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Gemma Soames / Times of London:
Ballmer: Facebook risks being 'a fad' — The Microsoft chief says that Facebook's appeal could fade - after being linked to an investment that would value the site at $10 billion — Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, believes that the craze for individual social networks …
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William Rees-Mogg / Times of London:
Microsoft's chief executive has seen the future - and the future is advertising — Steve Ballmer's plans for the computer software giant include taking on Yahoo! and Google in their own internet territory — Steve Ballmer doesn't do half-measures. The veteran Microsoft chief executive …
Tom / iphonebuglist.com/blog:
Tom Thinks that he doesn't know what an iPhone Extreme is... I'm working on making this site more appealing. I was looking to see if I could automatically submit the bugs/enhancement requests directly to Apple by clicking a button. While looking through their source on the feedback site, I noticed something really odd.
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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
The stupidest idea ever? — VENTURE CAPITALIST WAS DISSATISFIED WORKING ON SMART IDEAS, SO HE WENT THE OTHER WAY — As managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki funded all the really smart ideas he could find. None hit it big. — So earlier this year the guru …
NextEnergyNews.com:
Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery — Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Viacom: Wrong On Almost Every Thing — It's no secret that we think Viacom has made some really bad strategic moves recently (while sister company, CBS seems to be making the right moves). However, it's still impressive to see Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman lay out so many wrongheaded strategic positions in a single speech.
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Yahoo! Search Blog:
From "To Do" to "Done" in One Search — That sums up Yahoo! Search in a nutshell; the whole point is we want to get you from "to do" to "done." Whatever it is you want to do: research a topic, find a website, plan a vacation, research a medical condition, view a funny video …
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Suzy Jagger / Times of London:
EBay admits to bad call on how much it paid to take over Skype — Mousetrap weblog: could Skype kill Facebook's $10bn valuation? — EBay, the internet auction site, admitted yesterday that it had overpaid hugely for Skype, the internet telephone company.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's $399 PS3 confirmed by Best Buy? — Thanks to a helpful tipster, we have a couple of Best Buy documents showing a $399 Playstation 3 with 40GB disk and Spiderman 3 (yes, Blu-ray) bundle with an "In Stock Date" of October 28. However, the more important "Street Date" field is unfortunately empty at the moment.
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CrunchGear, Kotaku, Joystiq, The Boy Genius Report, Gadgetell, TiVo Lovers Blog, GamesIndustry.biz and Forever Geek
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google to $2,000 a Share — A reader complained that we've been nothing but negative of late—recession, Microsoft, Yahoo, newspapers, music, dying TV ads, etc.—so we'll brighten your afternoon with some rip-roaring positivity. — Remember a couple years back when some analyst floated …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
First RIAA trial gets under way with jury selection, opening statements — Duluth, Minnesota — Capitol Records, et al v. Jammie Thomas (the name of the suit changed after the RIAA dropped the sole Virgin recording from the case) got under way this morning in Courtroom One of the Federal Building in Duluth.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Microsoft's 4GB / 8GB flash-based Zunes revealed by FCC — Well, would you look at this. Thanks to the oh-so-disclosing FCC website, we're now seeing drawings of what looks to be 4GB and 8GB versions of Microsoft's forthcoming flash-based Zunes. Sure enough, the pictures match the leaked photos …
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple kicks off Leopard month with Boot Camp warning — Don't expect a separate Boot Camp for Tiger, says analyst — Apple Inc. kicked off the month in which it plans to launch its new Mac OS X 10.5, "Leopard," OS by reminding users that the beta license for Boot Camp …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Bubblewatch: The Industry Standard is Coming Back — As if we needed any more evidence that the bubble is back in Silicon Valley, technology media company IDG plans to revive that hallmark publication of the dot.com era, the Industry Standard. — I hear that IDG has hired San Francisco …
Live Search:
Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com — We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comparative shopping engines.
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Download Squad, Rev2.org, Epicenter, PC World, Microsoft Watch, BetaNews, paidContent.org, alarm:clock, The Register, ComparisonEngines.com, Valleywag, ReveNews Online Revenue …, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, VentureBeat, LiveSide, ClickZ News Blog, Mashable!, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, All about Microsoft and Search Engine Journal
