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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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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Microsoft buying search firm in health-care push
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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.
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 …
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comScore:
comScore Data Show Yahoo!'s New Ranking Model Has Had Initial Positive Impact on Sponsored Search Click-Through Rates — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released the results of a study analyzing the changes in Yahoo!'s click-through rates for sponsored search ads since …
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.
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Infinite Loop, Peter Zura's 271 Patent Blog, Neowin.net, Macsimum News and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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 …
Dwight / TechBlog:
Updated: What happens when Windows Vista isn't activated — Windows Vista, like Windows XP before it, requires that you activate it via a Microsoft server. In what amounts to a trial period, you have 30 days of use before it must be activated. — Late last week, I found out what happens when you don't activate Vista.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:Problems arise with Vista's validation
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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 …
Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Sony announces cheaper Blu-ray player — NEW YORK - Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). said Monday it is bringing out a cheaper player for Blu-ray discs early this summer, a crucial step in its battle to make the high-definition format the replacement for DVDs. — The BDP-S300 will cost $599 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
