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From "To Do" to "Done" in One Search — That sums up Yahoo! Search in a nutshell; the whole point is we want to get you from "to do" to "done." Whatever it is you want to do: research a topic, find a website, plan a vacation, research a medical condition, view a funny video …
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The new Yahoo! Search — Yahoo! began as a human-powered search engine back in 1994. Okay, so it was Jerry and David's guide to the World Wide Web, but the goal was the same as it is now — give people a simple way to find exactly what they're looking for, whatever it is they're looking for.
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Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter — Yahoo is adding some major features to its search engine today. For instance, images from Flickr and playable videos are now embedded in the main results page. A search for a major rock band like U2 brings up information from the artist's Website …
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Yahoo Search Launches Google Killer : Search Assist, Videos, Flickr Integration
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Ballmer: Facebook risks being 'a fad' — The Microsoft chief says that Facebook's appeal could fade - after being linked to an investment that would value the site at $10 billion — Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft chief executive, believes that the craze for individual social networks …
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Microsoft's chief executive has seen the future - and the future is advertising — Steve Ballmer's plans for the computer software giant include taking on Yahoo! and Google in their own internet territory — Steve Ballmer doesn't do half-measures. The veteran Microsoft chief executive …
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Digital Daily
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Microsoft acquires Jellyfish.com — We want to welcome some new folks to the Live Search family - we recently purchased a company called Jellyfish.com, based in Madison, Wisconsin. Jellyfish has done some really innovative work in comparative shopping engines.
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Amazon Makes You Lie to Log Off — Are e-commerce websites making it harder and harder for users to log off? That's certainly a trend one reader has seen evidence of, including confirmation from Amazon that the best way to sign out from your account is to lie to them about who you are.
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The stupidest idea ever? — VENTURE CAPITALIST WAS DISSATISFIED WORKING ON SMART IDEAS, SO HE WENT THE OTHER WAY — As managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki funded all the really smart ideas he could find. None hit it big. — So earlier this year the guru …
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Sony's $399 PS3 confirmed by Best Buy? — Thanks to a helpful tipster, we have a couple of Best Buy documents showing a $399 Playstation 3 with 40GB disk and Spiderman 3 (yes, Blu-ray) bundle with an "In Stock Date" of October 28. However, the more important "Street Date" field is unfortunately empty at the moment.
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Apple's HTML references "iPhone Extreme" — Here's one for you rumor-mongers early in the morning. It's long been speculated that Apple is working on a second version of the iPhone that will be stripped down a bit from the current iteration (often referred to as the "iPhone nano").
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InfoWorld
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AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network — The wow.com domain name has laid dormant since at least 1998, when it was acquired by AOL along with other assets of Compuserve. The domain has been coveted by a number of AOL business units over the years, though.
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Webware.com, CrunchGear, CyberNet, Virtual Worlds News, VTOR, WOW Insider and franticindustries
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Scientists Invent 30 Year Continuous Power Laptop Battery — Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed …
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ZDNet, Newlaunches.com, Gadget Lab, Christopher Null, Boing Boing Gadgets, Gizmodo and Digg
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Microsoft's 4GB / 8GB flash-based Zunes revealed by FCC — Well, would you look at this. Thanks to the oh-so-disclosing FCC website, we're now seeing drawings of what looks to be 4GB and 8GB versions of Microsoft's forthcoming flash-based Zunes. Sure enough, the pictures match the leaked photos …
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Microsoft powers up for change — Chief executive says free software, downloadable online, is on the horizon for consumers. Josephine Moulds reports — Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, yesterday signalled another step towards a dramatic change in the software giant's business model.
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24/7 Wall St., Silicon Alley Insider, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and Times of London