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Economist:
The Microhoo! hoo-hah — Microsoft's controversial bid for Yahoo! — THE “last day at work” video circulated by Bill Gates is trying to be funny, but for unintentional laugh-till-you-cry comedy, there is no beating the legendary effort by Mr Gates's chief executive, Steve Ballmer.
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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Studies Alternatives to Microsoft — Yahoo is holding out hope it can avoid Microsoft's bid by way of a possible rival suitor or a tie-up with Google that might allow it to stay independent. Video
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Watch Election Returns or Google Maps — Super Tuesday Google Maps with Twitter: Just watch this for about five minutes; it's kind of amazing. And it's global: — Amazingly some of the posts are responding to one another.
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Brittany Bohnet / Official Google Blog:
Be part of the Super Tuesday action — They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing! Today marks an exciting day in the race to the U.S. Presidency: voters in 24 states will choose their party candidates. This will be the largest number of primaries taking place at one time in the history of the U.S. electoral system.
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends? — One of my readers just sent me an email about a new feature that he hadn't seen previously. I haven't seen this feature either. Apparently there is now a feature that “Suggests a friend to me.” I'm assuming that if there is a contact …
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Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Facebook featured on new iPhone ad — Tonight, Apple released two new iPhone commercials in the standard iPhone-esqe style — Facebook and Cars. In these two commercials, Apple expounds on features that have already been introduced in older commercials. This is the first time that Apple …
BBC:
EBay to ban negative seller views — Online auction site eBay has said it plans to overhaul its feedback system and will ban sellers from leaving negative comments about buyers. — EBay said problems were occurring, and slowing down trade, when buyers left negative comments about sellers who then retaliated with their own views.
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Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
Remote Workers Don't Practice Safe Computing — You might think that all the attention data breaches and cyber attacks have received would make workers who access corporate systems from outside the office more cautious. You'd be wrong. Not only do remote workers engage in risky behavior, but they're doing so at an increasing rate.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Aims to Crack Chinese Market — Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country's Internet search market, thanks in significant part to a controversial and legally risky offering: searches for free, unlicensed music downloads.
Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report:
Joiku Turns Your S60 Handset into a WiFi Hotspot — No, the image to the right isn't from the Blair Witch Project. It's the logo of mobile developer Joiku, the Finnish team that has finally brought hotspot capabilities to the S60 platform. Windows Mobile users have had this capability for a while …
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet — Ruby on Rails on Rails on Rails on Rails — We'll hand it to IBM's researchers. They think big - really big. Like holy-crap-what-have-you-done big. — The Register has unearthed a research paper that shows IBM working …
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Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Small wonder: inside Intel's Silverthorne ultramobile CPU — SAN FRANCISCO—In an ISSCC session this morning, Intel disclosed the first microarchitectural details of its forthcoming “Silverthorne” processor for ultramobile devices. The new chip, which I'll describe in this post …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Little Nokia n82 Camera Phone Loom Large in Video Journalism....Jeff Jarvis has Found his “Mojo” — Late last year the Reuters news service began giving its journalists Nokia n82 phones to directly upload video reports to the news service's video pages. The program is called “Mojo,” standing for Reuters Mobile Journalism.
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allAfrica.com:
Africa: Google Starts Recruitment Plan to Up Clout — Business Daily (Nairobi) — Kui Kinyanjui — Internet search company Google Kenya's Nairobi office is searching for five senior executives for its African operations, laying the foundation for a looming market share battle on the continent.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Is Verizon gaming Google in US wireless auction? — Analysis In the battle for the so-called 700-MHz band - a lip-smackingly juicy slice of the US wireless spectrum - somebody just pulled a fast one. And you can bet it was Verizon, yanking the rug out from under Google and a crazed Eric Schmidt.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft reorg could come next week — Microsoft is expected to announce organizational changes in the coming days, shaking up some of the leadership in its Windows and Windows Live groups, according to sources familiar with the company's plans. — The changes have been in the works for some time …
