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Magid Abraham / comScore Voices:
Why Google's surprising paid click data are less surprising — James Lamberti, SVP of Search and Media at comScore, is a co-author of this post. — Earlier this week, comScore released its January 2008 qSearch paid click report, which showed a 7% sequential decline vs. December '07 …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:ComScore: Weak Paid Clicks Reflect Google Policy Shifts
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:Google Worries Might Be Exaggerated
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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
News: iPhone/iPod SDK: Apple to approve, distribute apps, limit add-ons — iPhone/iPod SDK: Apple to approve, distribute apps, limit add-ons — According to several sources familiar with Apple's iPhone and iPod touch software development kit (SDK) plans, the company will use a March 6 event in Cupertino …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
IAC: Ready To Bail On Ask? — More on the impending shakeup at IAC's long-suffering Ask. An insider tells us that IAC is considering finally pulling the plug on Teoma, the engine that powers Ask's search, and just using Google: — There is indeed a big shakeup coming. A new Ask.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
IAC: 100 Layoffs Coming At Ask.com; Search Deal With Google Possible — A source has confirmed to us a coming shakeup at IAC-owned Ask.com that includes about 100 layoffs in the April time frame. SAI reported this morning that the site may pull the plug on its own search efforts …
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Time Capsule Initial Verdict: Smooth Sailing, No Surprises — We've been fiddling with Time Capsule since it arrived this AM, and so far it works as billed, clean and easy. The star of the show is really the new AirPort Utility software, which now comes with some neat tricks for the network-phobic.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge: Wikileaks gets its domain name back — Updated at 1:42 p.m. PST. — SAN FRANCISCO—Wikileaks is getting its domain name back. — After spending 90 minutes or so hearing arguments from a raft of attorneys—two representing the Swiss bank that fought to get the site's plug pulled …
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Jeff Young / Akamai:
February 29, 2008 - Akamai Prevails in Patent Litigation — Contacts: — Media Relations — 617-444-3913 — jyoung@akamai.com —or— Noelle Faris — Sr. Manager, Investor Relations — 617-444-4676 — nfaris@akamai.com — Jury finds Limelight Networks infringes key Internet content delivery patent
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ConsortiumInfo.org The Standards Blog:
Showdown in Geneva: OOXML Fails to Achieve Majority Approval at BRM — Slashdot It! DiggThis Add to Del.icio.us — Views: 497 — A rather incredible week in Geneva has just ended, bringing to a close the Herculean assumed by the over 100 delegates from 32 countries that attended the BRM.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft May Buy Email Startup Xobni — Microsoft has been in acquisition discussions with email startup Xobni, we've confirmed through multiple sources. The company, which launched at the TechCrunch40 conference last year, currently offers an outlook plugin for Windows users …
Portfolio.com:
Michael Arrington — Nobody is more obsessed with the doings of Silicon Valley than Michael Arrington, whose 2½-year-old website, TechCrunch.com, has become an international clearinghouse for gossip, rumor, and inside information about the internet business.
Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Will New Blu-ray Drives Suck Your Laptop Battery Dry? — Watching a Blu-ray movie in all its high-definition glory on your laptop may finally become an affordable prospect this year. Just don't wander too far from a power outlet. — With the Sony-backed HD format emerging victorious …
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
35 Ways to Stream Your Life — It's a pretty good bet that if you're not making a Twitter or Facebook application, you're probably making a lifestreaming application. Okay, so not everyone is into lifestreaming, but it is one of the hottest areas for development out there …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Should Google, Yahoo, Mahalo, etc. ban affiliate links? (or “Will the FTC ban undisclosed affiliate links for us all?") — “We wanted to make clear . . . if you're being paid, you should disclose that.” — Mary K. Engle, FTC associate director for advertising practices quoted in the Washington Post
Cameron Wilmot / TweakTown:
MSI employs Stirling Engine Theory — During a recent visit to MSI here in Taiwan, we learnt of an interesting and new technology which they are working on with another Taiwanese company called Polo-Tech. It all falls under their ECO friendly design program.
Alistair Croll / GigaOM:
Google Sites: More Trouble for Registrars — Last week, we wrote that the registrars were under increased pressure. Their higher-margin businesses, such as turnkey hosting, were threatened by third-party hosting, simplifiers like Google, and the trend towards distributed SaaS applications.
David P. Hamilton / VentureBeat:
The Health 2.0 glut, and how one startup adapts — The Health 2.0 movement, as I've noted before, makes some big claims about the Internet's power to transform the relationships between patients and doctors, hospitals, insurers and each other. Some of that is undoubtedly true …
