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Google Tests Video Ads on Search Results Pages — Google has always had a love-hate relationship with advertising. Its power and wealth come from the $16 billion a year of advertising that it sells. Yet on its most important pages, the results from its Web search engine …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out — On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions. — As with any Microsoft early-year reorg — which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews — there are winners and losers.
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Microsoft Announces New, Expanded Roles for Key Executives — Fourteen leaders promoted as company matches leadership talent to expanding business priorities. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a series of executive promotions — seven new senior vice presidents and seven new corporate vice presidents …
Hollywood Reporter:
Toshiba to drop HD DVD, sources say — Company says no decision has been made — The format war has turned into a format death watch. — Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash …
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Christopher Null, ParisLemon, Engadget HD, Gizmodo, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, High-Def Digest and Digg
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft researchers make me cry — It's not often that I see software that really changes my world. It's even rarer that I see software that I know will change the world my sons live in. I can count those times pretty easily. The first time I saw an Apple II in 1977.
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ParisLemon, TechCrunch, Brier Dudley's blog, Valleywag, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Life On the Wicked Stage and WinBeta
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:What's Microsoft Offering Open Source On February 27?
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Electronista:
PS3 said to outsell Xbox in 2008, crack 20m in 2011 — Sony's PlayStation 3 console will outperform the Xbox 360 and roughly double its user base in 2008, says a new estimate by research firm iSuppli. The study predicts that Sony will sell approximately 10 million PS3s over the course of 2008 …
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Silicon Alley Insider, GamesIndustry.biz, The Technology Chronicles, ParisLemon and Forever Geek
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:Report: PlayStation 3 could be top-selling next-gen console by 2011
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Louise Story / New York Times:
4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet — Four large newspaper companies are joining forces to sell advertisements on the Internet, hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money. — Each of the four companies …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:NYT-Gannett-Trib-Hearst Combine Form Local Online Ad Sales Company quadrantONE
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
PR Wire Service to Journalists & Bloggers: We Don't Need You — We received an interesting email today from Business Wire, a press release wire service that Warren Buffett bought in March 2006. Currently Business Wire is ranked about #32 on the Techmeme Leaderboard, which puts it above some top tech blogs …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
LiveUniverse Buys Revver for More than a Song (about $5M) — Troubled video site Revver was bought by Brad Greenspan's LiveUniverse last night for a price “many multiples more” than the $500,000 to $1.5 million reported recently, according to a source close to the deal.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Nielsen: YouTube is from Mars, streaming video is from Venus — There is a gender split when it comes to preferences in online video, according to new data from market research group Nielsen Online. While streams of network TV shows have proven to be pretty popular among women …
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Why You Should Let Users Define Your App — There's an old well-worn addage that says, “The customer is always right.” On the surface, it means that you should always strive to provide good customer service. But on a deeper level, it means that if your customers do things with your service …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Consumating Closing Quietly, Demonstrates Another Side of a Startup's Life — We like startups and innovation here at RWW so we try to pay attention to the news good and bad about what tech entrepreneurs are up to. It certainly seemed strange then that almost no one but its users …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Rival gaming networks compete for developer attention — The Social Gaming Network, which operates gaming applications like Warbook and Super Snake for social-networking developer platforms, announced on Thursday that it has opened a platform of its own. Developers can now access …
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AT&T Palm Centro unboxing! — We're not really sure where to begin...It's the Palm Centro on AT&T. You know the Centro, right? Outdated OS, tiny, miniscule puke-lime-green keyboard, EDGE, camera, and phone. We didn't get a solid feel for pricing when it launches on February 19th, but we've heard $99 and $149 for a 2-year agreement.
Jason Bush / Business Week:
The Blogging Czar of Moscow — How American Andrew Paulson is building a growing Internet empire in Russia — Andrew Paulson has a knack for spinning chance encounters with the rich and famous into business opportunities. In the late '80s the New Haven native carved out a career …
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Business Wire:
Vivid Entertainment Head Steven Hirsch Calls on Yahoo and Google to Take Steps to Keep Explicit Material from Kids — Leading Adult Film Studio Chief Tells Yale School of Management That Internet Service Providers Also Need Better Age Verification — NEW HAVEN, Conn.—(BUSINESS WIRE) …
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Indie coffeehouses tell Starbucks: Bring on your free Wi-Fi — Smaller chains and solo shops brew wireless access their own way — Computerworld) Like many indie cafes, Seattle's Bauhaus Books and Coffee has long relied on free Wi-Fi to help bring in customers.
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David Haskin / Computerworld:Six ways the Starbucks-AT&T deal will change mobility
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