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Waxy.org:
Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree  —  Two years ago, I launched Upcoming.org and announced it to the world.  Today, along with my partners Gordon Luk and Leonard Lin, I'm unbelievably proud to announce that Upcoming.org is now a member of the Yahoo! family.  —  I've always had a warm and fuzzy feeling about Yahoo.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
What's Upcoming at Yahoo! Local  —  As readers of the Yahoo! Search blog know, our vision is a far-reaching one — to enable people to find, use, share, and expand all human knowledge.  —  Events are a particularly exciting area of human knowledge — chock full of rich local, social, and temporal data.
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¿Y!  Tu? (aka Holy Schmoly, aka Leeerrooooy Jeeenkinns)  —  (links filled as they come, check out the upcoming update, refresh css)  —  It seems like the cool thing for all my friends to do these days is to announce that they're now working for Yahoo! I think you know where this is heading …
Discussion: ben barren
Getluky / getluky.net:
Yahoo! Acquires Upcoming.org  —  Today marks the day that Yahoo! has officially acquired Upcoming.org.  Here's the official announcement, which covers the basics: … Tackling the tricky problems behind events is a worthy challenge.  Many sites make an attempt to be a calendar on the Internet …
Discussion: pc4media and ben barren
Jo Best / silicon.com:
Video iPod: From rumour to reality?  —  Let's examine the evidence...  With Apple confirming it will expand its product line on 12 October, could the Cupertino firm really be lining up an iPod capable of playing videos?  —  Second-guessing Apple's product launches has long been a favourite sport …
Discussion: TechSpot
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Single-play DVDs?  It's a hoax  —  On the Internet, a hoax can spread just as fast as a genuine news story.  That's the lesson from the bogus story published in an obscure UK business magazine yesterday that claimed Microsoft is about to unleash a new single-play DVD format.
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
'GoogleOffice': A Microsoft Office Killer?  —  If 'GoogleOffice' ever materializes, it won't be going head-to-head with Microsoft Office.  Instead, expect some new MSN services in the pipeline to emerge as Redmond's secret weapons.  —  To hear Sun, Google and the Anything But Microsoft campers tell it …
eWEEK.com:
Microsoft FAT Patents Get Thumbs Down  —  Updated: The USPTO has rejected two key patent applications around FAT, but Microsoft still believes it has a good chance of triumphing.  Open-source vendors are holding their breath.  —  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected …
Dave Winer / Dave Winer's RSS Weblog:
Editorial: Ning harkens back to 1999  —  Here's the scene.  Team of famous entrepreneurs raises a huge pile of VC, with a very vague idea what the product will be.  They have a series of off-sites and put up lists of "ideas" on flipcharts.  The ideas are actually products that other people came up with and sold to Yahoo or Microsoft.
www2.sprint.com:
Sprint Nextel Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit  —  Sprint Nextel Files Lawsuit Against Vonage, Voiceglo and theglobe.com for Infringing Seven Patents  —  Media Contact:  —  Debra Peterson, 913-794-3765  —  Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) today announced one of its subsidiaries filed …
Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
A Fashionable New Blog Network  —  Glam Media is expected today to unveil a fashion blog network, allowing the media and e-commerce player to offer advertising packages that combine Glam.com and blog inventory.  —  It's the first significant move by the Silicon Valley media start-up, which just launched last month.

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