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11:40 AM ET, April 18, 2007

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Internet Stocks on Seeking Alpha:
Yahoo! Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript  —  Executives  —  Terry Semel - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer  —  Susan Decker - Executive Vice President; Head of Advertiser and Publisher Group and Acting Chief Financial Officer  —  Analysts  —  Christa S. Quarles - Thomas Weisel Partners
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:   Yahoo's Next Search: A New CEO?
CNNMoney.com:
BlackBerry service back  —  Service problems disrupted e-mail traffic but the company says most service is restored.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A system failure knocked out BlackBerry service to millions of customers late Tuesday but the company said Wednesday morning that service for "most customers" was restored.
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WNBC:
BlackBerry Woes Getting Better
John Blau / PC Advisor:
Blackberry users helpless after outage
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Releases Improved Content Removal Tools  —  Google has rolled out new tools to help people quickly get content removed from its search engine.  Those targeted at site owners allow for speedy removal of pages and cached copies of pages.  Other tools allow those to request the removal …
Discussion: Paul Mooney
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Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Requesting removal of content from our index  —  As a site owner, you control what content of your site is indexed in search engines.  The easiest way to let search engines know what content you don't want indexed is to use a robots.txt file or robots meta tag.
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo, PayPal Team Up On Checkout  —  Building on their existing alliance, Yahoo and PayPal today announced that Yahoo Sponsored Search results will feature a blue shopping cart icon linking to merchants that accept PayPal Express Checkout as a method of payment.
Discussion: Download Squad
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Amb / ambdon:
Testing a new look for Google?  —  Probably been seen before, but did a search in Google (in IE7 using the search box top right hand corner) and got a tasty new look.  —  Search results (top half) - click for full pic  —  Search results (bottom half) - click for full pic  —  Google "menu" - click for full pic
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Google Blogoscoped:   Google Prototype With Navigation at Top Left
Stephen Totilo / MTV:
Multiplayer: Virginia Tech Teacher Builds Memorial Wall In Virtual World  —  'The wall is just my contribution,' 'Second Life' regular says.  —  The virtual world of "Second Life" isn't a video game, but I didn't feel much like playing games on Tuesday (April 17).
Discussion: Kotaku and GamePolitics.com
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Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Virginia Tech: How Media Are Evolving
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Top Ten VC Lies  —  From a recent (highly playful) presentation of mine, here is my list of the top ten lies venture capitalists tell.  Imagine it being read in reverse order, from 10 to 1, a la Letterman:
Discussion: VC Circle and Texas Startup Blog
David Filo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Don't even leave a footprint  —  Jerry Yang and I just announced at our quarterly employee all-hands that Yahoo! has committed to going carbon neutral this year.  Essentially, that means we're going to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world to neutralize Yahoo!'s impact on the environment.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Google Phone launching end of 2007?  —  The on-again, off-again Google Phone rumors just got a healthy stir by Digitimes.  The Taiwanese tech rag says that HTC is building the phone with initial shipments set to hit by the "end of 2007" — globally in 2008.  They cite "handset component makers" as their source.
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DigiTimes:
HTC to ship Google handsets by year-end
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Mashable.com Banned in Thailand  —  I have the dubious honor of announcing that Mashable.com has been banned in Thailand, due to our reporting of the YouTube ban, continued reports and posting of the clips that had offended the Thai government.  The comments on those posts have generated …
Eric Case / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
How to make a pie  —  Posted by: Yoah Bar-David, Software Engineer, Google Tel-Aviv  —  I have a friend who is a great chef and owns a restaurant.  A while ago he called and asked me in his mild French accent "how to make a pie."  I can cook, and I do it quite often.
BBC:
Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft'  —  Two people have been cautioned for using people's wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission.  —  Neighbours in Redditch, Worcestershire, contacted police on Saturday after seeing a man inside a car using a laptop while parked outside a house.
Wayne Rash / eWEEK.com:
FCC to Investigate Broadband Deployment  —  WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission has begun action on two items involving broadband deployment in the United States.  The first is a Notice of Inquiry into whether broadband services are being provided to all Americans in a timely and reasonable fashion.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google News Tests Adding Subscribe To Google Reader Link  —  A reader sent us a screen capture of Google News allowing you to easily click a link to add that news search to Google Reader.  —  As you can see from the screen capture, Google News has a link that reads, "Subscribe to a news feed for [query] in Google Reader."
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Sprint: Say Bon Voyage to Vonage  —  Although acquiring the Web-phone services provider could hold some advantages for the telco giant, analysts say it should stay focused on core operations  —  Sprint Nextel, beset by customer losses and lackluster products, has enough on its plate without going after Vonage.
Discussion: IP Democracy
 
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Gary / memoria technica:
At Large  —  I'm told that the previous entry was …
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Michael Calore / Wired News:
Livin' la Vida Google: A Month-Long Dive Into Web-Based Apps
Reuters:
Vonage Says That It May Face Bankruptcy
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Feature: Dissecting Jack's Lies
Financial Times:
Sony chief hails PS3's success in Europe
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Mike / Techdirt:
More People Realizing That Giving Stuff Away Can Increase Revenue
Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
TechStars Summer Camp for Entrepreneurs: Winners Selected
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Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
Getting the message in  —  A recent visit to the Apple campus left …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Intel moves closer to flash memory replacement
Discussion: Neowin.net and TechSpot News
BetaNews:
Windows Media Player Plug-in for Firefox Now a Reality
Stephen Totilo / MTV:
GameFile: 'Super Paper Mario' Vs. 'Renaissance.Nerds'; 'Halo 3' And More
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Rural Arkansas school turns school buses into classrooms
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Facebook To Allow Embedding of Third-Party Widgets
 

 
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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”

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