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Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal:
Business.com Could Hit Jackpot on Auction Block — Entrepreneurs Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton were widely mocked for lavishing $7.5 million on a single Internet domain name — business.com — back in 1999. It was the single highest price paid for a domain name at the time.
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Adario Strange / Epicenter:
Domain Madness: Business.com For $400 Million? — The wires are buzzing with talk that the Business.com domain currently up for sale could go for a historic price. Even The Wall Street Journal has weighed in saying the domain could fetch $400 million. The idea that the right dot com name …
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Business.com on the Auction Block? — This morning I woke up and got a bad feeling that we were back in crazy times. The WSJ ran a story about how Business.com was about to get the last laugh in a sale of the company for $300-400M. Insanity, I thought. After all, insanity means doing …
Jeff Jones / Jeff Jones's blog:
Windows Vista - 6 Month Vulnerability Report — I was somewhat surprised (but pleased) at the level of interest back when I published my Windows Vista - 90 Day Vulnerability Report. It was about the earliest span of time I thought might give us some indicators, and the indicators did look good.
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:Flaw counting comparisons useful but fall short of true picture
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
David Bercovich / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Sells Hardware? — The first time people learn about the Google Search Appliance, they often remark, 'I didn't know Google makes hardware.' Actually, to power the millions of searches and other products, Google builds and deploys LOTS of servers in datacenters all over the world.
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Google Turns Its Hardware Manufacturing Over To Dell — Up until late last year, Google assembled its high-end enterprise search box on its own, from components supplied by a variety of white-box manufacturers. — Google, long rumored to be getting into the hardware business, has finally gotten out of it, as least as a manufacturer.
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Canceling iPhone service early will cost $175 — AT&T: Fee covers more than just the new device — AT&T Inc. has spent $50 million to beef up its relatively slow wireless network in anticipation of the heightened activity expected to follow the iPhone's debut next week …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
I have 400,000 users of my widget - Now what? Freemium potential? — Widgets are the coolest thing now. InsideFacebook has a story today about a guy who built a "Where I've Been" map widget that has attracted 400,000 Facebook users. Now he is struggling to pay for servers and bandwidth …
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Feld Thoughts
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
"I have 250,000 users, now what?" — Craig Ulliott is a web developer in Philadelphia, PA, USA. 3 weeks ago, he built the Where I've Been Facebook application, which lets you create a map for your profile page showing visitors where you've traveled. Cool experiment, right?
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Trade commission denies stay on Qualcomm chip ban — The U.S. International Trade Commission has denied Qualcomm's request for a stay on the ban imposed earlier this month on new 3G handset models that use Qualcomm chips, Broadcom announced Friday. — Qualcomm has been found to be infringing on several patents of rival Broadcom.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Group Chat Feature Released — It's a small feature, but much requested, and with interesting implications for all Google Talk users: the browser-based Google Talk gadget now allows you to create multi-user chat rooms. To open such a room, click on "Group Chat" …
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Mashable!
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:Google Talk Gadget Adds Multi-User Chats
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Microsoft puts end to independent Longhorn Reloaded project — Just a few weeks after the independent developers of Longhorn Reloaded hit milestone 1, Microsoft has effectively shut the project down with a cease and desist notice. — Longhorn reloaded is an operating system based …
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Internet Stocks on Seeking Alpha:
Yahoo/eBay Merger Case Strengthened By Semel Departure — Tim Poulus submits: I believe all the turmoil around Yahoo! (YHOO) following CEO Terry Semel's resignation fortifies the case for a merger with eBay (EBAY), which I defended before. — Keep in mind that Google (GOOG) is the perennial enemy to both.
CNET News.com:
Will Yahoo's board also get a makeover? — news analysis After months of criticism, Terry Semel is gone from the corner office at Yahoo, and Jerry Yang is finally back to running the company he co-founded. — But in the aftermath of the executive shakeup at the Internet's No. 2 search site …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple iPhone Displays at Apple Stores (and AT&T Stores) [Updatedx3] — It appears that Apple iPhone displays are going up at Apple Stores. TUAW noted that a "large, covered rectangular display" appeared at the 5th Avenue Apple Store last night. They've also posted a small gallery of images of the shrouded display.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Who Will Be The YouTube Of Live Video? — The growth of Youtube and it's subsequent $1.65 billion buyout left behind a bevy of competing video sites. Since then competitors have been seeking to differentiate themselves by focusing on longer videos, higher (bitrate) quality videos, professional content, and paying their users.
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NewTeeVee, dailywireless.org, Things That, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Webware.com
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mono Silverlight implementation emerges after epic hackathon — After 20 days of "intense" programming, Novell's Mono development team has successfully produced a functioning prototype of Moonlight, an open-source Mono-based implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight rich-media application development framework.
