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Wall Street Journal:
Comcast, Time Warner Cable in Wireless Talks — Companies, With Others, May Help Fund Venture — The two biggest U.S. cable providers, Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc., are discussing a plan to provide funding for a new wireless company that would be operated by Sprint Nextel Corp …
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Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
Motorola to split in two — Under pressure investors, Motorola has decided to split into two publicly traded companies, one handling handsets and accessories and the other taking on wireless broadband networks and enterprise level communications services. — “Our decision to separate …
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Motorola:
Motorola Commences Process to Create Two Independent, Industry-Leading Companies — Separate Publicly-Traded Mobile Devices Business and Broadband & Mobility Solutions Business Anticipated — Company to Host Conference Call Today at 8:30 am ET — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) …
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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Screenshot - AdWords Text Ads with Video on Google Homepage — Google is now playing video commercials on their homepage. — This inline video ad from AT&T appeared on the Google search page for the keyword “phone” - the video clip remains hidden until you click the “Watch Commercial” link.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Tests Video Ads Alongside Search Results — In February, we found out that Google intends to test video ads next to search results and now we can finally see some examples. Digital Inspiration spotted an AT&T ad targeted to the query [phone], but there's also an Intel ad when you search for [laptop].
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Craigslist Is Our Mirror, Nothing Better (Or Worse) — I flipped on the news today (yes, my actual television, not sure why) and the big story was Craigslist gone wrong. Someone placed an ad on Craigslist saying that anything at a home in Jacksonville, Oregon was up for grabs.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek to roll out second-generation Eee PC with touchscreen panels and possibly GPS support in May or June — Asustek's 8.9-inch second-generation Eee PC lineup will include touchscreen panels and possible GPS support, with shipments expected to begin in May or June, according to Kevin Lin …
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cabel.name:
Japan: URL's Are Totally Out — If you hadn't heard via Twitter (and why would you?), I just returned from over two weeks of quality time in Japan. A lot of business and business planning, but also a whole lot of fun. The truly watershed event: this time, I had Steve along.
NTT DoCoMo Global Site:
NTT DoCoMo Achieves 250Mbps Downlink in Super 3G Field Experiment — Key Step toward Realization of New High-Speed Mobile Network — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has recorded a downlink transmission rate of 250Mbps over a high-speed wireless network in an outdoor test …
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Martyn Williams / Computerworld:Next-gen wireless broadband system hits 250Mbit/sec.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Communicate Acquires Y Combinator Startup Auctomatic, Unveils New Business Strategy — Communicate.com, a public company in Vancouver, Canada, is announcing the acquisition of Y Combinator startup Auctomatic this morning for $5 million in cash and stock. The company is also changing its name to Live Current Media, Inc.
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:Canadian media company buys Auctomatic for $5 million
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft ‘Albany’: A ‘ValueBox’ to compete with Google Docs — After a number of Microsoft beta testers received last week cryptic invitations to test a new product codenamed “Albany,” the guessing games began as to exactly what Albany was. — While invited testers still have not received …
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Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
The MacBook Air has no clothes — There. I said it. — After using the MacBook Air intensely since it arrived in February, I am beginning to fell the limitations of its pokey 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. I knew what I was getting into going in, but I was convinced that I could make it work.
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Associated Press:
Google execs: $1 in pay, $13B in stock — Giant stakes enrich Brin and Page, but value of their shares decline by billions as company stock falls. — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page each took home their customary $1 annual salary again in 2007 …
Martyn Williams / Computerworld:
Super Talent to ship 256GB SSD in April — Super Talent is already shipping samples of the drive — IDG News Service) Super Talent Technology Corp., a San Jose-based developer of memory devices, will soon begin commercial sales of a solid-state disk (SSD) drive for laptops that can store 256GB of data.
Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
Al Gore bars press from RSA talk next month — Remember, folks, it's Al Gore's Internet. We're just using it. — Gore is scheduled to give a keynote speech on April 11 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. RSA says as many as 17,000 people showed up at last year's conference …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
OpenSocial is now neutral: What's the business hook here? — OpenSocial is no longer just a Google standard. Microsoft catches social networking religion. And most folks are wondering where Facebook will land in this mess. The larger question: Is there a business hook here somewhere?
