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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo to Test Google Ads As It Mulls Broader Deal — Yahoo Inc. said it will carry search advertising from Google Inc. as part of a test effort that could lead to a broader partnership and boost Yahoo's leverage in its ongoing takeover standoff with Microsoft Corp.
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Yahoo! to Conduct Limited U.S. Test of Google's AdSense for Search Service — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it will begin a limited test of Google Inc.'s AdSense for Search service, which will deliver relevant Google ads alongside Yahoo!'s own search results.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Confirmed: Yahoo To Test Google AdSense For Search Ads — Yahoo has confirmed a Wall Street Journal report that it will be testing Google's paid search ads alongside its own for the next two weeks and involving no more than 3 percent of Yahoo's search pages in the United States. From the Yahoo statement
Preston Gralla / Computerworld Blogs:
Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X — IT TOPICS:Desktop Applications, Enterprise Software & Services, Macintosh & Apple, Operating Systems, Software, Windows & Microsoft — The conventional wisdom, that Mac's OS X is superior to Windows Vista, is flat-out wrong.
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duncanriley.com, Hardware 2.0, Mark Evans, Chris Pirillo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, CrunchGear, MacUser and Geek News Central
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:Mac security not so much about the Mac — SAN FRANCISCO …
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Adobe:
Adobe Media Player Now Available — For immediate release — New Adobe AIR Application Redefines Next-Generation TV Experiences for Viewers and Broadcasters — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software.
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Nate Westheimer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's App Engine: Aiming At Facebook, Not Amazon — There's no shortage of stories about Google's newly launched App Engine, but almost all of them get it wrong — because they compare the new service to Amazon's EC2 and S3 services (AMZN). — If the Silicon Valley echo chamber wants …
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Computerworld, Skrentablog, The Real McCrea, Virtualization.com, All Facebook, Internet Marketing … and Alec Saunders .LOG
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
New RIAA Argument: Throwing A Promo CD In The Garbage = Unauthorized Distribution — from the next-up:-picking-your-nose=distribution dept — Last summer, the EFF sued Universal Music Group, after UMG had eBay takedown the sales of certain CDs. The CDs were promotional CDs …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
Last.fm's Free Music ‘Boosts Sales’; Unlimited Services ‘To Kick In By 2012’ — Last.fm claims its 12-week-old free, full-track music streams have resulted in 119 percent more CD and download sales through its Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) click-through partnership.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Amazon Handing Out $50 to HD DVD Victims — Following up Best Buy's $50 pledge to HD DVD victims, Amazon is also doling out a $50 credit to anyone who bought Toshiba's folly before Feb. 23, 2008. Naturally, they're encouraging you to use it on a shiny new Blu-ray player …
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Bret Taylor / Bret Taylor's blog:
We need a Wikipedia for data — I just started blogging. I am not sure what I want to write about, but I think one theme will be “things I want but want someone else to build.” This article describes one of those things. — At Google, I worked on a number of projects that required data from third party data sources.
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Latest iPhone 2.0 beta reveals 3G chipset — Hidden away in the latest test firmware for iPhone developers is the mention of the chipset that will power third-generation cellular Internet access in Apple's next generation of the device. — Discovered by the creators of the popular ZiPhone jailbreak …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day — Anyone who's been reading this blog for more than a few months knows I'm bullish on mobile social networking. — The space is wide open at this point - no one has created an application that has gotten enough traction to go mainstream.
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Symbian Smart Phones World:
Exclusive: Latest update on the hotly anticipated Nokia Tube - The Rumours are over - Hands on the Nokia “Tube” — + Exclusive: latest update on the hotly anticipated Nokia Tube — Hands on the Nokia “Tube” — The Rumours are over! — Now whether the phone was inadvertently …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Gartner: Windows collapsing under its own weight; Radical change needed — Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute. Meanwhile, Windows has outgrown hardware and customers are pondering skipping Vista to wait for Windows 7.
BBC:
BBC announces Nintendo Wii deal — The BBC's iPlayer video service will soon be available via the Nintendo Wii. — The video download and streaming service that lets people catch up with BBC programmes will soon be a channel on the hugely popular game console.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Former Yahoo Exec to OpenX; OpenX to L.A. — Former Yahoo Senior Vice President Tim Cadogan will take the CEO job at OpenX, the popular open-source ad server start-up, backed by Index Ventures, Accel Partners and others. — As part of the change, the company will move from its London HQ to Los Angeles.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Turns Out P2P Lending Might Run Afoul Of Securities Law As Well — First off, a quick disclaimer. Lending Club has offices in the same building as Techdirt, and we're actually right across the hall from them. I'm also pretty good friends with some folks who work there …
Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Legg Mason Wades Into the Yahoo Fray — Manager Says Shareholder Would Back Independence If Microsoft Lowers Its Bid — A major Yahoo Inc. shareholder said Microsoft Corp. “blundered” last weekend by threatening a hostile Yahoo takeover at a lower price.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Study Gives High Marks to U.S. Internet — South Koreans played video games in Seoul last month. South Korea rose 10 places to ninth in the ranking of network services for the World Economic Forum. The United States was fourth. — SAN FRANCISCO — Contradicting earlier studies …
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