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Verizon:
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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Sprint:
An Unprecedented Visual Experience Awaits Customers Who Select the Motorola AZR2 V9m From Sprint Offering Robust Multimedia Content — Sprint will be the only carrier to offer Motorola's stunning next generation of the popular RAZR™ with NFL Mobile, more than 50 channels of television viewing …
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 …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
edgeio Launches Paid Content System — Online classifieds startup edgeio has just launched a new paid content product, which will be of particular interest to online publishers and media producers. They're calling it "transactional classifieds", which is an awkward name for a potentially very useful e-commerce service.
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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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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.
CPSC Home Page:
Toshiba Recalls Notebook Computer Batteries Due to Fire Hazard — WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
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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vnunet:
Google China partnership to bear fruit in 2008 — Search and advertising deal with local portal explained — One of China's leading internet portals, Sina, has outlined details of its new search and advertising partnership with Google. Under the deal Sina will carry Google's Chinese search service …
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Department of Homeland Security:
DHS Announces Predeparture Screening of International Passengers and First Step Toward Secure Flight — Final Rule on Advance Electronic Transmission of Passenger and Crew Manifests for Commercial Aircraft and Vessels (PDF, 106 pages - 4.47 MB — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Slingbox Pro with built in component jacks hits the FCC, Krikorian promises HD box for January — The Sling Media family have been quite the busy bees of late. First, the TV-transporting company has just gotten approval on a brand new, unnamed variation of the Slingbox …
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
Search In The Year 2010 — If I ever had to build a search engine, or more precisely, the interface of a search engine, this would be the team I would want to bring together. When I came up with the idea of looking forward three years and speculating on what the search results page may look like in 2010 …
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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.
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Has AT&T Censored Artists Before? — Amid allegations that AT&T censored a Pearl Jam show on Sunday comes an accusation that AT&T's Blue Room series has removed artists' political statements from its webcasts in the past. The company has to delete profanity during the all ages shows …
