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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Memo to Yahoo: Incoming-Duck and Cover! — And, as BoomTown wrote yesterday, so the war of attrition for Yahoo begins. — Not with a bang, but a whimper. And so much whine, I am considering serving up a nice plate of cheese to all players. — But while the first moves by Microsoft …
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New York Post:
BALLMER BLUSTER — M'SOFT CEO SAYS HE COULD WALK AWAY FROM A DEAL — Undaunted by Yahoo!'s solid earnings report, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer continued his overseas blustering tour yesterday by telling an Italian audience that his company is perfectly content to walk away from a deal.
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
Justice Dept looking at Google/Yahoo test — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible antitrust implications of Google's two-week test with Yahoo to combine some of their Web search and advertising business, a source informed about the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Turmoil Not Finished: Engineering VP Lee Mighdoll Out — Blaine Cook isn't the only high-profile engineer to leave Twitter in recent weeks. Lee Mighdoll, brought on in early January as the startup's VP of engineering and operations, is also out. — “After three months …
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Colin Barr / Technology news:
Motorola phone sales tumble 39% — Messy quarter at Motorola — Motorola (MOT) continues to struggle. The Schaumburg, Ill., handset maker posted a first-quarter continuing operations loss of $194 million, or 9 cents a share, compared with a year-ago loss of $218 million, or 9 cents a share.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Motorola Q1 Dismal, Loss Widens, No Update On Spinoff (MOT)
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Aoife White / Associated Press:
Microsoft not ruling out Windows XP extension — LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, Belgium - Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer offered a glimmer of hope on Thursday to fans of the company's Windows XP operating system, saying the company may reconsider its decision to stop selling it soon.
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David Lawsky / Reuters:Microsoft could keep XP if customers want it: CEO
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
CNET and Yahoo Broadly Expand Editorial and Ad Relationship — When it reports its first quarter earnings this afternoon, CNET Networks will also announce a much expanded editorial and advertising relationship with Yahoo that will give the tech news site broad distribution on the highly trafficked Internet portal.
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Web Two-Point Yawn . . . Conference Fizzle? — The Web 2.0 conference seems to be a dud. But don't ask me too much about it because I've been out of town for a few days recently. I've been at my favorite conference bar none: The New Comm Forum up in Sonoma county.
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
MySpace Apps Are Go For All Users — MySpace officially opened its Application Gallery to all users this morning after launching it in public beta last March. In that time over 1,000 applications have been approved and added to the gallery and there have been over 2.1 million application installs across the site.
Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog:
Searching on a map just got a whole lot easier on Yahoo! Local — We have seen countless users struggle to find what they're looking for in a specific area or neighborhood using current local search and online maps products (ahem...ours included). The results may be spread over too wide an area or not in a specific enough area.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Search Engine Land, Screenwerk, Mashable!, Yahoo! Search Blog and Kelsey Group Blogs
Alexandra Kenin / Official Google Mobile Blog:
New mobile image ads — The mobile ads team is happy to announce the launch of mobile image ads. These look like standard image ads for desktop web pages but they are smaller to fit on mobile screens and they run on the mobile content network. Take a look at the mobile image ads example page to see samples.
Leslie Cauley / USA Today:
Motorola plots its comeback as cellphone icon — SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Talking with Greg Brown, Motorola's new CEO, is a bit like stepping into The Twilight Zone: Both require you to suspend disbelief, at least temporarily, and simply go with the story line. — Brown says the company's board …
Macworld:
Apple: 200,000 iPhone developers so far — Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed that the company has signed up 200,000 developers for its iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK) release thus far. Oppenheimer also said that Apple is signing up more developers each week.
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PhotographyBLOG:
LG Secret / KF750 — The LG Secret is a new 5 megapixel camera-phone that can also shoot DivX video at 120fps. At just 11.8mm thick, the LG Secret is the slimmest 5 megapixel camera phone on the market. Photo and video editing features include facial editing and SmartLight …
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Gizmodo, Engadget, TechRadar.com, IntoMobile, Computerworld Blogs, Unwired View, Electronista and Gadget Lab
Tori Richards / Reuters:
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him — SANTA ANA, California (Reuters) - A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp (NWSa.N) unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
The Heron has landed: Ubuntu 8.04 officially released — Version 8.04 of the Ubuntu Linux distribution was officially released today. Ubuntu is released every six months with many new features and the latest versions of popular desktop software applications.
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Open Source
Frank Reynolds / FindLaw Legal News:
New Backdating Suit Takes Another Bite at Apple, CEO Jobs — Yet another Apple Inc. shareholder has filed a lawsuit in California seeking to prove that the company's directors wasted more than $105 million on the extra value of backdated stock options granted to CEO Steve Jobs.
