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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.
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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Adopts Flash Lite For Windows Mobile As a Stopgap Measure — Flash Lite for mobile phones might not be good enough for Steve Jobs, but Microsoft is less picky. It is licensing Flash Lite for Windows Mobile. This is an acknowledgment of two things: there are a lot of developers …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft licenses Adobe's FlashLite for Win Mobile phones
Microsoft licenses Adobe's FlashLite for Win Mobile phones
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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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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
CBS to bloggers: Install our widgets, and we'll split the profits — CBS Television Stations has launched a new program to get its local news headlines onto blogs and social-media sites, the CBS division said Monday. — Called the CBS Local Ad Network, it's a way for participating region-focused blogs …
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
CBS Launches Ad/Content Network For Local Sites
CBS Launches Ad/Content Network For Local Sites
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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.
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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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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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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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Steve Eisenstadt / Eclipse.org:
Eclipse Announces New Runtime Initiative around Equinox — EclipseCon 2008, SANTA CLARA, CA - March 17, 2008 - The Eclipse Foundation today announced a new initiative to develop and promote open source runtime technology based on Equinox, a lightweight OSGi compliant runtime.
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.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Explore Your Interactions with Google Reader — Web applications track many user actions and use them for different purposes: improving the products, finding patterns, building user profiles etc. For example, Google Reader records some of your actions without providing options in the interface to access the data.
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.