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Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
Yahoo! Address Book API Delivered — We're excited to announce the public release of the Address Book API. I say public release because while the API is newly launched here on YDN, it's been up and running with some of the most contact-aware applications on the Internet, including Plaxo and LinkedIn.
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Download Squad, InfoWorld, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Plaxo's Personal Card, The Real McCrea, The Social Times and Computerworld
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John Morris / The Core Truth:
AMD announces Puma laptop platform, Mobile Radeon 3800 GPU — Located in the PC component capital of the world, Computex has become the tradeshow for chipsets, so it's no surprise AMD chose to announce its new mobile platform here in Taiwan today. (You can watch the press conference here.)
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David Faber / CNBC:
Verizon in Talks to Buy Alltel for $27 Billion — Verizon is deep in talks to acquire Alltel, the nation's fifth largest wireless carrier, for roughly $27 billion, people close to the talks have told CNBC. — Alltel was only recently taken private by TPG and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners in a $27.5 billion deal.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Verizon Reportedly In Talks To Buy Alltel For $27 Billion — There are reports this afternoon that Verizon (VZ) is in talks to buy Alltel for $27 billion. — Alltel, which until late last year was publicly traded, was acquired in November in a $27.5 billion buyout led by TPG and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners.
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Why Yahoo's Yang Is Holding Out — Though beset by restive shareholders and pressure from Carl Icahn, Yang has his reasons to push for a better deal from Microsoft — For more than a month, Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang has endured a withering attack by shareholders …
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Silicon Alley Insider, CNET News.com, STARTUP CHATTER, Forbes, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Techland and WebProNews
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
YouTube Annotations — YouTube added a new feature for video creators: annotations. “Video Annotations are a new way for you to add interactive commentary to your videos. Use them to add background information about the video, create stories with multiple possibilities …
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Michael Mewhinney / Google:
NASA and Google Announce Lease at Ames Research Center — Mountain View, Calif. (June 4, 2008) - NASA and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) today announced plans to develop a new high-technology campus at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. — Under the terms of the 40-year agreement …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:NASA and Google Announce New Research & Duopoly Center
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The Register, CNET News.com, Between the Lines, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Valleywag
Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
A Tour of Risky Web Sites — Just over 4% of all Web sites are dangerous, according to a new report. But all bad sites aren't created equal: Cyber bad guys are more likely to build their sites where it's easy to do so. — The report out today from McAfee, a tech-security company that's trying …
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Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:New report identifies most dangerous Web domains
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Experience Blog:
Windows Search 4.0 Released to Web — Not necessarily a “Windows Experience” (although it does improve the Windows Experience) - I'm making this post on behalf of the Windows Search Team. Oh and I am really excited for this release. — Today we released the final version of Windows Search 4.0 to Microsoft Download Center.
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One Microsoft Way, ChannelWeb Complete Feed, jkOnTheRun, GottaBeMobile and SEO and Tech Daily
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Softbank iPhone Deal Announced With 1-Button Press Release — With less than a week to go before Apple CEO Steve Jobs's June 9 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address and the expected debut of the 3G iPhone-and perhaps the Apple App Store and Mac OS X 10.6 as well-the company …
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RyanSpoon.com, PC World, Reuters, Crave, BBC NEWS, Infinite Loop, Computerworld and Silicon Alley Insider
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Report: Motorola close to hiring handset chief — Motorola is getting close to hiring someone to head up its soon-to-be-spun-off handset division, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. — Hewlett-Packard executive Todd Bradley has emerged as one of two final candidates …
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PR Newswire:
AT&T Reports 3G Wireless Download Speeds of Up to 1.7 Mbps for LaptopConnect Customers - a 20+ Percent Increase — Higher 3G Network Speeds Benefit Growing Number of Workers and Consumers — Who Want On-the-Go Internet Connectivity — How do you make a blazing-fast 3G (third-generation) mobile broadband network even better?
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Yahoo boasts new ad deals, joins CBS' online video network — Impeccably timed to suit president Sue Decker's keynote at the Advertising 2.0 conference in New York, Yahoo announced Wednesday that it has inked advertising deals with two major clients: discount retail giant Wal-Mart and interactive ad agency Havas Digital.
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paidContent.org, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Media Wire, Ars Technica, CNET News.com, GMSV, Beet.TV and WebProNews
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Mac OS X 10.6 code named Snow Leopard, may be pure Cocoa — The next version of Mac OS X is code-named “Snow Leopard,” and will indeed be Intel-only, we have learned. This info is hot on the heels of TUAW's original scoop about Mac OS X 10.6 being readied for shipment as soon as Macworld 2009 and being Intel-only.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Crowd Science: Google Analytics For Demographics — Crowd Science, a new demographics service that aims to help online publishers maximize their audience and ad revenue, has launched today in an invite-only beta. The site compares itself to Google Analytics, but explains that it focused on …
Live Search:
Helping you Search AND Give — One of the most exciting developments we've had in the last year was the success of our inaugural Search and Give program where your queries helped to raise more than $250,000 for local schools and non-profits. Over the course of the year the program generated cash donations …
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ReadWriteWeb, One Microsoft Way, Download Squad, Search Engine Land, LiveSide, Kelsey Group Blogs, Natural Search Blog and AppScout
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Verismo Box Plugs Web into Your TV — Verismo Networks on Tuesday previewed “the PoD,” a tiny box that brings web content to your TV monitor without needing a PC in between, at the Under the Radar conference in Mountain View, Calif. I'd never heard of the company before sitting down for the session …
Vanity Fair:
How the Web Was Won — Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign.
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mathewingram.com/work, Techdirt, BoomTown, TechCrunch, Paul Kedrosky's …, Know It All, Silicon Alley Insider, UMBC ebiquity, Valleywag and Boing Boing
