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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Yahoo Updates Toolbar and Bookmarks — Yahoo is releasing a new version of its toolbar with a powerful new bookmarking feature that integrates seamlessly with Yahoo web search, and features a "radical" new user interface. — The new Yahoo toolbar has an improved search function that uses …
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Better Bookmarks, Better Toolbar — We're here to introduce the new beta versions of the Yahoo! Toolbar (for IE) and Yahoo! Bookmarks. — Bookmarks first appeared on the Yahoo! Toolbar in 1999. Back then, the big virtues of online bookmarks were backup and portability - Yahoo! …
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Amazon to Curtail Its Spending — Going into the critical holiday shopping season, Amazon.com said yesterday that it would slow its investment in new technology in a bid to start reaping the rewards of its continuing growth. — Amazon, the huge online retailer based in Seattle …
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phx.corporate-ir.net:
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Financial Results — Net Sales up 24% Year over Year — Expects Record Holiday Season — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2006. — Operating cash flow declined 11% to $587 million …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
New audience metric needed: engagement — I was just reading Jeneane Sessum's post about the latest Ze Frank/Rocketboom dustup and she's right, we need to measure stuff other than just whether a download got completed or not. She says we need a "likeability" stat. I think it goes further than that.
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks — The Firefox homepage calls the web browser "fully customizable to your online life," and that's not just marketing claptrap. Beyond the extensive options available in its menus and dialogs, there's a lengthy set of advanced Firefox preferences …
Kristina Shevory / New York Times:
Cultivating Server Farms — SEATTLE — Over the last six years, Internap Network Services has survived hundreds of layoffs, a tumbling share price and a delisting threat from Nasdaq. Until this year, it had never been profitable. Still, it was fortunate to be in a business …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Eyespot gets $3.7M for video mashing service — Eyespot, a start-up that lets people make video mashups by giving them tools to overlay images on video, said it has raised a first round of funding of $3.7 million. — The round, led by Silicon Valley firm Gabriel Venture Partners …
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Martin LaMonica / ZDNet:
Adobe ponies up for Apollo — Adobe Systems plans to spend $100 million in venture funding to promote its software development platforms, with a particular focus on Apollo, which allows people to run Web applications without a browser. — Company executives at Adobe's Max developer conference …
David M. Halbfinger / New York Times:
Talent Agency Is Aiming to Find Web Video Stars — Brent Weinstein, left, heads the new UTA Online. Its three agents are Jason U. Nadler, right, Barrett D. Garese, seated, and Ryan Reber, rear. — One of Hollywood's top five talent agencies has created an online unit devoted to scouting …
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Planning a small conference — I like small, focused events especially in the early days of an industry. Om and I organized the Widgets Live! conference to bring together the major players creating widgets, gadgets, and modules and the major endpoints of deployment.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Getty images: a photo business under pressure — I'm sitting here listening to Jonathan Klein talk with a variety of bloggers. Thomas Hawk, CEO of Zooomr, and Kristopher Tate, Founder of Zooomr, a photosharing site are here too. So is Marshall from TechCrunch.
hp.com:
HP and Cingular Keep Business Customers Connected with New HP iPAQ Handheld — HP and Cingular Wireless today announced that beginning Oct. 31 Cingular will be the first carrier in the United States to offer a new HP iPAQ handheld device with five wireless communications technologies.
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Telecom: Bulking Up to Take On Cable — Consolidation has allowed AT&T, BellSouth, and others to achieve the national scale and scope that will enable them to compete — The new AT&T has been on a tear. A year after SBC Communications completed its acquisition of AT&T, the new AT&T (T) …
Associated Press:
Hacker claims to have cracked iPod restrictions — SAN JOSE, California (AP) — A hacker known for cracking the copy-protection technology in DVDs claims to have unlocked the playback restrictions of Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod and iTunes music products and plans to license his code to others.
Michael Krantz / Official Google Blog:
Do you "Google?" — Q: What do zippers, baby oil, brassieres and trampolines have in common? — A: No, the answer isn't that they're all part of the setup for a highly inappropriate joke. In fact, the above list (along with thermos, cellophane, escalator, elevator, dry ice and many more) …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
AMD, Intel trim processor pricing — Fall is here, and so are processor price cuts. — Advanced Micro Devices earlier this week lowered prices on notebook processors and a few desktop units, mostly to make way for new products. — The TL-60, a dual-core Turion chip for thin notebooks that runs at 2GHz …
