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3:45 AM ET, May 9, 2008

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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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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Tells Its Alternate Yahoo Board Members It Won't Be Needing Them
Discussion: Tech Confidential and Joe Duck
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 and The Inquisitr
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
If a Google app falls in the forest...  Philipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped has the sad story of Hello, which has just been shut down (Josh Catone at Read/Write Web has already beaten me to the inevitable headline).  Of course, it's only a sad story if you have any clue what Hello was …
Discussion: WebGuild
PC World:
Stories About Microsoft Office  —  News (15) Reviews (15) How-To (12) From Around the Web (9)  —  The free office suite's support for Microsoft's XML-based Office 2007 file formats leaves much to be desired.  08-May-2008  —  Microsoft has invested several million more dollars …
Discussion: Bits
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InfoWorld:
OpenOffice.org beta fails the Office 2007 test
Discussion: MacUser and The Register
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
House overwhelmingly passes controversial PRO-IP Act  —  The House of Representatives has approved the Pro-IP Act, a controversial legislative proposal that aims to impose stricter penalties for copyright infringement.  The bill, which has strong support from the content industry, passed by a vote of 410 to 10.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
House wants copyright czar, new piracy penalties
Discussion: Techdirt
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Democrats revive another Net neutrality proposal
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
AT&T yanks iPhone free Wi-Fi info from site  —  On-again free hotspot access now off-again  —  Computerworld) Only hours after posting information that indicated iPhone owners would receive free access to AT&T's public wireless hotspots, the company pulled all references to the service from its Web site.
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.
Irwin Block / canada.com:
Apple offers $45 credit for Canadian owners of older iPods  —  Following two class-action lawsuits, Apple Canada Inc. is offering $45 credits to Canadian residents who own a new first-, second- or third-generation iPod purchased before June 24, 2004.  —  The proposed settlement …
Discussion: Valleywag and Podcasting News
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Antone Gonsalves / TechWeb:
Apple Reportedly Offers $44 Credit To Canadian iPod Owners
Discussion: My Blog Posts
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Answer to Google's Universal Search is Glue (Coming Soon to America)  —  Sometimes the only way to get new products out the door at a big company like Yahoo is to launch it far away from HQ.  That's what happened with Yahoo Glue, a new way to present search results more visually …
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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 …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Shawn Fanning Finally Gets A Real Payday: Electronic Arts Buys Rupture For $30 Million  —  Shawn Fanning, best known for founding Napster, has a new job.  He will be working at Electronic Arts, which is about to buy his social-network-gaming startup Rupture for $30 million, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.
Discussion: VentureBeat and Geek Gestalt
Smashing Magazine:
Now More Than Ever: 50 More Excellent Blog Designs  —  Designing blogs is easy.  Designing blogs in a unique way is hard.  Whatever blog engine you are using, there are literally thousands of templates available which you can apply directly, without any significant code modifications.
Discussion: My Blog Posts
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Best Online File Sharing Services  —  Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service.  On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite file-sharing service …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Early Adopters Still Spend More Time With Microsoft Than Google, Facebook, or Skype.  But For How Long?  —  When early adopters sit at their computers, what applications and websites do they use the most?  The answer: Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, and MSN Messenger—just like most everyone else.
Tom Lee / Techdirt:
Does The GPL Still Matter?  —  from the expired-license?  dept  —  The GNU General Public License heads to court again today, as Skype attempts to defend its distribution of Linux-enabled SMC hardware handsets that appear to be in violation of the operating system's open source license.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
LIVEBLOGGING: Schmidt, Page, and Brin Happy About Failed Microsoft-Yahoo Deal  —  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.
John Markoff / New York Times:
F.B.I. Says the Military Had Bogus Computer Gear  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Counterfeit products are a routine threat for the electronics industry.  However, the more sinister specter of an electronic Trojan horse, lurking in the circuitry of a computer or a network router and allowing attackers clandestine access …
 
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BBC:
Fake media file snares PC users
Discussion: TechLifeBlogged
R. Douglas Fields / sciam.com:
Mind Control by Cell Phone
Discussion: textually.org and Boing Boing
The Industry Standard:
Apple's games strategy looks beyond consoles and the iMac
Discussion: Slashdot
Ken Liu / CENS.com:
Microsoft Contracts Taiwanese Foundries to Build Latest XBox360 Chips
John Resig:
Processing.js  —  Demos below!  —  As a sort-of reverse …
Discussion: Ajaxian
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
How To Find the Top Twitterers in Your City
PR Newswire:
Limelight Networks Reports First Quarter 2008 Results
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
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 Earlier Items: 
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple developing 3D gaming controller for Apple TV
Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
Why the Xbox 360 will win the console war
Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Virgin Mobile USA In Merger Talks With Helio; Other Options Still Being Considered
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for May 2008
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Google denies staff ‘brain drain’
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 leaked
Associated Press:
Mamma Mia! Papa John's raking in the dough online
Mark Evans:
Is Flickr Worth $4-Billion?
 

 
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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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