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Microsoft, Icahn offered Yahoo $2.3 bln annual revenue — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) and billionaire investor Carl Icahn's joint proposal for Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News), which was rejected on Saturday, included $2.3 billion in guaranteed annual revenue …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yahoo search deal boost as big as a bread box? — How much better is better? — While Microsoft and Carl Icahn's joint-proposal was rejected by Yahoo on Saturday, some components of the transaction remained the same and others were given growth hormones, according to sources familiar with the companies.
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Jason Calacanis' First New Email Post — Jason Calacanis announced on Friday that he was retiring from blogging. There was a very mixed reaction to the news, with most believing it to be a publicity stunt. Jason said in his farewell post that instead of blogging, he would instead be posting …
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Clint Ecker / Infinite Loop:
Tip: Updating iPhone to 5A347 reduces yellow tinge — Many of our readers have noted that their new iPhone 3Gs purchased this past Friday had screens that were exhibiting a much yellower hue than their original iPhones, even when updated to the latest firmware using iTunes.
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Developers furious over App Store “Line Cutting” — There's a bit of bad blood brewing between developers of iPhone Apps these days. It seems several different companies have renamed their iPhone games to begin with either a space, a quotation mark, or some other symbol so that they appear …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Sun, Fujitsu unveil quad-core SPARC64 chip, servers — Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have announced a quad-core version of the SPARC64 processor and servers to that will use the chip. — Fujitsu—which manufactures and designs the SPARC64 processor—along with Sun unveiled the M4000 …
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Don Reisinger / Ars Technica:
Opinion: How Microsoft can turn the negative Vista PR tide — Things have been awfully tough for Microsoft over the past year. Aside from all of its woes with Yahoo and Jerry Yang, the company has faced a PR nightmare on the Vista front. — It's being hammered from all sides by companies …
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Dan Ackerman / CNET News.com:
E3 2008: game over for the Electronic Entertainment Expo? — This week brings us the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo — the video game trade show better known as E3. This is E3's 14th year, and my 10th time attending the show. But despite booming game sales and a firm foothold …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Live Pics of the BlackBerry Thunder! — This just in, you are now looking at the first live images of the BlackBerry Thunder and its touchscreen keyboard!! — The first pics and screenshots we have seen of the BlackBerry Thunder have been awesome, but it's nice to finally …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Steve Wozniak out of line at iPhone store? — Steve Wozniak sits with friends before he allegedly got up to cut in line at a San Jose Apple store — Steve Wozniak helped create Apple. He's worth millions. He's a hero to geeks the world over. — Would he really pretend to wait in line for Apple gadgets?
Michael Falcone / New York Times:
In House, Tweets Fly Over Web Plan — WASHINGTON — It began with a twitter from one of Capitol Hill's best-known technophiles. — “I just learned the Dems are trying to censor Congressmen's ability to use Twitter Qik YouTube Utterz etc — outrageous and I will fight them,” …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
New iPhone Will Jumpstart Demand for Wireless Broadband — It was over a decade ago when I got my first broadband connection — by today's comparison a very slow DSL connection from my then-local provider, Verizon Communications, which went by the name of Bell Atlantic.
Xbox.com:
Xbox 360 Console Now Offers Triple the Storage — Redmond, Washington—Microsoft is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company today announced an Xbox 360® console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (U.S.) estimated retail price.
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