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Valleywag:
Exclusive: Photobucket goes to Myspace — Like a squabbling couple finally realizing they can't live without eachother — or a parasite fusing with its host — Photobucket has concluded terms of a sale to Myspace, News Corporation's social network. The photo sharing service …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Breaking: Photobucket Acquired By MySpace — UPDATE: See also MySpace and Photobucket: Timeline of Events — It's the deal you never thought would happen: MySpace acquiring Photobucket, the "parasite" that fed off MySpace traffic and hosted a massive number of MySpace photos.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide — Built from the ground up, the new Windows Live Hotmail is now safer, more powerful and available virtually anywhere. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live™ Hotmail®, the successor to MSN® Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Microsoft had been tinkering with Windows Live Mail for months, but testers still weren't happy. — The program was too slow to load, too different and, well, just not like the old Hotmail it was intended to replace. — It was a painful realization for the more than 100 managers and developers on the project.
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Investor Relations Blog
Your mail is here, come and get it!:It's Here and the Fun Has Only Just Begun
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Windows Vista Team Blog
Business Wire:
Samsung Unveils the Q1 Ultra, the Next Stage in the Evolution of Ultra Mobile Personal Computing — Increased Battery Life and Advanced Features in a Smaller, More Portable Form Factor — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a global leader in digital media …
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Gizmodo, GottaBeMobile.com, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Engadget, jkOnTheRun and Office Evolution
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
NBC Universal sides against YouTube in piracy suit — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - NBC Universal is taking sides with fellow media conglomerate Viacom Inc. over a piracy lawsuit filed against Google Inc.'s online video sharing site YouTube, according to papers filed in court.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Pew Research: 'Web 2.0' Crowd A Small Minority — The Pew Internet & American Life Project just released the findings of a new survey of 4,001 U.S. adults that segments Americans into a range of groups based on usage of and attitudes toward the Internet and mobile phones.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Comcast goes with Zimbra for new collaboration suite — Comcast plans to launch SmartZone, a major replacement for its current and uninspired consumer email service. At the core of SmartZone is a new version of Zimbra's open source, brower-based collaborative suite that includes email, instant messaging and voice mail access.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
A Chat with Aaron Swartz — Aaron Swartz, now in his early twenties, rose to internet fame as technology whiz kid a couple of years ago, working on such things as W3C standards or the Creative Commons. He was also blogger behind the very successful Google Weblog.
Mark Ward / BBC:
Beating Warcraft at its own game — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — With more than eight million subscribers, World of Warcraft dominates the online gaming market but some strong rivals are gearing up to take it on. — Gaute Godoger, game director at Funcom …
Gizmodo:
Linux Love Triangle: Dell and Microsoft Are Lovin' the Linux — All of this recent Linux news sounds like a Telemundo soap opera. Last November, Microsoft pledged support—if not undying amor—for Novell's Suse Linux platform. A week ago, Dell responded to pressure from its customers …
Business Wire:
Superpages.com Unveils New Local Search Experience with Extreme Makeover — Makeover Includes Redesigned Homepage, Incorporating Local City-Specific Skylines and More Local Content Relevant to Users — DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Superpages.com®, a service of Idearc Media Corp. …
benedelman.org:
How Spyware-Driven Forced Visits Inflate Web Site Traffic Counts — The usual motive for buying spyware popup traffic is simple: Showing ads. Cover Netflix's site with an ad for Blockbuster, and users may buy from Blockbuster instead. Same for other spyware advertisers.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Fear of Google — Yesterday, during his speech at the Forbes shindig I attended, Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer's funniest remark was when he told us that the "Fear of Google" was so prevelent that it even had a three-letter acronymn: FOG. — Anyway, I've been hearing more and more about FOG …
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Book Not Ready for Print? You Can Whip Up an Audiobook for a Podcast for Now — When you are a budding author and you appear on television, it is sure to enhance book sales. — But what do you do if your book is not even written, never mind in stores? — For Mignon Fogarty …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA "extortion": why the only RICO they fear is Suave — Since launching its legal campaign against those it suspects of file-sharing, the RIAA has been called any number of nasty things. Some commentators have gone so far as to call its onslaught of lawsuits an exercise in extortion.
