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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces New Reporting Standard for Digital Campaign Performance: Engagement Mapping — New approach allows advertisers to map and assign value to various touch points, gaining a more complete picture of a campaign. — Microsoft Corp. today announced Engagement Mapping …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft unveils new proposed advertising metric and tool
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Microsoft Tells Advertisers “Engagement” …
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AppleInsider:
New MacBook Pro part numbers surface in inventory systems — The seemingly endless wait for a new line of professional notebooks from Mac maker Apple Inc. appears to be nearing an end, with part numbers and pricing for new MacBook Pro models cropping up in inventory systems worldwide over the weekend.
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Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop:
Rumor: New MacBook Pros are imminent. Yep, still — MacRumors' handy “Buyer's Guide” has listed the MacBook Pro at “Don't Buy” for several months now. The guide compares the number of days since the release of the last update and the average number of days between updates.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.C.C. to Act on Delaying of Broadband Traffic — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The head of the Federal Communications Commission and other senior officials said on Monday that they were considering taking steps to discourage cable and telephone companies from discriminating against content providers …
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IP Democracy, paidContent.org, CNET News.com, Ars Technica, eWeek, Salon, DSLreports, Digital Daily, VentureBeat and dailywireless.org
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Lessig Blog:
On why I am not running — With lots of mixed feelings, I have decided a run for Congress would not help the Change Congress movement. I explain the thinking in this 5 minute video (a new record for me!). First question: What happens to the contributions to Lessig08?
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InfoWorld, Techdirt, Ars Technica, Vindu's View from the Valley, The 463, Social Media and techPresident
Hal Varian / Official Google Blog:
Our secret sauce — I was recently a guest columnist on the Freakonomics Blog. There were several interesting questions from the readers, but one was quite striking: … It seems that a lot of people are trying to figure out why Google has done so well.
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Tech Confidential, Joe Duck, Freakonomics, InformationWeek Weblog, Clickety Clack and Valleywag
Kristopher Kubicki / DailyTech:
Sun Leaks 6-core Intel Xeon, Nehalem Details — Sun confirms what Intel has been dying to tell us, at least off the record — Late last month in Austria, Intel presented Sun with roadmaps discussing details of its upcoming server platforms, including the fairly secret Xeon Dunnington and Nehalem architectures.
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Yi-Wyn Yen / Techland:
Yang breaks silence on Microsoft takeover — PHOENIX — Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang knew exactly what was on everyone's minds at the Interactive Advertising Bureau conference on Monday. — In their first public appearance since Microsoft's hostile $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo …
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Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Mobile applications, RIP — Summary: The business of making native apps for mobile devices is dying, crushed by a fragmented market and restrictive business practices. The problems are so bad that the mobile web, despite its many technical drawbacks, is now a better way to deliver new functionality to mobiles.
Richard Stiennon / Threat Chaos:
Pakistan removed from the Internet — 4:30 PM Eastern (US). — The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes that a Pakistani ISP, PieNet, announced earlier today.
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
VMware vuln exposes the perils of virtualization — Security researchers have discovered a bug in VMware desktop virtualization applications that allows attackers to take complete control of the underlying PC, including the execution or modification of files on the host operating system.
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Acer set to launch Blu-ray-equipped 16-, 18.4-inch laptops — [ ]Acer certainly isn't starved for laptop offerings these days, but that doesn't seem to be stopping it from expanding its arsenal even further, with the company now reportedly set to release a pair of new models boasting Blu-ray drives and some high res screens to match.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Dear ABC, You Don't Compete With TiVo By Making A Product Worse — About a year and a half ago, an executive at Disney-owned ABC-TV talked about how the network was experimenting with ways to block people from fast forwarding through commercials. The exec in question even claimed …
Nokia:
Nokia and University of Cambridge launch the Morph - a nanotechnology concept device — New York, US and Espoo, Finland - Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the “Design and the Elastic Mind” …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Blog Recommendation Startup Outbrain Raises $5 Million — Funding Monday continues. NY/Israeli startup Outbrain is announcing a $5 million series A financing, led by Gemini Israeli Funds and Lightspeed Venture Partners. GlenRock Israel also put money into the round.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Blogger, Sans Pajamas, Rakes Muck and a Prize — Of the many landmarks along a journalist's career, two are among those that stand out: winning an award and making the government back down. Last week, Joshua Micah Marshall achieved both. — On Tuesday, it was announced that he had won …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fox Said To Be Exploring Termination Of Google Advertising Deal — Even while parent company News Corp. continues to try to disrupt the Microsoft/Yahoo merger, Fox Interactive Media (FIM) is rumored to be in negotiations with Microsoft take Google's place as the MySpace advertising partner.
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