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5:55 PM ET, February 26, 2007

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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft to Buy Health Information Search Engine  —  Microsoft's drive into the health care market is just getting under way, but the company signaled on Monday that one important ingredient in its plan will be a specialized search engine tailored to deliver useful medical information to consumers.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Demonstrates Further Commitment to Healthcare Market With Planned Acquisition of Web Search Company  —  Medstory's intuitive technology designed to improve access to health information and empower consumers to make better-informed health decisions.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Highlights Healthcare Strategy at HIMSS 07 Conference
Discussion: PaidContent and VC Ratings
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft buying search firm in health-care push
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:   What's really behind Microsoft's healthcare push?
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:   Microsoft buys health search engine, Medstory
Alan Saracevic / The Technology Chronicles:
Microsoft buys Medstory
Discussion: WebProNews and StartupSquad.com
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:   Microsoft to acquire search start-up Medstory
New York Times:
An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little  —  Google and Yahoo have been fighting it out over which company will dominate the online advertising business, with Google maintaining the upper hand so far.  —  But in the competition for contextual text ads — those small sponsored links …
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Jenstar / JenSense:
Google to begin sharing URLs where AdWords advertiser's ads are being run  —  The New York Times ran an article about Quigo, a contextual advertising company that targets premium sized publishers.  In the story, comments from both Yahoo & Google were included.
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
The billion-dollar question—Joe Schmo wins
Discussion: Web X.0 and Traffick
New York Times:
Google in Content Deal With Media Companies  —  Google built an empire delivering advertisements across the Internet, and now it plans to distribute content from media companies just as aggressively.  —  Google is working with Dow Jones & Company, Condé Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment …
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
BitTorrent goes commercial; execs toast move with New Coke  —  In one of the early seasons of "Friends," Monica had a boyfriend named Fun Bobby.  Everyone loved Fun Bobby because he was cheerful and spontaneous, the life of the party.  Then they noticed Bobby always had a drink in his hand.
Discussion: The Globe and Mail and Memex 1.1
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
EMI: DRM stays  —  EMI has broken off talks with digital music download services about providing a DRM-free repertoire.  —  EMI was always tipped as the most likely of the "Big Four" to break ranks with its peers and supply music unencumbered by DRM.  It's the smallest of the four major labels …
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
New Hot Properties: YouTube Celebrities  —  No one would mistake the Ask a Jew guy for Lonelygirl15, but these days YouTube contributor Shmuel Tennenhaus is feeling like a hot commodity.  —  Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question …
Discussion: Cost Per News, A VC and Reel Pop
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Problems arise with Vista's validation  —  Last year, when Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy infrastructure for Windows Vista, I was skeptical.  Here's what I wrote at the time: … And now, only weeks after the retail launch of Windows Vista, early Vista adopters are experiencing a wave of validation and activation problems.
Discussion: raving lunacy
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Dwight / TechBlog:
Updated: What happens when Windows Vista isn't activated
Martyn Williams / InfoWorld:
Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued over MP3  —  Texas MP3 Technologies claims the companies infringed its patent covering 'an MPEG portable sound reproducing system'  —  Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit.
Daniel E. Slotnik / New York Times:
Too Few Friends?  A Web Site Lets You Buy Some (and They're Hot)  —  Popularity was never easily measured, until the advent of social-networking sites.  Now, prospective employers and others can gain some insights into an applicant's lifestyle and character by looking at a person's social-networking page …
Cho Jin-seo / KoreaTimes:
Samsung Sisters Vie for LCD Record  —  Samsung SDI has developed the slimmest liquid crystal display (LCD) for mobile phones, breaking the record set by its sister firm Samsung Electronics only three months ago.  —  The display maker said the new prototype module is only 0.74 millimeters thick …
Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
Linux users tell Ballmer to put his code where his mouth is  —  We're pumped for a real showdown in the upcoming months, since the Linux community has just launched Show Us the Code, a website / movement humoring Steve Ballmer's repeated claims of burgled Microsoft IP within the open source OS …
Newlaunches.com:
Mirage 3D Hologram Generator  —  The Mirage 3D Hologram Generator generates a perfect 3D hologram without even using electricity, looking more like a frying pan it is a precision optical instrument, manufactured to tolerances of millionths of an inch so the objects you display are faithfully and realistically recreated.
Discussion: Crave, Gizmodo and CrunchGear
biz.yahoo.com:
Yahoo!: Time for Plan B  —  Eric Jackson submits: What's a long-term path for success for Yahoo! (NasdaqGS: YHOO)?  Long after Panama has been rolled out, the company needs a strategic shift in direction and some important structural changes in its leadership and governance to put …
Discussion: TechCrunch and WebProNews
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Quintura Visual Search Engine Relaunches  —  At around 8 AM PST this morning, Moscow-based search engine Quintura will relaunch its visual search engine with a new user interface (if it looks like the screen shot below, it's launched).  —  The company, which is backed by Mangrove Capital Partners …
Lewis Page / The Register:
Windows for Warships nears frontline service  —  Analysis Everyone knows the differences between Windows and other operating systems.  Steve Jobs has recently spent colossal sums telling us that most malware is written for Windows; also that using Windows is no fun and, even worse, seems to involve wearing a tie.
Discussion: Mobility Site and Slashdot
 
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Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Exclusive Video Leaked: iPod Firmware Coming, Enables Cover Flow
Discussion: CrunchGear and digg
Daniel Jalkut / Red Sweater Blog:
MarsEdit 1.1.3  —  When the news went out last Thursday …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Social Bookmarking 101: You gotta own your bury/sink. …
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Wall Street Journal:
Radar Returns for a Third Try in the Buzz Business
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
2007 SEMPO Board of Directors Announced
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Red-light district on a tiny mobile screen
 Earlier Items: 
Mike / Techdirt:
Is It Still Theft Of Service If It's Using The Free WiFi At The Library?
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube and Google Video Player in Google SERPs: This Is EVIL
Wall Street Journal:
Tech Giants to Unveil Power-Usage Plan
Mike / Techdirt:
News Reports May Be A Little Quick To Clear Sarasota E-Voting Machines
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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