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EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio — EBay Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire StumbleUpon Inc., an Internet company that helps people discover Web pages that match their interests, according to people familiar with the matter. — The potential price for a deal is in the range of $75 million, these people say.

The Safely Remove Hardware feature and the Windows Explorer "Eject" command do not work correctly with an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer … SYMPTOMS — Consider the following scenario. You have an Apple iPod that is connected to a Windows Vista-based computer through a USB connection.
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Final iPod update is available via Download Center
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Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard update hands-on — Well, that Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard update did land at about 2:00AM PST as expected, and brought with it a few fun features we were hot to test out — but none more than the Xbox's expanded video playback capabilities.
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Windows Live Messenger Comes to Xbox LIVE, Uniting Friends and Families on the TV, PC and Mobile Phone — Starting tomorrow more than 6 million members of Xbox LIVE can instant message with people on PCs and mobile phones, one of the hundreds of enhancements coming with the Xbox 360 Spring Update

Google Analytics Launches New Version With New UI & Features — Google Analytics today has released a new version of their web analytics tool. I spoke with Brett Crosby, Senior Manager of Google Analytics about the release, which he explained was a completely "new platform" to enable …
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New Version of Google Analytics!
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Mpire and the year of the widget — Looking to capitalize on its shopping analytics, Seattle's Mpire today is rolling out about 80 new e-commerce "widgets." — The free "widgets" — small online applications or tools that easily plug in to Web sites — will allow bloggers and online publishers …
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Last.fm Launches Video - Aims To Be The MTV Of Web 2.0 Age — Online radio station Last.fm is adding a video section to its site this week, enabling users to create their own personalised video channels - similar to how users can already create radio stations based on their music tastes.


RateItAll Launches Read/Write Widget — RateItAll, a social network based around online reviews and opinions, has released a new distributed rating widget. It enables users to not only view (read) a widget, but to interact with it and enter data (write). The initial application …
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Palm Treo 755p hands-on — Let's be real: the new Treo 755p is more or less what the 700p should have been. There's not exactly anything wrong with it, just that it's been a year since the 700p came out and all the improvements to the 755p are rather minor.


Op/Ed: Philip Linden's Folly — How the hell did we get in this mess? — The Linden's proposed faux verification system and the wanton selfish destruction of innocence — by Inigo Chamerberlin — I intended writing this as a simple expose of just what Aristotle/Integrity is …


War Of The People Search — I moderated a fascinating panel tonight at Google headquarters that included execs from three "people search engines" - the CEO of Wink (Michael Tanne), the CEO of Spock (Jaideep Singh), and the COO of Zoominfo (Bryan Burdick). — The panel was very timely.
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Microsoft Flies A Blimp Into Second Life — Mysterious news on the Millions of Us blog this evening: it seems there's now a Microsoft island in the virtual world of Second Life. At least, that's what the »teleport link« in the blog entry implies.


Screen Shot of Truemors: Guy Kawasaki's Rumor Service — We mentioned Guy Kawasaki's newest venture, Truemors, last week along with some early comments we got from the private beta testers ("rumor reporting bulletin board with twitter-like capabilities"). — We've now gotten …


Touch-and-pay cards get go ahead — UK consumers will soon be able to settle bills of less than £10 with a touch of their credit and debit cards. — The system, which is being led by Visa and Mastercard, will be running from September, said payment group Apacs.
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The Euro Startups Quiz - What's Your Score? — Interesting reaction over at The Guardian blog to our post yesterday about the StartUp2.0 competition for European web 2.0 sites. Guardian blogger Jack Schofield said that he only recognized 1 out of the 15 finalists. Jack wrote: