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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon — Last month we were contacted by the late Geoffrey Frost's personal adviser at Motorola; until Frost's death in 2005, Numair Faraz worked under the Motorola's former CMO — the man widely regarded as the father of the RAZR.
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Jim Kerstetter / CNET News.com:Splitting Motorola: Will this make Icahn happy?
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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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24/7 Wall St.:
The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs — There is no way to accurately put a value on blogs and blogging companies. All are privately-held and, as is true with many content businesses, the value of the company is based on what a buyer will pay. The figures we have put together look …
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Beet.TV, HipMojo.com, Silicon Alley Insider, David Galbraith, Pro Blogging News, Mark Evans and MediaFile
PC World:
Turn a Smart Phone into a Wi-Fi Hot Spot — Got a 3G smartphone with Wi-Fi? Then you might be soon be able to use it as a Wi-Fi hotspot for connecting your notebook or any other Wi-Fi enabled device to the Internet. — North Carolina-based TapRoot Systems today announced …
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Wi-Fi Networking News, IDG News Service, InformationWeek Weblog, TECH.BLORGE.com, Gizmodo, jkOnTheRun, PalmAddicts, CrunchGear and Phone Scoop
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The Boy Genius Report:
Windows Mobile 6.1: Part 2 — You might have remembered our detailed coverage of Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard a few months back. Our Motorola Q9 with Wi-Fi came with it, and we've just received a new Motorola Q9 with Wi-Fi, and it's got some updated Windows Mobile 6.1 goodies in it!
Verizon:
Verizon Asks FCC to Remove Cable Industry Obstacle to Consumer Choice in Bundled Services Market Consumers Must be Able to Choose New Cable Providers as Easily as Choosing New Telephone Providers — WASHINGTON - Seeking to remove a significant obstacle to consumer choice and competition …
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GigaOM, DSLreports, NewTeeVee, eWeek, Digital Trends, Silicon Alley Insider and Engadget HD
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:Verizon asks FCC for permission to interrupt cable's broadcast
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PR Newswire:
Oracle Reports Q3 GAAP EPS Up 30% to 26 Cents, Non-GAAP EPS Up 23% to 30 cents — Database and Middleware New License Revenues Up 20%, Total GAAP Revenues Up 21% — Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) today announced fiscal 2008 Q3 GAAP earnings per share were up 30% to $0.26, compared to the same quarter last year.
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Michal Lev-Ram / Techland:
Oracle profit up but shares tumble on sals miss — Oracle profit up but shares tumble on sales miss — Business software giant Oracle reported quarterly earnings Wednesday that met Wall Street's expectations, but company shares slipped almost 9% in after-hours trading on news …
Miguel Helft / Bits:
Bringing Outlook and Gmail Closer Together — For months, Google has sought to make inroads against Microsoft's dominance in office applications. Now, it's getting a little help from others. — Cemaphore Systems, a company that specializes in e-mail backup services …
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iPod Observer:
iPO Reports - Gartner: Second Round of 10M 3G iPhones Possible — Apple may have ordered a second round of 10 million iPhones based on the 3G network, according to Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney. Mr. Dulaney, who follows the iPhone for the research firm, based that on rumors he's become aware of in Asia.
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Byte of the Apple, last100, Epicenter, MacRumors, mocoNews.net, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, The Boy Genius Report and 9 to 5 Mac
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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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Crave, Gizmodo, Gearlog, CrunchGear, Digital Trends, Gadgetell, Guardian Unlimited, Gadget Lab and Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
New Google Documents Menu — The Google Docs document editor has a new menu (see video), similar to the one spotted in a Google employee's presentation before. Instead of the tabs, the menu is now more traditional, along the lines of what people know from their typical desktop applications from years ago.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google U.S. search market share up, Yahoo down — Google's market share for Web search in the U.S. rose in February to 58.7 percent, up from January and the same period a year ago, while Yahoo's, at 17.6 percent, was down compared with the same periods, according to data released Wednesday by Nielsen.
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Doug Caverly / WebProNews:Nielsen Stats Put Google Up, Yahoo Down
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows — First they mock web security. Then EULAs — In using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn't just undermine “the security of the whole Web”. He's made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.
USA Today:
Amazon takes on Apple with copy-protection-free music — The music industry is finally comfortable selling digital music without copy protection, but the huge shift hasn't resulted in dramatically higher sales. — Instead, it produced something that major music labels have long sought: a strong No. 2 competitor to Apple.
Reuters:
Online media company CNET cutting 120 jobs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online media company CNET Networks Inc said on Wednesday it will eliminate 120 jobs, or about 10 percent of its staff, in a restructuring to help it focus on long-term growth amid complaints from some investors.
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Dominates the Lifestream — By using FriendFeedStats, which creates service-level usage statistics from lifestream aggregator FriendFeed based on its public timeline, we can see which services are the most popular. Specifically, Twitter tends to dominate the conversation with about 44% of all activity on the service.
