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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Search is history, says Yahoo! — The company says personalisation is now more important than search, in what some have seen as an admission that it can't compete with Google — Yahoo!, one of the two names most synonymous with search on the internet, has surprised Silicon Valley by suggesting …
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PR Newswire:
Yahoo! Opens Access to Search Marketing Platform APIs — Dedicated third-party partner services and free, open access to Yahoo!'s "Panama" advertising platform technology will drive further growth and innovation in digital advertising — SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 4, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft: Silicon Valley Team Building Stealth Search Engine — Microsoft has gathered a team of twenty or more "rock star" developers who've been tasked at building their next generation search engine, a source has told us. The team, which supposedly came together recently …
McAfee SiteAdvisor:
The State of Search Engine Safety … Key Findings — Overall, 4.0% of search results link to risky Web sites, which marks an improvement from 5.0% in May 2006. Dangerous sites are found in search results of all 5 of the top US search engines (representing 93% of all search engine use).
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Florida defendant goes after RIAA for fraud, conspiracy, and extortion — As the RIAA has continued its legal assault on file-sharing, defendants are responding with what amount to boilerplate defenses and counterclaims against the RIAA's allegations of copyright infringement.
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The Smoking Gun:
Google As Terror Tool? — One of the plotters behind the alleged scheme to explode gas pipelines at John F. Kennedy airport directed his co-conspirators to use Google Earth to obtain detailed aerial photos of the targeted facility. In a federal criminal complaint, an excerpt from which you'll find below …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Soapbox re-opens, beating YouTube to the punch with content filtering — MSN reopened Soapbox to the public this weekend after a two-month hiatus while the company implemented a content filtering system on the site. Soapbox now uses a combination of "proactive automatic filtering technology" …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Dell XPS m1330 performance ultraportable revealed — We've got the scoop on some early marketing materials / renders for Dell XPS m1330, and we have to say, this is as impressed as we've ever been with a Dell laptop. Check it out: — 13.3-inch screen, configurable with LED backlight!
TVWeek Blog:
Hearst-Argyle, Where Are You on YouTube? — So local TV stations are getting hip to YouTube. Hearst-Argyle Television started offering local videos from five stations on YouTube today. You can find them online at: www.youtube.com/wcvbtv, www.youtube.com/wmurtv, www.youtube.com/kcratv …
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Guy Kawasaki / How to Change the World:
By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 — Because of Truemors, I've learned a lot about launching a company in these "Web 2.0" times. Here's quick overview "by the numbers." — 0. I wrote 0 business plans for it.
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Finjan:
Finjan's Latest Web Security Trends Report Reveals New Genre of Evasive Attacks — Evasive Attacks Hit Once and Disappear to Minimize Visibility to Security Products; — Financial Incentives Drive Growth of Malicious Website Affiliations — Finjan, a leader in web security products …
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Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg:
Nintendo's Wii Widens Lead Over Sony's PS3 in Japan in May — Nintendo Co., the world's third- biggest maker of video-game players, widened its lead in Japan last month after its Wii consoles and DS portable players outsold products from Sony Corp., a research firm said.
Meraki:
Meraki Introduces First Solar Powered Outdoor WiFi Access Kit — New Meraki Solar and Meraki Outdoor Work Together to Cover Entire Neighborhoods with Outdoor Wireless Access — MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - June 4, 2007 — Meraki Networks, pioneer of the first consumer wireless mesh Internet network designed to …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft teams with Linux distributor Xandros — Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandros announced on Monday a technical and legal collaboration, the latest step in the software giant's ongoing program to partner with open-source companies. — Over the next five years, the two companies said …
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler:
Firefox 3 Feature Preview — Firefox Alpha 5 arrived last Friday, bringing with it the first look at Places, the new bookmark management system. But the Firefox team has a number of additional UI tweaks up their sleeve and some of them look quite slick. — Alex Faaborg who's …
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Valve hardware survey shows gamers yet to embrace Vista — The results of Valve's latest Steam hardware survey, begun on May 30, have just been released to the public. Over 330,000 unique samples have been received so far, and the results—while self-selecting—are useful to anyone interested …
Paul Farhi / American Journalism Review:
Rolling the Dice — Media companies have high hopes that hyperlocal news online will bolster their newspapers' futures. But early returns suggest the financial outlook for such ventures is not bright. — Paul Farhi (farhip@washpost.com) is a Washington Post reporter who writes frequently about the media for the Post and AJR.
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone details a plenty — Now that we all know when the iPhone is dropping, some further details about Apple's upcoming wireless Coup de'Tat are in order. Here's a short rundown for your viewing pleasure: — 1. The iPhone will interact with your Mac through iPhoto and iTunes …
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