Techmeme: Zune 2 leaks out in three flavors (Nilay Patel/Engadget)

9:35 AM ET, October 2, 2007

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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter — Yahoo is adding some major features to its search engine today. For instance, images from Flickr and playable videos are now embedded in the main results page. A search for a major rock band like U2 brings up information from the artist's Website …

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Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Zune 2 leaks out in three flavors — Well, we'd heard new Zunes were coming tomorrow (or maybe October 16th) and it looks like retailers are starting to receive display units — everyone, say hello to the new Zunes. Barring some Photoshop trickeration, it looks like we're getting …

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Ed Oswald / BetaNews:
Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Zune 1 running firmware 2.1, Zune 2 coming Wednesday

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Guardian:

EBay says it paid almost $1bn too much for Skype — Graeme Wearden — Dotcom giant eBay has admitted it paid far too much when it bought internet telephony company Skype for $2.6bn (£1.28bn) in 2005. — The web auction company said it was writing down the value of Skype …

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Saul Hansell / Bits:

EBay's $4 Billion Lesson in the Value of Hype — As Microsoft mulls putting up to $500 million into Facebook at a $10-billion-plus valuation, it may want to consider the fate of eBay's adventure with the Internet phone service Skype. — When eBay bought Skype in 2005 …

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How to of the Day:

How to Quit Facebook — Maybe your affinity for Facebook began with a simple desire to keep in touch with your friends, or make new ones online. Or perhaps you were just bored. But now Facebook is the thorn in your side, and possibly a bona fide addiction.

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Telegraph:

Microsoft powers up for change — Chief executive says free software, downloadable online, is on the horizon for consumers. Josephine Moulds reports — Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, yesterday signalled another step towards a dramatic change in the software giant's business model.

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Ed Gorman / Times of London:
Steve Ballmer stirs the technology pay row

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Live Search:

Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com — We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comparative shopping engines.

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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:

The stupidest idea ever? — VENTURE CAPITALIST WAS DISSATISFIED WORKING ON SMART IDEAS, SO HE WENT THE OTHER WAY — As managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki funded all the really smart ideas he could find. None hit it big. — So earlier this year the guru …

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Computerworld:

America's techiest cities: Silicon Valley No. 1, but who's No. 2? — Hint: It's not Boston or Seattle, according to Census Bureau stats — The highest concentration of IT professionals in the U.S. is — you guessed it — in Silicon Valley. But naming the No 2 spot isn't as easy, and the answer might surprise you.

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network — The wow.com domain name has laid dormant since at least 1998, when it was acquired by AOL along with other assets of Compuserve. The domain has been coveted by a number of AOL business units over the years, though.

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Paul Rubens / BBC:

Spam weapon helps preserve books — Typing in two words correctly results in the digitisation of one word — A weapon used to fight spammers is now helping university researchers preserve old books and manuscripts. — Many websites use an automated test to tell computers and humans apart …

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