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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 …
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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Vish Makhijani / Yodel Anecdotal:The new Yahoo! Search — Yahoo! began as a human-powered search engine back in 1994.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration
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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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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 …
Ed Foster / InfoWorld:
Amazon Makes You Lie to Log Off — Are e-commerce websites making it harder and harder for users to log off? That's certainly a trend one reader has seen evidence of, including confirmation from Amazon that the best way to sign out from your account is to lie to them about who you are.
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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Bill Carter / New York Times:
CBSNews.com Chief to Lead a News and Blogs Site — The Huffington Post, a news Web site, plans to announce today the appointment of a new chief executive, Betsy Morgan, who will leave her job as the general manager of CBSNews.com. — Ms. Morgan will switch from running the Web site …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network — The wow.com domain name has laid dormant since at least 1998, when it was acquired by AOL along with other assets of Compuserve. The domain has been coveted by a number of AOL business units over the years, though.
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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.
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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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.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google: Credit Suisse Says Q3 Revs Will Top Estimtaes; Stock At New High; Market Cap Tops Berkshire Hathaway — Google's (GOOG) third quarter results will be better than expected, Credit Suisse Internet analyst Heath Terry asserted in a research note this morning.
James Niccolai / InfoWorld:
SAP offers NetWeaver subscription for developers — (InfoWorld) - SAP is allowing individual developers to buy a one-year subscription for its NetWeaver software in a move to bring new blood to the platform and expand its community of users. — NetWeaver was available previously …
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