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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What you all are missing about Google — I'm surprised that even Kara Swisher has missed this. The bloggers are going nuts, once again, over the email that a Google lawyer sent to Microsoft regarding Microsoft's proposed purchase of Yahoo. — Here's what's really going on:
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Fred / A VC:
How Yahoo! Can Get Out Of The Microsoft Bear Hug — Let me start this post by saying that I don't think Microsoft will achieve its goal of obtaining some sort of balance and scale in the search market with an acquisition of Yahoo! If you look at the share of search that Google …
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:Google Uses Oldest Trick in Book to Counter Microsoft
Discussion:
eWeek, Salon, Good Morning Silicon Valley, David Galbraith and Tech Check with Jim Goldman
Mike Nash / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing the RTM of Windows Vista SP1 — Hi, Mike Nash here from the Windows Product Management group at Microsoft. Today we are excited to announce that we have released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) for our first set of languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese).
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Microsoft, InfoWorld, eWeek, Ars Technica, All about Microsoft, George Ou, Christopher Null, Good Morning Silicon Valley, CNET News.com, Microsoft Watch, Digital Daily, CyberNet, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Today @ PC World, Full of I.T., Sunny Talks Tech, DailyTech, BetaNews, AppScout, Windows Connected, Download Squad, WebProNews, TechBlog, CrunchGear, istartedsomething, Cheap Hack, DSLreports, Digital Trends, TechSpot News and Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
Ian C Rogers / Yodel Anecdotal:
Music for the masses — Last year, shortly after I assumed the role of Yahoo! Music's General Manager, we started saying publicly that we were “de-emphasizing” our premium music offering, Yahoo! Music Unlimited. The fact of the matter is that building a great premium music service takes …
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WebProNews, Los Angeles Times, FoxyTunes Blog, USA Today, Digital Daily, Yahoo! Music Blog, Yahoo! Finance, CyberNet and MacUser
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Yahoo axes music service, strikes deal with Rhapsody — It's been a tumultuous few days for Yahoo—you know, with that takeover bid from Microsoft—but the company continues to shake things up internally, too. — On Monday, the company announced that it will discontinue …
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VentureBeat, Tech Confidential, Bits, Ars Technica, mathewingram.com/work, Digital Noise, E-Commerce Times, Orbitcast and Switched
Nick / Rough Type:
Who cut the cables? — Curiouser and curiouser. Last Wednesday two undersea communication cables carrying Internet traffic were severed near Alexandria, Egypt, causing widespread outages in Egypt and India that left a reported 100 million people without Net access.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Rumor: New MacBook Pros on the way? — With Apple's MacBook Air having reached store shelves, it might not be too much longer before the company updates the rest of its notebook lineup. — MacRumors notes fresh evidence—of sorts—that Apple is getting ready to launch revamped MacBook Pros in February.
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Thin is in: Ars Technica reviews the MacBook Air
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AppleInsider
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Is Google's Social Graph API a Creeping Privacy Violation? — I love me some screenscaping and mashups and data portability, but when it comes to personal information things get a little more complicated. — I'm in San Francisco today at Dappercamp, an event concerning a tool that's always got …
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Joshua Porter / Bokardo:The danger of social markers made public (more on the Social Graph API)
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yang e-mail reaches out to Yahoo employees — Wonder what Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang and the company's nonexecutive chairman, Roy Bostock, said to the troops on Friday, after Microsoft launched its unsolicited $44.6 billion bid? — Here's the text of the e-mail they sent to employees …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft wants to bring Surface home sooner — When people get a chance to try out Microsoft's Surface touch-screen tabletop computer, they often wish they could take one home. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Monday that the company is trying to speed up that process after getting a lot of demand for a consumer version.
eMarketer:
Heard the Latest About Podcasting? — Engagement via headphones. — Ever since podcasting was introduced, the question has been the same: Will anyone listen? — The answer is definitely “Yes.” — eMarketer estimates that the total US podcast audience reached 18.5 million in 2007.
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Google: Like A Rock (That Is, Falling Like One) — Google has thus far today dropped another 5% of its stock price to drop below the $500 mark for the first time since last August. Remember, up until the final days in December the stock was still over $700 a share, and it was near the $750 a share level …
Wall Street Journal:
Google Reaches Out to Yahoo — Google CEO Eric Schmidt offered Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang help in any effort to thwart Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid. Though regulatory concerns make a bid by Google unlikely, it could play a role in bids by others.
Discussion:
Epicenter, HipMojo.com, John Battelle's Searchblog, Associated Press, Business Logs, Seeking Alpha, VC Cafe and www.gulker.com
Matt Hickey / CrunchGear:
Intel debuts Silverthorne processor; Dragonfire Ring, Dwarfsbane Sword and Elven Might Sling to follow — As subnotebooks like the Eee PC and the XO become more and more common (they will), a new market will develop around them and copycat machines. Intel hopes to be a player in this new market …
Michael Hara / NVIDIA Press Room:
NVIDIA to Acquire AGEIA Technologies — PhysX on GeForce Will Bring Amazing Physics Dynamics to Millions of Gamers — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, today announced that it has signed …
