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Kathleen Pender / San Francisco Chronicle:
Google's April surprise for state — Big chunk of record tax receipts from insiders' stock sales — Internet giant Google's stock has soared since it went public almost two years ago — and that has created a windfall for state government coffers. — California took in a record $11.3 billion …
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Microsoft:
Bill Gates Declares 10 Million-Unit Head Start for Xbox 360 and Outlines Future of Interactive Entertainment — Surprise appearance by Microsoft company founder wows gamers with unified platform vision and first look at "Halo 3." — LOS ANGELES — May 9, 2006 —Microsoft Corp. Chairman …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft and Google Grapple for Supremacy as Stakes Escalate — The Microsoft- Google rivalry is shaping up as a titanic corporate clash for the ages. — It may not turn out that way. Markets and corporate fortunes routinely defy prediction. But it sure looks as if the two companies …
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Livesearch on AlltheWeb — Today we are introducing a new search technology called Livesearch on AlltheWeb. It helps you find what you want faster, by showing search results instantaneously as you type. Livesearch also shows related queries, spelling suggestions, and enables …
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USA Today:
TiVo hooks up with Internet video and ad sales service — NEW YORK — The wall separating televisions from Internet video is about to lose a few more bricks. — TiVo will unveil Tuesday a deal that will enable about 400,000 subscribers who have their machines connected via broadband Internet access …
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Bradley Johnson / AdAge:
Wal-Mart Backs Online Auction for TV Ad Dollars — Retail Giant and Other Marketers Look to Build $50 Million Test System — NAPLES, Fla. (AdAge.com) — A group of marketers led by Wal-Mart's Julie Roehm today put out the call for advertisers to contribute $50 million for a test …
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Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Spot a Bug, Go to Jail — Breaking News from AP and Reuters — See Also — Circuit Court — A new federal prosecution again raises the issue of whether computer security experts must fear prison time for investigating and reporting vulnerabilities.
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David Meyer / ZDNet:
T-Mobile bans VoIP from super-3G service … Observers doubt the policy is sustainable - meaning T-Mobile may be planning its own VoIP client — T-Mobile UK has announced a flat-rate version of its data tariff, aimed primarily at business users. — The release of Web'n'Walk Professional coincides …
Valleywag:
Liveblogging the Google Press Squeeze: Refresh like crazy! — Right, you're gonna wanna watch the live feed of the Google Press Event with me, 'cause that's what we're liveblogging now. At work? I'll try to explain it all as it goes down. — 9:35: Just turned on the stream.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
U.S. to Auction Frequencies for In-Flight Internet Use — Many fliers look forward to boarding planes so they can get away from their phones and e-mail. That sanctuary will inch one step closer to oblivion today when the Federal Communications Commission begins to auction off frequencies for in-flight Internet service.
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The Gamer:
Exclusive World of Warcraft News — When the makers of World of Warcraft announced last year that they would release a major expansion of its virtual world, the game's millions of players began anxiously awaiting details. — Today those players will start getting answers.
Reuters:
UPDATE 1-Mitel Networks files for $150 million IPO — WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - Mitel Networks Corp. on Wednesday filed with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering of common shares in the United States and Canada. — The Ottawa, Ontario-based provider of communications services …
Anne Thomas Manes / The View From The Bow:
UnREST over WS-* and other "enterprisey" things — Mike Herrick, who just happens to be one of my Burton Group clients, has accused me of having "totally drunk the WS-* the Kool-Aid". He goes on to say, "I just was disturbed that given the history on things like J2EE she so easily assumed that WS-* will survive and thrive."
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
What's up at eHarmony? Appoints third CEO this year. — eHarmony, the private Pasadena company that seeks to hook up couples, has appointed its founding investor, Greg Waldorf, as interim chief executive officer. — He's the third CEO this year. The company announced Waldorf's appointment …
Craig Eisenberger / drexel.edu:
Drexel Professor: For a Bigger Computer Hard-drive, Just Add Water — Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes (GB) of information. — Imagine an iPod playing music for 100 millennia without repeating a single song or a USB thumb-drive …
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Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
AOL to Cut 1,300 Workers In U.S. — AOL LLC said yesterday that it will reduce its workforce by 7 percent, or 1,300 employees, many of them call-center workers whose job was to persuade members not to cancel Internet service subscriptions. — The Dulles company said it closed its Jacksonville …
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