Axe swings at Yahoo7?  —  IT’S carnage over at Yahoo7 at the moment, according to sources within the group.  —  Interim chief executive Rohan Lund, according to one informant, is “taking a machete” to the place.  That may be a dramatisation, but the Seven Group’s internet division has changed …

Source:   NEWS.com.au
Author:   Lara Sinclair
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30 Thoughts At 30,000 feet  —  I thought I’d try Jason Calacanis’ new favorite way of writing a blog post on for size.  I am on a flight from NYC to Portland Oregon and my entourage email database crashed this morning so I don’t have an inbox to work on (except on my blackberry and […]

More Google Brass Head for the Exits  —  Bigshots from around the world are converging on Google HQ tomorrow for Zeitgeist, the faithful’s annual mecca to the Googleplex.  But at least one of Google’s top brass is heading for the exits: Benjamin Ling, a high-ranking engineer described by Google …

Source:   Netly News
Author:   Josh
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Happy 1st Anniversary YouTube and Google; Now Move Over a Bit  —  Time for another roundup, and this one coincides with a notable first-year anniversary: that of Google’s $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, confirmed on October 9th, 2006.  —  Since then, the name “YouTube” has become virtually synonymous with “online video sharing”.

Source:   TechCrunch
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Mother’s ire puts Ballmer on defense over Vista  —  He says the OS is delivering value to corporate customers  —  For a few minutes during Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer’s appearance at the Gartner Inc. conference here, emotionless management-speak gave way to a mother’s frustration with the Vista operating system.

Source:   Computerworld
Author:   Patrick Thibodeau
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iPhone v1.1.1 Jailbreak & AppTapp Installation Guide  —  It’s been a couple of days since the iPhone Dev Team announced that they had a successful jailbreak, but their method was not released to anyone outside of the team until just recently.  This afternoon we received an email …

Source:   iPhone Alley
Link:   http://www.iphonealley.com/news/iphone-v1-1-1…

Google patents datacenter-in-a-shipping-container, ignores Sun’s BlackBox  —  Google has received a patent from the USPTO for the concept of a “mobile datacenter” stored in a standard shipping container and equipped with multiple racks of high-powered servers with its own internal cooling system.

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Jeremy Reimer
Link:   http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071010-google…

Why to Move to a Startup Hub  —  After the last talk I gave, one of the organizers got up on the stage to deliver an impromptu rebuttal.  That never happened before.  I only heard the first few sentences, but that was enough to tell what I said that upset him: that startups would do […]

61 Billion Searches Conducted Worldwide in August Google Ranks as Top Global Search Property comScore Introduces First Comprehensive Worldwide Reporting of the Search Market  —  comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the first comprehensive study …

Source:   comScore
Link:   http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1802

Apple to launch official iPhone Web applications directory  —  Apple as early as Wednesday is expected to launch as part of its website a directory of official Web 2.0-based iPhone applications, AppleInsider has been told.  —  One developer familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous …

Source:   AppleInsider
Link:   http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/10/10…