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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Microsoft bid is better than stagnating, say Yahoo insiders — Sometimes change—any change—is good. — For a company hobbled by cultural and management problems, a $44.6 billion hostile takeover bidfrom Microsoft may be just the kick in the pants Yahoo needs to rejoin the fight against Google—and potentially Microsoft.
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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:
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 …
Saul Hansell / Bits:How Google Could Keep Yahoo From Microsoft
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:CFO: Microsoft likely to go into debt for Yahoo deal
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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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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 …
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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 …
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.
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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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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Valleywag reaches new low: makes fun of the death of a mother and son in a plane crash. — Valleywag continues to lower it's own pathetic moral benchmark today by making fun of the death of a monther and her child in a plane crash. What is wrong with you people?!
Ewan Spence / All About Symbian:
Thirty minutes with the N-Gage First Access client — “Ewan!” cried Rafe, “Nokia have pushed the N-Gage Client out ahead of MWC!” “I knew they would,” [Yeah, right - Ed] I congratulated myself. “Time to find out just what they have in store for us...” — So it's finally here.
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Associated Press:
AT&T hikes broadband prices — SAN ANTONIO - Beginning next month, AT&T Inc. will raise the price of its most common broadband Internet services in many of the states where it operates, a company spokesman said Monday. — The $5-per-month hike will apply in all but the states acquired with the buyout of BellSouth.
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 …
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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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Dembot, Rich vs Reach, Christian Science Monitor, Renesys Blog, Data Center Knowledge and Agence France Presse
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Simon Lauder / ABC News:Conspiracy theories emerge after internet cables cut
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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.
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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Bokardo, apophenia, The Social Times, Six Apart News, broadstuff, Web Worker Daily and Compiler
Reuters:
Motorola CEO takes charge of troubled handset unit — Motorola Inc (MOT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said its Chief Executive Greg Brown was taking direct control of the company's loss-making handset business, replacing Stu Reed, in a move aimed at helping speed up the unit's recovery.
