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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Ex-Googlers working on stealth social search — Nathan Stoll, former product lead of Google News, has been quietly working on a new social search service he started with the help of two other Google refugees, CNET News.com has learned. The site, called Mechanical Zoo, is poised to launch in beta next month.
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Tom Pfeiffer / Reuters:
Yahoo results won't affect Microsoft offer: Ballmer — SKHIRAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will hold firm on its $43.2 billion offer for Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research), regardless of whether Yahoo's quarterly results impress or disappoint investors …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft (MSFT) Launches Yahoo Earnings Damage Control — Speaking in Morocco (Morocco?), Steve Ballmer launches phase 2 of Microsoft's damage control and expectations-management around Yahoo's earnings (YHOO). Specifically, he suggests Yahoo's Q1 results, no matter how good, won't change Yahoo's value to Microsoft.
New York Post:
MICROSOFT AND MARKETS AWAIT YAHOO! EARNINGS — It's D-day for Jerry Yang and his beloved Yahoo!. — Not since the first quarter after the marriage of AOL and Time Warner has a quarterly earnings report had so much riding on it as Yahoo!'s does today. — With less then a week …
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Nokia:
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT joins Nokia Comes With Music — Music bundle on Nokia devices to include SONY BMG content — London, United Kingdom / Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT has officially joined Nokia Comes With Music, a revolutionary …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Sony BMG joins Nokia's unlimited music service — The concept behind Nokia's new music service “Comes with Music” is starting to catch on with the major music labels. — Sony BMG, one of the four top recording companies, announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Nokia to make its music catalog available on select Nokia devices.
Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Home delayed again, Sony adds more users to closed beta — Sony has sent word that the closed beta of its online Home service for the PS3 has been expanded through the summer, pushing the open beta into the fall of this year. The company does say whether more registrants will be invited into the beta, however.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Sony Delays PlayStation Home Again; Open Beta For Community Now Planned This Fall
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Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
Photobucket shares interface, matches Flickr — Photobucket, is making a significant change aimed to weave the widely used photo-sharing site more tightly into the Web 2.0 fabric. — The company is releasing an application programming interface (API) for its site, said Chief Executive Alex Welch.
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:
Apple looks toward iPhone chat app — At its iPhone SDK event last month, Apple touted an adaption of AOL's instant-messaging client for the iPhone. Now comes news of Apple's own patent application for a chat feature. — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published the application …
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David / Signal vs. Noise:
Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco? — Techies, VCs, and the press are always swooning over the glory of the Bay area. This is where all the excitement, the money, and the people are, they say. And that's true to the extent that your great big idea fits the current cultural mold of that environment.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter May Not Have To Care About Uptime Any Longer — We used to speculate that Twitter's persistent downtime and overall poor service quality could result in a Friendster-type nose dive. But after a three day weekend outage I realized that in the last two months a subtle shift occured …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Intel Mash Maker: Mash-ups for the masses — Intel wants to make the whole Web editable, just like a single Wikipedia page. — The chip giant on Tuesday will make a beta available of Intel Mash Maker, a free browser extension that allows users to modify Web pages and combine information from different sources.
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Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Eee! A New Cellphone! — These are topsy-turvy times for electronics makers. — Since the Eee PC burst onto the world's electronics scene last fall, the $400 nearly palm-sized laptop has been a phenomenon. Its Taiwan-based manufacturer, ASUS, says it has shipped 1 million units worldwide through …
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Netflix, consumer electronics partnerships near — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. online DVD rental company Netflix Inc on Monday said it expects to soon announce three partnerships, similar to its set-top box alliance with LG Electronics Inc, that will let subscribers watch films streamed directly from the Web to TVs.
InfoWorld:
FCC: Comcast blocking was widespread — Comcast's slowing of peer-to-peer traffic appeared to be more widespread than the company has disclosed, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. — FCC chairman Kevin Martin, testifying before a Senate committee …
Gary Wolf / Wired News:
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm — The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods …
