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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
More on Yahoo Reorg: Sue Decker's Memo — We got the full internal memo Sue Decker sent this afternoon to the team, on Yahoo's (Nsdq: YHOO) reorg..the full memo is here. See our earlier post on the reorg. Salient points from the memo: — Jerry and I and the rest of the management team …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo's New President Oversees a Shake-Up — Susan L. Decker, Yahoo's new president, is putting her stamp on the company in a reorganization of its management ranks that creates a new division responsible for generating the bulk of the company's revenue. — The latest in a string …
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InsideGoogle, Valleywag, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Susan Mernit's Blog and Business Week
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Microsoft to buy chinwag platform Parlano — Reaching out to bag a chunk of the enterprise social [cough] networking market share, software mammoth Microsoft has acquired corporate group chat provider Parlano. — Chicago-based Parlano, a firm spun off from Swiss bank UBS …
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Microsoft to Acquire Parlano — Microsoft strengthens unified communications portfolio with leading enterprise group chat provider. — Today Microsoft Corp. announced it has agreed to acquire Chicago-based Parlano, maker of MindAlign, a leading application for enterprise group chat.
Sony:
SONY UNVEILS FIRST U.S. WALKMAN VIDEO PLAYERS — Sony today took the wraps off two new Walkman® players that not only support audio - but for the first time in the United States - video. — The new NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610 series of Walkman digital music players will support an open platform …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hulu Translates To "Cease" and "Desist" in Swahili. Oops. — Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March. CEO Jason Kilar says the name "captures the spirit of the service we're building" in an open letter published today.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Speculation: Facebook adding Friend Lists; implications for Top Friends, LinkedIn? — We knew it would happen, we just didn't know it might happen this soon. — I just received a tip from top application developer Trey Philips that Facebook has added two new undocumented functions …
Pat Phelan / Roam4free:
Our first press release — CORK, IRELAND, AUGUST 29, 2007 - Cubic Telecom, the innovative international telecommunications operator, today announced plans to become the world's first truly global mobile service provider. Cubic Telecom's service aims to eliminate the high cost …
Tim Smalley / bit-tech.net:
BioShock: Gameplay, Graphics & Performance — Joe and I have both had a chance to play the Xbox 360 and PC versions of BioShock extensively at various stages of the game's development. Last month, we both voiced concerns about how the PC and 360 versions played so differently in the early builds.
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Lisa Leff / Associated Press:
Earthlink bows out of San Francisco Wi-Fi deal — The financially struggling Earthlink Inc. on Wednesday bowed out of a deal to join Google Inc. in providing free wireless Internet access throughout San Francisco, according to the mayor's office. — Earthlink Chief Executive Rolla Huff …
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WebProNews, Wi-Fi Networking News, GottaBeMobile.com, dailywireless.org and Houston Chronicle
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:EarthLink pays $5 million to delay Houston Wi-Fi buildout
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Daniel Langendorf / last100:
The Gphone is coming; how Google could rewrite the rules — Note: Gphone concept sketches by Lorin Wood. — If done right, the Gphone and not the iPhone will be the one to change the face of the wireless industry. — Apple's iPhone, at least in its initial release …
Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
IBM Offering New Cell-Based Blade — IBM is expanding its Cell processor technology within the enterprise. — The Armonk, N.Y., company is announcing the availability of its new BladeCenter QS21 blade server Aug. 29, which is IBM's second blade platform to use its nine-core Cell processor technology.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Court Rules That Anti-Spyware Companies Can Call Spyware Spyware — All too often, we've seen cases where security software firms were sued for calling some piece of software "spyware" or "adware." In fact, Microsoft even wanted to make sure that new anti-spyware legislation would make it clear …
InfoWorld:
HTC shows 3G Touch smartphone — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Taiwan's High Tech Computer Corp. (HTC) has taken the wraps off a thinner, faster version of its Touch smartphone. — "This is the much anticipated 3G version of Touch," Peter Chou, CEO of HTC, said at a news conference in Tokyo on Thursday.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
California to bar teens from using mobiles, laptops whilst driving — California certainly won't go down as the first place to ban cellphones whilst driving, but if Governor Schwarzenegger signs a new bill into law, mobiles won't be the only thing teens can't operate while behind the wheel after July 1, 2008.
