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Congrats on your breakup, Time Warner

news analysis Time Warner is splitting into two publicly traded companies in what could turn out to be a boon for the company's cable business.
• Time Warner breaks off cable division

The new look
of Facebook

Will members love the profile redesign or hate it? Will it hurt small-time developers? Hard to tell, since all we've seen are screenshots.
• Facebook's profile redesign
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Nvidia, AMD differ on new memory technology

While AMD is touting GDDR5 for its next-generation graphics products, Nvidia is supporting the technology but taking a more cautious approach.
(Posted in Nanotech: The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

Reddit plans weekly news show with PBS

The Conde Nast-owned social news site has announced that it's working on the pilot of a news program it hopes will premiere in the fall.
(Posted in The Social by Caroline McCarthy)

Explaining the workings of Live Search Cashback

The new program may or may not be game changing for Microsoft's search share, but it does offer advertisers a new approach.
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)
• Microsoft looks to buy way into search (again)

Gates: Microsoft betting on e-commerce search

Software maker says it will continue to broadly compete in search, but says it is putting a "deep focus on commerce."
(Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried)
• Will cash back boost Microsoft's search?
• Microsoft looks to buy way into search (again)
• Video: Interpreting the latest Microhoo dance

Wireless industry going through its AOL phase

The mobile Internet industry very much resembles the fixed Internet industry of the mid-1990s: lots of promise, but the business models have yet to evolve.
(Posted in One More Thing by Tom Krazit)

FCC may limit early termination fees

The federal government is considering a proposal to limit how cell phone carriers charge fees for ending a contract early.
(Posted in News Blog by Kent German)

Final Firefox 3 expected in June

Mozilla, which oversees work on the open-source Web browser, says it will release the final version when add-ons catch up.
(Posted in Underexposed by Stephen Shankland)

Apple missing golden .Mac opportunity

Its price tag may scare off some Mac users, but .Mac could be used to sell hardware if the price--and features--were right.
(Posted in One More Thing by Tom Krazit)
• Apple iTunes targeted by phishers

Microsoft opening up Office to other file formats

Company is building in support for the Open Document Format, Portable Document Format, and other popular formats.
(Posted in News Blog by Mike Ricciuti)

Apple, CBS sued over 'Mighty Mouse' device

In patent dispute, Maryland-based company says it manufactured a mouse of the same name before Apple released its device.
(Posted in News Blog by Erica Ogg)
• CBS Audience Network adds more retro programming

Google sheds light, dimly, on search quality

It's no secret Google cares about search quality, but it is a secret exactly what it does to maintain that quality. Now the company says it'll talk a bit more about it.
(Posted in News Blog by Stephen Shankland)

Commission rebuffs Microsoft in patent case

Alcatel-Lucent declares victory when the U.S. International Trade Commission rejects a patent infringement complaint brought by Microsoft.
(Posted in News Blog by Dawn Kawamoto)

Researchers: Nanotubes may pose asbestos-like health risks

Studies in mice suggest that nanotubes may carry a health risk similar to that of asbestos, but scientists say the findings are not cause for alarm.
(From The New York Times)

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