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Breaking News: Google CIO Douglas Merrill Quits Becomes President of EMI — Update: People within EMI are saying that they are lining up mainstream media exclusives for tomorrow either NY Times or WSJ and want to kill all blog coverage. — More brain drain at Google.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google's CIO leaves search giant for job at EMI — Updated 5 p.m. PDT with more information and context. — Google Chief Information Officer Douglas Merrill is leaving Google to become president of EMI's digital unit, according to sources. — A Google spokesman confirmed that Merrill …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Another Google Exec Bails: VP Leaves To Head EMI Group — Add another one to the list of Google employee departures: Google VP Engineering Douglas Merrill has resigned, a source says (and confirmed here), and will be joining UK and NY-based big music label EMI Group as President.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Sprint's Samsung Instinct: At Last, a Decent iPhone Competitor — Samsung's Instinct may be the best stab at the coveted title of iPhone killah this CTIA. The 3.1-inch touchscreen phone has localized haptic feedback, plus three hard navigation keys. If it sounds familiar …
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Associated Press:
Police: Couple covered up theft with Craigslist post — MEDFORD, Ore. — It wasn't a hoax or revenge that cost a Southern Oregon man many of his belongings when people responded to a Craigslist posting and nearly emptied his rural home, officers say: It was a pair of thieves covering their tracks.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google/Skype Acquisition or Partnership Imminent? — Something big is brewing between Google and Ebay's Skype, we've heard from multiple sources. Actually, for weeks now there have been low level rumors of the two companies talking, but nailing down any details was difficult.
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Why Apple Will Go Atomic — What will Steve Jobs do next? — Intel's plans may offer the best Rosetta stone for decoding the secretive Apple chief executive's intentions. The latest clue came Monday in Shanghai at the Intel Developer Forum, where the chip maker detailed its new lineup of low-cost …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple Stores Out of iPhones, Piper Says; 3G Soon? — Will Apple (AAPL) surprise everyone with an earlier-than-expected debut of the next generation iPhone? — Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster raised that possibility today. He writes in a research note that calls today to 20 Apple retail …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Microsoft's Office Open XML now an official ISO standard — Microsoft's embattled Office Open XML (OOXML) document format received ISO fast-track approval today after receiving support from approximately 86 percent of the national bodies that participated in the vote.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
The anatomy of an iPhone user (and why they want new form factors) — The average Apple iPhone user is an avid email reader (not writer) under age 30, browses the Web heavily and may carry a second phone. Meanwhile, a lot of these folks would like a few physical tweaks to the iPhone.
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Inside AdSense:
Introducing AdSense for conversations — We're happy to announce the launch of AdSense for conversations, a new type of monetization solution that “puts the ‘context’ in contextual advertising”. Now, in just a few simple steps, you can begin displaying ads that are relevant …
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Mike Musgrove / Post I.T.:
Congress Goes Virtual in Online World Hearing — A Linden Labs worker put on her nicest black suit and her most formal pair of wings this morning, to help run a Congressional subcomittee hearing about online virtual worlds that was broadcast simultaneously in the company's own virtual world, Second Life.
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Ryan Kim / The Technology Chronicles:
FCC Chairman says no to Skype, forced open access — FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin announced today he will oppose a petition by Internet phone provider Skype to open up the existing wireless carrier networks to outside devices saying the industry is making strides in doing that on their own.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:Mobile operators avoid potential regulation
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Nokia N810 WiMAX Editon Tablet Now Offical — Nokia took the shroud off its WiMAX-capable N810 Tablet today, which promises 4g mobile broadband speeds for the hand-held internet tablet. The updated N810 will use Sprint's Xohm service, and adds a new mobile dimension to the device, which was previously wi-fi only.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Smartphone Advancements to Improve Ability to Work and Play With One Phone — Company demonstrates new version of Internet Explorer Mobile with desktop-grade Web browsing, introduces updated Windows Mobile operating system. — Windows Mobile is improving smartphones …
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Polling Twitter: 4 Startups that Take the Pulse of the Twittersphere — We've argued in the past that Twitter can be a platform for serious discourse and our own Marshall Kirkpatrick famously stated last year that Twitter is even paying his rent (by which he meant that Twitter had become an invaluable tool in his blogging).
Darren Waters / BBC:
BT advert trials were ‘illegal’ — Trials of an online ad system carried out by BT involving more than 30,000 of its customers were potentially illegal, says a leading digital rights lawyer. — BT has said it trialled a prototype of Phorm, which matches adverts to users' web habits, in 2006 and 2007.
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David Morgenstern / The Apple Core:
Has Microsoft lost its way on desktop computing? — Based on recent comments by top Redmond strategists, it appears that Microsoft has no credible vision for the future of desktop computing. Apple appears to have skirted this strategic black hole and despite the distractions …
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