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Carol Bartz Joins Yahoo! as Chief Executive Officer — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global brand and one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, announced today that Carol Bartz, a veteran technology executive who was most recently Executive Chairman of Autodesk (NASDAQ …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Confirms Bartz Pick as CEO; No. 2 Exec Decker Out — As reported by BoomTown and others, Yahoo has officially selected former Autodesk (ADSK) head Carol Bartz as its next CEO, effective immediately. — She will also join the Yahoo board. — In a press release this afternoon …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Allows 3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store — Over the past 24 hours, Apple has begun to approve 3rd party web browsing applications for the iPhone. A number of new web browsing apps have suddenly appeared with original submission dates ranging as far back as October.
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Royal Pingdom, AppShopper.com, The iPhone Blog, Unwired View, SheGeeks, The Apple Core and Edible Apple
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Sell Google Apps through Google's reseller program — Ever wanted to be a salesperson for Google? Well, now you may get your chance through the Google Apps Reseller program, which allows companies to sell their own versions of Google Apps, the business offering that bundles products like Gmail, Google Docs, and more.
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Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
8 Predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2009 — We are starting 2009 off in a particularly inauspicious economic climate, though as we'll see, important opportunities also exist. 2008 was a very tough year for many businesses and industries and it's almost as hard to see how things …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Report Calls Online Threats to Children Overblown — The Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all. — A high-profile task force created by 49 state attorneys general to find a solution to the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded …
Cade Metz / The Register:
Brit porn filter censors 13 years of net history — Demon blacklist muzzles Wayback Machine — Four weeks after birthing a nationwide Wikipedia edit ban, Britain's child porn blacklist has led at least one ISP to muzzle the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine - an 85-billion-page web history dating back to 1996.
Benjamin Edelman / Ben Edelman:
False and Deceptive Display Ads at Yahoo's Right Media … Given limited enforcement of restrictions on deceptive online advertising, numerous banner advertisers are willing to resort to trickery to draw attention to their offerings. And plenty of web site publishers stand ready to run deceptive ads.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
PubMatic: Remnant Ad Prices Are Half What They Were A Year Ago — Fourth quarter data is starting to trickle in on how bad the online advertising downturn is turning out to be. The latest data comes from Pubmatic, an online ad optimization service used by more than 5,000 sites large and small.
Tony Smith / The Register:
DisplayPort revision to get mini connector, stereo 3D — Apple's MacBook monitor port to enter standard — Laptop vendors will be soon be able to use the same mini-DisplayPort connector found on Apple's latest MacBooks. — The tiny port is to be included in the upcoming DisplayPort 1.2 specification …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Is a Microsoft Search Deal With Yahoo “Ticked and Tied”? — Several sources close to Yahoo and Microsoft have told BoomTown that a search partnership deal between the companies is more likely to be signed quickly now that Yahoo has picked former Autodesk (ADSK) CEO Carol Bartz as its next CEO.
Steven Musil / CNET News:
Blockbuster to offer video downloads — In an effort to keep pace with rival Netflix, Blockbuster announced a partnership Wednesday to offer instant access to its video library through various home and portable devices. — The movie rental company has partnered with Sonic Solutions to offer …
BIZ / Twitter Blog:
It's Business Time! — Twitter receives a crushing amount of partnership opportunities on a regular basis—it's a good problem to have yet until now there has been nobody on staff dedicated solely to business development. Things are changing. We hired Kevin Thau as our Director of Mobile Business Development late last month.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Piracy prompts iPhone developer to put ads in game — When James Bossert saw he that his Whack 'em All iPhone game had 400 new users in one day last week he initially got excited. But that sentiment quickly changed when he saw that only 12 people had paid 99 cents for the game on Apple's iPhone App Store.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mac clone maker claims it bought OS X from Apple — Embattled Psystar says Apple can't tell it what to do with legit copies of the OS — Computerworld) The Mac clone maker being sued by Apple Inc. because it installs Mac OS X on generic Intel-based systems said it bought copies …
Sherri / philosecurity:
Interview with an Adware Author — Matt Knox, a talented Ruby instructor and coder, talks about his early days designing and writing adware for Direct Revenue. (Direct Revenue was sued by Eliot Spitzer in 2006 for allegedly surreptitiously installing adware on millions of computers.)
Michael Wei / Reuters:
China Internet users soar to 298 million — BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of Internet users in China jumped nearly 42 percent to 298 million by the end of 2008 from the previous year, cementing the country's position as the world's largest Internet population, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said.
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Mike Elgan / Computerworld Blogs:
Why Sony is the new Apple — Analysts say that Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony will report full-year operating losses for the first time since 1995 during an earnings call later this month. The news comes on the heels of seven years of missed earnings. So why do I think the company is poised for a massive come-back?
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple to replace 17-inch MacBook Pro batteries in stores — Apple this week served up the details of its battery replacement program for the new 17-inch MacBook Pro, which offers customers the option of having a new battery installed at their nearest Apple retail store.
Raphael Leiteritz / Google LatLong:
New ways to get around with the Transit Layer — I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Transit Layer on Google Maps in more than 50 cities around the world making it easier for citizens and tourists around the globe to access public transportation line information in their cities.
Linus / Linus' blog:
Odd hardware — I'm totally not very sentimental about technology - the good old days really weren't very good at all, and I'm solidly in the “good riddance” camp when it comes to old computers and peripherals. I'll take the newest/smallest/fastest thing over those clunky machines of yesteryear.
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Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog:
MobileMe Free Trials Could Lose Your Precious Files — The MobileMe trial began to seem like it was going to go on forever, since Apple kept tacking on more time to make up for having released a half-baked service to begin with. Sadly, not so. My own trial term recently came to an end …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Could This Be Your All-in-One Social Network? — Long time innovator Marc Canter has made a proposal for a system to let users integrate all their social networks from around the web into one central dashboard. He calls it the DiSO Dashboard. — So far it's just a vision …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Select testers get Office 14 alpha release — Microsoft [is set to begin] has begun providing selected testers with access to alpha versions of its Office 14 server wares. — (Yes, I know I said just yesterday that no testers seemed to have O14 code yet.
Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
Reinventing the tech incubator — Tech Daily: Betaworks is bringing back a '90s icon. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Like hip hop and Dockers, tech incubators were faddish in the late 1990s. These companies offered promising dot-coms work space, back office services like human resources and accounting, and a bit of funding.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft patches ‘super nasty’ Windows bugs — Expect worm soon, says researcher, who sees damage potential on par with Blaster, Sasser — Computerworld) Microsoft Corp. today patched three vulnerabilities in the company's Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocol …
