Archive for April 25th, 2008

Google thinks antitrust regulators would approve an advertising partnership with Yahoo because the deal isn’t exclusive and isn’t a merger, Reuters reported Friday.

Google sees the deals as comparable to its partnership with Time Warner’s AOL and IAC/InterActiveCorp, both of which use Google’s technology to …

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Nvidia’s hostility toward Intel is on a high boil these days. In its latest dig against the central processing unit (CPU) and the company that makes the lion’s share of CPUs, an Nvidia VP said in a private missive that the CPU is dead and it has “run …

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Nvidia’s hostility toward Intel is on a high boil these days. In its latest dig against the central processing unit (CPU) and the company that makes the lion’s share of CPUs, an Nvidia VP said in a private missive that the CPU is dead and it has “run …

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Google has broadened the number of online applications that people can use offline, adding spreadsheets and presentations to the mix.

However, unlike with word-processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations can only be viewed, not edited, according to a post by marketing manager Andrew Chang on the Google Docs blog Friday. That’…

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AT&T on Friday denied using forged reset packets to interfere with network connections of Vuze file-sharing platform users, as Comcast has been accused of doing with BitTorrent traffic.

The statement came in response to a report released earlier this week (PDF) by Vuze, which offers a BitTorrent-based client …

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AT&T on Friday denied using forged reset packets to interfere with network connections of Vuze file-sharing platform users, as Comcast has been accused of doing with BitTorrent traffic.

The statement came in response to a report released earlier this week (PDF) by Vuze, which offers a BitTorrent-based client …

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Here’s a number to chew on as Yahoo finishes out its earnings week and faces a Saturday deadline to formally negotiate a merger with Microsoft: 6 percent.

That’s how far its shares have fallen since it reported its better-than-expected earnings after the markets shut on Tuesday. Compare that …

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SAN FRANCISCO–It’s no secret that spam now pollutes Web sites as well as e-mail in-boxes. But Web site operators can take actions to combat it, a Google expert in the area said Friday.

Matt Cutts, Google's lead engineer for combating Web spam, at the Web 2.0 Expo

Matt Cutts, Google's lead engineer for combating Web spam, at the Web 2.0

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Lars Ulrich, the combustible drummer of heavy-metal band Metallica and long-time critic of file sharing, has apparently changed some of his views towards the World wide web and digital music.

In an interview with Rolling Stone last week, Ulrich stated he and his bandmates have only one more album

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As the Saturday deadline looms for Yahoo to give Microsoft an answer on the latter’s takeover bid, it’s time for those of us writing about this to admit something: This is getting boring.

I mean “boring” in that Village of the Damned or Groundhog Day way, in which …

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