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by MuniWireless
by Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider
Why is Microsoft so concerned about Google? Lots of reasons, one of which is this: By this time next year, Google's search business will be larger and more profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history—Microsoft Windows.
by Heather Green, BusinessWeek
For people who have gazed up at the night sky in wonder and wished they had someone there to identify what they were looking at, Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope is coming to the rescue.
by Brian Stelter, New York Times
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News.com
One prominent data portability evangelist hinted that we're at an inflection point where the social web could either become more connected or just more confusing.
by Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC
by Noam Cohen, New York Times
by Jason Falls, Social Media Explorer
by Tom Abate, San Francisco Chroncile
The same innovation that makes laptop screens thinner turns out to be one of the best energy-saving technologies on Earth — and it's all thanks to new tricks that make it possible to create more illumination using the humblest member of the semiconductor family, the light-emitting diode, or LED.
by Daniel Lyons, The Secret Diary Of Steve Jobs
What people overlook is that the advantages that allowed Dell to prosper for about a decade were all fleeting advantages.
by Steve Gillmor, TechCrunch.com
by Miguel Helft, New York Times
A person with knowledge of the discussions said Google has been thinking about a conundrum: deal or no deal, the company could end up with something of a public relations black eye.
by Joel Hruska, Ars Technica
by Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider
by Tom Lee, TechDirt
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
The White House's recent problems archiving e-mail could be solved by emerging technologies.
by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Robert A. Guth, Wall Street Journal
Microsoft released potential proxy board member from their agreements to serve in the event it made a hostile bid for Yahoo, following the software giant's decision last weekend to end its effort to buy the internet company.
The move is a clear sign that Microsoft isn't planning a sudden reversal of its decision.
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
To make money, you have to move up the economic food chain into higher-value, more profitable work and markets. That economic fact of life applies to nations, companies and individuals. A study released this week shows how this natural law is being applied in the subculture of criminal computer hackers.
by Allan Leinwand, GigaOM
by Robert Hof, BusinessWeek
by Leigh's Blitherings
by Michele Gershberg, Reuters
by Dan Nystedt, Macworld UK
Yahoo shareholders are suing the company over the failure of the Microsoft deal.
by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review
A research project could help people transfer paper documents to their phones and read them more easily.
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
It is a rare company that will help its biggest rival this way. And Google's offer is all the more unusual because it does not neutralize Yahoo as a potential future competitor, at least explicitly.
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
It may be a niche publisher, but the International Data Group has been working out the answers to some big mainstream questions. The biggest one: Can print media survive the transition to the internet?
by Dow Jones
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
by New York Times
by Ina Fried, CNET News.com
Microsoft officially pulled its offer for Yahoo on Saturday. Steve Ballmer said in a statement that Microsoft would pursue its own strategy. "After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal."
by Jon Stokes, Ars Technica
by Paul Glazowski, Mashable
I will agree very much with any statement that pegs some technology giants of the world as uncompetitive, to varying degrees. Several much more so than others. But looking at the progress made within, say, the past 5-10 years among internet developments, new and old, there's little evidence, if any, that innovation hasn't been delivered in abundance, even with closed systems playing champions in various markets.
by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Miguel Helft, New York Times
After a three-month standoff, Microsoft was in active merger talk swith Yahoo on Friday, several people involved in the discussions said.
by John Markoff, New York Times
by Nicholas Carr, Rought Type
by Amy Albert, Los Angeles Times
Meetup brings together people with similar interests, such as hiking, wine-tasting—even Dumpster-diving.
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
The world's data centers are projected to surpass the airline industry as a greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey & Co.
by Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service
by Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software
It's Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time. Ray Ozzie just can't stop rewriting this damn app, again and again and again, and taking 5-7 years each time.
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