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Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project — The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon.
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Between the Lines, AppScout, InfoWorld, The Social Web, Mark Evans, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, Search Engine Journal, Zero Day, Google Watch, Plaxo's Personal Card, Compiler, BetaNews, TECH.BLORGE.com, Traffick, The Real McCrea, Search Engine Land, CyberNet, unstruc chitchatting …, Identity Woman, Signal vs. Noise, paidContent.org, 901am, Basement.org, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Furrier.org, WebProBlog, WeBreakStuff, The Progress Bar and Mashable!
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Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID — Yahoo! Support Triples Number of OpenID Accounts to 368 million — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced its support for the OpenID 2. digital identity framework …

Yahoo! to Provide OpenID - Will It Take the Next Step?
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Marc's Voice


All-You-Can-Eat Broadband Is Dead: Time Warner to Charge by the Byte — Reason number 149 I won't move to Texas: Time Warner confirmed it'll be testing a new pricing plan in Beaumont that's based on how much bandwidth you eat up. That's right, hard caps. Totally made-up example …
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Confirmed: Change Your System Time, Watch Your iTunes Rentals Forever — Update: That was fast. It's busted—or fixed, depending on your POV. See the jump. Movie rentals from iTunes 7.6? Awesome. That pesky 24-hour viewing window once you've started the film? Not so much.
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Will iTunes rentals play on a 5G iPod? Nope.
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Google.org Announces Core Initiatives to Combat Climate Change, Poverty and Emerging Threats — Reveals its plans for philanthropy; announces new grants and investments — In its continuing effort to use the power of information and technology to help people better their lives …
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Google Watch, Official Google Blog, Portfolio.com, Tech Confidential, Mashable! and Earth2Tech
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AMD Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual Results — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AMD (NYSE:AMD - News) today reported fourth quarter 2007 revenue of $1.770 billion, an 8 percent increase compared to the third quarter of 2007 and flat compared to the fourth quarter of 20062.
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Tech Trader Daily
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AMD loses $1.77 billion in December quarter
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Are you suffering from password pressure? — Few things make you feel more helpless than sitting blank-faced at a screen, looking at a flashing cursor and a message saying “PASSWORD INCORRECT” in a disapproving tone. But that was the one for your bank, wasn't it? Or was it?
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Survey finds Apple users have sense of superiority — no wait, hear us out — Wait up, hang on here — you're telling us a personality profiling conducted on 7,500 people at Apple's biggest tub-thumping event of the year, Macworld, yielded results that would suggest Apple users “are more liberal …


Exonerated RIAA defendant scores double victory in court — A US District Court judge in Oregon has reaffirmed a magistrate's award of attorneys' fees and the dismissal of exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen's counterclaims against the RIAA without prejudice so that her class-action lawsuit …


Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? — A BAFFLING PROPOSAL TO FILTER THE INTERNET. — Chances are that as you read this article, it is passing over part of AT&T's network. That matters, because last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering plans to examine all the traffic it carries …
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CNET News.com, p2pnet, Valleywag, mathewingram.com/work, IP Democracy, VoIP Blog, DSLreports, Mark Evans, Boing Boing Gadgets, Memex 1.1, Silicon Alley Insider, Boing Boing, Slashdot and Digg


so, everyone's asking what happened between me and steve jobs today... Update 01.16: this is now on Digg, “Steve Jobs tells off fan, calls her 'rude': Blogger and podcaster Violet Blue approached the Apple CEO on the Macworld floor to ask for a photo — and got completely blown off.".

Swingers Director to Launch New Media Co — Doug Liman, director of Swingers and The Bourne Identity and an executive producer of The O.C., is the latest Hollywood talent to start a digital production company. Launching with an agreement to use striking writers from the WGA, the company …


Google's Schmidt to NASA: Be more ‘open’ — WASHINGTON—Google chief Eric Schmidt on Thursday suggested NASA could learn a few things from his company. — Speaking at a luncheon series to commemorate the agency's 50th anniversary this year, Schmidt urged the space agency …