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4:40 AM ET, February 6, 2008

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Economist:
The Microhoo! hoo-hah  —  Microsoft's controversial bid for Yahoo!  —  THE “last day at work” video circulated by Bill Gates is trying to be funny, but for unintentional laugh-till-you-cry comedy, there is no beating the legendary effort by Mr Gates's chief executive, Steve Ballmer.
Discussion: HipMojo.com and WebProNews
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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Studies Alternatives to Microsoft  —  Yahoo is holding out hope it can avoid Microsoft's bid by way of a possible rival suitor or a tie-up with Google that might allow it to stay independent.  Video
Cade Metz / The Register:
Potential suitors throw Yahoo! to the wolf
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Watch Election Returns or Google Maps  —  Super Tuesday Google Maps with Twitter: Just watch this for about five minutes; it's kind of amazing.  And it's global:  —  Amazingly some of the posts are responding to one another.
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Brittany Bohnet / Official Google Blog:
Be part of the Super Tuesday action
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:   Keeping Tabs on Super Tuesday
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends?  —  One of my readers just sent me an email about a new feature that he hadn't seen previously.  I haven't seen this feature either.  Apparently there is now a feature that “Suggests a friend to me.”  I'm assuming that if there is a contact …
Discussion: Inside Facebook
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Facebook featured on new iPhone ad  —  Tonight, Apple released two new iPhone commercials in the standard iPhone-esqe style — Facebook and Cars.  In these two commercials, Apple expounds on features that have already been introduced in older commercials.  This is the first time that Apple …
BBC:
EBay to ban negative seller views  —  Online auction site eBay has said it plans to overhaul its feedback system and will ban sellers from leaving negative comments about buyers.  —  EBay said problems were occurring, and slowing down trade, when buyers left negative comments about sellers who then retaliated with their own views.
Wall Street Journal:
Google Aims to Crack Chinese Market  —  Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country's Internet search market, thanks in significant part to a controversial and legally risky offering: searches for free, unlicensed music downloads.
Discussion: paidContent.org and Mashable!
Cade Metz / The Register:
Is Verizon gaming Google in US wireless auction?  —  Analysis In the battle for the so-called 700-MHz band - a lip-smackingly juicy slice of the US wireless spectrum - somebody just pulled a fast one.  And you can bet it was Verizon, yanking the rug out from under Google and a crazed Eric Schmidt.
Discussion: Bits, broadstuff and Digital Daily
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent  —  The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent.  TorrentFreak caught up with Benn to learn more about the decision …
Discussion: Digg
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Small wonder: inside Intel's Silverthorne ultramobile CPU  —  SAN FRANCISCO—In an ISSCC session this morning, Intel disclosed the first microarchitectural details of its forthcoming “Silverthorne” processor for ultramobile devices.  The new chip, which I'll describe in this post …
allAfrica.com:
Africa: Google Starts Recruitment Plan to Up Clout  —  Business Daily (Nairobi)  —  Kui Kinyanjui  —  Internet search company Google Kenya's Nairobi office is searching for five senior executives for its African operations, laying the foundation for a looming market share battle on the continent.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Mashable!
Jim Lynch / ExtremeTech:
Steve Jobs Announces the iBook eBook Reader  —  Steve Jobs, mercurial CEO of Apple Inc., recently gave an interview to the NY Times.  In the interview Jobs shared his thoughts on a number of things including Google's Android and Amazon's Kindle e-book reader.
Discussion: TeleRead and The Mac Observer
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet  —  Ruby on Rails on Rails on Rails on Rails  —  We'll hand it to IBM's researchers.  They think big - really big.  Like holy-crap-what-have-you-done big.  —  The Register has unearthed a research paper that shows IBM working …
Discussion: Digg
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Little Nokia n82 Camera Phone Loom Large in Video Journalism....Jeff Jarvis has Found his “Mojo”  —  Late last year the Reuters news service began giving its journalists Nokia n82 phones to directly upload video reports to the news service's video pages.  The program is called “Mojo,” standing for Reuters Mobile Journalism.
Discussion: IntoMobile
 
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Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Pictures: The Black Nokia N82 is official, finally!
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
FCC blesses sale of Aloha's 700MHz spectrum to AT&T
Discussion: IDG News Service and RSS
Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report:
Joiku Turns Your S60 Handset into a WiFi Hotspot
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Verizon Rejects Hollywood's Call to Aid Piracy Fight
Discussion: Gizmodo and Boing Boing
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
CNN Hits The Wall for the Election
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Adobe names new CTO
Discussion: CNET News.com
David Adewumi / VentureBeat:
MTV, Flixwagon partner for Super Tuesday mobile news
Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
Remote Workers Don't Practice Safe Computing
Discussion: Cisco and InfoWorld
 Earlier Items: 
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
The high cost of e-mail autocomplete
Charles Cooper / CNET News.com:
Who cut the cables?  —  Three undersea fiber-optic cables …
Discussion: Engadget and O'Reilly Radar
Sarah Lacy / Silicon Alley Insider:
Obama Wins The Valley. He's The New iPhone
Sarah Lacy / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, LinkedIn: Call Your IPO Bankers
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
So Long Flash, and Thanks for the Memory
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft reorg could come next week
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A Bad Month For SEO's Reputation
Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report:
HTC Magnum Video Surfaces; WTF?!?