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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft to Buy Health Information Search Engine — Microsoft's drive into the health care market is just getting under way, but the company signaled on Monday that one important ingredient in its plan will be a specialized search engine tailored to deliver useful medical information to consumers.
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Microsoft buying search firm in health-care push
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:What's really behind Microsoft's healthcare push?
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O'Reilly ONLamp Blog
New York Times:
An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little — Google and Yahoo have been fighting it out over which company will dominate the online advertising business, with Google maintaining the upper hand so far. — But in the competition for contextual text ads — those small sponsored links …
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Google to begin sharing URLs where AdWords advertiser's ads are being run — The New York Times ran an article about Quigo, a contextual advertising company that targets premium sized publishers. In the story, comments from both Yahoo & Google were included.
comScore:
comScore Data Show Yahoo!'s New Ranking Model Has Had Initial Positive Impact on Sponsored Search Click-Through Rates — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released the results of a study analyzing the changes in Yahoo!'s click-through rates for sponsored search ads since …
New York Times:
Google in Content Deal With Media Companies — Google built an empire delivering advertisements across the Internet, and now it plans to distribute content from media companies just as aggressively. — Google is working with Dow Jones & Company, Condé Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Problems arise with Vista's validation — Last year, when Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy infrastructure for Windows Vista, I was skeptical. Here's what I wrote at the time: … And now, only weeks after the retail launch of Windows Vista, early Vista adopters are experiencing a wave of validation and activation problems.
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Gizmodo:
Exclusive Video Leaked: iPod Firmware Coming, Enables Cover Flow — A little birdie told us that a firmware update for iPods is coming soon, giving you that same Cover Flow view that you've grown to love in iTunes now. See it in action, right here. — The tipster also tells us …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
New Hot Properties: YouTube Celebrities — No one would mistake the Ask a Jew guy for Lonelygirl15, but these days YouTube contributor Shmuel Tennenhaus is feeling like a hot commodity. — Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question …
Martyn Williams / InfoWorld:
Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued over MP3 — Texas MP3 Technologies claims the companies infringed its patent covering 'an MPEG portable sound reproducing system' — Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit.
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Peter Zura's 271 Patent Blog, Macsimum News, Infinite Loop, Neowin.net and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Lewis Page / The Register:
Windows for Warships nears frontline service — Analysis Everyone knows the differences between Windows and other operating systems. Steve Jobs has recently spent colossal sums telling us that most malware is written for Windows; also that using Windows is no fun and, even worse, seems to involve wearing a tie.
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Sony announces cheaper Blu-ray player — NEW YORK - Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). said Monday it is bringing out a cheaper player for Blu-ray discs early this summer, a crucial step in its battle to make the high-definition format the replacement for DVDs. — The BDP-S300 will cost $599 …
BBC:
Wireless users 'do more online' — People who use wireless internet "show deeper engagement with cyberspace," according to an American study. — While 54% of internet users check e-mail "on the typical day," 72% of wireless users check daily. — Just under half of wireless users …
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Daniel E. Slotnik / New York Times:
Too Few Friends? A Web Site Lets You Buy Some (and They're Hot) — Popularity was never easily measured, until the advent of social-networking sites. Now, prospective employers and others can gain some insights into an applicant's lifestyle and character by looking at a person's social-networking page …
biz.yahoo.com:
Yahoo!: Time for Plan B — Eric Jackson submits: What's a long-term path for success for Yahoo! (NasdaqGS: YHOO)? Long after Panama has been rolled out, the company needs a strategic shift in direction and some important structural changes in its leadership and governance to put …
Cho Jin-seo / KoreaTimes:
Samsung Sisters Vie for LCD Record — Samsung SDI has developed the slimmest liquid crystal display (LCD) for mobile phones, breaking the record set by its sister firm Samsung Electronics only three months ago. — The display maker said the new prototype module is only 0.74 millimeters thick …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Quintura Visual Search Engine Relaunches — At around 8 AM PST this morning, Moscow-based search engine Quintura will relaunch its visual search engine with a new user interface (if it looks like the screen shot below, it's launched). — The company, which is backed by Mangrove Capital Partners …
