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Associated Press:
Google ventures into health records biz — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
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Steve Lohr / Bits:
Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic — For 18 months, Google has been working to come up with a product offering and a strategy in the promising field of consumer health information. Until now, the search giant hasn't had anything to show for its labors other than bumps along the way …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Google says ISP glitch exposes Gmail data in Kuwait
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Price May Be Steep, But Thin ThinkPad Has Abundant Features — I am writing these words on a new laptop computer that packs a full-size screen and keyboard into a body that's quite thin and light. And it has a solid-state drive with no moving parts instead of a hard disk.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Launching AdSense for Video - Minus the Video — After nearly a year in closed beta, Google is expected to announce tonight that its AdSense for Video program is now open to publishers. When the program's pilot was announced last May, AdSense for Video was intended to serve up video-in-video ads.
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Inside AdSense, CenterNetworks, IDG News Service, Contentinople, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Beet.TV and Search Insider
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Plans Push to Sell Ads to Appear Inside Videos — SAN FRANCISCO — Hoping to earn more from its vast advertising network, Google said it planned to begin selling ads to appear inside videos on sites across the Web. — While the money spent on Web video ads is a small fraction …
David A. Utter / WebProNews:YuMe Serving Google AdSense For Video Ads
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Search Engine Land
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain — THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination — pasty, geeky, male — has failed to live up to his reputation. — Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) …
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Retailer warns Sony not to abuse its newfound Blu-ray position: Consumers like regular DVD just fine — Hold your horses, sports fans. Don't go declaring Blu-ray the winner of anything just yet, despite the fact that Toshiba original story titlethrew in the towel this week.
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
T-Mobile aiming for home phones with new service — It turns out the Wi-Fi home phone service that T-Mobile USA launched last summer was just the beginning. — Today, the Bellevue-based wireless carrier is dramatically stepping up its effort to take over your home phone service …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Is Adobe Trying To Add DRM To Flash? — The EFF's Deeplinks blog has an excellent discussion about Adobe's plans to add DRM to Flash. Flash has become something of a defacto standard online, and it's partly the lack of included DRM that allowed this to happen, encouraging creative uses, such as mashups.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Facebook sees first dip in UK users — Facebook has suffered its first fall in UK users, with a 5% drop between December and January, according to new figures. — However, Facebook still had 8.5 million unique users in January and remains the most popular social networking website in the UK …
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
The hands-free way to steal a credit card — Washington D. C. - On Wednesday at Black Hat DC 2008. Adam Laurie, a RFID security expert, demoed a new Python script he's working on to read the contents of a Smart chip-enabled credit card. As part of the demo he asked for someone's card from the audience.
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eWeek
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's Bravia F-series is no wallflower — Sony Japan just announced their Bravia F-series of thin LCDs. We're talking 46-inches with just 7.4-cm of non-protruding, wall-mountable goodness when these go live in Japan on March 25th. Available in 1080p resolution ¥400,000 (about $3,700) …
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Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:Sony's New M-Series Bravias Get Multicoloured, Bravia Bunny-Style
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Why is Microsoft dancing with Danger? — Analysis The world may have missed it in the fuss over the Yahoo! bid, but last week Microsoft announced it had agreed to acquire Danger Inc, for a reported $500m. The purchase is indicative of Microsoft's aspirations as a provider of back-end services …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
M&A Bankers on Yahoo-Microsoft: Done Deal — We canvassed a couple of Wall Street M&A moguls last night for their thoughts on how the Microsoft-Yahoo (MSFT/YHOO) deal would play out. Their thoughts: — It's a done deal. — Jerry's language in his “letter to shareholders” was a bold move.
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Electronista:
Microsoft preps mystery “significant” news... Microsoft will make a “significant company announcement” within hours, the firm announced today. Without providing details, the software developer notes that it will hold a mid-day conference and makes clear that the news is unrelated to its attempted acquisition of Yahoo.
Market Wire:
Research In Motion Provides Updated Subscriber Forecast — Research In Motion Limited (RIM) (NasdaqGS:RIMM - News)(Toronto:RIM.TO - News) today provided an update on forecasted net subscriber account additions for the fiscal fourth quarter ending March 1, 2008.
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Earnings: TheStreet.com Q4 Revs Up 38 Percent; Net Income Up 19 Percent — TheStreet.com (NSDQ: TSCM) reported Q4 revenue of $19.9 million, a year-over-year increase of 38 percent from $14.4 million. Net income grew 19 percent to $4.7 million from $4.0 million.
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