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MSNBC:
Yahoo feels the pressure of AT&T alliance — By Kevin Allison in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New York — Shares in Yahoo, the internet portal, were marked down more than 5 per cent on Friday morning after it emerged that AT&T is trying to renegotiate a five-year-old agreement under …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo, AT&T alliance on the rocks? — For five years it has been a perfect marriage: AT&T's DSL offering layered with Yahoo's consumer-friendly services. Yahoo provided SBC (now AT&T) with what it has never been able to figure out: how to make consumers happy!
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
What the Verizon Verdict Means for Vonage — The patent-infringement decision spells financial woe for Vonage and could stymie customer growth. It may also augur future legal headaches — Web-calling outfit Vonage suffered a major setback on Mar. 8 when an eight-person jury found it guilty …
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007 — Maybe you have wondered, as I have, why it takes a pretty robust notebook computer to play DVD videos, while Wal-Mart will sell you a perfectly capable progressive-scan DVD player from Philips for $38? In general, the dedicated DVD player …
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Seth Weintraub / Computerworld:
Why Apple's 'consumer' Macs are enterprise-worthy — Not everyone needs a Mac Pro; sometimes a mini might do — Not too long ago, ad agencies, design firms and other creative companies were about the only businesses that widely deployed Macintosh computers to their employees.
Wall Street Journal:
Music's New Gatekeeper — From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. Our reporters on the horse-trading that can turn unknowns into stars. — Every day, the roughly one million people who visit the iTunes Store home page are presented …
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Carlo / Techdirt:
RIAA Gets Legislators To Threaten To Drop 'The Hammer' On Colleges and Universities — from the enough-already dept — The RIAA has been on a renewed push to target file-sharing college students lately, trying to push them into "discounted settlements" so the RIAA doesn't have to go to the trouble …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Technorati 100: What's Hot in the Blogosphere — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — Earlier this week Emre wrote about declining traffic on Technorati and considered the exit options for this blog vertical search and portal site. The challenge from Google Blogsearch is certainly serious.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
After Mastering Web Traffic, Google Runs Bus Line — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — The perks of working at Google are the envy of Silicon Valley. Unlimited amounts of free chef-prepared food at all times of day. A climbing wall, a volleyball court and two lap pools.
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Rough Type
Associated Press:
Ban on YouTube in Turkey Is Lifted — Turkey Lifts Its Ban on YouTube, 2 Days After a Court Ordered the Web Site Blocked — ISTANBUL, Turkey Mar 9, 2007 (AP)— Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said Friday …
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Mad4 Mobile Phones.com:
Patent: Google Phone knows what you want before you search — Our patent gurus have discovered an interesting patent filing from Google that could reveal the applications they are planning for the Google phone. Alternatively this technology could even debut in the iPhone when it is released in June.
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Shows Popular Videos from the Blogosphere — Google Video has a new section on the homepage: Blog Buzz, that features the videos from YouTube and Google Video that are discussed the most in the blogosphere. I assume that the ranking includes Google Video, even though the current top 10 videos are all from YouTube.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
MYSPACE NEWS: IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME [UPDATE] — MySpace is preparing to launch an integrated news service—with self-aggregating content and social bookmarking—in the coming weeks. MySpace members will be able to post the stories on their profiles, discuss, promote …
Nick / Rough Type:
Freebase: the Web 3.0 machine — Artificial intelligence guru Danny Hillis has launched an early version of the first major Web 3.0 application. It's called Freebase, and its grandiose epistemological mission is right up there with those of Google and Wikipedia.
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John Markoff / New York Times:Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Friday Fun: Weird Search Engines — While the serious talk today is about Freebase, a new next-gen search engine from Danny Hillis, it's the end of the week and so time for a bit of fun. Author of the popular Top Alternative Search Engines list, Charles Knight, flicked me an email this morning …
Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Pay-for-Play Bloggers Pollute Media Ethics … This is not a close call. To take money for touting products in a blog and not disclose it — prominently, and in context — is not ethical. No amount of thumb-sucking justifications can change that. — The lead anecdote in the LA Times story hints …
MediaShift:
MCREVAMP USA Today Walks the Talk of Audience Involvement — When a major newspaper announces it is redesigning its print layout or website, it doesn't usually merit much attention. The regular readers usually complain about it, and then get used to it, and life goes on.
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The Bivings Report
Reuters:
MySpace goes all out for content — News Corp is "in very active negotiations with all the media companies" to bring their content to its MySpace property, the firm's top interactive-media executive said on Wednesday. — Currently, only shows from News Corp-owned Fox, such as 24 and Prison Break …
