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Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft offer — Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive of Yahoo, said on Wednesday he had turned down an offer from Microsoft to buy a stake in Yahoo's search business and that discussions about Bill Gates' software group acquiring the company had not taken place.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Breakfast with Yahoo — I'm at a Newhouse School/New Yorker event at Bryant Park with Ken Auletta interviewing Yahoo boss Terry Semel. — He says he talked to Google's founders early on about buying them. Their first offer was $1 billion "and we don't want to sell."
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Dynamic Implementation of Google Co-op for Search Engine Roundtable — This morning I described what is Google Co-op, but I also promised I would try to implement an example for this site. Well, we have implemented phase one of Google Co-op subscription links for this site.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
In Our Post-PC Era, Apple's Device Model Beats the PC Way — For many years, there have been two models of how to make computers and other digital devices. One is the component model, championed by Microsoft. The other is the end-to-end model, championed by Apple.
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Guardian:
'We have a lot on our plate and we prioritise' — Fresh from settling an anti-trust suit with Microsoft, the chief executive of Real Networks, Rob Glaser, outlines the company's strategy for success in the digital downloading market — Interview by Kate Bulkley
USA Today:
NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls — The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
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Noahmax / Defense Tech:
NSA SWEEP "WASTE OF TIME," ANALYST SAYS — It'd be one thing if the NSA's massive sweep of our phone records was actually helping catch terrorists. But what if it's not working at all? A leading practitioner of the kind of analysis the NSA is supposedly performing in this surveillance program says that …
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Report Claims Very Serious Diebold Voting Machine Flaws — [This entry was written by Avi Rubin and Ed Felten.] — A report by Harri Hursti, released today at BlackBoxVoting, describes some very serious security flaws in Diebold voting machines. These are easily the most serious voting machine flaws …
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Mass media masses at the Googleplex — [To skip to the Google presentation report click on the extended entry...] — Google's Press day started at 9.30 am but it was closer to 10am by the time I got to the Googleplex H.Q, an hour away and a traffic crawl from San Francisco.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Notebook Screen Shots — A Google employee named Erica Joy has posted a number of screen shots of Google Notebook, which will launch next week at google.com/notebook. — Notebook looks like it is designed to be a flat out del.icio.us competitor, allowing you to gather content from around the web …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Putting the Wire Back Into Networking — Back in the Stone Age of home networking, anyone who wanted to play on a computer not hooked directly into an Internet connection had to snake phone lines or Ethernet wires across floors and up staircases. — People talked about a promising idea …
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Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Clarification on AIMpages — Whew! At least I can legally say what the name is! That's been an embargo for almost two months now - as the code-name AIMspace leaked out in late January in Businessweek. — So now starts the next phase - testing. — So thanks to everyone for their interest …
icann.org:
ICANN Board Votes Against .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain Agreement — Marina del Rey, California, 10 May 2006: Today, ICANN's Board of Directors voted against a proposed agreement for a .XXX. Sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD). The application was proposed by the ICM Registry.
Joe / Techdirt:
Tech Workers Need More Than Sentimental Reasons To Unionize — from the workers-of-the-world,-compete! dept — Tony Long argues at Wired.com that it's time tech workers unionized. He uses the typical rhetoric about jobs being outsourced, wages stagnating, corporate profits soaring …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
25 Things I Learned on Google Trends — To give you a sense of its tremendous power for tapping into the world psyche, here are 25 things I learned on Google Trends. Someone should start a blog on this kind of stuff. — 1) Almost all of the ten biggest US markets for MySpace are on the West Coast
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SiliconBeat, Open (finds, minds …, cre8d design blog, Google Blogoscoped, InsideGoogle, Orbitcast, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, mathewingram.com/work, Mashable*, Joseph Scott's Blog, Got Ads?, Download Squad, Guardian Unlimited, Search Engine Roundtable, Barnako.com, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Business Filter, Matt Cutts and Gautam Ghosh on Management
Business Wire:
World's First ISO Compliant Payment DisplayCard using SiPix and SmartDisplayer's Flexible Display Panel — FREMONT, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 10, 2006—SiPix Imaging (www.sipix.com) and SmartDisplayer (www.smartdisplayer.com) developed the first flexible display panel to be embedded into an ISO compliant payment card.
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Agence France Presse:
NTT DoCoMo to start next-generation music-movie service — TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's top mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, said it will start a next-generation service letting phone users download music videos, aiming to outdo rivals' success with online music. — The new service …
Jimmy Daniels / Alice Hill's Real Tech News:
Warner Bros Partners with 180Solutions — In one of those moves you just have to shake your head at, Warner Bros has partnered with 180Solutions to distribute shows made exclusively for the web. The plan is to add a third show, and to use other models to distribute the shows, such as on Sprint telephones and BitTorrent.
Evan Blass / Engadget:
D-Link relents, agrees to halt its "NTP vandalism" — Although we never got that press release we wanted from D-Link addressing accusations that it was engaging in so-called "NTP vandalism," the company has apparently seen the error of its ways and [been shamed into] come to a settlement …
