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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
WPP Acquires 24/7 Real Media To Compete With Google And Yahoo — I saw one of Google's "agency relationship managers" give a pitch to a top agency, where she gave the standard line that Google doesn't want to be an ad agency. I didn't believe it for a second.
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Business Wire:
24/7 Real Media Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by WPP — 24/7 Real Media Shareholders to Receive $11.75 per Share — Acquisition Will Create a Powerful Combination of Technology and Services to Benefit Global Marketers — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—24/7 Real Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: TFSM - News):
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WPP:
Rationale for the Offer — WPP is committed to delivering added value to its clients, its share owners and its people, by continuing to be a significant force in the global advertising and marketing services industry. This will be achieved by providing local, regional and multinational clients …
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Universal search: The best answer is still the best answer — Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User Experience — Back in 2001, Eric asked for a brainstorm of a few "splashy" ideas in search. A designer and product manager at the time, I made a few mockups …
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FightinSunDevil / Gamerscore Blog:
Clearing the Air: In Support of HD DVD... 'Just want to clear up a few things surrounding several erroneous stories regarding alleged comments from Peter Moore about Xbox 360 supporting Blu-ray. Simply put...These reports are completely incorrect. — Some online media outlets have picked …
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AppleInsider:
News Flash: Apple iPhone receives FCC approval — Apple Inc. on Thursday received the official go-ahead on its first ever mobile handset, with the Federal Communications Commission giving the iPod maker the green light to commence sales of the device in the United States.
Nicholas Carr / Guardian:
The net is being carved up into information plantations — Search at Google.com on evolution or Iraq or Aids or Gordon Brown, and the same site will appear at the top of the list of results: Wikipedia. Alter your search into one for John Keats or Muhammad Ali or Christianity or platypus or loneliness, and the same thing will happen.
Wired News:
What Makes Techmeme Tick? Inventor Gabe Rivera Explains — For many Silicon Valley insiders, one site has become the primary aggregator of technology news: Techmeme. The site constantly scrapes news sites and blogs and compiles a continually updated list of links to the most popular tech news of the day.
Martyn Williams / InfoWorld:
Google Korea to censor search results — (InfoWorld) - Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said Thursday. — Users will be asked to verify their age …
Omri / fring:
Twitter inside! — What do you get when you give twitters free air time? — fringing mobile twits! — (or fritters - but unless you're hungry, that ain't going to satisfy you) — fring has fully integrated twitter so now all you twitters can stay in touch with your twitting friends wherever …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Imagine Live Search - Microsoft's Test Site Launches — Spotted via LiveSide, a new experimental search engine from Windows Live. Like those from Ask (Ask X), Google (SearchMash) and Yahoo Alpha), it provides a mixture of results all on the same page. Below is a look at Microsoft's …
Microsoft Help and Support:
The "File Download - Security Warning" dialog box opens when you try to open Internet Explorer 7 … Important This article contains information that shows you how to help lower security settings or how to turn off security features on a computer. You can make these changes to work around a specific problem.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Making The Switch From Twitter to Jaiku — "I thought I saw a putty tat. I did, I did see a putty tat!" — These famous words were never the last from Tweety Bird, but for a growing number of Twitter users they will be. The last thing they will see before giving up on Twitter …
David Flynn / APC:
Vista will be the last version of Windows for Pentium 4 and Core Duo owners — It's the end of the line for 32-bit operating systems, Microsoft has proclaimed at its annual Windows Hardware Engineering conference — After the software giant has gotten over its hangover from partying …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Google v. Perfect 10: Appeals court affirms that thumbnails are fair use — Google scored a partial victory yesterday in a case that is likely to have major implications for the evolution of copyright law online. In a 2004 lawsuit, porn merchant Perfect 10 accused Google of infringing …
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PC World:
ReadyBoost Flash Drives Lack Significant Boost — Kingston, Lexar, and Ridata devices provide USB flash storage but don't consistently speed up Vista applications. — Lincoln Spector, PC World — Windows Vista's Windows ReadyBoost sounds too good to be true, and based on our extensive lab tests, it is.
Staten Island Advance / SI Advance Newslog:
'V-Tech Rampage' Internet game sparks outrage — An Internet video game putting players in the role of Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho may be nothing more than a twisted publicity stunt. — But the sick game is now in the cross hairs of state Sen. Andrew Lanza …
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T offers mobile backup solution — Phones get lost, broken, dropped in toilets, and otherwise afflicted on a daily basis. In addition to dealing with the emotional repercussions of losing your treasured mobile device, the fallout from losing all of your contacts can be catastrophic.
