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Eric Dash / New York Times:
No Charges for Apple Over Options — Federal securities regulators said yesterday that they would bring no civil charges against Apple over the backdating of executive stock options. But they stopped short of removing the cloud that for nearly a year has hung over the company's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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Tyler Crowley / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
CalacanisCast 25 beta — Hello everyone, Tyler here - back with an impromptu podcast for your listening pleasure (read: no video) — As promised, Jason speaks with Fred Vogelstein from Wired regarding the recent fuss over interviews by email, and the upcoming Wired piece on A-list bloggers highlighting Michael Arrington.
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Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:Interviews, Email or Live
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Silicon Valley Watcher, Epicenter, the j. botter weblog, Scobleizer, hubbub and Mark Evans
Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Autonomy to spin off consumer arm — Autonomy, the Cambridge-based search software company, on Wednesday announced plans to demerge and float its consumer division, with allows people to search internet TV and video clips. — The consumer division will be renamed Blinkx, and listed on London's AIM exchange for growth stocks in May.
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Mashable!
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Autonomy Exercises Option To Buy Blinkx; Merges With Its Consumer Division; Will IPO It In London — This is among the first such IPOs in the still-nascent online video search space, and almost solves the mystery of the weirdly secretive relationship between the data/information search company Autonomy …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Report: 80 percent of blogs contain "offensive" content — Blogs are known to be a free-for-all for "expressive" content, but according to a new report by ScanSafe, a vast majority of blogs host content that is considered "offensive" and potentially "unwanted."
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Royal Pingdom:
Top 20 DNS server map shows US internet dominance — The US has long held a dominating position in the web hosting industry. One way to examine this is to look at which DNS servers hold the most domain names. It turns out that 16 of the 20 largest DNS servers in the world are located in the US.
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GigaOM
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Results from Apple's (Bumpy) 2nd Q Due Today — Investors following Apple (AAPL) are even more skittish than usual in advance of the company's second quarter earnings report, scheduled for 5 p.m. ET today. — "My crystal ball is one of the cloudiest on record," wrote a company watcher …
John Liu / Bloomberg:
Google to Sell Online Ads on China Telecom Web Sites (Update6) — Google Inc. won the right to sell advertising on 400 Web sites owned by China Telecom Corp., helping it compete with Microsoft Corp. and dominant local rival Baidu.com Inc. in the world's second-biggest Internet market.
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Search Engine Land
Iancr / Yahoo! Music Blog:
Lyrics By The Pound … Check out this now-embarrassing post from 1992 in rec.music.funky where I'm trying to decode the lyrics to "A Year And A Day" from Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique. … Yahoo! Music can tell you. … Click to download the Mike D interview MP3 … Or Rakim. But mostly Yahoo! Music.
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PC World: Techlog, TechCrunch, Newsome.Org, Listening Post, The Technology Chronicles and digg
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Nokia:
Over 100 million S60 devices shipped — Volume market attracts mobile innovation — S60 Summit 2007, Madrid, Spain - Nokia today announced that over 100 million S60 devices have cumulatively been shipped by S60 licensees to date. S60 software built on Symbian OS is the world's leading …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Vista betas, RCs will reboot every 2 hours starting June 1 — Microsoft to notify users of OS expiration, but no price break for testers — Microsoft Corp. today spelled out exactly how users of Windows Vista betas and release candidates can shift to the final code, and warned that beginning June 1 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Newsvine Relaunch Today: Build Your Own News Site — Seattle-based news site Newsvine will relaunch this afternoon with significant changes to the user experience. They're calling the release "Evergreen." — Among the changes: like Netvibes, Pageflakes and other personalized homepages …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
FCC to reveal spectrum auction plan — The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday is expected to begin setting rules for one of the most important wireless spectrum auctions in the foreseeable future. — The new rules, which determine how to divvy up licenses and actually auction …
Lorraine Woellert / Business Week:
Was Uncle Sam Bilked by IT Kickbacks? — The Justice Dept. has accused at least a dozen tech companies of running secret rebate and commission schemes, and more charges are expected — With some big players already named in lawsuits alleging a widespread kickback scheme …
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Rough Type
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator's European Clone — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Y Combinator can now consider itself twice flattered. Y Combinator's funding methodology of investing a small amount of money across a wide array of young entrepreneurs has already inspired other programs, such as TechStars out of Colorado.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
EQO Gets $9 Million Series B — Vancouver-based EQO, makers of a mobile VoIP and IM client, just closed a $9 million second round financing on top of their $4 million CDN (~$3.5 US) series A financing. The round was made by existing investors GrowthWorks and BDC Capital, with new investor, Ventures West, taking the lead.
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Salesforce.com's Pitch to Startups — CEO Marc Benioff is opening an incubator to encourage software companies to develop complementary applications for AppExchange — Workers stand on ladders carefully positioning a company sign above a row of cubicles.
Basil / Mozilla Developer News:
What's happening with Mozilla Firefox 1.5? — Wanted to notify the community that Mozilla will only supply security and stability upgrades for Firefox 1.5 until mid-May of this year. We encourage all Firefox 1.5 users to visit http://getfirefox.com to download the latest version of Firefox today.
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mozillaZine.org, TechBlog, Zero Day, Hardware 2.0, TechSpot News, Today @ PC World and Download Squad
