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5:25 PM ET, February 13, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo And News Corp. Continue Marathon Discussions; Possible Bid To Counter Microsoft  —  At the start of the Microsoft/Yahoo saga we reported that News Corp. was scrambling to put together a bid to compete with Microsoft, but backed down because they were unable to find outside funding …
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Enters Yahoo Fray  —  News Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are in discussions about combining MySpace and other News Corp.-owned online properties with Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  The discussions are aimed at helping Yahoo fend off Microsoft Corp's unsolicited takeover offer …
Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Yahoo Rejection Of Microsoft Bid Draws First Shareholder Suit  —  The Wayne County Employees' Retirement System of Michigan filed a lawsuit asking the court to force Yahoo to consider takeover offers.  —  Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for the Web portal has sparked its first shareholder suit.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Yahoo faces shareholder suit, in talks with News Corp.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Is Yahoo Really Worth More Than What Microsoft Offered?
Discussion: PR Newswire and Seeking Alpha
Walt Mossberg / Mossblog:
Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek  —  Only a month or so after Apple announced its MacBook Air laptop, which it calls the world's thinnest laptop, Lenovo is about to spring its own super-skinny machine: the ThinkPad X300.  Here's a sneak peek.  My full review will appear after I have fully tested …
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Electronista:
Mossberg previews Lenovo's ‘Air-killer’ X300
Discussion: GottaBeMobile
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
New Net neutrality bill frowns on ISP ‘favoritism’  —  Comcast, AT&T, and other network operators would be expected to refrain from “unreasonable discriminatory favoritism” of content on their pipes under a recrafted Net neutrality proposal introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Comcast FCC filing shows gap between hype, bandwidth reality
Discussion: eWeek, DSLreports and TechSpot News
RushLimbaugh.com:
El Rushbo's Appeal to Steve Jobs  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: I can't believe you would say that.  For those of you watching on the Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com, you've probably seen me pretty animated here during the break talking to the broadcast engineer and my trusty aide-de-camp …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:   Limbaugh appeals to Apple's Jobs for help
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Mozilla releases third Firefox 3 beta  —  Mozilla has released a third beta version of Firefox 3, bringing about 1,300 changes to the widely used open-source Web browser.  —  Firefox 3 Beta 3 should be more stable, perform faster, use memory more efficiently, and fit in better …
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eWEEK.com:
Firefox 3 Beta 3 Brings a New Browsing Interface
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and DailyTech
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Early Android SDK updated  —  The “early-look” release of the Android SDK, for building mobile applications for the Google-backed Android platform, has been updated this week.  —  Release m5-rc14 is available now, featuring a new user interface that replaces the previous placeholder interface …
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
New Android SDK Spells Out OS Improvements and UI
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Official Google Blog:
What if... you could have your doodle on the Google homepage for a day?  —  Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager and Chief Google Doodler  —  Today, we're excited to announce the Doodle 4 Google competition.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Apple TV 2.0 Review  —  Ever since our Apple TV 1.0 review decided that Apple's thrust into the living room wasn't pantsworthy, we've been waiting for them to step up and make a revision that was.  Apple TV 2.0 is their answer.  (Let's stop calling it Take 2, please!)
Microsoft:
Teens Less Likely to Download Illegally When They Know the Laws, Microsoft Survey Finds  —  Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative launches pilot curriculum to educate students on digitally delivered intellectual property.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced the results of a new survey …
Discussion: Download Squad and ReadWriteWeb
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Survey: teens rely on parents to teach them about copyright
Discussion: WebProNews
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Loic Le Meur raises $6 million for videomail startup  —  Blogger turned entrepreneur Loic Le Meur has raised $6 million to inflict on the world a decades-old technology thoroughly rejected by consumers: videomail.  He calls it Seesmic, and has repackaged videomail as “video conversations.”
Discussion: Mark Evans and bub.blicio.us
CNET News.com:
Enable Vista's hidden administrator, and password-protect its XP equivalent  —  You probably know about the “hidden” administrator account in Windows XP.  It's the only account on XP systems on which no other accounts have been created.  —  Until you add a new account …
Discussion: WinBeta
drupal.org:
Drupal 6.0 released  —  After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world.  Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle.  These changes are evident in Drupal 6's major usability improvements …
Discussion: CenterNetworks and yelvington.com
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Imeem Acquires Snocap  —  Digital music wholesaler Snocap, long searching for a buyer, is being acquired by music streaming site Imeem.  The price will likely not be disclosed.  —  Snocap was founded in 2002 by Napster creator Shawn Fanning, Jordan Mendelson and Ron Conway.
Discussion: Webware.com
louisgray.com:
LinkRiver Enters Life Streaming Fray, Focused on Link Blogs  —  If 2007 was all about Facebook and Twitter, 2008 is shaping up to be all about link blogs, and sharing what you're consuming on the Web with friends.  The newest service to enter the picture is an intriguing entry, LinkRiver …
Discussion: WinExtra and The Last Podcast
The Chronicle:
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement  —  Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted a policy this evening that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online.  —  Peter Suber, an open-access activist with Public Knowledge …
 
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Discussion: Electronista
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
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BenQ:
BenQ's First Mobile Internet Device Brings a Whole New Level …
Electronista:
BlackBerry gets home media server, prepaid e-mail
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
404 might be found: the curious case of DNS redirects
Discussion: Threat Chaos
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Rupert Murdoch's New Startup Incubator
Daily Mail:
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