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Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft offer — Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive of Yahoo, said on Wednesday he had turned down an offer from Microsoft to buy a stake in Yahoo's search business and that discussions about Bill Gates' software group acquiring the company had not taken place.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Breakfast with Yahoo — I'm at a Newhouse School/New Yorker event at Bryant Park with Ken Auletta interviewing Yahoo boss Terry Semel. — He says he talked to Google's founders early on about buying them. Their first offer was $1 billion "and we don't want to sell."
USA Today:
NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls — The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
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Noahmax / Defense Tech:
NSA SWEEP "WASTE OF TIME," ANALYST SAYS — It'd be one thing if the NSA's massive sweep of our phone records was actually helping catch terrorists. But what if it's not working at all? A leading practitioner of the kind of analysis the NSA is supposedly performing in this surveillance program says that …
Business Wire:
World's First ISO Compliant Payment DisplayCard using SiPix and SmartDisplayer's Flexible Display Panel — FREMONT, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 10, 2006—SiPix Imaging (www.sipix.com) and SmartDisplayer (www.smartdisplayer.com) developed the first flexible display panel to be embedded into an ISO compliant payment card.
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Evan Blass / Engadget:One Time Password DisplayCard heightens transaction security
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Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Clarification on AIMpages — Whew! At least I can legally say what the name is! That's been an embargo for almost two months now - as the code-name AIMspace leaked out in late January in Businessweek. — So now starts the next phase - testing. — So thanks to everyone for their interest …
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Mass media masses at the Googleplex — [To skip to the Google presentation report click on the extended entry...] — Google's Press day started at 9.30 am but it was closer to 10am by the time I got to the Googleplex H.Q, an hour away and a traffic crawl from San Francisco.
icann.org:
ICANN Board Votes Against .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain Agreement — Marina del Rey, California, 10 May 2006: Today, ICANN's Board of Directors voted against a proposed agreement for a .XXX. Sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD). The application was proposed by the ICM Registry.
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google Co-op: What Is It? — As you know, Google has announced four new products yesterday, one of those products is named Google Co-op. Google Co-op enables you to create what are called "subscribed links," which basically allows you to create a Google SERP, define the title …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
25 Things I Learned on Google Trends — To give you a sense of its tremendous power for tapping into the world psyche, here are 25 things I learned on Google Trends. Someone should start a blog on this kind of stuff. — 1) Almost all of the ten biggest US markets for MySpace are on the West Coast
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SiliconBeat, Mashable*, cre8d design blog, InsideGoogle, Orbitcast, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, mathewingram.com/work, Joseph Scott's Blog, Guardian Unlimited, Got Ads?, Search Engine Roundtable, Business Filter, Barnako.com, Google Blogoscoped, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Digital Inspiration and Gautam Ghosh on Management
Jimmy Daniels / Alice Hill's Real Tech News:
Warner Bros Partners with 180Solutions — In one of those moves you just have to shake your head at, Warner Bros has partnered with 180Solutions to distribute shows made exclusively for the web. The plan is to add a third show, and to use other models to distribute the shows, such as on Sprint telephones and BitTorrent.
Andrew Liszewski / OhGizmo!:
NAVIsis EZ-Canvas — Korean-based company NAVIsis is already known to some for their line of handwriting recognition hardware that doesn't require a special tablet or writing surface to work. Using the same technology the company has now developed the EZ-Canvas which will essentially allow …
Agence France Presse:
NTT DoCoMo to start next-generation music-movie service — TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's top mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, said it will start a next-generation service letting phone users download music videos, aiming to outdo rivals' success with online music. — The new service …
Infinite Loop:
Note to the Press: AAC is not "Apple's format" — Over the last 24 hours we've watched some bad reporting lead to even more bad reporting, all circling the same issue: Sony's decision to support AAC. The mainstream media, by and large, has picked this up as a sign of Apple's dominance in the portable music player business.
Joe / Techdirt:
Tech Workers Need More Than Sentimental Reasons To Unionize — from the workers-of-the-world,-compete! dept — Tony Long argues at Wired.com that it's time tech workers unionized. He uses the typical rhetoric about jobs being outsourced, wages stagnating, corporate profits soaring …
David Pogue / New York Times:
Why the World Doesn't Need Hi-Def DVD's — WHEN did you first become cynical about the electronics industry? — Was it when VHS went out of style, and you had to buy all your movies again on DVD? Was it the time(s) you never got the rebate you mailed away for?
Chris Morris / CNN:
PlayStation 3 boss defends high price — Sony Computer president Kaz Hirai says $499 and $599 game machines are a good value. — LOS ANGELES (CNNMoney.com) - While gamers and many industry analysts are still recovering from their surprise at the high price tag for a premium PlayStation 3 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Notebook Screen Shots — A Google employee named Erica Joy has posted a number of screen shots of Google Notebook, which will launch next week at google.com/notebook. — Notebook looks like it is designed to be a flat out del.icio.us competitor, allowing you to gather content from around the web …
dailywireless.org:
AT&T's WiFi TV — AT&T and MobiTV today announced they will deliver mobile television content over AT&T's nationwide Wi-Fi network. The service will enable AT&T customers to view live television while connected to one of AT&T's/SBC's Wi-Fi hot spots. — The MobiTV service includes 15 …
Mark Nottingham / mnot's Web log:
Vendor-pires — Anne-Thomas Manes extolls the virtues of WS-*; … Ah, there we are; major vendors. What she's basically saying here is that if you're silly enough to have invited one of these vampires into your home, you'll have the option of selecting other vampires to replace them at will …
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Business Wire:
Think Partnership Announces Changes to Board of Directors — Company Following Through on Previously Announced Shift to Focus Upon Operations and Integration — NORTHBROOK, Ill.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 11, 2006—Think Partnership Inc. (AMEX:THK - News; "Think Partnership" or the "Company" …
