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comScore Releases February 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. February 2008 saw Americans conduct nearly 10 billion core searches …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Queries Decelerated in February—Comscore — More fodder to support Google (GOOG) Q1 revenue concerns: Comscore's February report says U.S. query growth decelerated again in February. — The good news for Google fans is that it did much better than Yahoo (YHOO), where queries actually declined (per Comscore).
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Report: Google widens Web search lead, again
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Roger Cheng / CNN:
2nd UPDATE: Verizon Wireless Unveils Open Network Specs — (Recasts first paragraph, includes additional background and executive comments from Verizon, Motorola and Sony, plus the move's impact on consumers.) — Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES — NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- In unveiling …
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Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Is your Airport Extreme suddenly Time Machine-happy? — Update 9 pm ET: Our comrade David Chartier from Ars Technica points out that the 7.1.3 firmware itself may not be necessary for the new functionality to work; he says he tested a 7.1 AEBS with a machine running Time Capsule & Airport 1.0 …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Y Combinator Demo Day - which one will be the next Google? — Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, and the Y Combinator gang held their Demo Day yesterday for 21 hopeful startups. In most cases these “companies” are only 3 months old, have two or three founders, and are just launching a beta product/service.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple and Adobe: Who needs whom? — Adobe has tipped its hand, and it now seems clear that it needs Apple's iPhone more than Apple (AAPL) needs Adobe's Flash. But it's not at all clear that Adobe (ADBE) will get the foothold on the device it seems to want so badly.
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Supernova — I'm writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I'm going to announce the beginning of Microsoft's collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. — This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the Open Source Software Think Tank 2007) …
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Computerworld, People Over Process, rand($thoughts);, CNET News.com, ZDNet.com.au, Micronet's blog and Ian Skerrett
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
VC confab: Please, no more social networks — REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—The consensus here at the Dow Jones Web Ventures conference this week seems to be that the world doesn't need another social network. — That's considering that the advertising model for even the largest social networks …
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
AMD makes massive layoffs — Five per cent cull — AMD IS QUIETLY cutting five per cent of its workforce. Pink slips have been handed out now. The cuts are going to be across the board, not targeted at any specific group. — Whispers also say that this is because the chip maker …
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Official Google Blog:
Opening Google Docs to users and developers via Gadgets and Visualization API — Whenever we're asked “how do people use Google spreadsheets?”, we always struggle with where to start. It's not that we can't think of examples, it's just that the examples are all so different, so unique.
Robert Hamilton / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Fast is better than slow — A few weeks ago, we launched a plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone's home screen. This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google by eliminating the initial search steps (e.g. finding the browser application …
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Reuters, VentureBeat, MobileCrunch, MobHappy, TechCrunch, jkOnTheRun, eWeek, Google Operating System, Engadget Mobile, Pocket PC Thoughts.com and the::unwired
Fred / A VC:
Thoughts On FriendFeed — I know I am late to this discussion and that many bloggers have already weighed in on this topic already. — Back a few months ago, the New York Times covered FriendFeed and after reading the story I set up my FriendFeed. I have always been a fan of aggregation and life streaming.
Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple may bundle unlimited iTunes with iPods — A report by the Financial Times (registration required) cites unnamed executives who say that Apple is in talks with record labels to offer access to the entire iTunes music library for a lump sum price. The fee would be added as a premium option …
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Business Week, Los Angeles Times, CNET News.com, Bits, Techdirt, madisonian.net, Coolfer, Bit Player, DSLreports, Electronista and Media Bullseye
Louise Story / New York Times:
A Push to Limit the Tracking of Web Surfers' Clicks — AFTER reading about how Internet companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York assemblyman said there ought to be a law.
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Facebook Should Buy Xobni — There was a rumor recently that Xobni was to be acquired by MSFT. I could certainly see that happening, Xobni is an email inbox on crack... I saw it at TC40... right now, it's compatible with MSFT Outlook alone. — While MSFT remains a likely company to buy it …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo turns to radio ads to lure Google Web searchers — Updated 10 a.m. PDT with quotes from radio ad. — Yahoo is running radio ads in the San Francisco Bay Area and several other markets in an effort to get more people to use its search engine instead of Google's.
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
SugarSync: Most useful sync tool ever. But you'll pay for it. — Today, Sharpcast is launching the public beta of its new file synchronization product, SugarSync. Like other sync tools (FolderShare [recently updated] and BeInSync), it performs the useful service of automatically keeping the data on one PC the same as on another.
