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8:40 PM ET, May 8, 2006

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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Unveils Public Details Of "Panama" Ad System Upgrade  —  Yahoo's finally gone public with details about its new "Panama" ad system upgrade, which when launched later this year will bring the system up to matching what Google's long offered, though both Yahoo and Google …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Eyeballs 2.0 - Boom or Bust?  —  Yahoo, should have been the king of online advertising, it is not.  It should have owned the market now dominated by Google's Ad Sense.  It does not, but has now launched a comprehensive plans to compete with Google in the market place.
Zachary Rodgers / ClickZ:   Yahoo Details Search Platform Revamp
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Yahoo reinvigorates Web advertising search battle
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
SGI files for Chapter 11 protection  —  Silicon Graphics Inc. announced on Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to reorganize and re-emerge from its financial woes.  —  SGI, a former high-flying server and workstation maker for Hollywood and the graphics industry …
Discussion: Techdirt and TechSpot
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Reuters:
Silicon Graphics files for Chapter 11  —  Computer firm's stock plunges on news, as company blames delays in rolling out new technology, competition from rivals.  —  BOSTON (Reuters) - Silicon Graphics Inc., a struggling maker of high-performance business computers, Monday filed …
Discussion: Paul Kedrosky's … and GigaOM
Dave Taylor / The Intuitive Life Business Blog:
Silicon Graphics files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy  —  It's another harbinger of the end of the first major wave of computing companies in the Internet business: today long-time graphics darling Silicon Graphics threw in the proverbial towel, filing for bankruptcy.
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Philippe Naughton / Times of London:
Jobs invites Beatles to join iTunes after Apple legal victory  —  The Beatles were invited to join the iTunes music revolution today after losing their trademark battle with Apple Computer.  —  Apple Corps, the company set up by the Fab Four in 1968, had wanted multi-million pound damages …
Joe / Techdirt:
Beatles Beaten By A Moron In A Hurry
Discussion: Kevin Maney
Andrew Chung / Toronto Star:
Revenge of the nerds  —  Three computer geeks at the U of T are renowned developers of anti-censorship software, including a program out this month that could allow people to outwit the world's most repressive regimes  —  Looking at them you might not guess it.
Discussion: Infothought, robhyndman.com and Kerabu
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Mike / Techdirt:   30,000 Internet Censors In China To Be Defeated By 3 Hackers In Canada?
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Do More: Online To Do Lists Compared  —  Time is our most valuable commodity.  Productivity pays.  Procrastination costs us time and money, and leaves us stressed, exhausted and unreliable in the eyes of others.  —  For many, the classic "To Do" list is the remedy.
Discussion: Download Squad
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Samsung SGH-X820: World's Slimmest Phone, Again  —  How thin can a cellphone get?  Samsung has created a handset that needs to run around in the shower just to get wet with this SGH-X820, which is a nearly-invisible 6.9mm thick.  Even though it's so doggone slim, it still has a fat feature set …
Discussion: MobileWhack.com and TechSpot
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Look Who's Talking  —  I returned from New York last night, after a fun weekend.  Excellent weather combined with street fairs - the big city was pulsating.  And it had a raw energy, which can be felt, not described.  I think a lot of that has to do with people moving about, and walking in the streets.
Discussion: MobHappy
Maura Welch / Boston Globe:
Online plagiarism strikes blog world  —  Beth gets more than 500 hits per day at her blog, Cursed to First, which serves as a very personal homage to the Red Sox and the Patriots, so she knew that spicy entries like ''Chicks dig the long ball" were being read.  She didn't realize until recently that they were also being ripped off.
Discussion: Andrew Lark and Micro Persuasion
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
For MTV Fans, a Parallel Universe of Programs: At Once Online and on TV  —  Even for overachievers who are used to multitasking, the idea of watching two versions of the same television show at the same time — one on television and one on a computer — is something that is probably foreign to most people over the age of 30.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AT&T Plans Satellite Broadband, WiMAX  —  AT&T is dead serious about broadband, and is expanding its range of broadband offerings.  AT&T Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre outlined company's future broadband plans at the Detroit Economic Club.  —  AT&T will start selling a satellite-based broadband service later …
Discussion: dailywireless.org
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Cell-Phone Tracking: Laws Needed  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — The cell-phone industry and privacy advocates are calling on Congress to clarify the widespread police practice of using mobile phones to track suspects without probable cause.  —  The industry wants clear, standardized rules governing …
Discussion: Techdirt
 
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Susan / Susan Crawford blog:
Comparative broadband ideas
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Microsoft To Map The World In Real Time?
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
TiVo Launches Product Watch: Commercials On Demand
Kristopher Kubicki / dailytech.com:
Announcing Intel Core 2 Duo
Reto / The Radioactive Yak:
Google Earth Showing Sponsored Links
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zookoda 2.0 Launches
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Report: Vista to hit antispyware, firewall markets
Times of London:
Falling for super-geek