's Voice / Marc Canter

Its great to see Arrington and others wake up to the battle that’s waging not only over dataportability, but also over the basic rights of user’s data. This is something I’ve been s ...

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Next Week's WiiWare: Critter Round-Up, Star Soldier R

May 16, 2008

Wired: Game|Life / Chris Kohler

Looks like next week's WiiWare lineup will consist of two games: Critter Round-Up (pictured) and Star Soldier R. Both Konami and Hudson held media events this week in San Francisco, and at both, compa ...

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My Virtual Summer Job

May 16, 2008

WSJ.com: E-Commerce/Media

With summer jobs in short supply, more young people are pursuing money-making opportunities in Web fantasy worlds. ...

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iPhone rollout: 42 countries, 575 million potential customers

May 16, 2008

FORTUNE: Apple 2.0 / Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster summarized the flood of recent iPhone deals in a note to clients on Friday. The key numbers in his report: 46 carriers announced to date (up from 6 currently) 42 co ...

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Greg Allen still has his bottle of Suck Cola from...

May 16, 2008

kottke.org / jason@kottke.org

Greg Allen still has his bottle of Suck Cola from when the now-defunct web site Suck was handing them out at a trade show in 1996. He's building a registry of Suck Cola bottles...if you've got one, se ...

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Will Microsoft Respond to Yahoo Letter to Icahn?

May 16, 2008

BoomTown / Kara Swisher

Throughout this new series of developments in the Yahoo takeover circus, Microsoft has been unusually quiet about billionaire investor Carl Icahn's efforts to take over Yahoo's board via a proxy fight ...

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Memo to Jerry: Mark Cuban, Jethro Tull and Thee!

May 16, 2008

BoomTown / Kara Swisher

It's clear that Yahoo and its CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang have got to be a little more than miffed that billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is on billionaire investor Carl Icahn's board as he begins ...

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Congressmen Ask Charter to Freeze Web Profiling Plan

May 16, 2008

Wired Top Stories / Threat Level

Two powerful congressmen are asking ISP Charter Communications to put a hold on its proposal to eavesdrop on its customers' web surfing in order to serve targeted ads. The Friday letter questions whet ...

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HTC Touch Diamond Unboxing

May 16, 2008

SlashPhone / Kim Poh Liaw

eprice.com.tw has the chance to unbox a HTC Touch Diamond, and showing what’s included in the retail box. While phonemag has shown you how the clever leather case can clear away your fingerprint ...

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Which Social Bookmarking Site Would You Prefer to Hit the ...

May 16, 2008

ProBlogger Blog Tips / Darren Rowse

Here’s a question that might provoke some interesting discussion over the weekend: Which Social Bookmarking Site Would You Prefer to Hit the Front Page Of? Would you prefer to hit the popular pa ...

[video] CSCOR CEO on GOOG (at CNBC)

May 16, 2008

Yahoo! Finance: Internet Information Providers Industry News

An outlook on Google, with Gian Fulgoni, comScore CEO and Mad Money host Jim Cramer. ...

McCain Campaign Pioneers A First: Courting Lefty Bloggers

May 16, 2008

Wired: Threat Level / Sarah Lai Stirland

In the annals of online campaigning, senator John McCain has rarely blazed new paths. But a recent initiative to hold conference call briefings with left-wing and issue-based bloggers could be a presi ...

New Tools, New Attitude

May 16, 2008

Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants

Michael has been looking at MooTools for Seaside, and demonstrates the power of community while he's at it: The first and foremost of these is the Mocha GUI components. Here is a screenshot from a c ...

Rumor: Apple TV’s wireless, multi-touch keyboard

May 16, 2008

Macenstein / Dr. Macenstein

Who doesn’t like reading rumors on the weekend? I know for me, it’s right up their with reading the Family Circus each Sunday morning. Faithful Macenstein reader Doug writes us with news o ...

Keeping Your Profile Clean

May 16, 2008

Washington Post / Elizabeth Ody

A careless comment in your blog (or in someone else's). An embarrassing incident recounted in your local newspaper. A racy photo on MySpace. Any of these can sully your online reputation. ...

Winning numbers in California's 'SuperLotto Plus' game

May 16, 2008

SFGate: Business & Technology / By The Associated Press

The winning numbers drawn Friday night in the California Lottery's "SuperLotto Plus" game were: 47-11-46-39-06. Meganumber: 26. Jackpot: $196... ...

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