Top Items:
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus — Microsoft, the software giant flush with billions of dollars in its warchest, has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset, we've learned. — The purchase price is rumored to be slightly more than $100 million.
Discussion:
ReadWriteWeb, The Inquisitr, UMBC ebiquity, Valleywag, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, Lockergnome, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Search Engine Journal, mathewingram.com/work, ContentBlogger, Silicon Alley Insider, BroadDev, Furrier.org, paidContent.org, Alt Search Engines, WebProNews, Beyond Binary, Mashable!, Pulse 2.0 and HipMojo.com
RELATED:
Carlacthompson / The Guidewire:
Top-of-mind thoughts on Microsoft and Powerset — There's a reason I love emerging technology so much: over the course of one hour, the entire landscape can be turned on its head. The rumor out of VentureBeat this afternoon, that Microsoft will acquire Powerset for $100 million next month …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Offer iTunes Remote Control App for iPhone and iPod Touch — Apple released a pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 for developers tonight. In the Read Me of the iTunes installer is a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application:
Discussion:
9 to 5 Mac, Gadget Lab, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint.co.uk, Boy Genius Report, I4U News, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Apple Gazette and Ubergizmo
BBC:
Internet overhaul wins approval — A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris. — The net's regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.
RELATED:
Marcelo Almeida / Zone-H syndication:
ICANN AND IANA DOMAINS HIJACKED BY TURKISH CRACKERS — The ICANN and IANA websites were defaced earlier today by a Turkish group called “NetDevilz”. ICANN is responsible for the global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers. These include domain names …
Jason Keenan / ICANN:Biggest Expansion to Internet in Forty Years Approved for Implementation
Discussion:
Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Tech Blog, InformationWeek, eWeek, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and GMSV
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
More on Yahoo's Reorg: Dietzen Is Garlinghouse Replacement — As BoomTown reported last night, the Yahoo (YHOO) reorg will be unveiled later this morning, with the slate of execs that this column outlined last week in its gory-oops, I mean, glorious-detail.
RELATED:
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Realignment to Support Core Strategies — Centralizes Audience Product Development; Forms New U.S. Region; — Realigns Technology Organization — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company …
Pete / Blogger in Draft:
Updates and Bug Fixes for June 26th — Today's Blogger release is a big one for Blogger in Draft. Let's lead off with the quick stuff: — Google Gadget integration continues to improve, with better editing of gadget preferences. — The new look for the Dashboard has seen a handful of tweaks …
RELATED:
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Ten Reasons Why Vista Isn't That Bad — Of all the ware Microsoft churns out from its sweatshop of “lightning bolt, lightning bolt” nerds, Windows is the one most inexorably tied to the public image of the company. As Bill Gates leaves the building, we look back on the last baby birthed …
WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
MICROSOFT.COM POWERED BY HYPER-V — Hi—I am Rob Emanuel, a Technology Architect on the Microsoft.com Operations team focusing on virtualization. I wanted to share the great progress we have made rolling out Hyper-V since my first blog a month ago. In that blog I discussed our success …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Tries Tighter Aim for Web Ads — Google, with its deep reservoir of data about online behavior gathered by tracking hundreds of millions of computers, is for the first time testing ways to use some of that data to aim ads at Web users. — Ads that a person sees on one Google search …
RELATED:
Saul Hansell / Bits:Google Tests Using Your Search Data to Tailor Ads to You
Discussion:
Search Engine Land
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Tests the New iGoogle — Announced in April, the new version of iGoogle that brings social applications is tested in a small number of randomly selected Google accounts. — The new iGoogle places the tabs on the left-hand side of the page and you can expand the tabs to see the list …
Naomi Gleit / Blog do Facebook:
He/She/They: Grammar and Facebook. — As Facebook grows in other languages, we are learning a lot about what the “Facebook Experience” is like for people around the world. One of the first challenges was getting words that are really long in other languages to fit on the screen properly.
Daniel Langendorf / last100:
Sony's latest plans: more networked devices, video download service for PS3, maybe a phone — Years ago, when product developers were thinking up what's next, an obvious choice was electronic devices connected to each other, first through cables, then wirelessly as technology improved …
RELATED:
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Internal AT&T Memo Indicates Groundbreaking iPhone 3G Feature: MMS — Check this out. New reports are coming in that a very interesting memo is currently circulating internally at AT&T. Said memo reportedly lists a variety of features that will supposedly be included on the upcoming iPhone 3G.
Discussion:
VentureBeat, Newlaunches.com, Unwired View, CrunchGear, The iPhone Blog, iSmashPhone and Gizmodo
Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Online Video Ads Finally Find Their Niche — The numbers tell the story of the disconnect between online videos watched and online video ads sold: In December 2007, Americans watched 10 billion online videos, according to comScore. For the entire year of 2007, advertisers spent just $554 million …
