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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Exclusive: Yahoo's Bartz and Microsoft's Ballmer Finally Talking About Search and Advertising Partnership — In early discussions that began in the last several weeks that apparently included a face-to-face meeting last week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are finally talking …
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Priya Ganapati / Gadget Lab:
CompUSA Comes Back From the Dead — About three months ago, Loretta Alkalay, a retired Florida resident, wanted to get a new HDTV. So she decided to give the CompUSA near her home a try. — Yes, CompUSA. The once-bankrupt electronics retailer is making a comeback …
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Philip Lam / PreThinking:
Sprint Employees now training on the Palm Pre, Pre's Launch is Near — All the rumors and speculations of a mid-April/late April/May launch of the Palm Pre doesn't appear to be too far of a stretch. Stated in an email from Sprint, “Employees can expect training to start in April …
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Inserting images — Well, it's about time. You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on “Inserting images” from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar icon like this:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
About Those New CrunchPad Pictures — A little background for those of you who haven't heard of the CrunchPad: This is the post that kicked off the project. I wanted something I couldn't buy, and found people who said it could be built for a lot less than I imagined.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Mike Arrington and I disagree on the future — Last Saturday on the Gillmor Gang Mike Arrington wondered aloud whether Twitter had won a “winners take all” game and whether that meant that friendfeed was toast. He then wrote a blog post titled “FriendFeed is in danger of becoming the coolest app no one uses.”
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
AP Exec: “To the Untrained Eye It Looks Like We're Stupid” — Rough week for the Associated Press, at least if you measure it by headlines: First, the venerable news organization/aggregator confused the likes of me by announcing a vague plan to fight the Internet.
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
IPhone Needs A New Brain — Will Apple's wonder gadget get more memory? Will it come in different colors? Who cares. A new processor is what it really needs. — Will the iPhone get more flash memory? Will it get new features, like a compass? — Who cares. What the iPhone really needs is a new processor.
Mark Gomez / Mercury News:
AT&T boosts reward to $250K in phone service sabotage — AT&T has increased its reward to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for cutting fiber-optics lines at four locations early Thursday morning in South San Jose and San Carlos.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Yelp Will Let Businesses Respond to Web Reviews — Small businesses will soon feel a little more love in their love-hate relationship with Yelp, the Web site whose users post reviews of restaurants, dry cleaners and other local businesses. — Starting next week, Yelp will let small-business owners publicly respond to reviews.
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Wade Roush / Xconomy:
At CHI Meeting, Microsoft Turns Computing Interfaces on Their Head, and Side, and Back — Wade Roush wrote: — I spent a couple of days this week at CHI, the big annual meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI).
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Greg / 3 Dog Media:
The Truth About Digg's DiggBar — Over the last couple of months, I've been getting the urge to get back into blogging a bit. However, when it's been awhile since you've attempted to construct a thought longer than a 140 character tweet, actually doing it is a bit harder than you regular bloggers might imagine.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:How to Block the DiggBar — Last week Digg released something …
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Venture Capital Dispatch:
Rejected By VCs, Rescued By Angels — After spending a year talking to more than 70 venture firms on both coasts, Earl Galleher gave up on raising venture capital and turned to angels to fund his unproven idea - software that automates and analyzes the process of landing meetings with sales leads.
Thanks:mrinaldesai
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Hands on: OS 5.0 on the Bold — Way back in September we gave the world its first glimpse at the upcoming BlackBerry OS 5.0 running on a Curve 8310, but since that time RIM has continued to keep mum on the subject so we thought that we'd conduct a brief overview of BlackBerry OS 5.0 running on a Bold.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
German Collections Society Trying To Collect For Performances It Has No Rights Over — The various music collections societies always like to present themselves as being there “for the artists.” When we write about ASCAP in the US or PRS in the UK, we often get angry emails from supporters of those groups …
Mmpc / Microsoft Malware Protection Center:
Win32/Conficker Variants Update — There have been new developments in the Conficker arena within the past couple of days. We would like to inform those who are concerned that the MMPC is working to make sure you have the information you need, first to be protected from any threat …
Associated Press:
German regulators fine Microsoft for price-fixing — SEATTLE (AP) — Antitrust regulators fined Microsoft Corp.'s German subsidiary 9 million euros ($11.8 million) and said the world's largest software maker illegally influenced retail prices for its Office 2007 programs.
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Cyra Master / The Atlantic Online:
Media Insiders Say Internet Hurts Journalism — In a poll of prominent members of the national news media, nearly two-thirds say the Internet is hurting journalism more than it is helping. The poll, conducted by The Atlantic and National Journal, asked 43 media insiders whether, on balance …
Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist's Blog:
Virtual Earth API Release Information, April 2009 — Today we released updates to the Microsoft Virtual Earth AJAX control and a new version of the Virtual Earth 3D map control. We've added a couple new methods for adding and removing pins (and DIVs) in the AJAX control …
WSUS Product Team Blog:
The 2007 Office System Service Pack 2 coming to WSUS in April — Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Office System will be made available to Windows Server Update Services in April, classified as a service pack. Service Pack 2 includes some significant work, including: built-in ability to save …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Report: IBM researcher says Moore's Law at end — Moore's Law is maxing out. This is an oft-made prediction in the computer industry. The latest to chime in is an IBM fellow, according to a report. — Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors …
Thanks:atul
Robert Holmes / TheStreet.com:
New Economy Means New Entrepreneurs — Business school students are turning to entrepreneur courses during the recession rather than working toward landing a job with a Wall Street firm or a hedge fund, another sign that the U.S. has entered into a so-called new economy.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel Venture-Capital Arm Looking for Bigger Deals Amid IPO Market Rout — Intel Corp.'s venture-capital arm plans to increase the size of its deals and is being approached by more established companies amid the worst market for initial public offerings on record.
