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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo & Microsoft Have Talked Partnering, Merging — I was talking with Kevin Delaney of the Wall Street Journal on Monday about search things in general and mentioned the sense it makes for Microsoft and Yahoo to get together. Microsoft is behind with the core search technology.
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Jonathan Thaw / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's AdCenter May Fail to Topple Google From Dominance — May 3 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.'s new Web advertising software, three years in the making, may fail to crack Google Inc.'s dominance of the Internet ad market. — The AdCenter software will be demonstrated at meetings …
Willow Duttge / AdAge:
Ad Agency Sues Blogger for Defamation — Action Follows Public Battle Over Maine Tourism Ad Work — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — An ad agency that specialized in travel advertising is suing a Maine-based blogger for defamation after he began to post regularly about the work the agency was doing for its client, the state of Maine.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Suing Bloggers is an Invitation for Bad PR — Late last week Warren Kremer Paino Advertising sued Maine blogger Lance Dutson for copyright infringement, defamation and trade libel and injurious falsehood. They charged he caused damage to their client, the Maine Office of Tourism, because he critiqued their marketing strategy.
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Communication Overtones
Michael Sippey / Six Apart:
TypePad Update — Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack. This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com.
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Jason / Q Daily News:
The dishonor of Blue Security — There was quite a bit of teeth gnashing across the web throughout the evening yesterday as TypePad, LiveJournal, and all the other hosted Six Apart websites went dark; we learned late in the night that the cause was a "sophisticated distributed denial of service attack" against the sites.
Alice Z. Cuneo / AdAge:
AT&T Plans to Kill Cingular Brand — But Some See Change of 'Cingular' to 'AT&T Wireless' as Mistake — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — It cost $4 billion to turn it into one of the best known names in the country, a future-forward, dynamic brand with a strong connection to young consumers and a share lead in the wireless marketplace.
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Reuters:
'Net Neutrality' Battle Widens — WASHINGTON — The U.S. financial sector, a powerful force in Washington, may be gearing up to jump into a Capitol Hill fight over the future of the internet and stop an effort it says could add billions in costs just to maintain current offerings.
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Report Shows Marketers Stick with Proven Interactive Media — Mobile, RSS and advergaming may get lots of media attention, but many marketers are looking the other way. A new Forrester Research report shows that a wide spectrum of interactive marketers is continuing to bank on proven methods …
leftlanenews.com:
Gone in 20 Minutes: using laptops to steal cars — High-tech thieves are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to stealing automobiles equipped with keyless entry and ignition systems. While many computer-based security systems on automobiles require some type of key …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Professors banning in-class laptop use — In yet another sign that Luddism is alive and well in academia (remember Lakehead University's silly WiFi ban?), the Associated Press has picked up on a disturbing "trend" of professors banning laptops in their classrooms.
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Dan Ilett / silicon.com:
Apple online store hacked — Korean website defaced... Apple's Korean online store has been defaced by a hacker. — The attack, carried out by someone working under the name 'Dinam', who claimed in his post to be Turkish, was brought to the attention of silicon.com last Thursday.
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Mac Rumors
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Is the Web the new Hollywood? — "The audience is taking over the programming," according to Ted Cohen,senior vice president of Digital Development and Distribution at EMI Music. "A few years ago we looked at litigating it, now we are looking at how to monetize it."
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Silent recall on MacBook Pro batteries … If it wasn't bad enough that to have processor and CPU whine, poor Airport reception and solar ambient temperatures, it appears that some early MacBook Pro batteries are now failing. — Christopher Price from PCSIntel.com has uncovered what appears …
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Gartner predicts longer Vista delay — The wait for Microsoft's delayed Windows Vista could be even longer than expected, according to a research report issued this week. — In March, Microsoft announced that widespread distribution of Windows Vista would be delayed until early 2007.
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Consortiuminfo.org:
OpenDocument Approved by ISO/IEC Members — The six month voting window for ISO/IEC adoption of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard closed on May 1, and at midnight (Geneva time) last night it was announced internally that ODF had been approved by the ISO members eligible and interested in casting a vote.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
France backs down on iTunes DRM stance — The French government has apparently reconsidered a proposal to force Apple Computer to make the songs it sells through its iTunes Music Store playable on devices that compete with its iPods. — A French Senate committee has removed wording …
Business Wire:
Marchex Acquires Assets of AreaConnect, Increasing its Proprietary Base of Local Traffic — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 2, 2006—Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) (NASDAQ:MCHXP) today announced that it has acquired certain assets of AreaConnect LLC, a provider of local online traffic to Yellow …
