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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Apple Building A Search Engine? — We've received multiple (if thin) reports that Apple is working on a search engine of some sort. — At first glance, the rumors make sense. Apple's Safari browser has 6-7% market share, and currently uses Google as the search engine for both the standard …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Introduces Updated Windows Live Services — Leading Web companies work with Microsoft to simplify life online with e-mail, messaging, photo and file sharing, and more. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the next generation of Windows Live, an integrated set of online services …
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:Microsoft Windows Live is open to Facebook, MySpace, other social networks
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Collapses, Analysts Get Bearish — It's inevitable: When you're banging the drum on a stock and all it does is hit you on the head with a two-by-four day after day you eventually get discouraged. (Don't we know it.) No Google bull has truly capitulated yet, as far as we know …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Analyst: “Worst Economic Environment In Our Collective Lifetimes” — Google's stock price closed yesterday at $291, the first time it has dropped below $300 since 2005. It's 44% off of its 52-week high of $725. Most analysts think its cheap and getting cheaper - the average price target is still over $500.
Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
What just happened at Valleywag? The FAQ — I love Owen, but he has trouble writing in English during a crisis. So here's the basics on what's happening at Valleywag: — Some guy named Denton can't figure out how to sell ads on Valleywag. — So he's going to sneak Valleywag …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Trumpets Cashback Successes — Microsoft Live Search Cashback launched with great expectation in some quarters that it would grow Microsoft's search share dramatically. That, so far, has failed to happen. But Microsoft says it is making progress toward its own more realistic goal …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Where in the World Is Yahoo's Board? — With a $10 stock price, the turning down of Microsoft's $31 a share offer, a collapsed search advertising deal with Google (GOOG), fleeing execs and bad news aplenty, it's easy to blame Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and call for his ouster. — After all, the buck does stop with him.
Arn / MacRumors:
Mac Pro Suitable Nehalem (Core i7) Processors Due in 1st Quarter 2009 — Digitimes reports that Intel is planning on launching the Xeon 5500 and Xeon 3500 series of server CPUs in the first quarter of 2009. These new processors are based on the Nehalem architecture which has been officially branded as Core i7.
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
ScreenToaster Makes Screencasting Easy — As you may have realized by now, we are big fans of screencasts here at ReadWriteWeb, and every time a new tool comes along that makes screencasting easier and more accessible, we can't help but give it a try. The latest screencasting tool …
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George Colony / George F. Colony:
What does Intel's slip mean? — In my last post, “Why this tech recession will be different,” I observed that this slowdown will not be as severe for technology as was the 2001-2003 period. — But now comes Intel's announcement that it expects revenue for the fourth quarter to be down 10% from its original forecast.
John Cook / TechFlash:
Jobster slashes staff by 38 percent — Jobster, the one-time high-flying online recruiting startup, laid off more than a third of its staff today as it grapples with a slowing economy. About 15 people are losing their jobs. — “This is an unbelievable market condition,” said Jobster Chief Executive Jeff Seely.
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Tam Vo / VentureBeat:
Live from NewTeeVee Live: CEO Jason Kilar explains why we are so addicted to Hulu — Jason Kilar, chief executive of Hulu, the online streaming video site backed by NBC and Fox, delivered a keynote at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco today. — Kilar's talk focused on what drives …
Electronista:
Dell Inspiron Mini 12 reaches US — Dell today officially launched the Inspiron Mini 12 for the US after its initial run in Japan. The 12-inch crossover between a netbook and ultraportable now starts at $549 and is partly slower than the smaller Mini 9. A lesser 1.33GHz Atom is compensated …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
3 Flat-Screen Makers Plead Guilty to Trying to Keep Prices High — Prices for the flat screens in televisions, personal computers and cellphones have plummeted in recent years — but the decline would have been even faster if it hadn't been for an international price-fixing cartel, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
Dust in Your iPhone? It's Time for a New One — The problem with gadgets that “don't have any parts” is that you can't fix even very minor problems. In his biweekly trends column, PM Senior Technology Editor Glenn Derene buys a new iPhone and destroys his old one—all in the name of a little pocket lint.
PC Magazine:
EA Debuts Fitness Videogame for Wii — NEW YORK - Electronic Arts Inc unveiled its first personal training product on Thursday, tapping into the growing appeal of video games as fitness systems as seen with Nintendo Co Ltd's hit title “Wii Fit” earlier this year.
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
New Mac OS X 10.5.6 test build has over 90 fixes — Apple seems to be making a fair bit of progress on the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.6 update. This week, the company released a new test build of the package to its update testers. This time around, Italian site HMBT is defying Apple's customary NDA …
Basheera Khan / TechCrunch UK:
3 targets mass market with ‘Facebook phone’ launch — Sometimes it pays to be on this side of the pond, especially if you're a Facebook addict with a yen for mobile gadgetry and don't mind switching to 3 if you're not with them already. The network will be the exclusive carrier for the INQ⊃1 …
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Qualcomm halts UMB project, sees no major job cuts — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O), seeking to cut costs in the face of slowing demand for cell phones, has stopped developing a next-generation wireless technology called Ultra Mobile Broadband and is making small-scale layoffs.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mozilla fixes 11 new flaws in Firefox, six critical — It also patches Firefox 2.0; just one more update coming for older browser — Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. on Wednesday patched 11 vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.0 — and 12 bugs in the older Firefox 2.0 — that could be used to compromise computers and steal information.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Online Video: Where's The Money? — Here is the stark reality of online video: nobody is making much money and the enthusiastic projections for online video advertising going from $500 million in 2008 to more than $5 billion in five years will undoubtedly be pared back in the coming weeks as analysts revisit their numbers.
Kevin Poulsen / Threat Level:
Valve Tried to Trick Half Life 2 Hacker Into Fake Job Interview — After the secret source code for its then-unreleased shooter Half Life 2showed up on file sharing services in 2003, game-maker Valve Software cooked up an elaborate ruse with the FBI targeting the German hacker suspected in the leak …
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