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Molly Graham / Official Google Checkout Blog:
Update to our event on 6/14 — eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity. After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed that it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Gives Up on Competing With eBay's Big Boston Party — It had all the appearances of a marketing stunt gone awry, the Internet industry's version of a wily playground taunt that quickly escalated into a tense standoff, until the taunter — Google, in this case — blinked. — Here's what happened.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
eBay Stares Down Google And Wins — Not much commentary is needed on this one. Here's what happened: — eBay doesn't allow merchants to use Google Checkout to settle eBay transactions. Google invited eBay online sellers attending eBay Live! in Boston this week to a party that they called the Google Checkout Freedom Party.
Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:EBay cancels ads in tiff with Google
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Microsoft:
Microsoft and Linspire Collaboration Promotes Interoperability and Customer Choice — Broad agreement will facilitate interoperability between Windows and Linux, provide intellectual property assurance. — Today Microsoft Corp. and Linux desktop provider Linspire Inc. announced a broad interoperability …
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Microsoft Signs Another Linux Deal — Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it will license instant messaging and digital media technology to a small desktop Linux distributor, Linspire Inc., adding to a growing number of deals meant to help the Windows operating system work more smoothly with open-source software.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:Linspire Joins Microsoft's Any One But Red Hat Group
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Richard Koman / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Exclusive interview with Google video platform director Jennifer Feikin — When Larry Page announced at the national cable convention a few weeks back that Google would start allowing users to upload digital video, he described it very much as an experiment.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Video Frames a Search Engine — Google Video, now a video search engine, shows a frame similar to the one from Image Search when you click on a search result. The frame lets you rate the video, share it, and watch related videos. You can also watch the previous or the next search result …
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Josh / Windows Connected:
Ultimate Extras, Where are you? — It has been over three months since we last saw anything from the Ultimate Extra team. Intially this was offered by Microsoft as one of the big value adds to the Ultimate version of Windows Vista, but to date I can't say they have delivered that much value.
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:Windows Ultimate Extras is a sham - where's the responsibility?
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fbi.gov:
Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime — Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle "botherders" and elevate the public's cyber security awareness of botnets. OPERATION BOT ROAST …
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Kgs / Free Range Librarian:
The Gorman Shall Rise Again — This is brief, because I didn't learn about this until I had written over 2,000 words on nonprofit IT management for an article that I need to wrap up. But how can I resist? — Having alienated most of his core audience, Michael Gorman has published …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
YouTube Passes Debates to a New Generation — The quadrennial ritual of presidential debates has long followed a tried and true format. — A guy in a suit asks mostly predictable questions of other people in suits. The voter is a fixture in the audience, motionless until he or she gets to address the candidate, respectfully.
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:CNN, YOUTUBE TO UNVEIL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE DETAILS THURSDAY
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
I don't believe in the death penalty... for people — But I do believe in the death penalty for corporations. — Sometimes they do something so heinous, so unacceptable, that the only just punishment is oblivion. — An example: We should have put Exxon to death after their tanker wrecked the ecosystem of a pristine bay in Alaska.
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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Founders sell as Codemasters is driven towards a flotation — Codemasters, the computer games developer behind the Colin McRae rally series, is preparing for a £200 million-plus flotation in the next year, after its principal investor completed the buyout of the brothers who founded the firm.
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Business Wire:
SIA Forecast: Semiconductor Industry Sales Will Grow by 1.8 Percent in 2007 — Declining Prices in Key Market Segments Result in Slower Growth — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sharp declines in average selling prices (ASPs) for microchips in several key market segments - microprocessors …
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Tim Anderson / Yodel Anecdotal:
Give your Photos the fun of Flickr — You may have recently seen the announcement that we'll be closing Yahoo! Photos and focusing all our efforts on Yahoo's photo sharing community, Flickr. — If you use Yahoo! Photos, fear not. We're still committed to doing what is best for you …
Pete / Blogger in Draft:
Introducing Blogger in draft and video upload — Today we're announcing an exciting new feature, video upload, and an exciting new place to use it: Blogger in draft. We're excited. — You can think of draft as Blogger's laboratory: it has features that we're playing around with …
Xbox-Scene News:
New Pictures of 2nd GPU HeatSink on Xbox 360 - Update: Video — >> =Ikari= sent us these pictures of his Xbox360 he just got back from repair (after RoD problem) ... another confirmation of the new 2nd heatsink/pipe technology we talked about yesterday that Microsoft installs to provide additional cooling for the Xenos GPU.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Happy hour with the iPhone — The American public will get its first chance to buy the iPhone at 6 p.m. in each local time zone, Apple confirmed Wednesday. — Somehow, I don't think Apple and AT&T will have two-for-one specials on the iPhone, but my New York-based colleagues …
