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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo beats Google in customer satisfaction survey — Good news for Yahoo: a new survey finds that customers are more satisfied with Yahoo than the other search engines and portals. — According to the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index, Yahoo's score …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search — For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range …
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Google, Apple slip from "loved" to "well-liked"
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
VMware's IPO - Insanity turns Silicon Valley back to normal — Darling Diary Welcome to The Register's live coverage of VMware's IPO. The world has gone insane over this sucker, and I'm not one to deny ecstasy. — Preamble — It's 6 in the morning here in California, and things have turned palpable.
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Jason Roth / Apple:
John Lennon Solo Catalog Debuts on iTunes Store — Apple® today announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). Sixteen of Lennon's solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the "Lennon Legend" …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:Still no Beatles, but Apple adds Lennon
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The Technology Chronicles
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Critical IE, Excel updates headline bumper Patch Tuesday — Microsoft has shipped a major Internet Explorer update to cover at least three code execution vulnerabilities in its flagship Web browser. — The cumulative IE update (MS07-045) headlines a bumper batch of nine bulletins …
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Market Wire:
Lime Wire to Enter Music Download Market With New Digital Store and Inks Deals With Music Companies — Lime Wire LLC, maker of the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, announced today that it will open a digital music store. — Initially the store will be a stand-alone website …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
First Google Health Screenshots — Google Health, codename "Weaver", is Google's planned health information storage program. Google's Vice President of Engineering Adam Bosworth lobbies for the program for quite a while now. Adam said the current US health care system is challenged when it comes to …
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CNN:
UPDATE: Microsoft's Bach Sold Additional Stock Before Xbox News — SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) — Microsoft Corp. executive Robbie Bach sold $3 million more in company stock during the period leading up to an announcement about a costly flaw in its Xbox video game console than previously reported …
MrJolly / MCV:
Nod given to HDD-only 360 titles — GAMEFEST: MMO developers permitted to require Xbox hard drive for future titles — Owners of Microsoft's basic Core Xbox 360 may soon find themselves unable to play the latest titles following Microsoft's announcement that developers of online MMO games …
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
EIF: Home abusers can be turned off and banned, warns Sony — Home boss discusses bannings and branding for mature users — Peter Edward, director of the Home platform for Sony, has told an audience at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival that users who consistently abuse …
Dan Warne / APC:
Google launches YouTube-style embeddable maps … First up, if you know how to embed a YouTube video in your blog, you'll be able to embed Google Maps in your website, Google promises. — It'll be as simple as cutting and pasting a bit of HTML code into your website, just like a YouTube video.
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John Tierney / New York Times:
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch — Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby. I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version …
Matt Asay / CNET News.com:
Adobe mulling a move into the Office market? — Wired is suggesting that Adobe Systems may launch a competitor to Microsoft Office. Not only would this not be surprising (though I see little evidence in the article pointing to the presumption), but if anyone were to do it well, it would be Adobe.
John Borland / Wired News:
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign — On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AOL Launches Mobile Search — Google may have won the fixed line search sweepstakes, but mobile search remains an open territory, for anyone to conquer — countless start-ups, Yahoo, Nokia. Add AOL to the list, which is launching a revamped (beta) version of its mobile search service today.
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Download Squad, Epicenter, WebProNews, Search Engine Journal, mocoNews.net, Mashable!, Search Engine Land, Screenwerk and MobileCrunch
Jeff Bennett / Market Wire:
Gay Ad Network Launches With Exclusive Publisher Partners — Vertical Ad Network Offers Wide Range of Advertiser Solutions — Gay Ad Network, an online vertical advertising network, launched today with support from an influential group of gay and lesbian publishers.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
PSP download store held up by DRM — Fans of the PlayStation Portable (PSP) media device must continue to wait for a download store, a feature that experts have said is a must if the player is ever to launch a significant challenge to the iPod. — Sony representatives …
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Chris Reidy / Boston Globe:
Home of the bean and the blog — Boston has long been viewed as the land of the bean and the cod — and now the Hub may also be the land of the blog. — According to OutsideIn.com, a website that tracks neighborhood blogging, Boston was the "bloggiest city" in America for the two-month period it examined, March and April.
