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Yahoo:
Yahoo! Re-Aligns Organization to More Effectively Focus on Key Customer Segments and Capture Future Growth Opportunities — New Structure to Focus on Serving More Sophisticated Demands of Audiences, Advertisers and Publishers Worldwide — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 05, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) …
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Screenwerk, Charlene Li's Blog, PaidContent, Valleywag, Paul Kedrosky's …, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, CenterNetworks and HipMojo.com
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Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Taking Yahoo! forward — When I joined Yahoo! five years ago, I found a company with incredible assets (huge audience, strong brand, healthy balance sheet), great potential, and a team filled with determination and a fighting spirit. But the company faced challenging economic conditions …
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Execs Meet To Discuss Major Shakeup — Update - 6:15 pm: Yahoo released an official statement about the reorganization at approximately 5:45 p.m. The news confirms the resignation of COO Dan Rosensweig and elaborates on the company's new business focus. Get more details from our update.
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Between the Lines, Valleywag, Blogging Stocks, Zoli's Blog, Jeremy Zawodny's blog and CNET News.com
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:Major Reorganization at Yahoo, COO Rosensweig To Leave
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Chuqui 3.0
Sherjo / Mac Mojo:
Converters Coming! Free and (Fairly) Fast. — There's been some pretty alarmist news stories this morning (apcstart.com; CrunchGear) about file format converters and Office for Mac. Because some of these stories seem designed more to inflame than inform, I want to reiterate …
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Tim Gaden / APC:
The lock-out begins for Office Mac users — Microsoft hsa officially launched Office 2007, but that's bad news for Mac users. — Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 now all use different file formats: docx, xlsx and pptx. — Microsoft is calling these "Microsoft Office Open XML Formats" …
Macworld UK:
New Office 2007 file format to vex Mac users — Microsoft's Office 2007 for Windows software saves documents in a Mac-incompatible format — Microsoft's Office 2007 for Windows saves documents in a format that's incompatible the company's Mac Office application.
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Apple Gazette
Laurie A. Duncan / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Windows Office 2007 files not compatible with Mac Office 2004
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UNEASYsilence
Frank Barnako:
Calacanis joins VC firm — Jason Calacanis, the former General Manager of AOL's Netscape (TWX) division, announced he's joining Sequoia Capital, a west coast venture investment firm. Calacanis's Weblogs Inc. was purchased by AOL about a year ago. In an appearance at a trade show Tuesday morning …
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Paul Kedrosky's …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:Jason Calacanis Speaks About Digg, Netscape, SEO & Pay Per Post Blogging
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SEO BlackHat
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple rumored to be eyeing video game market — A recent series of checks by Prudential analyst Jesse Tortora indicate that Apple Computer has hired video game designers and may have aspirations of entering the video game market in long-term. — "We think the video game market represents …
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HipMojo.com, CrunchGear, Things That, Infinite Loop, Chuqui 3.0, Gizmodo, The Next Net, Life On the Wicked Stage, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and digg
Mark Hachman / ExtremeTech:
AMD: New Chips Consume Half the Power of Core 2 Duo — AMD announced its entry into the 65-nm manufacturing generation Tuesday with a new line of 65-watt "energy-efficient" processors that the company claimed already consumes just under 50 percent less power than the Intel Core 2 Duo.
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Hirolog:
DarwiinRemote is released! — What is DarwiinRemote? — DarwiinRemote is a tiny software which reads data from and sends data to Nintendo Wii Remote — Inputs — 3-axis acceleration sensors — all buttons except power button on/off — Output — 4 LEDs — Force Feedback
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (929433) — Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of limited "zero-day" attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003 …
Lifehacker:
Download of the Day: Pandora's Jar (Windows) — Windows only: Save streaming Pandora tracks as MP3s with Pandora's Jar, a new Java-based utility. — More sophisticated than 3tunes, a similar program we looked at a few months back, Pandora's Jar actually has an interface, one that appends itself to the Pandora player.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Hands-on with Belkin's Cable-Free USB Hub — So we snagged our lucky selves a Belkin Cable-Free USB Hub, one of the first ever wireless USB devices, as well as one of the first consumer Ultrawideband products. Luckily for us there wasn't a lot to test, but we can tell you this: the hub is small …
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Macworld's 2006 Game Hall of Fame — 10 of the year's best Mac games and coolest accessories — If you're a pessimist, 2006 might have looked like a bleak year for Mac gaming. There were few major releases, even before the transition to Intel processors added more items to game developers' to-do lists.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Ben Elgin / Business Week:
The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case — Why was a seemingly slam-dunk case against an alleged click-fraudster who attempted to extort Google quietly dismissed? — A detective novelist might call it The Mystery of the Vanishing Click-Fraud Case. — It began on Mar. 10, 2004 …
PR Newswire:
Comcast Takes Gaming National With GameInvasion.net(TM) — Comcast, Major League Gaming and Ubisoft to offer exclusive gaming content — PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA - News, CMCSK - News), the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products …
