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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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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Microsoft buys health search engine, Medstory
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:What's really behind Microsoft's healthcare push?
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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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Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Apple TV to be delayed until mid-March — We've seen a great deal of hype, speculation and prognosticating regarding the upcoming Apple TV over the past few weeks, and now it appears we'll have to wait a few more weeks to see if it lives up to expectations and becomes a must-have item like the iPod.
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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 …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Sony chops price on Blu-ray player — Sony has announced its plans to slash the price of high definition, according the Associated Press. At a New York press conference, Sony talked up its forthcoming BDP-S300 Blu-ray player. The big selling point? Its $599 price.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Howard Berman Blames Pharmaceutical Industry For Holding Up Patent Reform — from the not-surprising dept — I'm spending today down at the first Tech Policy Summit down in San Jose. The group putting this together has done a great job bringing out some big names, though the attendance …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Patent Panel Offers No Real Solution To Patent Problem — from the not-much-new dept — Back at the Tech Policy Summit, there was a panel on whether or not the current patent system had a chilling effect on patent infringement. Jon Dudas from the patent office was supposed to be here, but couldn't make it due to weather.
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.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Which Videos Are Protected? Lawmakers Get a Lesson — As the new Congress experiments with the wide world of blogging and video clips, members are learning the complexities of copyright law, much the way the casual YouTube user has learned that there are corporations out there that own …
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 …
Dwight / TechBlog:
Updated: What happens when Windows Vista isn't activated — Windows Vista, like Windows XP before it, requires that you activate it via a Microsoft server. In what amounts to a trial period, you have 30 days of use before it must be activated. — Late last week, I found out what happens when you don't activate Vista.
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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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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 …
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 …
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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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center — I was lucky enough to get in on the Gmail beta when it launched and I haven't looked back since. Even though I've had an account for almost three years and I get over 100 emails a day, I have chewed up only 18% of the generous 2.8 gigabytes of storage.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Social Bookmarking 101: You gotta own your bury/sink. (or How Kevin Rose is painting himself into a corner). — Kevin Rose is getting called out again today for the mob-like behavior of the "digg kids." — For those of you who haven't been on the receiving end of the "digg kids mob," …
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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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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 …
