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Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones — Google Inc. made a big splash last week with its new software for cellphones. But that's far from the limit of the Internet giant's wireless ambitions — which could include running its own mobile network.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Huge, Risky Wireless Plan Could Crush Cash Flow — In awe about how much Google has spent on capital expenditures in recent years? ($3.9 billion in the last eight quarters). You ain't seen nothing yet. — According to the WSJ, Google is indeed preparing to bid …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica: Google may get its open-access wishes after all; will bid in 700MHz auction
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft (MSFT) Still Hallucinating About Online Ad Future? — Reuters reports that Microsoft (MSFT) division president Kevin Johnson added more detail to Microsoft's online ad ambitions at a UBS conference yesterday. Specifically, he said that within 3-5 years, Microsoft's goal is to become …
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Henry Blodget / The Huffington Post:
Microsoft: Hallucinating...Or About to Buy Yahoo? — I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that Microsoft division president Kevin Johnson is not a moron. I'm also going to assume that, when Johnson said yesterday that Microsoft plans to grow its Internet search share from 10 percent …
Nick / Rough Type:
Look, ma, no servers — Robert Scoble notes the rise of "the serverless Internet company" that can launch and run a webwide business through the window of a browser. He writes of a recent conversation he had with Max Haot, the CEO of Mogulus, a site that lets people produce and broadcast video programs:
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
A first look at the Firefox 3 visual refresh for Linux — Mozilla ruffled some penguin feathers last month when the organization revealed that Firefox 3 would get an extensive visual refresh to maximize integration with Windows and Mac OS X, but not Linux. After the decision was widely criticized …
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Matt Asay / CNET News.com:Firefox 3.0 may ship with a slew of serious bugs intact
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AdSense developer leaves Google — By Yi-Wyn Yen — Gokul Rajaram, a high-ranking Google product manager who helped launch one of the search giant's most profitable ventures has left to start his own company. — "I've been having the itch to do something entrepreneurial for awhile now …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Garmin Pulls TeleAtlas Bid; Stock Soars — Garmin (GRMN) shares are headed sharply higher this morning after the company pulled its bid to acquire Tele Atlas. — Garmin also said it signed a six-year extension to its agreement with Tele Atlas rival Navteq (NVT) to provide Garmin's GPS devices with digital maps.
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Matt / matthewbuckland.com:
Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales to create Facebook competitor? — At a gathering of about 100 of some of South Africa's top geeks on Tuesday night, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales revealed what he said were some of the "first screenshots" of his new project on search.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Get Ready For Wikia Search; First Screen Shots Shown In South Africa
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple considering raise for Jobs? — After years of drawing just a dollar in salary, Apple CEO Steve Jobs could be in store for a raise. — Apple filed its annual report for its 2007 fiscal year Thursday afternoon, and hinted in a section about executive compensation that Jobs could be in for some real money fairly soon.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
FBN: "Apple Buying AMD!" Wait, Scratch That. "Abu Dubai!" — At 9:27 this morning, Fox Business Morning for Breakfast co-anchor Alexis Glick eagerly reported Apple (AAPL) had taken an 8% stake in AMD. Fox's guest contributor, Charles Payne, immediately analyzed the deal and pronounced it a brilliant move for both parties.
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
Amazon e-book reader coming Monday — Come Monday, it'll be all right. That's when Amazon's e-book reader (tentatively called "Kindle") will be announced at the W Hotel in New York. — It'll supposedly cost $399, which means those of us who read casually will be stuck with paper books …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
J Allard: Microsoft's Plan to Be King of All Media — In November 1994, I had breakfast with Nathan Myhrvold, then the chief technology officer of Microsoft. He talked about how the soon-to-be-introduced MSN online service would best America Online. Central to his thinking was that MSN …
Business Week:
Social Networking with the Elite — Tired of the Web masses? Now you can find your own gated communities on the Net—if they'll let you in — Are you on the digital A-list? It's no longer enough to get invited to exclusive conferences or be asked to join professional organizations …
Computerworld:
Deja vu all over again at Veterans Administration — Another breach for an agency that's prone to them — Jaikumar Vijayan Today's Top Stories or Other Security Stories — In what's become a fairly familiar routine for them of late, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Dell's XPS ONE now on sale — Shortly after being leaked, revealed, unclothed and paraded around in public, Dell's 20-inch XPS ONE is finally available to the masses. Up now on company's webstore are four pre-configured systems, with the high-ender rocking a Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 processor …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Is the VW Space Up! interface developed by Apple? — Nice interior huh? And how 'bout that 7-inch touchscreen display slapped onto the center console. Pretty sweet right? You're looking at the inside of VW's third iteration of their Space Up! — the Space Up! blue — just revealed at the LA auto show.
Robg / MacOSXHints.com:
10.5: Get rid of the translucent menu bar — One down, one to go? Steve Miner somehow managed to figure out how to disable the translucent menu bar. He posted a solution that involved editing a system-level plist, and then commenter Krioni came up with a one-line Terminal command.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Picasa Web Integrates with Google Image Search — I've always wondered why Google prevents search engines to index a lot of user-generated content from its properties (photos uploaded to Blogger and Picasa Web Albums, public documents from Google Docs). It's a strange decision …
