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5:55 PM ET, October 12, 2006

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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo's Talks With Facebook Get Bogged Down  —  Days after Google Inc. announced a $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube Inc., rival Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to extend its Web reach through an acquisition of Facebook Inc. aren't making much progress, say people familiar with the matter.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Facebook worth more than YouTube?  —  The Wall Street Journal says "Yahoos talks with Facebook get bogged down" Yahoo is reportedly offering $1B for FaceBook.  The talks have been on and off most of this year.  —  Robert Scoble asks "Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube?"
Palm:
Palm Unveils New Slim, Sleek Treo Smartphone  —  MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE:  —  For people who are ready to move up to a full-featured mobile phone that includes everything needed to stay organized, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 680 smartphone, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone.
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:   Hands-on with the Treo 680  —  It was a total mob scene …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Partners to Offer New Windows Vista-Ready Products for Holidays  —  Windows Vista logo program designed to help encourage compatibility and performance in partner software and hardware.  —  Today at DigitalLife 2006, Microsoft Corp. announced the holiday availability of PCs …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Still no sign of Vista coupons
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again  —  For Jawed Karim, the $100,000 or so he would have to spend on a master's degree at Stanford was never daunting.  He hit an Internet jackpot in 2002 when PayPal, the online payment company he had joined early on, was bought by eBay.
Todd Weiss / Yahoo! News:
Could a 30-in. monitor help you do your job faster?  —  Providing employees with 30-in. computer monitors can boost worker productivity at companies where 17-in. or 19-in. monitors are typically used, according to a French consultant hired for a study sponsored by Apple.
Discussion: Gadgetopia, Forever Geek and Slashdot
Asack / A Sack of Seattle:
What's been hard at Judy's Book  —  Following up on my post yesterday, below are answers to the question of what's been harder than expected at Judy's Book.  —  Achieving critical mass in local  —  Momentum in any one location doesn't transfer to others - you have to fight the same fight over and over.
BBC:
Libyan pupils 'to have laptops'  —  The government of Libya is reported to have agreed to provide its 1.2m school children with a cheap durable laptop computer by June 2008.  —  The laptops offer internet access and are powered by a wind-up crank.  They cost $100 and manufacturing begins next year, says One Laptop per Child.
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS...  Disclaimer (added 3:15pm): Obviously I work at Yahoo and obviously I know the people who work on Flickr and Zonetag personally.  Other clients for uploading information from your phone and capturing context do exist and if you're interested …
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar
Joe Mandese / MediaPost Publications:
Analysts Downgrade Ad Outlook — Again — Detect Shift Vis-A-Vis Economic Growth  —  A WELL REGARDED WALL STREET research team has once again downgraded the outlook for U.S. and worldwide ad spending, and may have uncovered a fundamental shift in the way ad industry growth corresponds to the expansion of the general economy.
Discussion: paidContent.org and Screenwerk
David Pogue / New York Times:
Trying Again to Make Books Obsolete  —  "The market for downloadable books will grow by 400 percent in each of the next two years, to over $25 billion by 2008," predicted the keynote speaker at the 2001 Women's National Book Association meeting.  "Within a few years after the end of this decade …
Discussion: paidContent.org, TechBlog and TeleRead
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ask Mobile Search Launches  —  Ask.com has launched a mobile search product at m.ask.com or mobile.ask.com.  First, Ask Mobile is optimized for mobile devices and uses Skweezer throughout to improve readability and download speed on your mobile device.  Navigating Ask Mobile was a pleasure on my Treo …
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:
Sony Battery Recall to Cause Shortage Until June, Makers Say  —  Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — A global recall of about 8 million Sony Corp. notebook-computer batteries is creating a shortage that's driving up prices and causing delays in shipments, executives from three Taiwanese manufacturers said.
 
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Andy McCue / CNET News.com:
Google, BEA in enterprise portal mashup talks
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
LinuxPhone, For Mobile DIY
Discussion: Download Squad
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's NW-S700/600 series: the best sounding Walkmans, ever
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Oprah and Bono to unveil Product Red iPod nano tomorrow
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Dell's XPS M1710 notebook gets overclockable Core 2 Duo
Sherjo / MSDN Blogs:
Office Delay? Ya Don't Say.
Gavin O'Malley / AdAge:
Digital Media Buyers Love GoogTube Merger
Discussion: Screenwerk, AdJab and Adrants
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Mobile Ad Trend Grows
Discussion: MocoNews.net
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Spamhaus Tests U.S. Control Over Internet
Bruce Byfield / Linux.com:
Reiser filesystem development to continue
Discussion: TechBlog, TechSpot, digg and Slashdot
Dylan T. Lovan / Associated Press:
EU Rejects Spam Maker's Trademark Bid
Discussion: Gadgetopia
investor.novatelwireless.com:
Novatel Wireless Announces Commercial Availability of Industry's …
Jon's Radio:
Levelator!  —  When Doug Kaye announced the availability …
Brian McKenna:
5 Reasons to Support IceWeasel
Rebecca Barr / Bloomberg:
McAfee Replaces Chief, to Restate 10 Years of Results (Update2)
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple's missing "Home on iPod" feature resurfaces in filing
 

 
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