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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Opens Its Pages As a Way to Fuel Growth — Facebook Inc. has bucked the Silicon Valley acquisition trend, remaining independent of larger technology companies. Now the social-networking start-up is seeking ways to reach the big leagues on its own.
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Google, Salesforce.com Weigh Alliance to Battle Microsoft — Internet giant Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., a pioneer in online services for businesses, are discussing an alliance that could help them compete more effectively with Microsoft Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.
BBC:
'$100 laptop' sparks war of words — Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte. — He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets.
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What If Every Child Had A Laptop? — Lesley Stahl Reports On The Dream And The Difficulties Of Getting A Computer To Every Child — (CBS) Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at MIT, had a dream. In it every child on the planet had his own computer. In that way, he figured …
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Wi-fi health fears are 'unproven' — Scientists have said there is no evidence to suggest a link between the use of wi-fi and damage to health. — BBC programme Panorama found that radiation levels from wi-fi in one school was up to three times the level of mobile phone mast radiation.
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Wi-Fi: a warning signal — Britain is in the grip of a Wi-Fi revolution with offices, homes and classrooms going wireless - but there is concern the technology could carry health risks. — The Government insists Wi-Fi is safe, but a Panorama investigation shows that radio frequency radiation levels …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It? — Scotland's Sunday Herald is running a story reporting that Google has secretly reached deals with several large UK news groups to formally license content for Google News. — The report notes that the deals are being kept secret …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Slippery Slope: Is Google Now Paying More Newspapers To Link To Them? — We were surprised last month to hear that Google had backed down in its dispute with news agency AFP, agreeing to pay up in order to link to AFP articles in Google News. As has been explained repeatedly, Google is increasing traffic and attention to their sites.
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Steven Vass / Scotland Sunday Herald:Google reach deals with news websites
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Alltel.com:
Alltel to be acquired by TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners for $71.50 per share — Little Rock, AR - Alltel Corp. (NYSE: AT) today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners ("GSCP"), in a transaction valued at approximately $27.5 billion.
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Michael Flaherty / Reuters:TPG, Goldman unit, to buy Alltel in $25 billion deal (Reuters)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google May Launch Mobile Service In UK — We've heard from a good source in the mobile industry that Google may be preparing to launch its own branded mobile network in the UK in the next few weeks. If our source is accurate, Google will become a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) via a deal with UK mobile phone company O2.
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Xinhua News Agency:
Computers accidentally "attacked" by Norton AntiVirus — www.chinaview.cn 2007-05-20 14:22:04 — An error occurring in the update of Norton's virus database on Friday has caused millions of PCs and computers to crash-a heavy blow to people's daily work and ongoing business.
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Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
No plans to bring 80GB PS3 to Europe, says Sony — Information on Korean site confirmed — A Sony spokesperson has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that an 80GB PlayStation 3 is to go on sale in Korea - but said there are currently no plans to launch the model in Europe.
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Robert L. Mitchell / Computerworld Blogs blogs:
An iMac phones home — I lost a good friend today. After an extended loan period, Apple finally asked for its iMac evaluation machine back. Now everyone in this household is going through withdrawl. — Apple originally sent the iMac as background for a feature I wrote on the future of the GUI.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Telco dogs need to learn software tricks — Last year, after visiting British Telecom (BT) and meeting with their executives, I left London with one key take away: BT was one telco that completely understood that it was facing uncertain times, and had no choice but to reinvent itself to survive.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Don't look now, but Tablet PCs are on the rise — Derided by some and purchased by even fewer, the Tablet PC concept has had a rough go of it since its formal blessing by Microsoft in the form of Windows XP Tablet Edition in 2002. Pen-based computing is significantly older than that …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Free Subtitles = Two Years In Jail? — from the but-why? dept — This one was submitted last week, and a few other sites had stories about it late last week or over the weekend, but the more I thought about it, the more ridiculous it became. It's the story of a group of folks …
