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		<title>Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal</title>
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Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.


Ask.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of InterActiveCorp, had announced the all-cash deal in mid-May. Financial terms of the deal, which closed Thursday, were not released. Lexico, &#8230;
Original post by Natalie Weinstein and software by Elliott Back
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		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/04/askcom-closes-dictionarycom-deal/</link>
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		<title>1 euro eBay baby goes home</title>
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The German baby taken from his parents after they put him up for sale on eBay for a euro&#8211;apparently as a joke&#8211;is back home, according to the Associated Press. 
&#8220;The child has been returned to his parents,&#8221; prosecutor Johannes Kreuzpointer told the AP on Thursday.


The parents had told the &#8230;
Original post by Natalie Weinstein and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/04/1-euro-ebay-baby-goes-home/</link>
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		<title>VeriSign names interim CEO</title>
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VeriSign, which runs the master database for the .com and .net domains, has replaced its CEO and president, who resigned suddenly earlier this week.


Jim Bidzos
(Credit: VeriSign)

The company said Thursday that William Roper had resigned as of Monday. Roper, who had served as CEO for just over a &#8230;
Original post by Natalie Weinstein and software by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/04/verisign-names-interim-ceo/</link>
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		<title>Stolen: Google employees&#8217; personal data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services.   Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary.  Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external&#8230;
Original post by Gadgets, gizmos, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/stolen-google-employees-personal-data/</link>
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		<title>EA debuts new family, sports games for Wii, PlayStation</title>
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With only a weeks to go before the 2008 E3 Media and Business Summit, video game publisher Electronic Arts is giving the press a sneak peek at its new video game lineup, including products resulting from its partnership with Hasbro.


Mr. Potato Head hosts EA&#8217;s game Hasbro Family Night

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Original post by Holly Jackson and software by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/ea-debuts-new-family-sports-games-for-wii-playstation/</link>
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		<title>Weekend project: Sync your .Mac bookmarks one last time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Credit: Apple.com)
Are you a .Mac subscriber who&#8217;s been using the built-in bookmark syncing app? Come Sunday that service will no longer exist as part of the MobileMe transition, so if you want to do one last sync you&#8217;ve got to get it done this weekend. 
Shortly after the MobileMe announcement last month Apple sent out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/weekend-project-sync-your-mac-bookmarks-one-last-time/</link>
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		<title>Tune out co-workers, other sounds with SimplyNoise</title>
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If you&#8217;re at work and your co-workers won&#8217;t stop chatting, there are two options: either tell them to go talk elsewhere or get a good pair of earplugs and/or headphones. If you&#8217;ve gone for the latter and can&#8217;t seem to get over the concentration hump of focusing with music blaring, there&#8217;s SimplyNoise, a white noise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/tune-out-co-workers-other-sounds-with-simplynoise/</link>
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		<title>Daily Debrief: Celebrating America&#8217;s independence, questioning our own online</title>
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A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online.  In Thursday&#8217;s Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge&#8217;s recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders  Google to turn over &#8230;
Original post by Kara Tsuboi and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/daily-debrief-celebrating-americas-independence-questioning-our-own-online/</link>
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		<title>Fly me to the moon</title>
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Look where I&#39;ve gone at home
(Credit: FlightMemory.com)

If you&#8217;re a serious airline geek like me, you&#8217;ve saved every airline boarding pass you&#8217;ve ever used. No, it doesn&#8217;t make sense but you do it anyway. But until recently, my boarding passes sat in a box with really no practical use except for the occasional bookmark. That was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/fly-me-to-the-moon/</link>
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		<title>Send your viral video to 20 different video hosts with HeySpread</title>
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Say you just captured an amazing video of your cat doing something funny. It&#8217;s time to upload it to YouTube right? Why stop there? HeySpread, a service from the folks at Particles was just updated Thursday morning to take the video you just captured and push it out to nearly 20 different video hosts at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/send-your-viral-video-to-20-different-video-hosts-with-heyspread/</link>
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		<title>Tokbox going after Seesmic with public video posting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning video chat tool Tokbox has quietly slipped in a new feature called public feed which lets anyone with a Web cam leave a message for others on the service to reply to. Up until now the service has been mainly a P2P chat service between people who know one another, but this new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/tokbox-going-after-seesmic-with-public-video-posting/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo&#8217;s top U.S. Web sites get traffic help from Google search</title>
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A fresh look at Yahoo&#8217;s search results Thursday by Hitwise Intelligence raises the question of whether Yahoo could survive just fine without its search engine.



Such a question is rather important to Yahoo investors, given the Internet search pioneer has given a cold shoulder to Microsoft, which has previously &#8230;
Original post by Dawn Kawamoto and software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/yahoos-top-us-web-sites-get-traffic-help-from-google-search/</link>
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		<title>Yahoo&#8217;s top U.S. sites get traffic help from Google search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

A fresh look at Yahoo&#8217;s search results Thursday by Hitwise Intelligence raises the question of whether Yahoo could survive just fine without its search engine.



Such a question is rather important to Yahoo investors, given the Internet search pioneer has given a cold shoulder to Microsoft, which has previously &#8230;
Original post by Dawn Kawamoto and software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/yahoos-top-us-sites-get-traffic-help-from-google-search/</link>
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		<title>Swurl lets you blog without writing anything</title>
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Swurl is a service for people who want to create a blog made from their activity on various social services. Like FriendFeed, SocialThing, or any other aggregator you start building your Swurl blog by plugging in your user names on each service. There are currently 19 to choose from, with all the usual suspects like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/swurl-lets-you-blog-without-writing-anything/</link>
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		<title>Google to Viacom: &#8216;Respect YouTube users&#8217; privacy&#8217;</title>
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Viacom is getting its hands on some of YouTube&#8217;s sensitive user data as a result of the copyright infringement lawsuit the conglomerate filed a year ago.







The two companies are in the discovery part of the case and must make certain information available to each other. On Wednesday, a &#8230;
Original post by Greg Sandoval and software [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/google-to-viacom-respect-youtube-users-privacy/</link>
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		<title>Google Talk comes to the iPhone, iPod Touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is making its Google Talk instant-messaging application available for Apple&#8217;s iPhone and iPod Touch.
One of Google&#8217;s software engineers posted the news in a blog on Wednesday.
(Credit: Google)
&#8220;In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you&#8217;re on the move, too!&#8221; Adam Connors, of Google&#8217;s mobile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/google-talk-comes-to-the-iphone-ipod-touch/</link>
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		<title>Google Talk for the iPhone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google is making its Google Talk instant messaging application available for Apple&#8217;s iPhone and iPod Touch.
One of Google&#8217;s software engineers posted the news in a blog on Wednesday.
(Credit: Google)
&#8220;In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you&#8217;re on the move, too!&#8221; Adam Connors, of Google&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/google-talk-for-the-iphone/</link>
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		<title>Report: Some dial-up users wish to stay that way</title>
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Got dial-up and don&#8217;t want to give it up? You&#8217;re not alone.


An estimated 10 percent of Americans are surfing the net via dial-up connections, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.


And a lot of those people apparently see no &#8230;
Original post by Dawn Kawamoto and software by Elliott [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/report-some-dial-up-users-wish-to-stay-that-way/</link>
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		<title>Sony&#8217;s Stan Glasgow talks TVs, Blu-ray</title>
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After navigating some rough seas, Sony&#8217;s Electronics division has been starting to right the ship.


Over the past year, the company has been forced to rethink its product lineup, and catch up to competitors in some cases, but now the Japanese electronics giant&#8217;s U.S. division is looking &#8230;
Original post by Erica Ogg and software by Elliott [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/sonys-stan-glasgow-talks-tvs-blu-ray/</link>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Facebook stake influenced ConnectU case</title>
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SAN JOSE, Calif.&#8211;What is Facebook really worth?


One of the burning questions in technology the past year, also played a major role in the dispute between social networks ConnectU and Facebook, according to documents obtained by CNET News.com.


Some interesting details about Facebook&#8217;s valuation were revealed in 
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Original post by Greg Sandoval and software by Elliott Back
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		<link>http://site-toolkit.com/2008/07/03/microsofts-facebook-stake-influenced-connectu-case/</link>
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