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Brian Stoler / The Official Google Blog:
Search for “me” on Google — It's no secret that from time to time many of us have searched on Google for our name or someone else's. When searching for yourself to see what others would find, results can be varied and aren't always what you want people to see — whether it's someone else with your name …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hoping To Improve People Search, Google Launches “Profile Results” — Ever searched for yourself on Google and come away dissatisfied, especially if someone else you share a name with seems to dominate the results? Ever looked for someone else and been disappointed that you couldn't find the person you wanted?
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Now You Can Change What Google Says About You — Google me? I'll Google you! Google has become the de facto public record these days but most people remain in relative obscurity there and/or fear of what past indiscretions Google will expose to people who search for them.
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Reports First Quarter 2009 Results — Company Exceeds Midpoint of Operating Cash Flow Outlook Range — Maintains Strong Balance Sheet with $3.7 Billion in Cash and Marketable Debt Securities — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO - News) …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Cutting 5% Of Staff — Here come Carol Bartz's cuts: As part of its Q1 earnings report, Yahoo (YHOO) said it's cutting 5% of its staff. Most Yahoos on the chopping block will find out within two weeks. — At the end of December, Yahoo had 13,600 employees.
Don Clark / Digits:
Sun's Schwartz Tries to Reassure His Troops in Email — Many current and former employees of Sun Microsystems are lamenting Oracle's deal to buy the computer maker. But Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's chief executive, told employees Monday in an internal email that the transaction is …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
TWC to Customers: You Don't Want Tiers, You Don't Get Super-fast Broadband — Well, I hope all of you who complained about Time Warner Cable's plans for metered broadband are happy. Shortly after the cable company pulled its metered broadband trials, it's also rethinking its deployment …
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Seth H. Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
First Google Android Netbooks spotted — Certainly this can't be it. The first Google Android netbook should certainly be more monumental than this $100 device from SkyTone. Guanzhou, China-based Skytone is famous for making Skype headsets and ultra low cost children's computers.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Windows Live To Add More Social Network Partners (Digg, MySpace, Facebook, Last.fm And More) — Microsoft's social networking strategy around Windows Live gets a little more meat on the bone today. In November they announced a new strategy that brings in activity streams, FriendFeed/Plaxo style, into a Windows Live home page.
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
CNN Shows Its Thin Skin — In the latest example of a big media company complaining about a YouTube clip, CNN has demanded that the video-sharing site remove a video that incorporates some footage from the network. — The problem for CNN is that the clip, posted by the group Founding Bloggers …
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Craigslist rival uses Twitter to expose dangers of CL's red-light district — Craigslist may be the leader in online classified ads but lately, the popular site has seen a run of negative publicity for its red-light district - accused of being a breeding ground for under-age prostitution, drug trading and, now, a murder.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: “Hot and Heavy” — Microsoft and Yahoo have been busily ferreting away on talks about search and advertising partnership possibilities in what one person close to the situation described as “hot and heavy.” — But exactly how hot and how heavy depends …
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Dai / Google Analytics Blog:
Attention Developers: Google Analytics API Launched! — A Google Analytics API has long been one of our most widely anticipated features. Today we're pleased to announce that the Google Analytics Data Export API beta is now publicly available to all Analytics users! — What's so exciting about an API?
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Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
MySQL 5.4 gets bigger anyway, encroaching on new parent Oracle's turf — When Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced his acquisition of Sun Microsystems yesterday morning, he didn't mention MySQL at all — his company's principal competitor in the small systems database space.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API — Google has released a new open source browser plugin that provides APIs for displaying rich 3D graphics in Web content. Google hopes that the plugin will help to advance a collaborative effort to create open standards for bringing 3D to the Web.
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Living with the limits of Windows 7 Starter Edition — If you've read anything about Windows 7 Starter Edition, your first reaction was probably the same as mine: Is Microsoft nuts? This ultra-cheap edition is intended for use on netbooks, but its biggest restriction sounds like a complete deal-breaker …
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Oprah Effect on Twitter — Oprah Winfrey, the icon that can turn any book or product into a best seller, posted her first Tweet on Friday on her show. There's been much debate among loyal Twitter users about whether this spells the end for Twitter's coolness, as soccer moms sign up in droves.
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Mark Sullivan / PC World:
Comcast Cable TV is Coming to Laptops This Year — Comcast's Fancast.com will host paid cable content free of charge for existing Comcast subscribers, beginning later this year, Comcast Exec says. — Recommends — Comcast will soon make its cable TV content available to its subscribers on the Internet …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Sony Pictures is on YouTube, Hulu, but not Joost anymore — At the same time Sony Pictures prepared to post some of its TV shows and films onto YouTube, the studio's material quietly began disappearing from Joost. — Earlier this month, Joost CEO Mike Volpi, who is attempting to engineer …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
News Corp. Exploring MySpace CEO Options — MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe has been with the company since its August 2003 launch, seeing it through a 2005 $580 million sale to News Corp. and growing revenue to something approaching a billion dollars a year. 130 million people around …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Amazon Video on Demand HD on Roku Video Player hands-on — Roku hooked us up with an early preview of Amazon Video on Demand in HD for its Video Player, and while we didn't have much time to poke around, but what we saw was mostly impressive. Video took a little longer to buffer in than Amazon SD …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
The Rise of An Underground Facebook Profile Market — Over the past few days there has been increasing buzz about a market for Facebook public profiles. I've even received a few emails on the topic, one individual who was asking me about reasonable rates for purchasing public profiles.
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CNET News:
Gates: Cyberattacks a constant threat — Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the United States is “under cyberattack virtually all the time, every day” and that the Defense Department plans to more than quadruple the number of cyber experts it employs to ward off such attacks.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Should Ad Networks Pay Publishers For Stolen Content? The Fair Syndication Consortium Thinks So. — As newspapers and other publishers watch their revenues diminish, one common refrain among them is that maybe they should somehow go after Google or Yahoo for aiding and abetting the destruction …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Congress to probe P2P sites over ‘inadvertent sharing’ — The main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives has reopened a probe of Lime Wire and other peer-to-peer file-sharing companies over the issue of “inadvertent sharing.” The move comes nearly two months …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Bluetooth 3.0 + HS gets official, adds speed with 802.11 — The rumors were true, and today's the day that the Bluetooth SIG gets official with the latest, greatest version of Bluetooth. Bluetooth 3. + HS, as it'll be called, promises to be markedly faster than prior iterations thanks …
Phone Arena:
Verizon's User Review feature is now live — Last month we told you that Verizon was testing a User Review feature on their Testman site, and starting today it has gone live on the main Verizon site. First you have to log into your My Verizon account and select the phone you wish to review.
