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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter — MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary.
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Silicon Alley Insider, mathewingram.com/work, The Social Times, VentureBeat, The Social Web, ReadWriteWeb, The Social, All about Microsoft, DataPortability, eWeek, The Register, GigaOM, The Globe and Mail, The Real McCrea, Trends in the Living Networks, InformationWeek, Brier Dudley's blog, cheezhead, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, AppScout, dailywireless.org, GMSV, FaceReviews, Ben Metcalfe Blog, Electronista, Brij's One More Idea, Valleywag and WebProNews
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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Move Suggests Not Reversing Yahoo Decision — Microsoft Corp. released potential proxy board members from their agreements to serve in the event it made a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc., following the software giant's decision last weekend to end its effort to buy the Internet company.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Tells Its Alternate Yahoo Board Members It Won't Be Needing Them — Microsoft is taking one of its options off the table in its on-again, off-again pursuit of Yahoo. It has told members of the alternate board of directors it had lined up for a possible hostile proxy battle over Yahoo that it won't be needing their services.
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Associated Press:
Mamma Mia! Papa John's raking in the dough online — LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas' pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers. — That's because orders are rolling in through the Internet.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
RIAA: DRM not dead and likely will make comeback — To Garnett's right is the MPAA's Fritz Attaway — LOS ANGELES—News of DRM's death has been greatly exaggerated, according to an executive with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). — At a time when the top recording …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo tests revamped search with ‘Glue Pages’ — Update 11:45 p.m.: I updated with new detail from Yahoo, further information from the site, and some analysis. — Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a major new way to present search results that caters to its strength as an Internet portal.
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Search Engine Land, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Traffick and Search Engine Roundtable
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Ends Hello — Google is shutting down Hello, Picasa's photo sharing service which was part of the Picasa acquisition back in 2004. On the program, Wikipedia writes: — Hello by Google's Picasa is [was] a free computer program that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs.
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Google denies staff ‘brain drain’ — Technology reporter, in Silicon Valley — Google has denied there is a brain drain of talent at the firm following the departure of its communications boss to social network Facebook. — Elliot Schrage's departure as head of global communications …
Tony Smith / The Register:
MSI releases £235 desktop Eee PC rival ahead of Asus — Fed up of waiting for Asus' desktop Eee PC? Rival Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has stepped in with a mini machine of its own, which it's punting at just £235. — The PC's called the Titan - something of a misnomer given the unit's small size.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 leaked — While not quite as exciting as March's week of Latitude scoops, we've got ourselves some infos on what look to be Dell's upcoming Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 consumer laptops. Seems they'll all be sharing the same basic design language …
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Boing Boing Gadgets, Crave, TechRadar.com, Gadget Lab, The Tech Report, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo
Tim Johnson / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Web Security for Enterprise now protects roaming users — Google Web Security for Enterprise protects organizations of all sizes against web malware attacks in real time and enables the safe, productive use of the web, without incurring hardware, upfront capital, or IT management costs.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The noise reduction system — David Risley this morning wrote about all the noise in all these systems like Twitter and FriendFeed. Of course that kicked off a whole discussion over on FriendFeed. — Oh, the glorious noise! Everyone loves beating me up for causing the noise. No, I am not the cause.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Shawn Fanning Finally Gets A Real Payday: Electronic Arts Buys Rupture For $30 Million — Shawn Fanning, best known for founding Napster, has a new job. He will be working at Electronic Arts, which is about to buy his social-network-gaming startup Rupture for $30 million, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.
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Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
LIVEBLOGGING: Schmidt, Page, and Brin Speak Before Google's Annual Meeting — I'm sort of liveblogging a talk that Google honchos Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page is having with reporters before the company's annual meeting. I'll post their comments in chunks as it goes along... and clean it up later.
Peter Cohen / LinuxWorld.com:
OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta shrugs off X11 — The OpenOffice.org Community has announced the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, a new version of the free office productivity software suite for various platforms including Mac OS X. — Developed as an alternative to pricey packages …
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PC World, One More Thing, Lifehacker, Compiler, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and The Tech Report
Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
Why the Xbox 360 will win the console war — Lately, there has been a considerable amount of discussion on which console will win this generation's war. Will it be the Wii with its established base and strong sales? Will it be the Xbox 360 with its steady growth?
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Irwin Block / canada.com:
Apple offers $45 credit for Canadian owners of older iPods — Following two class-action lawsuits, Apple Canada Inc. is offering $45 credits to Canadian residents who own a new first-, second- or third-generation iPod purchased before June 24, 2004. — The proposed settlement …
Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Virgin Mobile USA In Merger Talks With Helio; Other Options Still Being Considered — Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), the MVNO which just reported its Q1 earnings earlier this week, is in talks with the much smaller and troubled MVNO Helio, we have learned, even as other PE and strategic players are still circling both the companies.
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Silicon Alley Insider, CrunchGear, IntoMobile, Engadget, Electronista, Phone Scoop and Gizmodo
