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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.
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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.
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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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
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:YouTube Redesigns and Moves to Google Accounts
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:Google Video Now a Video Search Engine
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sprint: Rethinking WiMAX? — Sprint, which broke away from the cellular camp, and bet big on WiMAX as its technology of choice for high-speed wireless connectivity, is apparently rethinking its strategy, mostly under pressure from activist shareholders, who believe that the company is spending too much money on an unproven technology.
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Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Explores Options for WiMax — Sprint Nextel Corp. is exploring new options for financing its ambitious plan to build a wireless broadband network known as WiMax, including forming a partnership or joint venture with cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw and seeking an infusion of cash from cable providers …
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BBC:
FBI tries to fight zombie hordes — The FBI is contacting more than one million PC owners who have had their computers hijacked by cyber criminals. — The initiative is part of an ongoing project to thwart the use of hijacked home computers, or zombies, as launch platforms for hi-tech crimes.
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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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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
NBC Developing Web Site for Students — Imagine Tim Russert introducing a classroom history lesson about the Articles of Confederation, or Brian Williams describing the reverberations of the Stamp Act. — NBC News actually has, and in a formal presentation to broadcast industry analysts today …
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The 3D Real/Virtual World Hybrid: How Far Away? — How long will it be until we can stroll through the streets in a virtual world that is identical to our own? Given the state of a number of technologies, not very long. Over the last couple of years we've seen Microsoft Street Side …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Advertising Is Content... In The YouTube Era — For many years, we've been discussing that ads are content and that content are ads — and thinking that the two are somehow separate limits your business model options. A few weeks back, at the Mesh Conference, someone asked the panel I was on how advertising would evolve on YouTube.
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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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Associated Press:
Space station computers rebooted … HOUSTON, Texas (AP) — Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before. — Flight controllers in Moscow were able to re-establish …
Thor Larholm / Larholm.com:
Safari 3.01 released — Apple has just released version 3.01 of their Safari web browser, together with some release notes on their Security-announce mailing list. As you can see from those release notes the vulnerability that I discovered is one out of three that have been fixed …
