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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Source: Google To Launch BigTable As Web Service — Google may be releasing BigTable, its internal database system, as a web service to compete with Amazon SimpleDB, according to a source with knowledge of the launch. There are also rumors that press is being pre-briefed on the product, although we haven't been contacted by Google.
Reuters:
Microsoft evaluating Yahoo offer: source — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is evaluating its offer for Yahoo Inc in light of worsening market conditions, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. — Microsoft has been repeatedly trying to engage Yahoo's board in discussions, this person said.
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft losing patience with Yahoo? — Microsoft is evaluating its Yahoo acquisition bid under the theory that the Internet company may have lost value since the $44.6 billion offer was made, according to a Reuters report this afternoon, citing an anonymous source.
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TechCrunch, New York Times, Silicon Alley Insider, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Techland and InfoWorld
ZDNet:
Gartner: Open source will quietly take over — In a few years' time, almost all businesses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service. — Open-source promoters have welcomed …
Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
Quake 3 for iPod Touch / iPhone — The time has finally come. Games like Quake 3 are hitting the iPhone platform. It is particularly cool to see the accelerometers being used to control the action. — Bonus points for controlling 2 players at once.
Richard Clayton / Light Blue Touchpaper:
The Phorm “Webwise” System — Last week I spent several hours at Phorm learning how their advertising system works — this is the system that is to be deployed by the UK's largest ISPs to pick apart your web browsing activities to try and determine what interests you.
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The Open Rights Group
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Powerset Will Launch In Coming Weeks — San Francisco based Powerset will be publicly launching a long-awaited beta version of the service in the coming weeks, the company told me yesterday. They are working on a new kind of search engine that will understand natural language searches …
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Los Angeles Times
craigslist blog:
Kinder, Gentler C&Ds Please — I'm getting some well-deserved flak for a ham-handed cease-and-desist email I sent to a blogger recently. The dialogue had remained cordial until he revealed his business model - running deceptive textads such as the ones below, which got on my nerves:
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Huge Microsoft patent loss is a partial win — A federal jury in San Diego this afternoon awarded $367.4 million to Alcatel-Lucent in a patent dispute with Microsoft. It ranks among the biggest patent verdicts in U.S. history, but it could have been worse: Alcatel-Lucent had been seeking $1.75 billion.
Felix Salmon / Portfolio.com:
Blogonomics: Valleywag Pay Slashed — Jordan Golson can't be happy: Nick Denton has cut the amount of money he gets per thousand pageviews to $6.50 from $9.75. That's a 33% pay cut, on a per-pageview basis. What about on an absolute basis? — Well, the pageview rate is set on the basis of the previous quarter's pageviews.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Talk, Labs Edition — There's a new flavor of Google Talk: the Labs edition, a desktop client that looks very similar to the Google Talk gadget and has most of its features. The application doesn't support voice chat or file transfer, it's still Windows-only, but it has some new features …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Breaking the Techmeme Habit — Techmeme is a great place to stay up-to-date with the current tech news in the blogosphere, showing the most popular and current news items of the day. The site also offers a Leaderboard section which features the current top 100 bloggers and news sources.
