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Verizon Wireless Introduces The MOTORAZR(2) V9m — Next Generation RAZR Features External Display and Touch-Sensitive Keys and Bluetooth Support — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless company with the most reliable wireless voice and data network …
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Kent German / CNET News.com:
Razr2 carriers announced — Motorola announced today that its second generation Razr phone will be arriving at most major U.S. carriers by the end of the summer. The GSM Razr2 V9 will come to AT&T while the CDMA Razr2 V9m will come to Alltel, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Rumor Patrol: MySpace, Nope! Google? Maybe So. — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — Things have quieted down at Yahoo of late-thankfully for new CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang, who seems to be doing a good job at calming the waters at the company …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Would Yahoo Hand Over Its Paid Search Business To Google? — from the wouldn't-that-be-something? dept — With Yahoo and Google considered such big rivals these days, many people forget that they were originally partners. For many years, Google provided the search engine that powered Yahoo …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone "Dead Zone" Screens — More Trouble Ahead? — Apple (AAPL) has responded swiftly to scattered reports of "dead spots" on iPhone touchscreens — and received high marks from users for the speed and efficiency with which defective devices were replaced.
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Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Universal plans DRM-free downloads, without Apple — Vivendi's Universal Music plans to experiment by selling MP3 music files without copy protection or DRM (Digital Rights Management) for 99 cents each, but they won't be available from Apple's iTunes Music Store.
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:Universal Music Will Sell Songs Without Copy Protection
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
NBC "allows" bloggers to use debate footage — On Wednesday, NBC announced that it will join rivals CNN and ABC in making video footage of presidential debates aired on its networks freely available for non-commercial use. Under licensing terms posted on the MSNBC website …
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Mike Kruckenberg:
MySQL Takes Another Step (Away from Open Source) — In the ongoing effort to convert more users into paying customers, MySQL announced today that they are no longer making the source code tarball for their Enterprise server publicly available. You could see this coming from a million miles away.
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Reuters:
Yahoo president snaps up $1.1M in stock — The buy is the largest by a Yahoo insider in more than four years, bucking a trend in the technology sector. — NEW YORK (Reuters) — Yahoo Inc. President Susan Decker purchased about $1.1 million of the Internet company's shares this week just after the stock hit a three-year low.
Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
Comcast Offers Early Look at Fancast.com — Operator's IMDB-Like Site Has TV Listings, Show and Movie Info, and Video Clips — Comcast has quietly launched a beta version of its Fancast.com entertainment portal, providing some clues about what the operator plans to do with the full-blown site.
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
The Case for Freeing the WSJ Online — Ever the risk-taker, Rupert Murdoch may be planning to gamble the newspaper's significant Web subscription revenues on the growing Internet ad market — For The Wall Street Journal Online, going free will come at a high cost.
Paul McNamara / Network World:
Verizon tech sets fire to home — accidentally — It's apparently not enough for Verizon to torment customers with unreliable FiOS TV connections, months-long installation ordeals, and an appointment-keeping record worthy of Maryland's regulatory wrath. — Now they're setting a house ablaze …
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Freedom to Tinker:
One Laptop Per Child, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old — [I recently got my hands on one of the One Laptop Per Child machines. I found the perfect person to review the machine. Today's guest blogger, SG, is twelve years old and is the child of a close friend. I lent the laptop to SG and asked SG …
John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Stuck on the enterprise — As Jobs proudly reported this Tuesday, the Mac is doing well. Quibbling over exact numbers aside, the iPhone launch was also a success. Despite stagnating for a bit, design-wise, the iPod continues to be a mass-market monster. Yep, Apple looks like quite the industry giant these days.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Beyond Brickbreaker — As Smart Phones Gain — In Popularity, Game Makers — Roll Out New Diversions — While running his education-related start-up, Ryan Thompson keeps up on his email by staying glued to his BlackBerry. Lately, the 29-year-old in Brooklyn, N.Y. …
Ian Harvey / businessedge.ca:
Company bloggers can help put out fires — Dell manager's quick reaction won industry accolades — When Dell Computers started getting reports of laptops exploding in flames last summer, Lionel Menchaca took the heat - from his own legal team. — As the Texas-based computer maker's chief blogger …
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Latest Secunia Security Advisories:
Symantec Products NavComUI ActiveX Control Code Execution — Critical: — Highly critical — Impact: — System access — Where: — From remote — Solution Status: — Vendor Patch — Software: — Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006 — Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005
Andrew / NotebookReview.com:
Shipping "Dell-ays" — As students head back to school there might be something missing from their backpacks — the new Dell laptop they ordered weeks ago. Shipping delays on the new Dell Inspiron and XPS line of notebooks are causing people to wait several weeks longer than they anticipated …
