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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Weekend Update 11.21.09–The House of Cards Edition

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In tough economic times like these, even the biggest businesses get the urge to restructure, reorg and reshuffle. Kara reported on several big breakups (of the tech variety), including the separation of AOL from Time Warner. Even ICQ got into the mix.

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Google Uncrates Chrome

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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Chrome OS: “Turning On a PC Should Be Like Turning On Your TV”

tv_static_googleDirect from Google headquarters, and liveblogged by John Paczkowski, Google’s Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management and Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for Google Chrome OS, explain some of the advantages of the operating system: Speed, simplicity and security.

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Bing Back With a Bang

548513149_F8DJk-S-150x150Looks like Bing’s September market share decline was more an anomaly than anything else. According to the latest figures from Hitwise, Bing’s share of the search market increased seven percent in October, evidently at the expense of both Google and Yahoo.

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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Verizon on AT&T Suit: There’s a Word for That. “Junk.”

mapIf AT&T’s lawsuit over Verizon’s allegedly misleading “there’s a map for that” ad wasn’t a public relations mistake to begin with, it will be by the time Verizon gets through with it. Responding to the suit today, Verizon rep Jeffrey Nelson used it to stoke public perception that AT&T’s network is inferior to Verizon’s.

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Sirius Turns a Corner?

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Google Dashboard Offers “Unprecedented” View of Stuff We Already Knew

google_hal9000-150x150Privacy advocates carping about the vast amounts of data Google collects about our Internet use can rest a bit easier today now that they know what the search company knows about them. This morning, Google rolled out Dashboard, a new service that consolidates user account information and settings for its various products onto a single page.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Microsoft a First-Mover With No Advantage in Twitter Deal

bing_twitter-150x150Microsoft may have gotten the jump on Google when its Bing search engine became the first to allow users to search Twitter in real time, but that victory is largely an empty one. Because while being first is generating quite a bit of attention for Bing–which is, for once, leading search innovation instead of following Google’s–that’s about all it’s good for now.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

AT&T Activates Record 3.2 Million iPhones in Q3

happy-iphoneHow badly does AT&T want to renew its iPhone exclusivity contract with Apple? Pretty damn badly. Posting third-quarter earnings that topped Wall Street expectations this morning, AT&T said it activated a record 3.2 million iPhones during the period. Of those, 40 percent were for customers new to the carrier.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Twitter in Microsoft/Google Three-Way, as Search Giant Crashes Data-Mining Party

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How nonexclusive is Microsoft’s deal with Twitter? So nonexclusive that just hours after Microsoft announced it, rival Google lurched forward to say that it has entered into a similar partnership with the microblogging service.

The search giant may be second to this party, but it’s not going to be late.
But make no mistake–this is very clearly a rush job. Microsoft has code running. Google does not.

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Microsoft Strikes Bing Deal With Twitter, Facebook: The Official Announcement

bing_twitterHere’s official confirmation of the search partnership Microsoft has struck with Twitter, first reported by BoomTown earlier this morning. It’s being distributed as Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, presents at the annual Web 2.0 Summit.

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Microsoft’s Bing Deal

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AT&T Earnings Expected to Be Better Than Expected

imagesAT&T reports third-quarter earnings Thursday and by all accounts, they should be strong enough, thanks to the sheer size of the company’s footprint and, of course, its exclusive carrier rights to the iPhone.

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Thursday, October 15, 2009

If the Sidekick Fiasco Is a “Premium Mobile Experience,” I’d Hate to See the Basic Version

confidenceGood news for SideKick users bemoaning the backend server failure that wiped out their personal data–and those suing over it. Microsoft says it has recovered most of the data that it initially believed to be permanently lost.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Cisco Swallows Starent

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »

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