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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fighting For Its Life, Yahoo Uses Its Homepage To Battle Carl Icahn — Yahoo is pulling out its biggest gun in the showdown with Carl Icahn: the Yahoo homepage itself. Right now on Yahoo.com, the single most-visited page on the Web (with 304 million unique visitors worldwide in May …
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Legg Mason Capital Management to Support Yahoo! Directors at Yahoo! 2008 Annual Meeting — BALTIMORE, July 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Bill Miller, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management (NYSE: LM - News), has released the following statement:
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Andrew Harris / Bloomberg:
Motorola Claims Executive Now With Apple Took Secrets — Motorola Inc., the largest U.S. mobile-phone maker, sued a former executive now working for Apple Inc., accusing him of disclosing its trade secrets to aid in the marketing of Apple's iPhone. — Michael Fenger in March ended …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Motorola sues iPhone sales executive over trade secrets — Motorola is suing a former executive now employed by Apple's iPhone sales division, charging him with the theft of trade secrets. — Bloomberg found the suit, which was filed by Motorola on Thursday in Illinois state court.
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Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Outlook vs. Gmail—The Definitive Comparision — Editor: Being digital vagabonds without an Exchange server, we Lifehacker writers use online apps like Gmail and Google Calendar to get things done. But can an Outlook user make the switch without losing out? Guest contributor Jared Goralnick's here today to take a look.
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Dave Thomas / PragDave:
If you work for Apple, we need your help... So, it's been a week. The iPhone 3G was released, and the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade shipped. We can now all write applications that will run on what is undeniably a cool platform. You can even download the iPhone SDK for free. — We love Apple stuff.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Plays Nice: XMPP Firehose Data Feed To Gnip — Twitter is living up to its promise to open up its data stream as much as possible to developers. While I was negotiating with Twitter cofounder Evan Williams to sit down and do a video interview at Foo Camp last weekend …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
AT&T mistakenly announces free Wi-Fi for iPhone users...again — AT&T iPhone users will not be getting free Wi-Fi access, afterall. — For the second time in less than six months, AT&T has mistakenly published a notice on its Web site indicating that Apple iPhone users would get free access …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft's Real Problem: The Second Coming of Apple — As Microsoft (MSFT) continues to waste time and resources figuring out how to win a sideline game it has already lost—Internet media—its shareholders have bigger things to worry about. Namely, the future of the Windows and Office cash cows.
Daniel A. Begun / HotHardware.com News:
Speeding: Radar Gun vs. GPS — While an 11-year old, Louisville, Kentucky boy is using a toy radar gun to get drivers to slow down through his neighborhood, the police are finding that real radar guns might not be a match for GPS—at least not when contested in court.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Sony Ericsson sees profits tumble, turns on workers — There'll be long faces at Sony Ericsson this evening, with the gloomy news that the mobemeisters is cutting 2,000 jobs after pulling in just €6m in profits in the last three months. — This is a massive slide on the €220m …
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Jackson West / Valleywag:
No, Kleiner Perkins won't give your Web 2.0 startup money — In the latest issue of Fortune, a feature about venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins pointed out that the company has yet to make any investments in Web 2.0. The firm which was an early investor in Google has not been so bullish on the likes of Facebook.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why ISP's ‘Stand’ Against Child Porn Is Actually Not A Stand Against Child Porn — from the let's-try-this-again,-shall- we? dept — Following NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's success in getting ISPs to turn off Usenet access and pretend it was a victory against child porn …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
P2P-Next Introduces Live BitTorrent Streaming — The Swarmplayer developed by the P2P-Next research group is now capable of streaming live video in true 4th generation P2P style using a zero-server approach. With a $22 million project budget from the EU and partners, the P2P-Next research group intends …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Major EU P2P research project hopes to kill traditional TV
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Ex-Microsoft manager asks judge for leniency — Carolyn Gudmundson, the former Microsoft domain manager who has admitted stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the company, is set to be sentenced this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Seattle. — In a new court filing (PDF …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Why did investors freak out about Google? — Investors punished Google for the less-than-stellar second quarter results it reported on Thursday, sending the share price down about 10 percent to $482 in Friday trading. So what went wrong? — No one thing was responsible …
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Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg:
Napster Takeover Looms as Funds See Cash Exceed Stock — Napster Inc., the Internet music pioneer whose shares have plunged 95 percent in six years, has become takeover bait for hedge funds zeroing in on a cash hoard exceeding the company's market value. — While Los Angeles-based Napster …
Tony Smith / The Register:
AMD confirms ‘Atom-smasher’ chip on its roadmap — AMD will unfold its plan to take on Intel's Atom in November, newly promoted CEO Dirk Meyer said last night. — As Register Hardware has reported in the past, AMD's is currently working on a chip codenamed ‘Bobcat’, a single-core …
