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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
AOL Going — When I wrote about AOL Rising a few weeks ago, it didn't dawn on me that what they were really doing is prepping themselves up for a sale. Reports are today that talks are under way with MSN, Google and who knows what the guys two floors down from me at Yahoo! are doing as well.
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Bloomberg:
Time Warner Rises After NY Post Says Microsoft to Buy AOL Stake — Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Shares of Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, rose in European trading after the New York Post said the company is in talks to sell a stake in America Online to Microsoft Corp.
Bloomberg:Time Warner Rises on Report Microsoft May Share AOL (Update1)
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Robert McLaws:
Exclusive: BillG Goes To College — You want it, we've got it. The camera work is a little bumpy, but here's the spoof video that was shown at PDC 2005... uncut. Some highlight screenshots are below... Watch It Here! — Update: For those of you wondering, it was shot with an HP Photosmart R707 digital camera.
Ars Technica:
Apple supports video podcasting — Apple surprised a few people in June when they rolled podcasting support into iTunes 4.9, giving users the ability to download recorded audio programs automatically through the iTunes Music Store. What is less known is that the company took another step …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET.com:
Hacking's a snap in Legoland — When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company's new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: They cheered. — Unlike executives at so many corporations …
Jon's Radio:
Bill Gates interview: the transcript — I've been too busy here at the PDC to transcribe Tuesday's podcast of my interview with Bill Gates, but the folks at IDG kindly took care of that, so here it is: — JU: So, the Napoleon Dynamite thing was delightful. — BG: It was fun to do that.
Mark McDonald / 1up.com:
Revolution Controller Finally Revealed — We've seen it, touched it, played games with it. Read this now. — The entire industry has been clamoring for a taste of Nintendo's so-called next-generation 'revolution.' So have we. Every time Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has opened his mouth …
Ben Elgin / Business Week:
Yahoo: Mistrust Is Popping Up — A string of issues related to its trustworthiness, especially about adware, could tarnish the portal's reputation on the Net — Yahoo! (YHOO ) has been taking a beating in the blogosphere lately. On Sept. 6 came the revelation that it provided information that helped Beijing jail a journalist.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Open Source Code Finds Way into Microsoft Product — LOS ANGELES—In a move that shows just how far Microsoft Corp. has come, and how pervasive open-source software is in certain areas, the software powerhouse is, for the first time, including open-source technology in one of its shipping products.
emarketer.com:
The Big Battle Over Ad Budgets — A new eMarketer report tracks the flow of advertising dollars to the Internet — and how much of that gain is coming from traditional media. — Internet advertising could be dubbed "The Comeback Kid" of the media world. — According to eMarketer projections …
Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Yahoo intros Instant Search — Yahoo!'s new "Instant Search" product leverages its search short cuts (those little modules that appear above regular search results) that return anything from the local weather forecast to gas prices (type "[city] weather" and "gas [zip code]" in the query box, respectively).
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Careful or they'll hear your password — Computer scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have found a new way to crack computer passwords: By listening. — Professor Doug Tygar and graduate student Li Zhuang use off-the-shelf microphones to record keystroke sounds and run …
redherring.com:
'People believe their partnership with Yahoo is extremely valuable,' —David Chao, — Doll Capital — Management — CAPITAL — AllAbout IPO Soars 727% — Japan's answer to U.S. information portal About.com makes a splash in its first day of trading in Tokyo.