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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Tellme Price - $800 Million, or More — Microsoft Corp. is said to be talks to acquire Tellme Networks, a voice applications company, according to The Wall Street Journal and C/Net News.com. — This news of a pending acquisition was first reported by TechCrunch in February, but at the time …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Sources say Microsoft near deal to buy Tellme — Microsoft is close to acquiring privately held Tellme Networks, a maker of products that bridge the worlds of speech recognition and the Internet, CNET News.com has learned. — The deal is expected to be completed and announced later this week …
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:
Topix.net Buys .Com Domain For $1 Million; Worries On Google Juice After Move — Topix.net, the news search site majority owned by Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune, has bought its .com domain after paying a Canadian company $1 million in January (late last year Topix received $15 million funding) …
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:How Search-Engine Rules Cause Sites to Go Missing
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Survey gives more Google phone clues? — Yes, this would be pretty easy to fake — and even if it's real, it's just a survey, which means it's sorta fake by design — but a questionnaire allegedly received by a Mobileburn forum member hints at specs and a rather fascinating concept design for Google's probably-in-the-works cellphone.
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
New pictures of the Google Phone — There is absolutely no way of telling if this story is true, but a poster on the mobileburn forum was sent a survey to complete through equip-surveys.com about a "Google Phone". The poster recalls seeing the specs, but says he forgot to take a screenshot of them.
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Sets Rules for Digital TV Payments — The government will offer households as much as $80 each to help convert televisions to receive digital broadcasts under a $1.5 billion program. — Households with one or more TV sets can ask for as many as two $40 coupons as long as the first allotment …
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Arn / MacRumors:
8-core Mac Pro Leak at Apple UK? [Update] — Apple's UK Store leaks some information which suggests that 8-Core Mac Pros are coming soon. — When searching for "Mac" in the UK Apple Store, the listing for the Mac Pro is: … Rumors that Apple would incorporate two of Intel's Quad-core chips …
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Tech Firms Push to Use TV Airwaves for Internet — A coalition of big technology companies wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers in a new way: over television airwaves. Key to the project is whether a device scheduled to be delivered to federal labs today lives up to its promise.
Nicholas Reville / DEMOCRACY:
A Name Change — This is some big news for us. We are planning to change the name of Democracy Player. — We chose the name 'Democracy' almost two years ago when we were first setting up PCF. We knew it was an ambitious name, but we thought that it made a clear statement about how important …
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
SEC Charges Four Former Senior Executives of Nortel Networks Corporation in Wide-Ranging Financial Fraud Scheme — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2007-39 — Washington, D.C., March 12, 2007 - The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed civil fraud charges in the U.S. District Court …
NASA:
Stereo Eclipse — When scientists announce they're about to calibrate their instruments, science writers normally put away their pens. It's hard to write a good story about calibration. This may be the exception: — On Feb. 25, 2007, NASA scientists were calibrating some cameras aboard …
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
AT&T Expands Wireless Stores — With the opening yesterday of its first megastore, AT&T is trying to do the seemingly impossible: make buying cellular service an almost entertaining experience. — The 5,000-square-foot store in the Compaq Center complex in Houston is the first of 11 …
Jitendra Gupta / Read/WriteWeb:
Improving Online Communities: MyBlogLog, Explode, OthersOnline — Online community, or for that matter any community, is built upon the shared experiences of its participants. In the real world, people in a community typically interact with each other by gathering at same physical location, at the same time.
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Craig Harris / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Starbucks to form record label — Starbucks' new record label to produce CDs — Starbucks by the end of this year hopes to make its own sweet music to go with made-to-order lattes or cappuccinos. — The international coffee company announced Monday that it is joining with Concord Music Group …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Alt Search Engine Market Share Mashup — The mashups of our Top Alternative Search Engines list continue! Charles Knight spotted a great post by the Search The Web 2.0 blog, which took the top 100 and attempted to rank them by market share. The reason for this ambitious undertaking …
