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Apple struck a deal with Cisco to use the iPhone trademark last night.How much Apple had to pay was not disclosed, nor were other terms of the deal. One thing is clear: The computer maker electronics geniuses won't face an injunction in June when the spiffy phone goes to market.Under the agreement, Cisco and Apple will both use the iPhone trademark on their phone products. Control freak Jobs

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Apple and Cisco are drawing near a self-imposed deadline of Thursday to work out their differences over the iPhone trademark.I'm not so certain that I buy the Cisco PR spin on this that they want to just work out some sort of amicable technology-sharing deal. I've seen two WSJ stories take this angle. The latest comes from WSJ scoop monster Nick Wingfield. So maybe it's so.Yet I can't help but

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Hackers have already been able to poke holes in Vista betas. But what fun is it when it's not out in the real world.Sure, there have been plenty of so-called white hats who have taken the Swiss cheese software Vista and shown where it's vulnerable so that Redmond-based Microsoft can fix it.But there will be others--the black hats--with less-helpful intentions. Then the script kiddies will be

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At first blush it seemed an Apple iPhone was the next phase of the revolution. But if the uprising means eating your own--cannibalizing its iPod--maybe it's not so simple as that.But if an iPhone doesn't come, aren't others going to just blow past iPod with music phones anyway, stealing away business. It seems the inevitable direction. For Apple, damned if you do, damned if you don't ...See

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Google on Monday proved that they are not only hiring eggheads but also paying morons.Yes, the search geeks are sharing ad revenue with the guys who filmed the YouTube hit "The Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment," according to a report. OK, I take that back. These guys aren't total morons. And they're getting paid. I just watched the "Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiment," which is spectacular. It

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Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post is playing matchmaker for Yahoo and Microsoft, tossing some logs on the fire, lighting the candles, and playing Marvin Gay's "Let's Get it On."He thinks the Internet has-beens should shack up with Internet wannabe Microsoft so they can face gangbusters Google together. Makes sense. What with Microsoft's yet-to-be-proven AdCenter and Yahoo's still unproven Panama

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Ali G Ice Cream Glove

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I can't get enough of Ali G's "Ice Cream Glove" pitch.There's a part in it where he's multiplying the number of Internet searches on ice cream and the number on gloves to get the value of his product. It sounds as absurd as some of the multiples people use to value Internet companies.He explains his pitch to two VCs:"Me did an Internet search for ice cream.""Me did an Internet search for gloves."

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It's plain to see now why Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs shows no fear of Microsoft's upcoming wireless Zune digital media player and service.Patent filings reveal he's entrenched in plans that could include a Wi-Fi device and wireless downloading of songs from an e-commerce store. The filing was explicit enough to note that the patent would allow a device to pick up songs from thin air, send a

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It was plainly evident that Google was going to have a blockbuster quarter from all the Street signs.This story tells at least a part of what went into the numbers.But gains going in were notable for the following:Ad networks pushing 15 percent more ads Google's way.Click fraud declines.Gains in sponsored clicksIncreased search volumeMore used search engine (50 perent of searches, Nielsen//

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Couldn't help notice how Dan Farber tossed this mention of the new Crave blog as another reason why CNET, ZD, and the whole network of corporate bile blogging is king of blogs.Crave actually has an opposite effect. It's like seeing a fat old guy on a MySpace page in Urban Outfitter gear. Imitation indicates desperation. It almost feels like something MSFT would do or has done.Truth be told,

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We all get option anxiety now and then--just pull up to a vending machine and watch it set in. But the options anxiety plaguing Silicon Valley nowadays is not the pleasant and sweet kind.A source today told me that there are now 144 formal investigations inside companies looking into their practices of granting employee stock options. He said that number was only about 10 percent of the actual

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CNET Networks had one awful bad day Wednesday. It was the worst in company history (aside from buying mySimon for $700 million).CEO Shelby Bonnie resigned amid acknowledgement that there were "deficiencies" in his part in how the company handled stock option pricing. That same day CNET GC Sharon Le Duy, SVP Heather McGaughey of Human Resources, and former CFO Doug Woodrum also agreed to get the

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So it is. I'm humbled by the rumor-turned-fact.Google agreed to acquire Internet mega hit video site YouTube for $1.65 billion Monday after close of markets. TechCrunch kicked it all off Friday in what seemed highly speculative at the time. I guess it helps to have friends at Wilson Sonsini to dish dirt, eh?So I wonder who spilled it? Was it GC David Drummond? Check out his bio for clues. Does

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Drunk online shopping. The latest bad habit online. Oh, geez.I haven't really been keeping tabs on the NYT technology section, with the exception of some crack reporting on HP and a few others, but when I see stuff like this, I just wonder ...

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TechCrunch set the rumor mill for a good Google-YouTube spin yesterday. Even the WSJ got Googly on this. OK, so a number of pubs and cable channels acknowledged the chance. A couple things here (besides the fact that this kind of reporting is irksome froth):One: TechCrunch got acknowledged. By even the Journal?Two: While I think that is somewhat cool that a blog was given some recognition, it's

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From Red Herring story:How else do you explain fat cash bonuses for execs?Google is instituting a cash incentive plan to encourage senior executives to meet financial goals.It’s a “program designed to motivate participants to achieve the company’s financial and other performance objectives and to reward them for their achievements when those objectives are met,” Google wrote in documents filed

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Hewlett-Packard was scheduled to deliver on Monday a batch of documents related to its snooping scandal to the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committe. Word is it did.Tomorrow and through the week should be plenty interesting as people familiar with the documents start jabbering about their contents.

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Toshiba is making a move into the battlefield for notebooks fashionable among games players.With its Satellite P100, button-down PC maker Toshiba is offering three laptops that will sport a souped-up graphics from Nvidia, among other features. The company is offering laptops with the GeForce Go 7900 GTX. The laptops presumably aim at the same market Dell's XPS line of games machines target.These

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Circuit City Stores on Monday reported a first-quarter profit that beat analyst expectations by 3 cents.The electronics retailer reported for the quarter ending May 31 a profit that increased to $6.4 million, or $0.04 per share, from a loss of $13.1 million, or $0.07 per share, in the same period last year.A survey of analysts from Thompson Financial had expected Circuit City to post a profit of

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Verizon on Monday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Internet phone service Vonage.The suit comes after Vonage's IPO flop and shareholder suits.Verizon's suit over voice over Internet Protocol technology involves seven patents. Vonage said it plans to have its intellectual property outside counsel investigate the matter."Vonage believes that its services have been developed with its own

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Electronics megastore Best Buy on Tuesday reported that first-quarter net earnings rose 38 percent, blowing past analyst expectations.Best Buy earned $234 million, or 47 cents per share, for the quarter that ended May 27. That compares with earnings of $170 million, or 34 cents per share, during the same period last year.Analysts surveyed by Thompson Financial were expecting earning of 36 cents

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Luxuriating with a $9 million venture capital investment might come more naturally if you're Luxury Link.That's because the online luxury travel company specializes in luxury vacation accomodations in hotels, resorts, cruises, tours and other options. It claims to offer tips for the "sophisticated" traveler. Translation: the wealthy traveler with money to burn.San Francisco's Equity Partners and

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While the real estate market is in pull-back mode, who says Internet real estate LoopNet site should be? The newly public company's shares surged nearly 27 percent in its opening Wednesday.LoopNet priced at $12 per share and was at $15.23 in midday trading. The IPO will give the real estate site $42.1 million in net proceeds.Credit Suisse Securities managed the offering, and Thomas Weisel

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Yahoo has planted another flag overseas: It's staked Korea's online retailer Gmarket."We look forward to working with Gmarket to leverage their e-commerce expertise to further expand Yahoo's leading position in commerce in Asia," Yahoo Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig said Tuesday in a statement.Yahoo agreed to acquire a 10 percent stake in the company from Oak Investment Partners, which

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Consumerist's blogger Ben Popken only wanted to delete his MySpace account.But apparently three weeks into the ordeal, he still hadn't gotten instructions from MySpace. That's when he took matters into his own hands. "Myspace is a Loser, So We're Resorting to Porn," Popken writes, describing what he did. (Credit for this item: Valleywag.) He posted the following:"So we’ve just replaced our

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Nvidia is thinking small: It wants to be the graphics processor used inside devices running Windows Mobile 5.0.On Tuesday, it announced design references to work with Intel's XScale mobile chip. Intel and Nvidia recently announced an alliance pairing Nvidia's graphics technology with Intel's third-generation mobile XScale processor family, code-named Monahans, to enhance applications on mobile

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Genetics anlysis developer Sequenom is getting a $33 Million cash infusion.Investors include Pequot Private Equity Fund, ComVest Investment Partners, Lehman Brothers affiliate LB I Group and SiemensVenture Capital GmbH.Net proceeds from the investment will be used for working capital and implementation of new management strategies to expand the company's products. Among other efforts, it plans

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Qwest on Tuesday agreed to offer co-branded Windows Live services, Microsoft announced.The software maker says the Internet service provider is the first to announce plans to offer such a service in the Unite States.The two companies said in a statement that they plan to develop new and improved integrated communications and personalized services on the new Windows Live product.This means, under

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Picture this: A major consumer electronics maker busts a move on the market for digital single lens reflex cameras, or D-SLRs.And it's not Apple.Consumer electronics icon Sony on Monday introduced the alpha DSLR-A100, which offers a 10.2 megapixel sensor."Our system will be attractive to people who are ready for something beyond what's available in D-SLR cameras today," said a statement from

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Online travel advice site Viator has guided in $4 million of venture capital.Viator, which offer tips on tours and other travel activities, got the funding from its current investors Carlyle Venture Partners, an arm of The Carlyle Group, based in Washington, D.C., and Sydney-based TechnologyVenture Partners. The round on Wednesday comes after $6 million raised from the same group of investors in

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Online clothing retailer Bluefly got a little wind behind its wings today.Shares in Bluefly shot up from 74 cents to 90 cents, or 21 percent, after investors agreed to purchase $50 million of newly issued common stock in the company.Private funds associated with Maverick Capital and another source in connection with Prentice Capital Management agreed to invest in the publicly traded company.Under

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Tesla's electric sports car is turning heads already.Though the car hasn't yet launched, it's attracted the attention of some big names in its latest $40 million round. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who invested by way of partnership Tao, are among those interested. Perhaps it offers a little more sex appeal than a Prius.VantagePoint Venture Partners, one of the leaders in

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Paul Allen is fishing for Redfin.Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital was the lead investor in a group that plunked down $8 million last week on Internet real estate broker Redfin. BEV Capital, The Hillman Company and The Madrona Venture Group also took part in the investment.Seattle-based Redfin returns satellite maps to people's search queries and touts its online real estate brokerage as a tool to buy

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Hatteras Networks, a Research Triangle, N.C., telecommunications company, has raised $21 million in its latest investment round.The investment puts Hatteras' total funding at $89 million, according to the report in The News & Observer.Hatteras makes technology that allows phone companies to use traditional copper wire to send high-speed data .

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The Venture Forum, an event to connect early stage innovators with funding sources, has announced that it has changed its venue from Los Angeles to Silicon Valley.The show this month will be held in San Jose on June 28-29. The event is a meeting ground for biotech, pharmaceutical and tech startups to rub elbows with private investors, government agencies and mergers and acquisitions specialists."

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I used to find certain online video reviews of products pretty helpful to get a close up look at cell phones, laptops, cameras or whatever.The ratings were even helpful. Somewhat. I mean here's the thing: If it happened to be a glowing review and a high number -- 9.0 and up -- I took it with a grain of salt, feeling that the reviewer could be just one evolutionary step up from a teenager working

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I can't help but remember some of the heady headlines in the tech press pre-bust that read "Sun Also Rises."That was when the Internet gold rush was on and Sun servers and software -- the picks and pans -- were sold for the online land grab. Sun hasn't seen much of that glitter in a while.So it's perhaps appropriate to note that the Sun is setting for some tech workers, as reported today by The

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IAC Interactive-owned Ask.com, formerly the butler-themed AskJeeves, is the latest to serve up blog search.Ask.com appears to be bowing to interest in queries using blog search, a category occupied by Google Blog Search and Technorati, among others. The story was reported at News.com on Wednesday.Barry Diller's IAC Interactive portfolio includes Citysearch, Ticketmaster, Match.com, Evite and

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Internet advertising in the United States increased about 38 percent compared with the same period a year ago, according to this report. Compared with the fourt quarter, it's up 6 percent. That's good news for the CNETs, Yahoos and Googles. However, it's just a matter of time for advertising to take a dump. It's only a question of when.

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The world's largest IPO in six years is going out on the HK markets Thursday. It's China Bank at a whopping $9.7 billion. "Hong Kong's new popularity for the mega IPOs is seen by some as the latest trend in globalization -- the rise of a new world with many financial capitals," says a report at BusinessWeek.

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While most were hightailing it for the holiday weekend, a California court on Friday was issuing a ruling  in the closely watched Apple v. Does case.In Apple v. Does, or O'Grady v. Superior Court, Justice Conrad Rushing of the 6th District Court of Appeal ruled in favor of bloggers, rejecting Apple's attempt to unmask sources of leaked product information that made its way to Web sites. The

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Certain members of the tech press are so enamored with Google that they're getting companies to hug it in their headlines: "Dell embraces Google," for example over at Red Ball.Could you imagine this headline: Microsoft embraces Google? Just suppose, for a moment, that they were play buddies and not rivals. Wouldn't there be a big stink about how Microsoft is trying to monopolize the desktop if

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The big story is in: The long-awaited day has come for the Enron trial as Kenneth Lay has been convicted of all six counts against him and Jeffrey Skilling has been convicted of 19 of the 28 counts against him for conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud. Observers of the Enron case have weighed in across blogs.Professor Stephen Bainbridge of the blog ProfessorBainbridge has posted some

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Ballmer indicates in this Reuters story here that Microsoft is on track with Vista. But on track for a delay is more what it sounds like:"It's on track, but we're going to see what kind of feedback we get from users ... and we're going to work to make sure it's absolutely a high-quality product. That's number one," Ballmer told a news conference at the Seoul Digital Forum.I hear: Blah, blah, blah

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No. 3 computer maker Lenovo posted a worse-than-expected loss in the fourth quarter.Reuters story here.It bought IBM's PC business last year.

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The latest line from the software maker, "We're on superdeadline," regarding Vista, courtesy of a Q&A over at CNET News.com. So let me figure out this development schedule for Vista: Deadline: To get it out eventually after many delays in 2004 Superdeadline: To meet a November date in 2006 Superduper deadline: The deadline that's after November gets missed.

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Law firm Fenwick & West has dished out results from its first-quarter 2006 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey.The San Francisco Bay Area VC benchmark analyzed the valuations and terms of venture financings for 101 technology and life science companies based in the area. And if the climate keeps getting better for venture capital, it might be time for still hotter predictions.Take their

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No surprise to those watching the clamoring for business in China: Bank of China's IPO is a biggie.To be exact, Bank of China raised a whopping $9.73 billion, according to a Bloomberg report from Germany. The bank priced shares at $2.95, just 5 cents below the top of its expected range.UPDATE: Seen on Bloomberg TV this a.m. that a Saudi prince wants a 2.7 percent stake in Bank of China for $2

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VoIP provider Vonage has made a financial call.The voice over Internet Protocol provider has priced its initial public offering at $17 per share, the middle of its expected $16 to $18 range. It plans to offer 31.25 million shares, a multiple that would raise $531 million in the offering.Shares of Vonage are proposed to sell on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "VG."Citigroup,

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Was Burger King IPO underwhelming? Only 3 percent?I was expecting more even though the markets were in a mini funk on inflation concerns.I'm still looking for a tech angle here to make this fit for BizTech.

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CNET News.com reports: "Apple countersues Creative in patent dispute."In this twist, Apple claims:"In its complaint, Apple accuses the company of infringing on four of its patents related to user interfaces and icon displays for digital media players. The company is requesting monetary damages and an injunction barring continued use of its patents," reports News.com.Hmmm.

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Funny how much this deal was valued at over six years ago:"The purchase, an all-stock deal, amounted to more than $160 billion based on today's trading prices. According to both companies, the new firm will have an estimated combined value of $350 billion."Can you name it?And based on the loss of share price, how would this historic deal be valued today?I spoke with a former Time Warner media

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