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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Early Yahoo Postmortem, And Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Prospect Of MicroHoo — If the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo does happen the “postmortems” on Yahoo will come fast and furious. Perhaps the first of these is from the Mercury News, which recounts the history of Google …
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Reuters:
Google says Microsoft's Yahoo buy might hurt Internet — BEIJING (Reuters) - Google Inc, the world's leading search engine, said on Monday it was concerned about the free flow of information on the Internet if Microsoft Corp were to succeed in acquiring Yahoo Inc.
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CNET News.com, BetaNews, paidContent.org, Mashable!, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and TechRadar.com
Rory Cellan-Jones / BBC:
Web creator rejects net tracking — The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet. — Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system.
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Adobe:
Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE Licensed by Microsoft — For immediate release — Adobe Mobile Products to Ship with Windows Mobile Phones — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe® Flash® Lite™ software …
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Apple 2.0, Flash Devices, Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, Guardian Unlimited, Digital Trends, Mashable!, CrunchGear and Seeking Alpha
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:Microsoft to license Adobe's Flash Lite
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eWeek, The Register, MacRumors, CenterNetworks, Gizmodo, TGDaily.com, Ubergizmo, jkOnTheRun, AppScout, IntoMobile, Randy Holloway Unfiltered and Ryan Stewart
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
BMC buys BladeLogic, eyes data center automation — BMC said Monday that it will buy BladeLogic, which specializes in automating data centers, for $800 million, or $28 a share. — The news comes on the heels of a bevy of data center announcements from HP, which is hoping enterprises go for its data center as a service strategy.
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InfoWorld:
Google News, YouTube blocked in China amid Tibet riots — Beijing appears to have taken a page out of Myanmar's playbook by blocking some Internet access amid rioting in Tibet that has already seen as many as 80 people killed, according to the Tibetan government in exile.
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
10 Things I Warned Microsoft About Windows Vista — The imminent real release of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is reason enough to broach the question. SP1 is an important milestone for an operating system that bloggers and other critics consistently ridicule.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo Buzz is a Game Changer for Social Media; And Spells Trouble for Digg! — Yahoo Buzz is a social media experiment by Yahoo! that is currently in a closed beta. We found out today what kind of boost Buzz is giving the current selected blogs and news sources - Muhammad Saleem wrote …
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TechCrunch, Hitwise Intelligence, Favorite {fvrit} Blog, Todd Watson, Geek News Central and muhammad saleem
Mark Evans:
Are MacBooks Just Trendy? — My brother had his MacBook stolen a couple of months ago so he's in the market for a new laptop. — With a modest budget, the big question is whether he should cough up the $1,100 to $1,500 for a new MacBook, or spend $500 for something like a Dell Inspiron.
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Tony Dennis / Inquirer:
Google R&D spend increases by 73 per cent — Surely fighting the Yahvole merger can't cost $2.1 billion? — ACCORDING TO figures put together by the FT, Intel, Texas Instruments and Sun all showed negative growth in their R&D spend in 2007. The newspaper claims that Sun was even forced …
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World — Since he helped create Wikipedia in 2001, Jimmy Wales has been called many things: benevolent dictator, constitutional monarch, digital evangelist and spiritual leader of the tens of thousands of volunteers who have made the online encyclopedia one of the top 10 most visited Web sites.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
802.11n officially makes its way to the Airport Express — Hot on the heels of a leak from the Swiss Apple Store, Apple went ahead and popped out an updated Airport Express this morning. (Please, hold your gasps—we know it's not Tuesday yet.) The new Airport Express …
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Digital Trends, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, TidBITS, Gearlog, TGDaily.com and Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Dusting Off the Archive for the Web — As magazines and newspapers hunt for the new thing they need to be to thrive in the Internet era, some find that part of the answer lies in the old thing they used to be. — Publications are rediscovering their archives, like a person learning …
