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Jerry: You Wanted Independence, So Back Away From Google Slowly…

By Kevin Maney
Blogger, Tech Observer, Portfolio

Kevin Maney

Reports, rumors and innuendos are bouncing around the Web that Google may not want to cut an advertising deal with Yahoo after all. This before there is actually substantiation that Google and Yahoo are crafting an advertising deal, which was something of a rumor and innuendo in the first place, allegedly planted to let Microsoft know that Yahoo had options.

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Facebook, MySpace Work With States for Predator Safeguards

By David Chartier
Blogger, Ars Technica

David Chartier

With all the commotion over the rise of social networking sites, parental groups and government bodies have been asking for someone to think of the children. In response to rising concerns that Facebook and MySpace have become beacons for sexual predators and bullies, these two leading sites have agreed to add over 40 new safeguards aimed at protecting young users.

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Mind Control by Cellphone

By R. Douglas Fields
Contributor, Scientific American

R. Douglas Fields

Hospitals and airplanes ban the use of cell phones, because their electromagnetic transmissions can interfere with sensitive electrical devices. Could the brain also fall into that category? Of course, all our thoughts, sensations and actions arise from bioelectricity generated by neurons and transmitted through complex neural circuits inside our skulls.

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MySpace Partners with Yahoo, Twitter, eBay on Data “Availability”

By Marshall Kirkpatrick
Blogger, ReadWriteWeb

Marshall Kirkpatrick

In a surprise move just unveiled this morning, a handful of big players led by MySpace and Yahoo! have announced that public profiles, photos, videos and friend networks will now be portable from one site to another. We’re immediately wondering why this was a partnership between a handful of big sites instead of a move to truly open to the web in general.

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It’s Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On eBay

By Chris Walters
Associate Editor, Consumerist.com

Chris Walters

The cool thing about eBay’s support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell his laptop to someone who wasn’t a Nigerian scammer. Timothy has discovered the awful truth behind today’s eBay—something many readers here already know—which is that it’s become virtually impossible to sell any sort of medium-to-high end electronics there anymore.

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Is Flickr Worth $4 Billion?

By Mark Evans
Mark Evans Tech

Mark Evans

In the wake of Microsoft’s aborted courtship of Yahoo and Jerry “Oh, did you increase your offer?” Yang, there’s bound to be a lot of scrutiny about what’s next for Yahoo.

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