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Adobe's Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says — SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)- Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) popular media player for cellphones simply isn't good enough for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday in the most substantive comments …
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Investors probe Apple's Jobs on successor, games, future products — AppleInsider joined Apple investors, some of whom traveled from as far away as Europe, at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Tuesday, where Steve Jobs and his executive team were both grilled and lauded …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Love Him or Hate Him, Fortune Cannot Make Up Its Mind About Steve Jobs
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Searches for Options — Yahoo and Time Warner stepped up talks on creating an alternative to Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. A possible deal would fold AOL into Yahoo.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Yahoo Looks at New Way to Survive — As it scrambles to avoid defeat in its battle with Microsoft, Yahoo may try to put a little more time on the clock. — Microsoft, whose offer for Yahoo is now worth $41.2 billion, was preparing to escalate its takeover fight by starting a proxy contest next week.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo ditches March 13 Microsoft proxy war deadline — The Microsoft-Yahoo proxy war clock has stopped. — In an SEC filing on Wednesday Yahoo said it has changed the due date to nominate board of directors. Instead of March 13 being the last day you could make a pitch for Yahoo's board …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Extends Deadline For Board Nominations; More Time To Pursue Alternatives — Rumors of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) maneuvering to buy itself more time were correct: the company says it will extend the deadline for board nominations from March 14 to “10 days following the public announcement of the date for Yahoo! …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Rumors of Facebook music service bubbling again — Facebook may be getting closer to launching a music service that competes with Apple's iTunes, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. — Sources told the publication that Facebook has been approaching major record labels about licensing deals …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Ask.com scales back in makeover — SAN FRANCISCO - In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Obit: A West Coast Digerati Deadpools Ask.com — Goodbye, Ask.com. You caught my eye back in 1997 as an unusual meta search engine that asked questions to get answers. By 1998, I counted you alongside Google and Direct Hit as shining examples of what to watch in search.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Gets It Right With Open AIM 2.0 - Embraces Meebo and eBuddy — AOL is pushing their two year old OpenAim initiative much further this morning with OpenAIM 2.0. — There are three key changes of note. First they are now embracing services that they previously tried to stop …
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA! — In November 2007 I called these three CAPTCHA implementations “unbreakable”: — 2008 is shaping up to be a very bad year indeed for CAPTCHAs: — Jan 17: InformationWeek reports Yahoo CAPTCHA broken — Feb 6: Websense reports Hotmail CAPTCHA broken
Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com:
Is Microsoft's ‘Singularity’ the OS of the future? — Microsoft's TechFest internal science fair wasn't just about social networking and telescopes. — The company also discussed new technology closer to its roots: an operating system concept called “Singularity” intended as a showcase for some cutting-edge computer science.
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Waxy.org:
New Video Overtakes “Evolution of Dance” for #1 Spot on YouTube — Yesterday, YouTube refreshed their leaderboards and a strange new video became the Most Viewed Video of All-Time, topping the world-famous Evolution of Dance video. With 89 million views, the new winner is a fan-made music video.
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David Strom / baselinemag:
Web Takedown Notices: Punish the Monkey — Oh, the cyclical ironies of the Internet. The attention gained by trying to force a Web site to take down content or shut down sparks others to post that content elsewhere. — Here is one letter that you don't want to receive …
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David Strom's Web Informant
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Indefinite Hiatus — I've been writing a personal weblog for almost seven years. It's weird to go back and read some of the posts in my old kuro5hin diary such as my early postings about interning at Microsoft and see how much my perspectives have changed in some ways and stayed the same in others.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Zazzle Launches Social Networking Profile Cards — Quick printing service Zazzle has launched a new series of cards today that focus on the social networking craze that is upon us currently. The cards look like the popular social networks including LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace.
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