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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo & Microsoft Have Talked Partnering, Merging — I was talking with Kevin Delaney of the Wall Street Journal on Monday about search things in general and mentioned the sense it makes for Microsoft and Yahoo to get together. Microsoft is behind with the core search technology.
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Jonathan Thaw / Bloomberg:
Microsoft's AdCenter May Fail to Topple Google From Dominance — May 3 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.'s new Web advertising software, three years in the making, may fail to crack Google Inc.'s dominance of the Internet ad market. — The AdCenter software will be demonstrated at meetings …
Willow Duttge / AdAge:
Ad Agency Sues Blogger for Defamation — Action Follows Public Battle Over Maine Tourism Ad Work — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — An ad agency that specialized in travel advertising is suing a Maine-based blogger for defamation after he began to post regularly about the work the agency was doing for its client, the state of Maine.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Suing Bloggers is an Invitation for Bad PR
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Communication Overtones
Alice Z. Cuneo / AdAge:
AT&T Plans to Kill Cingular Brand — But Some See Change of 'Cingular' to 'AT&T Wireless' as Mistake — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — It cost $4 billion to turn it into one of the best known names in the country, a future-forward, dynamic brand with a strong connection to young consumers and a share lead in the wireless marketplace.
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Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Report Shows Marketers Stick with Proven Interactive Media — Mobile, RSS and advergaming may get lots of media attention, but many marketers are looking the other way. A new Forrester Research report shows that a wide spectrum of interactive marketers is continuing to bank on proven methods …
Coolz0r:
Screw YouTube — Okay. I'm out of YouTube. I refuse to use the service any longer. Recent changes made it very obvious they don't want users with large archives. The site is very very slow and I have over 30 pages of videos. Browsing to page 28 took me exactly 12 minutes …
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leftlanenews.com:
Gone in 20 Minutes: using laptops to steal cars — High-tech thieves are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to stealing automobiles equipped with keyless entry and ignition systems. While many computer-based security systems on automobiles require some type of key …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Professors banning in-class laptop use — In yet another sign that Luddism is alive and well in academia (remember Lakehead University's silly WiFi ban?), the Associated Press has picked up on a disturbing "trend" of professors banning laptops in their classrooms.
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Reuters:
'Net Neutrality' Battle Widens — WASHINGTON — The U.S. financial sector, a powerful force in Washington, may be gearing up to jump into a Capitol Hill fight over the future of the internet and stop an effort it says could add billions in costs just to maintain current offerings.
Mike / Techdirt:
Tim Berners-Lee On Net Neutrality: It's Important, But Now What? — from the where-the-conversation-breaks- down dept — teKuru writes in to point out Tim Berners-Lee's latest essay on the importance of net neutrality. It's a good read that talks up the importance of network neutrality …
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Mark Evans
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Dan Ilett / silicon.com:
Apple online store hacked — Korean website defaced... Apple's Korean online store has been defaced by a hacker. — The attack, carried out by someone working under the name 'Dinam', who claimed in his post to be Turkish, was brought to the attention of silicon.com last Thursday.
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Mac Rumors
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
France backs down on iTunes DRM stance — The French government has apparently reconsidered a proposal to force Apple Computer to make the songs it sells through its iTunes Music Store playable on devices that compete with its iPods. — A French Senate committee has removed wording …
Consortiuminfo.org:
OpenDocument Approved by ISO/IEC Members — The six month voting window for ISO/IEC adoption of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard closed on May 1, and at midnight (Geneva time) last night it was announced internally that ODF had been approved by the ISO members eligible and interested in casting a vote.
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Silent recall on MacBook Pro batteries … If it wasn't bad enough that to have processor and CPU whine, poor Airport reception and solar ambient temperatures, it appears that some early MacBook Pro batteries are now failing. — Christopher Price from PCSIntel.com has uncovered what appears …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Is the Web the new Hollywood? — "The audience is taking over the programming," according to Ted Cohen,senior vice president of Digital Development and Distribution at EMI Music. "A few years ago we looked at litigating it, now we are looking at how to monetize it."
Business Wire:
Marchex Acquires Assets of AreaConnect, Increasing its Proprietary Base of Local Traffic — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 2, 2006—Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) (NASDAQ:MCHXP) today announced that it has acquired certain assets of AreaConnect LLC, a provider of local online traffic to Yellow …
opera.com:
Mini Gets Mighty: Introducting Opera Mini 2.0 for your mobile phone — Opera Software today released Opera Mini 2.0, the new version of the tiny and fast Web browser that runs on almost every mobile phone. With over 2.5 million users since its first release in January 2006, Opera Mini has revolutionized mobile Web browsing.
Lorne Manly / New York Times:
Microsoft Teams Up With Hollywood to Offer Original Web Shows — Nearly 10 years after wholeheartedly but prematurely embracing original entertainment programming on the Web, Microsoft is re-entering the fray. But instead of attempting to contort itself into a media company by hiring scores …
Discussion:
B2Day, IP Democracy, paidContent.org, Todd Bishop's Microsoft … and Good Morning Silicon Valley
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
North Carolina Blogging Conference Recap — Sorry to post yet another conference recap on blog law, but it's been a busy conference season, and everyone wants to talk about blogs! I previously blogged on my presentation at the University of North Carolina's conference on employee blogging.
