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8:00 PM ET, May 8, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter  —  MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
MySpace Turns Social Network Sharing the Right Direction
Discussion: Associated Press
Business Wire:
MySpace Introduces ‘Data Availability’ …
Discussion: Digital Daily and The Register
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Move Suggests Not Reversing Yahoo Decision  —  Microsoft Corp. released potential proxy board members from their agreements to serve in the event it made a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc., following the software giant's decision last weekend to end its effort to buy the Internet company.
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Reuters:
Microsoft: No plans for another bid for Yahoo
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Tells Its Alternate Yahoo Board Members It Won't Be Needing Them
Discussion: Joe Duck
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
RIAA: DRM not dead and likely will make comeback  —  To Garnett's right is the MPAA's Fritz Attaway  —  LOS ANGELES—News of DRM's death has been greatly exaggerated, according to an executive with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).  —  At a time when the top recording …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:   If music DRM is dead, the RIAA expects its resurrection
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:   RIAA, MPAA In Denial About The Death Of DRM
Associated Press:
Mamma Mia!  Papa John's raking in the dough online  —  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas' pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers.  —  That's because orders are rolling in through the Internet.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 leaked  —  While not quite as exciting as March's week of Latitude scoops, we've got ourselves some infos on what look to be Dell's upcoming Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 consumer laptops.  Seems they'll all be sharing the same basic design language …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo tests revamped search with ‘Glue Pages’  —  Update 11:45 p.m.: I updated with new detail from Yahoo, further information from the site, and some analysis.  —  Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a major new way to present search results that caters to its strength as an Internet portal.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:   Yahoo “Glue Pages” Show All-In-One Search Results
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Ends Hello  —  Google is shutting down Hello, Picasa's photo sharing service which was part of the Picasa acquisition back in 2004.  On the program, Wikipedia writes:  —  Hello by Google's Picasa is [was] a free computer program that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Google denies staff ‘brain drain’  —  Technology reporter, in Silicon Valley  —  Google has denied there is a brain drain of talent at the firm following the departure of its communications boss to social network Facebook.  —  Elliot Schrage's departure as head of global communications …
PR Newswire:
Limelight Networks Reports First Quarter 2008 Results  — Signed 183 new customers, up from 84 new customers in last year's first quarter, including 35 international and 77 signed in March  — Introduced Limelight Live Event Services - a solution of professional services and advanced technologies …
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Limelight Networks (LLNW) Feeling Pricing Pressure, Q1 Misses
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The noise reduction system  —  David Risley this morning wrote about all the noise in all these systems like Twitter and FriendFeed.  Of course that kicked off a whole discussion over on FriendFeed.  —  Oh, the glorious noise!  Everyone loves beating me up for causing the noise.  No, I am not the cause.
Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
Why the Xbox 360 will win the console war  —  Lately, there has been a considerable amount of discussion on which console will win this generation's war.  Will it be the Wii with its established base and strong sales?  Will it be the Xbox 360 with its steady growth?
Discussion: BBC and CrunchGear
Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Virgin Mobile USA In Merger Talks With Helio; Other Options Still Being Considered  —  Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), the MVNO which just reported its Q1 earnings earlier this week, is in talks with the much smaller and troubled MVNO Helio, we have learned, even as other PE and strategic players are still circling both the companies.
Peter Cohen / LinuxWorld.com:
OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta shrugs off X11  —  The OpenOffice.org Community has announced the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, a new version of the free office productivity software suite for various platforms including Mac OS X.  —  Developed as an alternative to pricey packages …
Mark Evans:
Is Flickr Worth $4-Billion?  —  In the wake of Microsoft's aborted courtship of Yahoo and Jerry “Oh, did you increase your offer?”  Yang, there's bound to be a lot of scrutiny about what's next for Yahoo.  —  One asset that's well known but perhaps not scrutinized from an investment perspective is Flickr …
Arn / MacRumors:
AT&T Officially Lists Wi-Fi Hotspot Access with iPhone Plans [Updated]  —  AT&T's iPhone website (under ‘Plans’ tab) has been updated to reveal that each iPhone plan now includes access to their “more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks all for use in the U.S.”
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
LIVEBLOGGING: Schmidt, Page, and Brin Speak Before Google's Annual Meeting  —  I'm sort of liveblogging a talk that Google honchos Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page is having with reporters before the company's annual meeting.  I'll post their comments in chunks as it goes along... and clean it up later.
 
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Irwin Block / canada.com:
Apple offers $45 credit for Canadian owners of older iPods
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
House overwhelmingly passes controversial PRO-IP Act
Discussion: Computerworld
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Shawn Fanning Finally Gets A Real Payday: Electronic Arts Buys Rupture …
Discussion: Geek Gestalt
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Los Angeles Says Piracy ‘Detrimental to the Public Health, Safety’
Discussion: Techdirt and WinExtra
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Quantcast Launches Demographic Search
Discussion: ClickZ
Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
Cablevision plans wireless broadband network
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Six Career Tips
Discussion: Running With Foxes
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
‘Zohan’ tries to save the talkies with Bluetooth
 Earlier Items: 
Tony Smith / The Register:
MSI releases £235 desktop Eee PC rival ahead of Asus
Discussion: Gadgetell
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple developing 3D gaming controller for Apple TV
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Demands $15 Million from The Pirate Bay
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Hey, you got your photos in my map
Alex / Google Sightseeing:
Street View Sabotage! [Updated × 2]
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
EA To Use Controversial Internet-Required DRM On New Games
Discussion: Geek Gestalt and DSLreports
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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