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Wall Street Journal:
EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio — EBay Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire StumbleUpon Inc., an Internet company that helps people discover Web pages that match their interests, according to people familiar with the matter. — The potential price for a deal is in the range of $75 million, these people say.
Microsoft Help and Support:
The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer … SYMPTOMS — Consider the following scenario. You have an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer through a USB connection.
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Peter Rojas / Engadget Mobile:
Palm Treo 755p hands-on — Let's be real: the new Treo 755p is more or less what the 700p should have been. There's not exactly anything wrong with it, just that it's been a year since the 700p came out and all the improvements to the 755p are rather minor.
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Gizmodo:
Hands On: Treo 755 Hands On with Sprint EVDO, Palm OS, and Google Maps — Here's the deal on the Palm Treo 755: It's a 750 generation variant, running on Palm OS and Sprint instead of Windows Mobile and AT&T/Cingular/Whatever. That means its got that Sprint EVDO we know and love …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard update hands-on — Well, that Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard update did land at about 2:00AM PST as expected, and brought with it a few fun features we were hot to test out — but none more than the Xbox's expanded video playback capabilities.
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Gamerscore Blog:
Windows Live Messenger Comes to Xbox LIVE, Uniting Friends and Families on the TV, PC and Mobile Phone — Starting tomorrow more than 6 million members of Xbox LIVE can instant message with people on PCs and mobile phones, one of the hundreds of enhancements coming with the Xbox 360 Spring Update
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VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Opposable Thumbs, Neowin.net, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Kotaku, Engadget, Joystiq and Xbox Live's Major Nelson
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age — Online radio station Last.fm is adding a video section to its site this week, enabling users to create their own personalised video channels - similar to how users can already create radio stations based on their music tastes.
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Mashable!, AppScout, Listening Post, WebProNews, franticindustries, The Next Net and i-boy
John Cook / John Cook's Venture Blog:
Mpire and the year of the widget — Looking to capitalize on its shopping analytics, Seattle's Mpire today is rolling out about 80 new e-commerce "widgets." — The free "widgets" — small online applications or tools that easily plug in to Web sites — will allow bloggers and online publishers …
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
First Look - Google Print Ads Now Part of AdWords — We've looked around and we're pretty confident that Marketing Pilgrim has the first screenshots of Google Print integrated with AdWords. — Using the AdWords console, advertisers can select the following: — Date range for ads to run.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
War Of The People Search — I moderated a fascinating panel tonight at Google headquarters that included execs from three "people search engines" - the CEO of Wink (Michael Tanne), the CEO of Spock (Jaideep Singh), and the COO of Zoominfo (Bryan Burdick). — The panel was very timely.
Microsoft:
Microsoft SQL Server "Katmai" Builds on Proven Success of SQL Server 2005, Empowering Customers to Manage the Data Explosion — Vision for next release of SQL Server announced at Microsoft's first Business Intelligence Conference. — Today at the first Microsoft Business Intelligence …
Google Analytics Blog:
New Version of Google Analytics! — Today at the Emetrics Summit in San Francisco, Brett Crosby and Jeff Veen unveiled the new version of Google Analytics. We will be activating this new version on all current Analytics accounts over the next few weeks, so please be on the lookout for an email …
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Internet Outsider, gSpy, Compiler, Mashable!, Traffick, InsideGoogle, Modern Life, Search Engine Journal, Jeffrey Veen, Elliott Back, Unofficial Google …, Screenwerk, Webware.com, The Software Abstractions Blog, Official Google Blog, ValueWiki Blog, Googlified, Occam's Razor, Inside AdWords, Google Blogoscoped, ResourceShelf and Adaptive Path
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Escaping the data panopticon: Prof says computers must learn to "forget" — The rise of fast processors and cheap storage means that remembering, once incredibly difficult for humans, has become simple. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, a professor in Harvard's JFK School of Government …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Weebly Launches Blog Platform, Closes $650K Investment — AJAX website editor Weebly has just landed $650K in investment and launched a new blogging platform today. The investment comes from Ron Conway's Baseline Ventures, Steve Anderson, Sydin Senkhut, Paul Buchheit, and Mike Maples.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
160Mbps downloads move closer for US cable customers — The National Cable & Telecommunications Association is holding its annual convention in Las Vegas (where else?) and this year, super-high-speed cable service is finally moving into the limelight. Announcements from hardware providers …
