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6:35 PM ET, April 30, 2008

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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft's Next Move on Yahoo Is Imminent  —  One Possibility  —  Is a Proxy Slate  —  To Replace Board  —  Microsoft Corp. is expected to make its next move in the three-month-old takeover standoff with Yahoo Inc. as early as Wednesday, as the two sides have failed to reach any negotiated acquisition deal.
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
Incoming: Microsoft and Yahoo
Discussion: BoomTown and Silicon Alley Insider
CNBC.com:
Exclusive Interview With Google's Eric Schmidt  —  CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Google  —  [GOOG Loading...  (%) ] CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt Tuesday at the Milken Conference in Los Angeles to discuss Google's growth and U.S. slowdown, the possibility of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt: Google Has Secret Plan To Mint Money With YouTube (GOOG)  —  CNBC is hyping a Eric Schmidt/Maria Bartiromo interview that airs today at 4pm, but they're already released the transcript from the chat, taped yesterday.  —  Predictably, there are no shockers …
Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:
Thom Yorke: Radiohead's stunt was ‘one-off’  —  Band won't offer unpriced downloads again  —  LONDON — They turned the music sales model on its head, but indie rockers Radiohead won't be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their downloads, frontman Thom Yorke told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Don't Give Up On Us Now, Thom Yorke!
Discussion: broadstuff and SarahLacy.com
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Psystar Open Computer notes, benchmarks and video  —  Okay, so we've been playing with the Psystar Open Computer for a few hours now, and we've formed some early impressions and put together a short video of it in action.  We haven't really tried to stress the system yet …
Discussion: Hardware 2.0
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:   Psystar's Open Computer arrives at CNET
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
An elephant never forgets?  George W. Bush's lost e-mails  —  The case of the missing e-mail  —  A federal magistrate judge on Thursday chastised the Bush administration for failing to fully answer questions related to a long-running dispute over missing White House emails.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans  —  We've got Google Earth and Google Sky.  Next up will be a map of the world below sea level—Google Ocean.  —  The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex.
Nick Nguyen / delicious blog:
Firefox 3, del.icio.us, and you  —  Firefox 3 users, rejoice!  Today I'm pleased to announce a beta release of an enhanced version of our Firefox Add-on for del.icio.us that now has full Firefox 3 support while retaining Firefox 2 compatibility.  While it is largely similar to the release version …
Discussion: Mashable! and Yahoo! Search Blog
Lessig Blog:
It's Comrade Lessig to you, bub.  —  Julian Sanchez has a piece in Ars Technica analyzing my recent outing by PFF as a communist.  Or socialist.  Or quasi-socialist utopianist.  Whatever.  I'll leave the criticisms of the criticisms of my scholarship to the reader to judge.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
HP makes memory from a once theoretical circuit  —  It's the tale of the lost circuit.  —  Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, mathematically theorized that scientific symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
LinkedIn: We're Selling Ads For $75 CPM  —  LinkedIn (SAI 25 #8) may have been trampled by the likes of Facebook (SAI 25 #1) and MySpace in terms of users, but at least it can sell advertising.  Kevin Eyres, LinkedIn's managing director for Europe, told IDG the social network for careerists …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Goodness Prevails: Iron Man Screening Is ON.  —  Drama over.  The CrunchGear/TechCrunch Iron Man screening, which Marvel tried to shut down yesterday for no good reason whatsoever (more on that below), is back on.  —  We are adding another 30 spots on the wait list.
Nwahs / TmoNews:
More 3G release news  —  Here is the update we promised earlier.  It is pretty hard posting from a non-smartphone, and cropping sensitive information out of pictures, so we do apologize for the delay.  This is the moment we have all been waiting for. 3G countdown anyone?  The list of cities, in order, is as follows:
 
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Andy Bloxham / Telegraph:
Facebook ‘more effective than emergency services in a disaster’
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Proposed new piracy penalties advance in House
Discussion: TechSpot
Tim Smalley / bit-tech.net:
Nvidia's David Kirk on CUDA, CPUs and GPUs
Discussion: The Tech Report and Slashdot
Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
9 Tips to Improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
Adobe guru to improve Windows interface
Business Wire:
Akamai Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
BBC:
BT rolls out ‘faster broadband’
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Blu-ray player sales down despite format victory
Discussion: Bit Player and Portfolio.com
InfoWorld:
U.S. man gets 30 months in prison for ‘warez’ operation
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Mixx Launches Innovative API - Continues to Challenge the Digg Experience
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
KVM funder takes a swing at desktop virtualization
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Zenbe: Next-Generation Webmail, With A Platform Twist
Discussion: Searchviews
Frank Caron / Opposable Thumbs:
Crytek swears off PC-exclusive games due to piracy
Chanpory Rith / LifeClever:
The Missing iPhone Ringtone