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Computer Industry

"Microsoft Bankers Talked To Facebook About a Deal" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:42 PM
"Microsoft eyeing Facebook: report" Reuters 3:33 PM
"AP sources give inside look at Microsoft's raised Yahoo bid: People close to talks give inside look at how Microsoft raised Yahoo takeover bid to $47.5B" Associated Press 9:46 AM
"Gates: Microsoft taking 'independent' path/Chairman says the software giant isn't considering other deals after pulling offer for Yahoo." Associated Press 9:14 AM
"Bill Gates reiterates Microsoft's Yahoo-less path" CNET News.com 9:57 AM
"Steve Mum On Battle: Disgruntled Yahoo! shareholders have just eight days to put up a slate of candidates to replace Jerry Yang, but they desperately need some assurance from Steve Ballmer that he is still willing to negotiate a deal." New York Post 1:14 PM
"Microsoft and Yahoo: The next step" [Video Report] CNET News.com 10:20 AM
"Rethinking Yahoo's 'No': Was It the Right Move?" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:51 AM
"What's next for Microsoft and Yahoo: Don't count Ballmer out yet" San Jose Mercury News 11:26 AM
"Microsoft platform tops Web 2.0 developer survey" ZDNet Australia 10:18 AM
"Microsoft to Help Disabled Access Office Documents" IDG News Service 11:41 AM
"Microsoft warns of IE7 lock-in with XP SP3: Users who have installed the Windows XP SP3 will not be able to downgrade from Internet Explorer 7 to IE6 without uninstalling the service pack" Computerworld 2:38 PM
"Zune struggles to find the right pitch" CNET News.com 9:57 AM
"Microsoft denies putting 'copyright cop' in Zune" CNET News.com 9:29 PM
"Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 4:20 PM
"Zune offers song sharing" Detroit Free Press 4:08 PM
"Sun Still Clings to Java Dominance Pitch" SeekingAlpha 9:49 AM
"Sun previews JavaFX for rich web applications" ZDNet UK 10:19 AM
"Sun shows off JavaFX platform" [Video Report] ZDNet 10:20 AM
"Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition ‹ from Sun" ZDNet 10:28 AM
"Sun Changes Its Mind, MySQL Tools to Remain Open Source" Wired Blogs 10:37 AM
"Java platform to get modularity, OSGi support" InfoWorld 2:39 PM
"Sun Proposes Do-It-All Cloud" eWeek 4:00 PM
"Dell Launches Virtualization-Optimized Servers" InformationWeek 5:24 PM
"Dell and Virtualization" ZDNet 10:29 AM
"Dell issues virtualization wonder box despite AMD" The Register 11:03 AM
"Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe" ZDNet 10:27 AM
"Gateway makes the leap to 64-bit Vista" ZDNet 10:25 AM
"New Gateway desktops, more 64-bit Windows Vista" ZDNet 10:24 AM
"HP labs director seeks more help from academia" Associated Press 5:04 PM
"HP Labs calls for university proposals" EE Times 11:19 AM
"Danish union wants IBM's Palmisano to testify in court case" Computerworld 1:27 PM
"IBM mainframe adds Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand links" Network World 1:26 PM
"IBM Releases Self-Checkout Application" eWeek 4:02 PM
"AMD to meet shareholders with strategy in spotlight: Some analysts speculate that plans may be afoot to break up chip giant" MarketWatch 4:55 PM
"Split-up speculation boosts shares of AMD" Bloomberg News 11:25 AM
"Advanced Micro Devices: 'Asset Light' Strategy and Anti-Trust Suit Spawn Rumors" SeekingAlpha 9:27 AM
"Analysis: Is asset-lite a smart move for AMD?" EE Times 11:20 AM
"AMD Plans 12-Core Server Chip In 2010: The chipmaker introduced its two-year product roadmap for servers and workstations on Wednesday." InformationWeek 5:31 PM
"AMD discloses 12-core server chip" EE Times 4:03 PM
"AMD Plans Six-Processor Chip" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:44 PM
"Intel wants to own the weather prediction business" The Register 11:03 AM
"Cisco 3Q profit beats views, shares rise" Associated Press 9:54 AM
"Cisco Shares Pare Gains on Worries of Weak Orders" CNBC 9:32 AM
"Cisco Q3 report card: Lots of A's and B's" Network World 1:25 PM
"Tech Giants Following Through on Green Pledges" PC Magazine 11:44 AM
"Electronics Retailers: A Rebate Rush? Amid speculation the U.S. stimulus program may boost sales, S&P says the industry's fundamentals are positive. Its top pick: Best Buy" BusinessWeek 5:47 PM

General Interest

"Hackers Join Social Network Craze With 'House Of Hackers': GnuCitizen's site promotes exchanging ideas through elite circles and tiger/red teams, but frowns on all criminal activities." InformationWeek 9:37 PM
"TomTom 920 GPS Finds Cheapest Gas" ABCNews.com 5:56 PM
"New game gizmo uses mind control" Sydney Morning Herald 5:54 PM
"MainSoft Integrates Microsoft SharePoint With IBM Lotus Notes" InformationWeek 5:30 PM
"Adobe breaks silence on February's PDF bugs" Computerworld 4:16 PM
"Broadband service over power lines in Texas to shut down" Associated Press 4:14 PM
"Red Hat Heads For The JON 2.0" InternetNews.com 1:43 PM
"Yahoo e-mail accounts compromised for spammers' use" CNET News.com 5:13 PM
"Angry Yahoo shareholders may try to oust Yang" Los Angeles Times [Free Registration Required] 1:31 PM
"Yahoo presses ahead with Panama rollout in emerging markets" IDG News Service 1:27 PM
"MSI Launches New 'Freezer' Silent Graphics Card" PC Magazine 11:46 AM
"McAfee Announces Secure Web Site Service, Secure Search" PC Magazine 11:44 AM
"OpenOffice 3 beta: More compatibility, new features" CNET News.com 5:14 PM
"OpenOffice 3.0 Beta Released" PC Advisor 11:42 AM
"Flocking Together on the Web: A new Web browser unifies access to multiple social networks." Technology Review 11:06 AM
"Scientists create robot chewing device" The Register 11:04 AM
"PlayStation 'will reclaim lead'" BBC 5:50 PM
"Sony details PS3 DVR pricing, launch date" Reg Hardware 11:02 AM
"RIM announces Women & Technology Awards winners" vnunet.com 10:54 AM
"Opera Dragonfly emerges from pupa" The Register 11:02 AM
"Dragonfly: Opera Releases Free Developer Tools" Wired Blogs 10:37 AM
"Google Pays for Android Support: Google's $500 million stake in the new Clearwire could give it a major platform for its wireless OS." eWeek 4:00 PM
"Facebook hires Google's Schrage to head communications" Bloomberg News 11:24 AM
"Responsible Image Replacement Won't Get You Banned From Google" Wired Blogs 10:37 AM
" BT launches BlackBerry-style device with broadband" Reuters 10:06 AM
"Pioneer offers up 2 new Blu-ray players" Crave 9:58 AM
"Indian telecom giant returns to his roots" Fortune 9:40 AM
"DirecTV's Net Income Rises 10% As It Adds More Subscribers" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:22 AM
"Videogame Maker THQ Posts Loss" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 10:52 AM
"Grand Theft Auto IV misses week one million sales mark" Reg Hardware 11:01 AM
"'Grand Theft Auto' first week sales top $500 million" Reuters 9:46 AM
"Grand Theft Auto IV Tops $500 Million in Sales" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:21 AM

Press Releases

"Cisco Firewall Video Mentor from Cisco Press Now Available" Business Wire 9:37 AM
"Healthcare Leader Mayo Clinic Enables Innovative Mobility Solutions to Enhance Patient Care" Market Wire 9:33 AM
"Reminder - Cisco Announces Upcoming Schedule of Events With the Financial Community" Market Wire 9:33 AM
"Dell Unveils Virtualization Blockbuster - from Servers and Storage to Software and Services" Business Wire 9:38 AM
"HP Labs Opens Research Opportunities to Academia" Business Wire 9:39 AM
"IBM Fellow Stuart Parkin Wins IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award" Market Wire 9:41 AM
"IBM and Siemens Healthcare Team to Help Community Hospitals Reduce Operating Costs and Energy Consumption" Market Wire 9:40 AM
"Oracle Debuts Enhanced Preview of Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware 11g" PRNewswire-FirstCall 5:06 PM
"Oracle Enhances Java Resources for Global Developer Community" PRNewswire-FirstCall 5:06 PM
"Oracle Extends Oracle(R) Fusion Middleware Developer Tools With Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse" PRNewswire-FirstCall 5:05 PM
"Siemens Shared Services Banks on Oracle(R) Real Application Clusters to Serve Over 70,000 Employees Across the Nation" PRNewswire-FirstCall 9:48 AM
"Sun Microsystems Announces Technology Preview of Open Source Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and New Sun GlassFish Communications Server" Business Wire 5:07 PM
"Sun Microsystems and Liferay Launch Initiative to Develop Next-Generation Web Technologies" Business Wire 5:07 PM

Microsoft

"Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 9:32 PM
"Microsoft to show new search tech this month" CNET News.com 5:14 PM
"Skeleton key unlocks Microsoft SQL servers in latest Web attack" CNET News.com 5:13 PM
"Microsoft, Customers Nurse Vista Blues" Dow Jones 5:02 PM
"Did Microsoft Cave Where Apple Wouldn't?" eWeek 4:01 PM
"Microsoft developers trim code internally to cut costs" InfoWorld 2:38 PM
"Microsoft's infrastructure management aspirations" Network World 1:26 PM
"What to Do When Windows Gets Really Messed Up" PC World 1:25 PM
"MS UK kills mystery 'Live to Code' site" The Register 11:01 AM
"Temporarily Bullish on Microsoft" SeekingAlpha 9:47 AM
"Microsoft Announces U.S. Availability of Citizen Services 'E-Government'" PRNewswire-FirstCall 9:46 AM
"Microsoft, DAISY Make Reading Easier for People With Print Disabilities: Using Office Open XML files, users of Microsoft Office Word can now produce content in the world's most widely used assistive technology format." PRNewswire-FirstCall 9:45 AM

Government/Law/Politics

"State Department laptops missing" CNET News.com 9:29 PM
"Internet Archive Challenges F.B.I.'s Secret Records Demand" IDG News Service 9:32 PM
"FBI rescinds secret order for Internet Archive records" CNET News.com 9:29 PM
"Studios win $100 million judgment against TorrentSpy" CNET News.com 5:14 PM
"Google will take Viacom suit to Supreme Court" CNET News.com 5:13 PM
"FCC to Announce Test Market For All-Digital TV Conversion" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:44 PM
"Austrian city asking for polite cellphone use" International Herald Tribune 1:38 PM
"European Commission Considers SMS Roaming Price Cap" IDG News Service 11:41 AM
"HP, Google rate high in climate change actions" San Francisco Chronicle 11:31 AM
"White House admits non-existent email backups" The Register 11:03 AM
"European Patent Office hails top inventors" vnunet.com 10:55 AM
"World Of Warcraft's Legal War To Defend Copyrights Heats Up: Advocacy group Public Knowledge claims Blizzard's use of copyright infringement laws to crack down on MDY's Glide automation software is outrageous." InformationWeek 10:08 AM
"Hacker Kept On NDS Payroll After Accused Of Piracy: A high-ranking News Corp. official testified Tuesday that he kept two hackers on the payroll for years after one of them was accused of infiltrating the security system of rival satellite television company Dish Network." Reuters 10:08 AM
"Congressman Seeks Second Life Ban In Schools, Libraries: Illinois' Mark Kirk hopes to quash online sex predators lurking around the virtual world by reviving the 2006 Deleting Online Predators Act." InformationWeek 5:29 PM
"Ban 'Second Life' in schools and libraries, Republican congressman says" CNET News.com 9:59 AM

Analysis/Editorial/Help/Opinion

"Review: 4 online databases let you structure and share your data" Computerworld 4:16 PM
"P2P and P4P: The Tangled Web We Weave" TechNewsWorld 4:06 PM
"Ruby Is on the Rise: Use of the Ruby programming language is expected to quadruple over the next five years." eWeek 4:00 PM
"Fake MP3 Trojan Detected On 27% Of PCs: McAfee Avert Labs says more than half a million of the adware programs disguised as media files have been detected in less than a week." InformationWeek 2:47 PM
"What Is Your Social Networking Policy?" Enterprise 2.0 Blog 2:46 PM
"Gallery: Gifts for the geeky mom" [Slideshow] ZDNet 2:35 PM
"The best Web forms system yet: Frevvo builds upon techniques other forms systems pioneered" Network World 1:26 PM
"Global Piracy Rampant -- But You Can Fight Back" CIO Today 1:11 PM
"Little Big Hard Drives: Today's external USB hard drives pack a lot into a very small, easy-to-pocket case." PC Magazine 11:44 AM
"Who'll survive the leap from DRAMs?" EE Times 11:20 AM
"HDTVs: How black is black?" ZDNet 10:25 AM
"Why many MCSEs won't learn Linux" ZDNet 10:22 AM

Acquisitions/Deals/Investments/Mergers

"Huawei May Sell Stake In Handset Business" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 3:44 PM
"Verizon funds undersea internet cable network" Reuters 10:19 AM
"Bharti pursues MTN amid talk of rival bids" International Herald Tribune 1:38 PM
"China-India Rivalry Possible in African Telecom Deal" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 10:03 AM
"Embarcadero buys CodeGear" InfoWorld 2:38 PM
"Borland Finally Sells CodeGear" InternetNews.com 1:43 PM
"Borland finally sells its CodeGear tools division" CNET News.com 9:58 AM
"Icahn raises stake in Motorola to 7.6%: Billionaire investor increasing his holdings in the Illinois-based technology company; shares move higher in premarket trading." Associated Press 9:16 AM
"Technology Group Plans Wireless Network" New York Times [Free Registration Required] 10:03 AM
"Google, Intel, Cable Cos. Invest in WiMax" Smartmoney.com 9:43 AM
"Big Tech Firms to Invest in WiMax: Sprint, Comcast, Google, Time Warner and Intel Join Forces in New Broadband Joint Venture" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 9:21 AM
"Sprint, Clearwire form WiMax venture: The new $14.55 billion wireless communications company will receive investment from tech titans Google and Comcast." Associated Press 9:16 AM

Tech Stocks

"Tech Stocks: Broad losses weigh down tech sector" MarketWatch 5:01 PM
"U.S. Stocks Slip on Crude Oil, Fall Hard" TheStreet.com 4:57 PM
"Oil spikes, stocks tank: Crude prices top $123 a barrel, dragging on equity prices as investors step back after a strong April and start to May." CNNMoney 4:40 PM
"Stocks Sink as Oil Soars: Inflation jitters hit Wall Street as crude reached a fresh record high above $123" BusinessWeek 4:59 PM
"Crude Record Kills Markets' Drive" Forbes.com 3:39 PM
"Wall Street drop sharpest in a month" FT.com 5:00 PM
"Financials Lead Late Dive by Stocks" WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required] 4:50 PM
"Asia Markets: Glum mood cuts Tokyo gains; oil shares pumped up" MarketWatch 9:23 AM
"Europe Markets: Europe breaks two-session losing streak/Shares of Nokia, Daimler, Lafarge and British American Tobacco all advance" MarketWatch 4:50 PM

SectorWatch

BioTech

Broadcasting and Cable

CAD/CAM

Chips

Communication

Communications Equipment

Communications Services

Computers

Computer Services

Consultants and Integrators

Productivity Software

Telecommunication-Cellular

Telecom Equipment

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Wireless Communications

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Associated Press (Checked 9:25 PM; no changes since 10:00 AM CDT)

"Cisco 3Q profit beats views, shares rise"

CNET News.com (Updated 9:25 PM CDT)

"Plastic bag conquers Google Street View"
"State Department laptops missing"
"Frengo makes social networks leaky"
"Microsoft denies putting 'copyright cop' in Zune"
"FBI rescinds secret order for Internet Archive records"
"MTI Micro plans fuel cells for digicams"
"Phone numbers give way to social-networking profiles with RmbrMe"
"Report: N.C. town to switch off analog TV early"
"Spammy Twitter accounts to get the virtual guillotine"
"Casio suckers bloggers into writing about upcoming G-Shock event" ...

New York Times (Updated 9:30 PM CDT)

"Technology Group Plans Wireless Network"
"Your Chance to Finish a Movie Microsoft Started"
"Cisco Sales Top Lowered Forecast, and Profit Declines"
"Comcast's Near-Unlimited Bandwidth Limits"
"Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune"
"A $500 Million Week for Grand Theft Auto"
"Internet Archive Challenges F.B.I.'s Secret Records Demand"
"European Commission Considers SMS Roaming Price Cap"
"DirecTV Profit Up 10% as Subscriptions Grow"
"Microsoft Won't Pursue Other Partnerships, Says Gates" ...

Reuters (Updated 9:35 PM CDT)

"'Grand Theft Auto' sales top Hollywood movie"
"Microsoft sends out feelers to Facebook: report"
"Pope goes digital to better connect with youth"
"BT launches BlackBerry-style device with broadband"
"Sprint, cable companies form WiMax venture"
"'Grand Theft Auto' sales top $500 mln in 1st week"

TechWeb (Updated 9:35 PM CDT)

"Hackers Join Social Network Craze With 'House Of Hackers'"
"Yahoo Behind Them, Microsoft Sends Out Feelers To Facebook"
"Hitachi Ships Latest Mobile Hard Drive"
"Dell Launches Virtualization-Optimized Servers"
"Microsoft To Move On Without Yahoo, Gates Says"
"Sprint Wins In WiMax Deal, But Risks Still Loom"
"AMD Plans 12-Core Server Chip In 2010"
"MainSoft Integrates Microsoft SharePoint With IBM Lotus Notes"
"Congressman Seeks Second Life Ban In Schools, Libraries"
"911 Services Can't Handle Advanced Wireless Devices, Services" ...

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