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Google:
Global Consortium to Construct New Cable System Linking US and Japan to Meet Increasing Bandwidth Demands — Construction underway to build 10,000 km linear cable system with a capacity of up to 7.68 Tbps to enhance Trans-Pacific connectivity — A consortium of six international companies announced …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Buzz Launches: Popular Stories To Go On Yahoo Homepage — Yahoo launches the much anticipated Yahoo Buzz tonight - a Digg-like site that takes stories from pre-approved news publishers (100 to start) and let's users vote on stories and push them up to the top of the page.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out — Adobe's AIR platform allows developers to create web applications that run on your desktop without the need of a web browser. Now that AIR has dropped the beta tag (see our previous coverage), it's time to look at some of the AIR apps you can use today.
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InfoWorld, CyberNet, Somewhat Frank, Ryan Stewart, Macworld, The Universal Desktop and LinuxInsider
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Digg's inaugural town hall: Too much navel-gazing — On Monday night, social news site Digg took a new approach to its famously clamorous users: CEO Jay Adelson and founder Kevin Rose sat down in front of a Ustream-connected camera with their MacBook Pros and a couple of beers and answered questions that had been submitted by Diggers.
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mathewingram.com/work, Deep Jive Interests, VentureBeat, CenterNetworks, Social News Watch and Webware.com
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Announces Open Search Platform — Yahoo will soon be allowing third parties to enhance the Yahoo Search experience. The new platform, codenamed “SearchMonkey” and officially called Open Search Platform, will consist of a set of APIs that allow third parties to modify search results …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Friendfeed, the best software for conversations, raises round and launches publicly — FriendFeed is like Facebook's news feed. But it's more of a dynamic conversation among close friends about what they're up to all over the web — and not so much a social network.
Google Talkabout:
Google Talk chatback — Do you have a blog, online profile, or some other personal web page? Would you like to communicate more with your visitors? Today we're launching a new Google Talk feature that lets visitors to your web site chat with you. We call it “chatback” …
Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland:
Yang breaks silence on Microsoft takeover — PHOENIX — Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang knew exactly what was on everyone's minds at the Interactive Advertising Bureau conference on Monday. — In their first public appearance since Microsoft's hostile $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo …
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New York Times, Bits, Search Engine Journal, WebProNews, HipMojo.com, The Mac Observer and BetaNews
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Yahoo mum on Microsoft, but hints at Digg rival
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Yahoo! Finance
Lessig Blog:
On why I am not running — With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!). First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08?
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CNET News.com, Ars Technica, The 463, MediaShift, TechCrunch, AppScout, Salon, InfoWorld, Vindu's View from the Valley, Techdirt, techPresident, Social Media and Slashdot
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Brainstorming over bagels: Silicon Valley entrepreneurs seek camaraderie and capital at brunch — For access to Silicon Valley camaraderie and capital, you can't beat the informal Founders spread. — SAN FRANCISCO — The Internet bubble of the late 1990s ended with a painful pop …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Dear ABC, You Don't Compete With TiVo By Making A Product Worse — About a year and a half ago, an executive at Disney-owned ABC-TV talked about how the network was experimenting with ways to block people from fast forwarding through commercials. The exec in question even claimed …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces New Reporting Standard for Digital Campaign Performance: Engagement Mapping — New approach allows advertisers to map and assign value to various touch points, gaining a more complete picture of a campaign. — Microsoft Corp. today announced Engagement Mapping …
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One Microsoft Way, TechCrunch, TechWeb, Tech Tracks, Marksonland, The Analytics Guru, Insider Chatter, Smart Mobs, Joe Duck, FaceReviews, All about Microsoft, ReadWriteWeb, WebProNews, Darren Herman, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, VentureBeat, CenterNetworks, Mashable!, SearchViews.com and Search Engine Journal
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CNET News.com:
How Pakistan knocked YouTube offline (and how to make sure it never happens again) — (Declan McCullagh wrote this article. It was reported by Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh.) — A high-profile incident this weekend in which Pakistan's state-owned telecommunications company managed …
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New York Times, Renesys Blog, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Threat Chaos and Digital Daily
Megan Johnston / FinancialWeek.com:
Apple's cash: It's one sour cider — Whopping $18.4 billion now idles on balance sheet, fermenting grumbles that Steve Jobs can do better — Talk about your apple juice: The computer company's current cash position is $18.4 billion, up an astounding 20% in a single quarter.
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Infinite Loop, Byte of the Apple, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Macsimum News and MacDailyNews
Matthew Moskovciak / CNET News.com:
Another proprietary wireless audio system: Sony S-AIR — While everyone likes the idea of streaming music wirelessly around their home, in reality it can be less-than-enjoyable due to difficult configurations and network dropouts. Trying to address this common complaint …
Matthew Moskovciak / CNET News.com:
New Sony Blu-ray players: Better than PS3? — Sony has announced two new Blu-ray players scheduled to be released in the second half of the year: the entry-level BDP-S350 and the step-up BDP-S550. We haven't been the biggest fans of Sony's recent standalone Blu-ray players …
