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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Jerry Yang's Entire Memo to His Employees on Stepping Down as CEO — BoomTown has obtained the entire memo from Jerry Yang to his employees at Yahoo about his plans to step down as Yahoo CEO. — Yang, a truly nice man-which has been a plus and a minus for him-and an Internet visionary for sure …
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HipMojo.com, Yahoo!, Search Engine Roundtable, Susan Mernit's Blog, Between the Lines, Portfolio and MediaNama
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New York Times:
Jerry Yang, Yahoo Chief, Steps Down — SAN FRANCISCO — Jerry Yang, who, as chief executive of Yahoo, resisted a takeover bid from Microsoft only to later ask that merger talks resume, said he was stepping down. — In a memorandum sent to the company's staff Monday evening, Mr. Yang, 40 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:Yahoo's Jerry Yang to Step Down, as a Search for New CEO Commences
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Epicenter, Tech Trader Daily, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Digital Daily, eWeek, CNET News, PC World, Alley Insider, paidContent.org, All about Microsoft, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Profy, Valleywag, Wall Street Journal, Tech Confidential, Guardian, Real Dan Lyons Web Site, VatorNews, TECH.BLORGE.com and Data Center Strategies
Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:
Expanding the Cloud: Amazon CloudFront — Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service for content delivery. It integrates seamlessly with Amazon S3 to provide low-latency distribution of content with high data transfer speeds through a world-wide network of edge locations.
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Andrea on Amazon …, Contentinople, GigaOM, NewTeeVee, Digital Inspiration, Broadband Developments and TechCrunch
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Dan Rayburn / The Business Of Online Video: Why Amazon's CDN Offering Is No Threat To Akamai, Limelight or CDN Pricing
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Hosting Time-Life Photo Archive, 10 Million Unpublished Images Now Live — TimeWarner and Google have announced that starting today Google will make available millions of images from the Life Magazine photo archive. The vast majority (97 percent) of these images have never been seen by the public …
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Paco Galanes / The Official Google Blog:
LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search — The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen.
Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
Boxee — One of the big “aha moments” for me in the past couple years came when I hooked up a Mac Mini to a large display in our family room in the spring of 2007. Slowly but surely, our family started using the Mac Mini instead of the cable set-top box and the DVD player.
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, VC Cafe, broadstuff, Tech Confidential, bijan sabet, Zatz Not Funny!, Online Video Watch and Webomatica
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
HP to Workforce: Seriously, There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays — Add Hewlett-Packard to the list of companies extending their annual holiday shutdown to cut costs in a souring economy. The company said this week that it is doubling its normal weeklong holiday hiatus.
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Major Nelson / Xbox Lives Major Nelson:
Sign up for the preview? You're in! — Instead of adding another 10,000 people to the preview program like we did last week, we've decided to do something a little different: everyone who successfully applied to the preview program (and submitted a valid console ID) will be getting …
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Dave Burke / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for iPhone now with Voice Search and My Location — The new Google Mobile App for iPhone makes it possible for you to do a Google web search using only your voice. Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you're looking for. That's it. Just talk.
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Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
Vista Capable: E-mails tell story of tense Monday at Microsoft — There are several interesting narratives to be found in the 252 pages of e-mail released last night in the Windows Vista Capable class action lawsuit unfolding in Seattle. Microsoft is accused of deceiving consumers …
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Help! Iphone snapped my husband's genitals — Apple says it is a software glitch — THE FRUIT THEMED Iphone apparently has a glitch that will photograph your genitals, attach it to an email and place it in your sent folder. — We found the glitch reported in an Apple forum and penned by a woman called Susan.
Carlo Longino / Techdirt:
Blu-ray Working Great, For Pirates — Blu-ray “won” the next-generation DVD standards battle, but that victory has, thus far, been pretty hollow, as consumers haven't wholeheartedly embraced the new format (and the new DVD players they need to take advantage of it).
Edible Apple:
Old school Steve Jobs flicks off IBM — Given the recent litigation involving I.B.M. and new Apple-hire Mark Papermaster, I wouldn't be surprised if Jobs still feels the same way about Big Blue. — This photo was taken in mid-Manhattan sometime in the early 80's. And check it out, no black turtleneck!
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs — SAN DIEGO — Over the last two years, some of this city's darkest secrets have been dragged into the light — city officials with conflicts of interest and hidden pay raises, affordable housing that was not affordable, misleading crime statistics.
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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:
Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone — Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it. — Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone …
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I4U News, eWeek, MobileCrunch, TechSpot, SmoothSpan Blog, MacNN, jkOnTheRun, TmoNews, Gizmodo and Ed Burnette's Dev Connection
AppleInsider:
Apple now taking orders for 24-inch LED Cinema Display — Following a month-long wait, Apple on Tuesday finally began taking orders for its new 24-inch LED-backlit Cinema Display through its online store, saying shipments will begin sometime later this month.
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Sirius, XM subscribers revolt over merger-induced changes — Long-time Sirius satellite radio subscriber Stan Petrov is fed up and he's not going to take it anymore. He signed on with Sirius two years ago and bought several receivers. But since Sirius merged with XM radio, he has lost his access to coverage of NBA games.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It's Official. Facebook Is Running A Protection Racket On App Developers — Earlier today Facebook released details on its new Verified App Program for third party developers. — Basically, application developers (there are 48,000 applications on Facebook today) can apply to become a Verified App.
