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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 …
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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 …
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.
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 …
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Phoenix / Search Engine Roundtable:
Save Jeeves! Pask Ask Employee Speaks Out — Save Jeeves, so says a very concerned blogger! It appears one of the past employees of Ask are getting up in arms about the decision from Ask/IAC to sack the butler. He apparently has a following that is voicing their dismay at loosing him eventually.
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 …
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Philadelphia to Be City of Wireless Web — Philadelphia yesterday announced a plan to build the biggest municipal wireless Internet system in the nation, the latest of a growing number of cities to treat high-speed Web access as a basic municipal service like water, electricity and trash collection.
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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.
