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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
SNAP RETHINKS SEARCH — As I've pointed out many times, Bill Gross, the man behind Snap (and Goto/Overture and about 25 other search related companies) is not one to take lightly. When Snap launched, I watched closely, and while many of its features were admirable (the transparency …
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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
New search engine's ads pay-per-action — PAY-PER-CLICK INVENTOR HAS HIGH HOPES FOR NEW MODEL — Bill Gross, the entrepreneur who first showed Google how to spin cyberspace searches into real-world gold, hopes his new search engine will teach Silicon Valley a new lesson in Internet advertising.
Jaanus / Skype Blogs:
Free calls to all landlines and mobile phones within the US and Canada — We just announced that SkypeOut is now free within the US and Canada to all landlines and mobiles, until at least the end of 2006. — How does this work? — If you're in the US or Canada, you can use SkypeOut …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
SkypeOut...Is It Really Free? — At first blush, the big Skype announcement that it will be allow free calls to everyone in US and Canada is having a desired effect: one of glee and joy. — Someone did come-up with a nifty stunt to bring the focus back on Skype.
James Kim / CNET News.com:
Ten reasons to love WMP 11 … Wednesday, Microsoft will launch the beta version of Windows Media Player 11 for XP (WMP 11), which includes the embedded Urge music service from MTV Networks. Additionally, iRiver today launched an updated version of the U10, called the Clix …
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news.sel.sony.com:
SONY UNVEILS WORLD'S FIRST BLU-RAY NOTEBOOK COMPUTER — New VAIO PC Offers the Ultimate in High-Definition — SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2006 - Sony today took the wraps off the world's first Blu-ray Disc enabled notebook computer— the VAIO® AR which will be available this summer.
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SONY DELIVERS WORLD'S FIRST FULL-FUNCTION POCKET-SIZED PC — New VAIO UX Model Combines Micro-Portable Design with Smooth Functionality — SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2006 - Sony Electronics today introduced the VAIO® UX Micro PC, placing full-size computer performance in a pocket-sized package.
PR Newswire:
Internet Regulator Unanimously Approves Innovative .Tel Domain — LONDON, May 15 /PRNewswire/ — ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) unanimously approved the creation of the new .Tel Top Level Domain (TLD) and awarded the contract to Telnic Limited.
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Read/WriteWeb:
Exclusive: New Yahoo! homepage — The world's most visited webpage, Yahoo.com, has just had a major re-design (available for now at yahoo.com/preview) and Read/WriteWeb has the inside story. As well as the first in-depth look at the new yahoo.com, I have for you an exclusive podcast interview with Yahoo! …
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
France Debates Downloads, With Teenager as Top Expert — PARIS — In the current debate over laws governing music downloads here, some condemn Aziz Ridouan as an advocate of criminal piracy, while others say he represents the new generation of online consumers.
siliconvalley.com:
Supreme Court backs eBay on injunction issue — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to patent-reform advocates Monday, ruling that a small company whose patent was infringed by eBay Inc. was not automatically entitled to a court order blocking the offending service.
Guy J Kewney / newswireless.net:
That "Guy" - he really is a Guy, and not a cab driver, either! — OK, reset everything you've heard about my appearance on the BBC: they've found the "taxi driver" and (as I have constantly tried to explain to everybody) he isn't a taxi driver. — His name is Guy Goma …
Alan Schwarz / New York Times:
Baseball Is a Game of Numbers, but Whose Numbers Are They? — Like no other corner of American popular culture, baseball communicates in numbers. From .406 (Ted Williams's 1941 batting average) to 755 (Hank Aaron's record home run total) to countless digits bandied about water coolers every morning …
Microsoft:
Gates Showcases the Heartbeat of Information Management: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 — First Global SharePoint Conference convenes today amid news of robust partner support for platform. — BELLEVUE, Wash. — May 15, 2006 — Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates kicked off …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Doppelganger, A New Online Ad Model? — Doppelganger, a San Francisco-based startup is launching a virtual world today that's part nightclub, part billboard. And it could have figured out an online advertising model that could become common place over next few years.
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