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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Icahn to Yahoo: Nix the poison pill, now — Editor's note: Updated on June 4, Wednesday, at 3:06 p.m. PDT with comments from Carl Icahn during an interview on CNBC. — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who is waging a proxy fight with Yahoo, sent a letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock on Wednesday.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn's Latest Letter to Yahoo (The Crazy Eddie Edition) — Break out the sedatives, because Carl Icahn is getting mighty tetchy with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and the board of directors of the troubled Internet company! — In yet another letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock …
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.
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Preston Gralla / PC World:
How to Get and Keep Windows XP After June 30 — Microsoft may be sunsetting XP, but you'll still be able to buy it on some new systems—and support isn't going away for several years. — Windows XP is dead ... long live Windows XP. You may have heard that as of June 30 …
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Mozilla:
Firefox 3 (Release Candidate 2) Release Notes — This second Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla's next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only. — Preview releases are published to collect feedback from Web developers …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Is the Best Browser For Web — For Now — If you buy a new Windows Vista PC, it comes with a decent built-in Web browser, Internet Explorer 7. If you buy a new Macintosh computer, it comes with a decent built-in Web browser, Safari 3.0. So why would you want or need a different Web browser?
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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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Cade Metz / The Register:
Boffins prove the existence of jet-setters — You can believe them. They secretly tracked 100,000 cell phone users — According to researchers at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, most people rarely venture more than a few miles from home. And these researchers know what they're talking about.
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside US
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About The Web — Why is Google making more money everyday while newspapers are making less? I'm going to pick on The Washington Post again only because it's my local paper and this is a local example. — There were severe storms in the Washington area today …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Yelp plans splashy debut in location-aware mobile market — Business reviews site Yelp will be focusing quite a bit on mobile features in the near future, including an upcoming location-aware iPhone app on the way, company representatives told CNET News.com Wednesday.
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McAfee:
McAfee, Inc. Names Most Dangerous Domains to Surf and Search on the Web — New McAfee Research Names Hong Kong as Most Dangerous Country Domain; Finland is Safest — Hong Kong (.hk) domain has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web according to a new McAfee Inc. …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Introducing A New TechCrunch Video Project: Elevator Pitches — We get a ton of pitches at TechCrunch every single day. It is a deluge we can hardly keep up with. Some are amusing, some are horrible, and a select few rise to the level of deserving a post. The large majority, though, never see the light of day.
Iain Thomson / vnunet:
Acer bets big on Linux — Vendor shifts towards open source ‘because of Microsoft’ … Acer has stated that it will be pushing Linux aggressively on its laptops and netbooks. — The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year …
Mitch Wagner / InformationWeek:
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: Improved Uptime Is Top Priority — Twitter is working on adding the ability for users to separate their contacts into groups, support for sending and receiving messages by e-mail, and adding new instant-message and Internet channels for the service …
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The Last Podcast
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Slide Opens Sales Office in New York, Seeks to Justify Huge Valuation — Slide is a peculiar Web 2.0 company. Perhaps the most interesting thing about it is founder Max Levchin, who co-founded PayPal and has been profiled as a workaholic by the New York Times.
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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 …
