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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear — Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google/Yahoo search marketing deal, saying there's “nothing to fear” from the two companies linking their search products. I believe most of his analysis is wrong, and he also skips the publisher side of the market entirely.
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Nothing to Fear — GOOGLE controls about 70 percent of the search advertising market. Doesn't that give it a monopolist's ability to set prices as high as it wishes? — It does not. Google does not set the prices. Its advertisers do …
Angelo DiNardi:
MailWrangler and the Apple App Store — So in July I wrote a small iPhone app called MailWrangler. Basically this app enabled a user to add their GMail accounts (standard and Google Apps For Your Domain) which they could load and switch between them quickly.
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Vincent Laforet / Vincent Laforet's Blog:
Something Very Interesting is coming...both to this blog and to our industry — COPYRIGHT LAFORET VISUALS INC. DO NOT COPY *(See Note at the end of this article) — I had it in my hands for less than 72 hours before I had to send it back - but the time I did have with a prototype …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Should Have Sold Search To Microsoft — As Yahoo and Google get ready to finally launch their search partnership—and trigger a storm of legal and industry protest by doing so—it's worth revisiting Yahoo's decision to pursue this deal instead of one with Microsoft in the waning days …
Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Silicon Valley's resiliency might get tested — For the last two years, with the economy collapsing all around it, the technology sector and Silicon Valley in particular have proven to be particularly resilient. — But that might not be the case forever.
Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables:
Porient H12 handheld runs Linux on 800 x 480 touchscreen — The latest update to last year's ARM-based H9 “UMPC” is the Porient H12, which first appeared on the scene a few months before its scheduled debut at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. Details were very scarce leading up to the show …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Technology Doesn't Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. — EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr. — To save you some time, I was going to give you a 100-word abridged version.
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Live Images of LG Renoir, the Viewty successor, emerge — Back in August, LG officially announced the new LG KC910, the successor to the LG Viewty. Officially given the name LG Renoir, the phone has made its appearance in a few pictures snagged from it168.com.
Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Rumors of 8GB iPhone's death were greatly exaggerated — Like manna from China, iPhones fall from the sky into California — In case you blinked, a number of sites were reporting a shortage of 8GB iPhones yesterday, including Apple 2.0. … In California, only the Valley Fair Mall …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users — MediaDefender is widely known for their anti-piracy operations, spoofing and decoying on file-sharing networks for the entertainment industry. The company is doing more than that though, as we recently found out that adult affiliate programs …
Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
BlackBerry Javelin 8900 Hands-On Hardware First Look — A Hands-On First Look at the BlackBerry Javelin 8900! — w00t! It's time for yet another hands-on first look of a pre-release, pre-officially announced BlackBerry smartphone. We brought you the web's first review of the BlackBerry Bold …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Digging Deeper — The high concept of Apple's long-running “Get a Mac” TV campaign is that the characters portrayed by John Hodgman and Justin Long are personified computers. It's right there in the opening lines of every ad in the series: “Hello, I'm a Mac.” “And I'm a PC.”
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