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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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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.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Mahalo Follow: Toolbar Gives You Human-Powered Alternatives To Searching, Surfing — Mahalo Follow is a new toolbar that allows you to view Mahalo's human-powered search results next to the results from the major search engine of your choice or have them appear in response to pages you view on the web.
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 …
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.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Investigator ridicules UK visa site — Security on websites used to apply for UK visas is utter crap, an independent investigator looking into the matter has concluded - in so many words. They should remain shuttered until a list of improvements are completed by the governmental agency responsible …
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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 …
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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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.
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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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 …
