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Robert D. Hershey Jr / New York Times:
Sunny and Gloomy Signs at a Web Crossroads — IN mid-October, Yahoo, the world's biggest Internet portal, reported a sharp profit skid and warned of a further growth slowdown in two major lines of business — a performance that its unusually contrite chief executive said had failed to fully exploit the company's strengths.
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Fred / A VC:
Maturity — I was talking to my friend Mark about Yahoo! recently and he said something like "as long as they maintain their audience, I think they'll be in good shape". — The same point was made by Randy Befumo of Legg Mason, in today's New York Times in the piece about Yahoo! being a "value stock":
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Ben Edelman / BenEdelman.org:
Bad Practices Continue at Zango, Notwithstanding Proposed FTC Settlement and Zango's Claims — Earlier this month, the FTC announced the proposed settlement of its investigation into Zango, makers of advertising software widely installed onto users' computers without their consent or without …
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Suzi Turner / Spyware Confidential:
Zango's continued bad practices in light of FTC's proposed settlement terms — Just over two weeks ago, the FTC announced a proposed settlement with Zango for the complaint filed earlier this year. Under terms of the settlement, Zango is required to give up $3 million in ill-gotten gains …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Cellphone as Tracker: X Marks Your Doubts — THE diminutive cellphone is turning out to be the most clever of devices. As it connects to more networks, stores more kinds of data, delivers more kinds of entertainment — wherever we happen to be — it effectively becomes the most personal computer we own.
Antonio / The Tabblo Blog:
Screw all of this Yahoo bashing — Before everyone declares Yahoo dead and irrelevant, we at Tabblo figured we'd throw a little support behind the company that has given us a whole bunch of help in getting this whole thing going. — I'm referring of course to the recent pile-on regarding the …
John Chow / John Chow dot Com:
The World's Most High-Tech Urinal — In an effort to handle its nighttime public urination problem, Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, is considering installing urinals that disappear below street level during the day. Unlike the automated, self-cleaning toilets planned for Toronto and Vancouver …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Wii FAQ: answers to your Wii questions — We've had our Wii kicking around the office for a little while now, but we had to hold off on answering your many questions about it until last night when they rolled out their launch update. Trust us, it definitely changed some answers, so let's get to the FAQ.
Eric Jackson / Breakout Performance:
An Open Letter to Jerry Yang and David Filo — Dear Jerry and David: — I am writing this letter to you as a loyal Yahoo! user since 1996. Who could have imagined that, what started out as an experiment in the Stanford computer lab in 1994, would grow to become what is today a media titan?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Yahoo's Brad Garlinghouse Makes His Power Move
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Live from Nintendo's Wii launch in New York — We're hanging out at Toys "R" Us Times Square this evening, getting all ready for a bazillion people to get their respective Wii on. As of 9PM the line is already mind boggling, but the word is Toys "R" Us is stocked with [5,000] …
GamePolitics / GamePolitics.com:
Bill O'Reilly Slams PS3 Launch, Gamers, iPods, Digital Tech (not in that order) — Apparently sparked by the PlayStation 3 launch, conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly took off after video game culture and digital technology generally in yesterday's Radio Factor.
Prof. Andrew McAfee / Andrew McAfee:
Now THAT's What I'm Talking About! — I put out a call for case studies a while back. I was looking for examples of deep Enterprise 2.0 penetration — where freeform social software platforms had become so widely and deeply used that they were no-longer-exceptional parts of the company's technology infrastucture, and its culture.
CarstenCumbrowski / Search Engine Journal:
Europe's Xing.com - The LinkedIn.com Killer?! — It was not too long ago when the European Business-Networking Service OpenBC.com announced their planned name change to Xing.com. — OpenBC.com is no longer and all links to OpenBC.com, including the links to profile pages, are being redirected to Xing.com.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Where is the Bronx Science for adults? — The best thing about going to Bronx Science, for me, was being in daily contact with really smart and creative people my own age. That's what I keep looking for, as an adult. — I didn't quite find it at Harvard, what I found there was permission to be creative …
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Second Life Gets a Paper Book — Second Life has been on Techmeme a lot lately. Most of this has been about the continuing inroads that larger companies like Dell and Reuters have made into the world. Some of it has been about strife within the world due to things like land price increases and copybot …
Robert Lemos / SecurityFocus:
PCI cards the next haven for rootkits? — Security researcher John Heasman released a paper this week describing a way to hide malicious code on graphics and network cards in such a way as to avoid detection and survive a full re-installation of the operating system.
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