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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Ends Google Video Uploads, Shutters Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball & Jaiku — Google's announced they're closing or ceasing development of a variety of products as part of an already continuing move to keep efforts focused on other products with greater usage.
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Vic Gundotra / Google Code Blog:
Changes for Jaiku and Farewell to Dodgeball and Mashup Editor — Google has long believed that thoughtful iteration is the best way to build useful products for our users. As part of that process, we are always looking for ways to better focus our teams on the products that can have the most impact.
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Laszlo Bock / The Official Google Blog:
Changes to recruiting — As we made clear during our last quarterly earnings call in October, Google is still hiring but at a reduced rate. Given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people focused on hiring. — Our first step to address this was to wind down almost …
Raj Krishnan / Notebook Blog:Stopping development on Google Notebook
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PC World, Lifehacker, WebProNews, Zoli's Blog, Digital Inspiration, Newsome.Org, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com and Search Engine Journal
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Google grows up; Restructuring tweaks signal end of adolescence
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Steve Jobs Probably Won't Come Back to Apple — Steve Jobs' medical leave from Apple is likely to be permanent, analysts say. — In a letter to Apple staff on Wednesday, Jobs said he was taking a five-month medical leave because his health issues are “more complex than I originally thought.”
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
What If Steve Jobs Doesn't Come Back to Work? — We don't know what's wrong with Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive. But it's got to be serious. You don't take a six-month leave of absence, as he is, just because you've got a stomachache. — So that raises the question …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fake Steve Jobs Banned From CNBC* — Newsweek's Dan Lyons — “Fake Steve Jobs” — is banned from CNBC because of his appearance on the cable network earlier this evening, a source close to the situation tells us. — In a special report about Steve Jobs' stepping down from day-to-day operations at Apple …
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Rebecca Buckman / Forbes:
The Exacting Standards Of Carol Bartz — The turnaround at automated design software firm Autodesk gives hints of how Bartz will manage Yahoo! — When Carol Bartz swept into the chief executive's suite at tech firm Autodesk in 1992, she took over a classic, chaotic engineers' paradise.
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John C Abell / Epicenter:
Bartz Says ‘Gut’ Against Microsoft Search Deal. Nicely Played ... It could be that freshly-minted Yahoo CEO Bartz still hasn't drunk the Kool Aid when she says things like she's in no hurry to sell the company's search business to Microsoft — and that her “gut” tells her it isn't a good idea anyway.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:Bartz Could Boost Chance of Search Deal
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Judge calls RIAA objections “specious,” will stream hearing — A federal judge has agreed to a novel request: streaming parts of an upcoming file-sharing trial over the Internet. Judge Nancy Gertner has granted the request of Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson and students to put the gavel …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Judge Approves Public Broadcast Of RIAA Lawsuit — Harvard Law prof. Charlie Nesson has been leading a case challenging the constitutionality of a core part of the RIAA's continuing lawsuit strategy. Late last year, he asked a judge if the trial itself could be broadcast live over the internet …
WebOS Arena:
Best Buy to be Palm Pre's exclusive retailer — We received news from a credible source that BestBuy Mobile will be getting an exclusive deal with Sprint for the Palm Pre release. For 60 days the number one consumer electronics retailer will be the only place where you can get your hands on the Palm Pre, besides Sprint of course.
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Phone Arena, IntoMobile, Electronista, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, Homotron.net, SlashGear, SlashPhone, Gearlog, GPS Obsessed and Unwired View
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
How Warner Music Killed Facebook Music — Facebook's ongoing effort to launch a free streaming music service is stalled, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. The company was close to a deal that would bring free streaming music from three of the four big labels …
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Gartner:
Gartner Says In the Fourth Quarter of 2008 the PC Industry Suffered Its Worst Shipment Growth Rate Since 2002 — In the fourth quarter of 2008, the worldwide PC industry suffered its worst growth rate since 2002 as worldwide shipments totaled 78.1 million units, a 1.1 percent increase …
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Is Exploring Job Cuts — Microsoft Corp. is seriously exploring significant work force reductions that could be announced as early as next week, in a sign that the weak economy is prompting tough decisions even at one of the steadiest ships in the technology industry.
Dusan Belic / IntoMobile:
PerfectStorm theme makes your iPhone look like the BlackBerry Storm — Here's a cool theme for BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM)-to-iPhone switchers. The so called PerfectStorm brings the BlackBerry Storm look and feel to the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone. And while I don't personally like Storm's icons …
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