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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear — Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google/Yahoo search marketing deal, saying there's “nothing to fear” from the two companies linking their search products. I believe most of his analysis is wrong, and he also skips the publisher side of the market entirely.
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Nothing to Fear — GOOGLE controls about 70 percent of the search advertising market. Doesn't that give it a monopolist's ability to set prices as high as it wishes? — It does not. Google does not set the prices. Its advertisers do …
Vincent Laforet / Vincent Laforet's Blog:
Something Very Interesting is coming...both to this blog and to our industry — COPYRIGHT LAFORET VISUALS INC. DO NOT COPY *(See Note at the end of this article) — I had it in my hands for less than 72 hours before I had to send it back - but the time I did have with a prototype …
Deborah Gage / San Francisco Chronicle:
Silicon Valley's resiliency might get tested — For the last two years, with the economy collapsing all around it, the technology sector and Silicon Valley in particular have proven to be particularly resilient. — But that might not be the case forever.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Should Have Sold Search To Microsoft — As Yahoo and Google get ready to finally launch their search partnership—and trigger a storm of legal and industry protest by doing so—it's worth revisiting Yahoo's decision to pursue this deal instead of one with Microsoft in the waning days …
Jenn K. Lee / Pocketables:
Porient H12 handheld runs Linux on 800 x 480 touchscreen — The latest update to last year's ARM-based H9 “UMPC” is the Porient H12, which first appeared on the scene a few months before its scheduled debut at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. Details were very scarce leading up to the show …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Technology Doesn't Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. — EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr. — To save you some time, I was going to give you a 100-word abridged version.
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Live Images of LG Renoir, the Viewty successor, emerge — Back in August, LG officially announced the new LG KC910, the successor to the LG Viewty. Officially given the name LG Renoir, the phone has made its appearance in a few pictures snagged from it168.com.
Angelo DiNardi:
MailWrangler and the Apple App Store — So in July I wrote a small iPhone app called MailWrangler. Basically this app enabled a user to add their GMail accounts (standard and Google Apps For Your Domain) which they could load and switch between them quickly.
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Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
Rumors of 8GB iPhone's death were greatly exaggerated — Like manna from China, iPhones fall from the sky into California — In case you blinked, a number of sites were reporting a shortage of 8GB iPhones yesterday, including Apple 2.0. … In California, only the Valley Fair Mall …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users — MediaDefender is widely known for their anti-piracy operations, spoofing and decoying on file-sharing networks for the entertainment industry. The company is doing more than that though, as we recently found out that adult affiliate programs …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is MySpace Music An Antitrust Lawsuit Waiting To Happen? — The billboards are up, the CEO search continues, and MySpace Music is set to launch sometime next week. It would have launched last week, but protracted negotiations with EMI to bring it aboard along with the other three music labels is believed to be the cause of the delay.
