Quoted: Because Google is providing so many of its resources to T-Mobile to ensure it has a phone ready to go by the end of this year, a Google Android phone from another carrier, Sprint, is likely pushed until next year. Likewise, China Mobile could see a launch of its first Android phone pushed into 2009.
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Both Sprint and China Mobile are also said to want to make their own branded version of the platform, something which will take more time and resources. Sprint also is unsure about whether to push forward with a device that works on a 3G network, or simply wait until the 4G networks are ready to go.
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That is not a good sign.

Quoted: We just got confirmation from Joshua Schachter, the founder of delicious, that he has decided to resign from Yahoo!

Quoted: Recently people have been noticing that the Google favicon, the small icon in your browser’s address bar when you visit a Google site, has changed from teh familiar upper-case G to a lower-case one. Google has not changed this design in over eight years, so the change caused speculation that more design changes might be afoot. Well, it turns out

Quoted: Documents unsealed Monday evening reveal some sexy details on the process inside Yahoo, but probably don't change the dynamic with Microsoft, Carl Icahn -- or Google, for that matter.
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Among the highlights:
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Microsoft made a $40 per share bid for Yahoo in January 2007, but was rebuffed by then CEO Terry Semel.
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Microsoft went public with its 2008 bid after attempting another private transaction and coming to the conclusion that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang was adamantly opposed to selling.

Here is a patent from Wm. Mulholland. Goog's patent search is the coolest.

Quote: Be it known that I, WILLIAM MULHOLLAND, of Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new 5 and useful Device to Utilize Wave Force, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Quoted: Today I attended the XMediaLab event in Wellington New Zealand (my hometown). Tom Duterme, who is in the New Business Development group at Google in Mountain View, was here talking about innovation. Tom's job is to travel around the world looking for acquisitions for Google, so it was interesting to hear what things he looks for in startups.

Quoted: These stories are becoming more common as Internet companies operate under the laws of many counties. In February A Moroccan man was arrested for pretending to be the Moroccan king’s younger brother, Prince Moulay Rachid, on Facebook. Facebook complied with Morrocca information requests about the man, leading to his arrest. The man was granted a royal

Quoted: A News Sitemap uses the Sitemap Protocol, with the following differences:
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A second namespace for the News schema should be added:
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Each URL may include optional news-specific tags within the News schema, as described in the table below.
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<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://mynewssite.com/article100.html</loc>
<news:news>
<news:publication_date>2006-08-17T03:19:00Z</news:publication_date>
<news:keywords>Sports, Baseball</news:keywords>
</news:news>
</url>
</urlset>

I think Scoble might, in fact, be using the old version of the Google Reader for iPhone. The new one lets you share easily without a navigation. You do have to actually read the post before you share it (usually a good idea), but the click to view a post makes it appear inside the main list. No navigation required. The share / unshare link is an ajax method located at the footer of the post. This doesn't cause a navigation as it did in the first version. Also, you can now see All Posts, not just new ones. Nice improvements.

Quoted: You might like it though. Some of my Twitter friends say that’s how they read all their feeds (I bias my life around sharing feed items, so making me click through items to share makes me mad).