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Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Looking Ahead: The Future of Yahoo! Products — A few months ago, when I first yodeled my way into Yahoo!, I told folks that I was stoked for the opportunity to join up with some of the smartest and best-in-class talent in the world to deliver the future products vision for a company with such a rich history.
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Fast Company, Computerworld, Search Engine Watch, Yahoo! Search Blog, TechCrunch, MediaPost, Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Digital Daily, webpronews.com, The Next Web, Techland, Andy Beard, paidContent, Between the Lines Blog, Rob Hof's Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land, Yahoo! and Search Engine Journal
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Kakul Srivastava / Yahoo! Mail Blog:
Get Ready... Yahoo! Mail Beta Is Coming — Don't blink. Some big changes are happening to your Yahoo! Mail. — In the next few weeks, you'll be able to experience Yahoo! Mail Beta, a faster, cleaner, and safer way for you to communicate and share with the people you care about most.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Internal Three Year Plan: 1 Billion Users And $10 Billion In Revenue — Yahoo unveiled a bevy of new product features today at a press event, and Yahoo product chief Blake Irving told the crowd “You're going to see things over the next few years that will feel a little bit different.”
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Yahoo unveils three-year plan to become cool again — Yahoo executives spoke to journalists at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif. headquarters this morning about their future plans — both upcoming improvements to products like Yahoo Mail, and an ambitious three-year strategy to revitalize the company.
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blogs.ft.com and The Register
Bloomberg:
Verizon Won't Sell Microsoft Windows Phone 7 at Start — Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone carrier, won't sell handsets with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 7 operating system when it debuts this year, a blow to the software maker's efforts to reach a broad market.
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Ina Fried / CNET News:
Windows Phone 7 will be GSM-only in 2010 — When Windows Phone 7 arrives later this year, it will be sold globally, but only for GSM networks. Microsoft has opted to delay until next year the CDMA version as it works to finish work on its major rewrite of its phone operating system.
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Engadget, TG Daily, Thoughts from the Sidelines, SlashGear, WMExperts, MobileTechWorld, TechFlash, PhoneNews.com and Mobility Digest
Jeanette Borzo / Digits:
Microsoft Has No Plans To Make Another Smartphone, Exec Says
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Channel 9, MSDN Blogs and Engadget
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Fraudulent Groupon Photography Deal Calls Attention To Service Drawbacks — A photography deal offered on Groupon in Atlanta yesterday turned messy when it was revealed that the photographer had promoted her work with stolen images and was far from equipped to carry out the terms of the Groupon.
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PetaPixel, PlagiarismToday and msnbc.com
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Jessie Burke / Posies Cafe:
Groupon in Retrospect
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Redfin Corporate Blog and Silicon Alley Insider
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Details Of The Google Social Layer Emerge — Facebook may have known all the details about Google's new social product for months, but we're just now getting our sources to talk. — On Tuesday Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave additional details on the plan. We posted the entire press conference video …
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InformationWeek and All Facebook
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Seth Weintraub / Fortune:
Schmidt: We'll pull Facebook's data by hook or by crook
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Skeptic Geek, MediaPost, Techland, Fast Company and Electricpig.co.uk
Lauren Goode / Digits:
Samsung is Latest to Push Mobile Media and Apps for TVs — As Samsung Electronics promotes its version of Apple's iPad Thursday, the company is also revealing its answer to the iTunes store — or at least the video portion of it. — As part of the U.S. unveiling of the Galaxy Tab …
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K. T. Bradford / LAPTOP Mag:
Samsung Galaxy Tab Coming to U.S. On All Four Major Carriers …
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Computerworld, Engadget, Android Central, The Next Web and LaptopMemo
Brandon Watson / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
Windows Phone Developer Tools Are Final — When the Windows Phone 7 OS went gold two weeks ago, the Windows Phone ecosystem began the final preparations for the upcoming launch. OEMs and mobile operators have begun final testing of their handsets, but developers have had to wait just a little while longer to complete apps and games.
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Smartphones …, ScottGu's Blog, Channel 9, Bing Maps Blog, Microsoft Advertising Blog, InformationWeek, MediaPost, pocketnow.com, Computerworld, The Microsoft Blog, MSDN Blogs, MobileTechWorld, Boy Genius Report, All about Microsoft Blog, All Points Blog, MobileCrunch, Mobility Digest, IntoMobile, Neowin.net, WMExperts, BetaNews, WMPoweruser.com, webpronews.com, Softpedia News, LiveSide.net, TechSpot, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, CNET News, PhoneNews.com, CrunchGear and Engadget
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Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Microsoft demoes Twitter and Netflix apps for Windows Phone 7 …
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Channel 9, MSDN Blogs, MobileTechWorld, WMExperts and The Microsoft Blog
Wall Street Journal:
VMware Is in Talks to Acquire Novell's Linux Software Unit — Novell Inc. is in advanced talks with at least two buyers, including VMware Inc., to sell the software company in separate pieces, people familiar with the matter said. — VMware is pursuing Novell's SUSE Linux operating system business, these people said.
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internetnews.com, Computerworld, Between the Lines Blog, Reuters and Tech Trader Daily
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Matt Asay / GigaOM:
Novell's Patents Are Complicating Its Sale
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Computerworld, Dow Jones Newswires and Reuters
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tech Probe Nears End — Several of the U.S.'s largest technology companies are in advanced talks with the Justice Department to avoid a court battle over whether they colluded to hold down wages by agreeing not to poach each other's employees. — The companies, which include Google Inc. …
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Silicon Alley Insider and Electronista
Cris Castello / Google LatLong:
View Near Real-time Flights over the U.S. in Google Earth — Thanks to our friends at Flightwise.com, we've published a new, dynamically updating KML file of commercial flights over the U.S. Turn on the layer to see the current location and altitude of thousands of flights, in near real-time.
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The Next Web
Tim Stevens / Engadget:
Logitech Revue with Google TV coming 9/29 for $299, Dish Network offering discounts? — Google TV is coming, and Logitech's Revue is gonna bring it to ya first. But, if you're a Dish Network subscriber, it looks like you might be able to get yours for cheaper — a lot cheaper.
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Gizmodo, IntoMobile, CrunchGear, Geeky-Gadgets, Android Phone Fans, Stage Two, Obsessable, Ubergizmo, Crave, Gizmodo Australia and I4U News
Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless:
AT&T to launch LTE by mid-2011 — AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T) will launch commercial LTE service by mid-2011, and will cover between 70 million and 75 million POPs by the end of next year, a top executive said. — Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2010 Media, Communications …
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PhoneNews.com, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Phone Arena, Engadget and MobileBurn.com
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Verizon Wireless adds Good to Android lineup; Bad news for RIM — As if Research in Motion didn't have enough to worry about, Verizon Wireless has teamed up with Good Technology to equip all of its Android devices with better enterprise-grade security and management.
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PC World, Verizon, eWeek, Electronista and Thoughts from the Sidelines
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Tricia Duryee / mocoNews:
RIM Sells Record Number Of BlackBerry Devices; Beats Q2 Estimates
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Mobility Digest, Between the Lines Blog and FierceWireless
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Oracle posts strong first quarter: Hurd makes debut; Exadata the focus — Updated: Oracle handily topped expectations for both first quarter earnings and revenue as the company said its hardware business “grew faster than expected.” — The company reported first quarter earnings of $1.4 billion …
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Market Wire, Tech Check, CNET News, PC World and Voices on All Things Digital
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Live-Blogging Oracle Earnings: Mark Hurd Makes Appearance
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Computerworld, eWeek, The Register, internetnews.com, New York Times and Forbes
Matt Gross / New York Times:
A Baby Photo Becomes an Internet Meme — SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They were the kind of photos that every parent takes, but one in particular stood out …
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MediaPost, more at Mediagazer »
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Intel: Leaked HDCP copy protection code is legit — Intel has confirmed that code posted to the Internet earlier this week is the master key that is part of an Intel-created standard used to make sure only authorized devices are playing copyright-protected movies.
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Engadget and Threat Level
AppleInsider:
iOS 4.2 packs new, improved YouTube, FaceTime features and more — Apple's forthcoming iOS 4.2 update for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch includes a number of subtle improvements that have not yet been publicized, including expanded features for YouTube and FaceTime. AppleInsider offers a closer look.
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App Advice, Erictric, Gadget Lab, O'Grady's PowerPage, iLounge and MacDailyNews
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Extreme Netflix Some Users Have Rated 50,000 Movies — So, you think you've honed the Netflix recommendation engine by rating a thousand movies? That's nothing, according to the company's internal statistics. — Several hundred Netflix members have rated more than 50,000 filmed entertainment programs.
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NewTeeVee
Fred / A VC:
There Are Two Venture Capital Industries — I attended a breakfast meeting the other day where David Silverman of PWC presented the latest Money Tree data on the venture capital business to a room full of entrepreneurs and VCs. — As I sat there and listened and read the charts …
