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2:40 AM ET, May 24, 2007

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
$100 Million Payday For Feedburner - This Deal Is Confirmed  —  Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal.
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Todd Cochrane / Geek News Central:
Google is Buying FeedBurner this is pure Evil!  —  I am hearing a lot of people cheering for Feedburner, sure I am happy for the folks that started the company, but this is really bad for people that are now going to be spied upon at a whole new level by the Google machine.
Discussion: HipMojo.com
Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES PURGE OF AD-HEAVY WEB SITES  —  Google is trying to clean up its search results by cracking down on dubious Web sites that contain little content but lots of ads.  —  The search giant has notified a number of Web publishers in the last few days that they will be dropped from its popular …
Discussion: 10e20
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Search without boundaries  —  Posted by Franz Och, Research Scientist; Maureen Heymans, Software Engineer; and Jeff Chin, International Product Manager  —  One of our goals at Google is to provide access to all the world's information.  A big obstacle for that is the language barrier.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:   Adsense For Video, Google Still Lagging
Ethan / ...My heart's in Accra:
Global Voices wins Knight Foundation News Challenge  —  I'm at the Editor and Publisher and Adweek "Interactive Media" conference today because the Knight Foundation is announcing its News Challenge winners this morning at the conference.  Global Voices has won one of the 24 awards …
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Nat Ives / AdAge:
Ann Moore: 'Everybody Stay Calm'  —  Time Inc.'s CEO on Why Change Is Hard and Why Print Is Undervalued  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ann S. Moore, the top executive at Time Inc., the country's largest magazine publisher, today said that leading her company through its transformation …
Discussion: ContentBlogger and paidContent.org
John R. Quain / New York Times:
Basics: Cellphone Banking Is Coming of Age  —  YOU'RE starting a two-week vacation far from home when you suddenly realize you left the mortgage payment on the kitchen table instead of mailing it on the way to the airport.  Or perhaps you're standing in the checkout line of a store …
Jeff Barr / Jeff Barr's Blog:
Google Can't Google?  —  Last year Google tried to convince me to join their ranks.  I had a nice trip to Mountain View, a pleasant day of interviews, and a glimpse inside of their campus.  All pretty cool.  I ended up shutting down the process between the "we really want to hire you" …
medill.northwestern.edu:
Medill offers journalism scholarships to programmer/developers  —  Are you a skilled programmer or Web developer?  Are you interested in applying your talents to the challenge of creating a better-informed society?  Do you want to learn how to find, analyze and present socially relevant information that engages media audiences?
Polly Graham / News of the World:
POD IT AWAY!  —  COMPUTER giants Apple are really worked up—over an Ann Summers sex toy that hooks up to your iPod.  —  Women all over Britain are saying yes, yes, yes to the £30 iGasm that plugs into a music player and delivers good vibrations that pulse to the beat.
Anoop Gantayat / IGN:
No FFXIII This Year  —  Just in case you were still hoping.  —  Did that updated Final Fantasy XIII trailer (you know, the one you weren't able to see because filming was not allowed) from the Square Enix Party get you even more excited about Japan's most anticipated PS3 title?
Discussion: Kotaku, Game | Life, PS3 Fanboy and youNEWB
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
GPL author: Google must share code  —  (InfoWorld) - Companies like Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said Tuesday.  —  That's a good thing because it doesn't look …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Novell to detail Microsoft patent pact  —  SAN FRANCISCO—Novell will share details of its patent pact with Microsoft this month in a regulatory filing that had been delayed by a stock option investigation.  —  Novell plans to reveal the details in conjunction with filing its upcoming annual report …
Discussion: Linux-Watch.com
Business Wire:
Jangl Upgrades a Billion Phones Instantly, Adds Ability to Call Anyone Online, Worldwide, Anytime  —  Jangl Assigns a Phone Number to Every Email Address on the Internet  —  PLEASANTON, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Know someone online you'd like to talk to on the phone, but don't have their phone number - or don't want to give them yours?
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Vista no panacea for PC sales  —  Although Microsoft has characterized itself as happy with Vista adoption so far—and Bill Gates said last week at WinHEC that Microsoft had shipped 40 million copies—the release of the new operating system has not resulted in a significant bump in PC sales.
Discussion: Neowin.net
Georges Yared / Apple Inc (AAPL): BloggingStocks:
Apple will be bigger than IBM  —  Arguably two of America's best run companies are Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) and International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM).  Both have achieved high levels of success and shareholders have been rewarded along the way.  However, both are treading in different waters …
 
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Donald Bell / CNET News.com:
Robots make you rich  —  We've seen the robots that mow your lawn …
Discussion: Ubergizmo
Lore Sjöberg / Wired News:
Let's Make Website Mashups, Like Netflickr, Figg and BoingPress
Discussion: digg
David Pogue / New York Times:
State of the Art: How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a BlackBerry
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Google is failing the Microsoft litmus test
btplc.com:
BT and Sony to offer advanced communications for the PSP
Microsoft:
Microsoft Focuses on Interoperability for the Identity Metasystem
Paperghost / The SpywareGuide Greynets Blog:
Skype Worm Variant Targets Other Instant Messaging Clients
Market Wire:
Local.com Introduces Local Mobile(TM)
Discussion: Kelsey Group Blogs
 Earlier Items: 
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Rooftop Media raises $2.5M for "middle tail" comedy video site
Discussion: Mashable! and paidContent.org
Jeremy Kirk / PC World:
Researcher: RSA 1024-bit Encryption not Enough
Discussion: Neowin.net
Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
Internet tax ban meets resistance in Senate
Discussion: Neowin.net
Andrew Yoon / PS3 Fanboy:
Firmware 1.80 to include 1080p upscaling for games and movies
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Femtocells bring 3G, cellular signals indoors and underground
Discussion: Gadget Lab and Yahoo! News
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online
Discussion: p2pnet
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple seen unloading new MacBook Pros and (possibly) iMacs at WWDC
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Is the Google Video PlusBox Fair?
Discussion: Publishing 2.0 and Valleywag
 

 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: the White House plans to impose its own seating chart for briefing room reporters, taking over a function long managed by the reporters through the WHCA

Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Sources describe rising tensions at Warner Bros. Pictures amid movie flops, with WBD CEO David Zaslav losing confidence in co-heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Bloomberg has had to correct at least three dozen AI-generated summaries on top of news articles since it started showing them early this year

 
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