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CNN:
Adobe's Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says — SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)- Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) popular media player for cellphones simply isn't good enough for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday in the most substantive comments …
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Investors probe Apple's Jobs on successor, games, future products — AppleInsider joined Apple investors, some of whom traveled from as far away as Europe, at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Tuesday, where Steve Jobs and his executive team were both grilled and lauded …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Love Him or Hate Him, Fortune Cannot Make Up Its Mind About Steve Jobs — Once again, Steve Jobs is on the cover of Fortune magazine. He is there because Apple is the most admired company in America. No, wait. He is there because investigative reporter Peter Elkind wrote a 12-page takedown of his Steveness.
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:Apple shareholders pepper Jobs with questions
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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Searches for Options — Yahoo and Time Warner stepped up talks on creating an alternative to Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. A possible deal would fold AOL into Yahoo.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Yahoo Looks at New Way to Survive — As it scrambles to avoid defeat in its battle with Microsoft, Yahoo may try to put a little more time on the clock. — Microsoft, whose offer for Yahoo is now worth $41.2 billion, was preparing to escalate its takeover fight by starting a proxy contest next week.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo ditches March 13 Microsoft proxy war deadline — The Microsoft-Yahoo proxy war clock has stopped. — In an SEC filing on Wednesday Yahoo said it has changed the due date to nominate board of directors. Instead of March 13 being the last day you could make a pitch for Yahoo's board …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Zazzle Launches Social Networking Profile Cards — Quick printing service Zazzle has launched a new series of cards today that focus on the social networking craze that is upon us currently. The cards look like the popular social networks including LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace.
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Ask.com Scales Back in Makeover — In a dramatic about-face, Ask.com is abandoning its effort to outshine Internet search leader Google Inc. and will instead focus on a narrower market consisting of married women looking for help managing their lives. — As part of the new direction outlined Tuesday …
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA! — In November 2007 I called these three CAPTCHA implementations “unbreakable”: — 2008 is shaping up to be a very bad year indeed for CAPTCHAs: — Jan 17: InformationWeek reports Yahoo CAPTCHA broken — Feb 6: Websense reports Hotmail CAPTCHA broken
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Rumors of Facebook music service bubbling again — Facebook may be getting closer to launching a music service that competes with Apple's iTunes, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. — Sources told the publication that Facebook has been approaching major record labels about licensing deals …
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Nancy Gohring / PC World:
Microsoft Develops New Operating System From Scratch — Microsoft Research unveiled the new operating system, Singularity, as a prototype aimed at academics and researchers. — Microsoft showed off a new operating system on Tuesday, but don't get too excited.
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David Strom / baselinemag:
Web Takedown Notices: Punish the Monkey — Oh, the cyclical ironies of the Internet. The attention gained by trying to force a Web site to take down content or shut down sparks others to post that content elsewhere. — Here is one letter that you don't want to receive …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Gets It Right With Open AIM 2.0 - Embraces Meebo and eBuddy — AOL is pushing their two year old OpenAim initiative much further this morning with OpenAIM 2.0. — There are three key changes of note. First they are now embracing services that they previously tried to stop …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Tests Additional Search Box Within Search Results — Tamar tipped me off to people seeing secondary search boxes in the Google search results. I see them myself now. For example a search on amazon returns this search box directly under the snippet but above the URL, here is a picture:
The Technium:
1,000 True Fans — The long tail is famously good news for two classes of people; a few lucky aggregators, such as Amazon and Netflix, and 6 billion consumers. Of those two, I think consumers earn the greater reward from the wealth hidden in infinite niches. — But the long tail is a decidedly mixed blessing for creators.
BBC:
Memory trick breaks PC encryption — Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. — Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory. — It was previously thought …
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
7digital's Warner deal for DRM-free tracks confirms it as the UK music startup to beat — 7digital has secured the first deal to exclusively sell Warner Music's full catalogue in the rights-free format across Europe. Customers in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain can now download tracks …
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