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Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
Introducing Gmail Labs — We have a lot of ideas for Gmail — many come as suggestions from Gmail users, many come from people here at Google. But there's only so much we can do at any one time. — People often ask how we decide what to build next. It's usually a mix of factors …
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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Gmail Gets 13 Experimental New Features Tonight — Note: This was originally posted on Thursday evening, June 5th. Several users already have these features enabled in their account. — Starting at 6PM Pacific Time tonight, Google will start rolling out Gmail Labs …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Carl Icahn lays out 5-point game plan for Yahoo — After a one-day lull in the Yahoo-Icahn war of words, billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Friday listed his five-step game plan for the company, should his dissident slate of directors succeed in unseating Yahoo's current board at the August 1 shareholder meeting.
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Inc. Statement on Carl Icahn's Letter of June 6, 2008 — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jun 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today issued the following response to Carl Icahn in response to his letter dated June 6, 2008:
Carl C. Icahn / Wall Street Journal:
Icahn Letter to Yahoo Chairman — Below is the text of a letter sent by investor Carl Icahn to Yahoo Inc. Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter is dated June 6, 2008. — Dear Roy: — While you may take issue with the content of my letter, I take issue with your oversight of Yahoo! Again …
Dane Hamilton / eWeek:Icahn Says Yahoo Should Sell to Microsoft
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Decryption / MacTalk News:
What's in the Box? The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under — What's in the Box? — The 3G iPhone Lands Down Under? — Late yesterday afternoon MacTalk received the above photo from a very reliable source who can not be named for obvious reasons (fear of assassination by the Apple Secret Police I presume).
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Intel Facing Antitrust Investigation — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation of Intel, the world's largest maker of computer microprocessors, for anticompetitive conduct, government officials and lawyers involved in the proceeding said Friday.
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Intel:
Intel Statement on U.S. Federal Trade Commission — SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 6, 2008 - Intel Corporation today issued the following statement in response to the issuance of a subpoena from the United States Federal Trade Commission (U.S. FTC): — On June 4 the U.S. FTC served a subpoena related …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Microsoft packs 36 iPhone digs into one 7-paragraph letter — It's classic Microsoft. — On Thursday, two business days before Apple's (AAPL) World Wide Developers Conference, Redmond sent a shot across Cupertino's bow with a letter to Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Mobile partners — with copies to the press.
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Washington Post:
Microsoft's Ballmer on Yahoo and the Future — In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters yesterday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views of upcoming changes in technology and the media. Among other things, he confirmed …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Ballmer Tells the Washington Post That Print is Toast
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bits, Bands and Books — Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy? In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything. — Then the technology bubble popped. Many highly touted New Economy companies …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hey Firefox - Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine! — So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done. May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favoritism to Google and allow users to pick their own default search engine?
Trevor Claiborne / Inside AdWords:
Track online impact of Google TV Ads using Google Analytics — Google TV Ads can be an effective means of reaching new customers and driving incremental traffic to your website. Now, you can track the online impact of your TV campaigns through your Google Analytics account. — How it works
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Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
The growing importance of Design — It's happening slowly, but surely. Design is becoming news. — Take the example of Facebook's recently redesigned Profile pages. Huge news both for the users of the site as well as the developers Facebook is trying to court.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Damnit...FriendFeed Gets Even More Useful With An Interestingness Filter — I still haven't decided if FriendFeed, which aggregates activities from other websites like YouTube, Twitter, your blog, Flickr, etc., is the ultimate walled garden of our personal data or possibly the answer to the Centralized Me problem.
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Tim Smalley / bit-tech.net:
Western Digital working on 20,000 RPM Raptor — According to several sources close to the hard drive industry, Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor hard drive to combat the increasing pressure from SSD manufacturers. — We have spoken to a lot of people out here in Taipei …
