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Microsoft:
Media Alert: New York, New York, in 3-D — Seeing Is Believing — Live Search Maps launches photo-realistic 3-D imagery of New York City, several other cities. — Have you always wanted to visit New York City, but never had the chance to make it happen? Have you lived in the city for years …
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TechCrunch, Google Earth Blog, Guardian Unlimited, Screenwerk and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency's plans said yesterday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Selling Web Advertising Space Like Pork Bellies — Exchanges That Pair Buyers, — Sellers for Available Ad Slots — Attract Internet Giants — The next big Internet race might turn the buying and selling of advertising space on Web sites into the online equivalent of the pork-bellies pit.
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
More Bandwidth Than You Can Use? — Companies such as Verizon are starting to offer Internet connection speeds that are 5 to 30 times faster than standard cable or DSL lines — From the moment the first phone-line modems squawked to life, connecting consumers to early Internet service providers …
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IP Democracy
New York Times:
Avaya Is Said to Be Exploring a Sale of All or Some of Itself — The telecommunications company Avaya is in negotiations to sell a part or all of itself, in what may be the latest round of deal making in its industry, executives briefed on the negotiations said last night.
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New York Times:
War Fears Turn Digital After Data Siege in Estonia — When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month, they expected violent street protests by Estonians of Russian descent.
Rodney Gedda / Computerworld:
Top secret: Microsoft's $6 billion open source play — Linux and open source software at heart of acquisition — This month's announcement by Microsoft to acquire digital marketing services firm aQuantive has revealed little on how the companies will integrate their IT …
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Open Source
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Have the people at ESPN.com have lost their minds or am I missing something here?!?!? — Wow... it seems based on my last post that ESPN is, in fact, blocking their content on certain ISPs who won't PAY THEM! — This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard of. for a number of reasons:
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PC World:
China Crafts Cyberweapons — The Defense Department reports China is building cyberwarfare units and developing viruses. — The People's Liberation Army (PLA) continues to build cyberwarfare units and develop viruses to attack enemy computer systems as part of its information-warfare strategy …
Business Wire:
Skyhook Wireless Launches Loki 2.0 - the Location-Aware Platform for the Geoweb — Delivers Broad Developer Support with New Loki Mac, Loki Mobile and Loki API — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Skyhook Wireless, Inc., developer of the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS)TM and Loki …
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Search Engine Land
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Microsoft's Zune: Still Shy of 1 Million Sales — The San Francisco Chronicle generated a lot of buzz for Microsoft (MSFT) yesterday by printing a claim that the software giant had already sold more than a million Zunes — which would put it ahead of the goal the company set for itself shortly …
Market Wire:
VeriSign Board of Directors Elects William A. Roper, Jr. as Chief Executive Officer and Edward A. Mueller as Chairman — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—(MARKET WIRE)—May 29, 2007 — VeriSign, Inc. (NasdaqGS:VRSN - News) — Stratton D. Sclavos Steps Down as Chief Executive Officer and member
Read/WriteWeb:
Semantic Search: An Antidote for Poor Relevancy — By Dr. Riza C. Berkan, Founder & CEO, hakia.com — Editor's Note: This is a guest post by the CEO of Hakia, Dr Riza C. Berkan. I want to stress that this post is NOT an advertorial - in fact I made it a condition of publication that the post …
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HighTouch
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Cyberattack in Estonia—what it really means — newsmaker When it comes to denial-of-service attacks, Jose Nazario has seen just about everything. — As senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, Nazario closely monitors network attacks. A denial-of-service, or DoS …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Tech vets making leap to green tech — Like a lab scientist tweaking a chemical formula, clean-technology start-ups are trying to create management teams with the right blend, mixing scientific know-how and high-tech business savvy. — The clean-tech sector, covering everything …
