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Kent German / CNET News.com:
Razr2 carriers announced — Motorola announced today that its second-generation Razr phone will be arriving at most major U.S. carriers by the end of the summer. The GSM Razr2 V9 will come to AT&T while the CDMA Razr2 V9m will come to Alltel, Sprint, and Verizon Wireless.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Rumor Patrol: MySpace, Nope! Google? Maybe So. — Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. — Things have quieted down at Yahoo of late-thankfully for new CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang, who seems to be doing a good job at calming the waters at the company …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:Would Yahoo Hand Over Its Paid Search Business To Google?
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Partial Freakonomics feed = bad idea — I'm a huge fan of the Freakonomics guys, and a subscriber to their RSS feed, but I didn't realize until I saw a MediaPost item on Techmeme that they had been "acquired" by the New York Times. I also didn't realize until I read through the item …
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Max Kalehoff / Online Spin:
Freakonomics Sparks Debate Over Partial RSS Feeds — Freakonomics, the addictive blog examining the "hidden-side-of-everything," just partnered with The New York Times, moving under the flagship brand's online and editorial umbrellas. Congrats to the coauthors, celebrity economist Stephen Levitt …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
edgeio Launches Paid Content System — Online classifieds startup edgeio has just launched a new paid content product, which will be of particular interest to online publishers and media producers. They're calling it "transactional classifieds", which is an awkward name for a potentially very useful e-commerce service.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Mahalo Follow: Toolbar Gives You Human-Powered Alternatives To Searching, Surfing — Mahalo Follow is a new toolbar that allows you to view Mahalo's human-powered search results next to the results from the major search engine of your choice or have them appear in response to pages you view on the web.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Google Shutting Down Paid Video — Google today emailed customers who had purchased videos from Google Video to let them know that the company will be discontinuing paid rentals and downloads five days from now. Not only will videos no longer be available for rental or download …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Are You Ready To Bar Camp? — Bar Camp, an open multi-day event where people can share ideas and talk about just about anything they like, is a very important event for me. Two years ago I attended the first Bar Camp, which was held at Social Text's offices in Palo alto.
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CPSC Home Page:
Toshiba Recalls Notebook Computer Batteries Due to Fire Hazard — WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The $200 Billion Rip-Off — This is part three of my explanation of how America went from having the fastest and cheapest Internet service in the world to what we have today — not very fast, not very cheap Internet service that is hurting our ability to compete economically with the rest of the world.
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
Search In The Year 2010 — If I ever had to build a search engine, or more precisely, the interface of a search engine, this would be the team I would want to bring together. When I came up with the idea of looking forward three years and speculating on what the search results page may look like in 2010 …
snarfed.org:
facebook data store api thoughts — On Monday, Facebook employee Haiping Zhao quietly published a Data Store API on the Facebook developer wiki. — It's preliminary, and still in closed beta, but it marks a milestone in the evolution of the Facebook platform.
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Paul McNamara / Network World:
Verizon tech sets fire to home - accidentally — It's apparently not enough for Verizon to torment customers with unreliable FiOS TV connections, months-long installation ordeals, and an appointment-keeping record worthy of Maryland's regulatory wrath. — Now they're setting a house ablaze …
Jon Udell:
Excel geocoding adventures — As mentioned here, I've been working with a spreadsheet containing addresses that want to be geocoded. I've had lots of experience running batches of addresses through geocoding services, but in the case of the police department I've been working with …
