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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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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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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.
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Lights on Apple power adapters violate patent, claims new lawsuit — First (today) there was the class action lawsuit over receipts, and now Apple is being named in a another suit, this time for allegedly infringing on patents. And unlike the receipts lawsuit, this one seems to be slightly less of a …
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Associated Press:
Online video site Veoh asks judge to forestall Universal lawsuit — LOS ANGELES: Online video sharing site Veoh has pre-emptively sued Universal Music Group, asking a federal judge to prevent the giant music label from filing its own copyright infringement action.
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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.
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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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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snarfed.org:
facebook data store api thoughts — On Monday, Facebook employee Haiping Zhao quietly published a Data Store API on the Facebook developer wiki. — It's preliminary, and still in closed beta, but it marks a milestone in the evolution of the Facebook platform.
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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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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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Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Spot the HDMI-enabled Xbox 360 Premium at retail — After discovering that some newly price-dropped Xbox 360 Premium units were packing HDMI ports - a feature previously reserved for the more expensive Elite model - we immediately wanted to know how savvy shoppers could track down these beasts at retail.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
T-Mobile prepping VoIP service? — T-Mobile may be extending its Hotspot@Home service to offer voice over IP for fixed-line users. — The company is working with Linksys to make a router that integrates home phone lines into the service along with providing VoIP service over cell phones …
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Hey Google: When Can Matt Cutts Ditch Microsoft PowerPoint? — Hey Google, what ever happened to your (not) Microsoft PowerPoint killer Web-based presentation app in the works? Everyone's favorite Google blogger, Matt Cutts, could use a little Google Presentation love right now: His …
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