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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it would launch an open source program for developing software for distributed computing, with Carnegie Mellon University as its first academic partner in the venture.

Yahoo has been a main supporter of Hadoop, an open source distributed file system that lets users process massive amounts of data. The company said it would make Hadoop available to academic research in a supercomputing-class data center.

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So TMCNet blogger Rich Tehrani says he has heard rumours that Google is going to acquire Sprint . via Mathewingram.com

“And one of the guys who works for me but has been there longer showed up at work in a really, really nice new car.”

SAN FRANCISCO : Bonnie Brown was fresh from a nasty divorce in 1999, living with her sister and uncertain of her future. via International Herald Tribune

“This particular patent has to do with the fundamental database architecture, which they use to serve up every single result they serve to you”

In another story of non-manufacturing academics exercising their patent rights, Northeastern University in Boston is going after Google. via IPBiz

“Google has invested Rs 15 crore in this fund so far and is expected to put in the remaining amount by March 2008, when the fund is scheduled to close”

Global IT giant Google will be investing up to Rs 22.5 crore in Ventureast TeNet Fund-II, a seed-stage fund that will invest in technology companies trying to establish their foothold. via Business Standard

“With nearly 3 billion users worldwide, the mobile phone has become the most personal and ubiquitous communications device”

Google CEO Eric Schmidt, President of Technology Sergey Brin and other company bosses dropped by the FCC Monday, meeting with Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein and some attorneys. via TV Technology

The Washington State Attorney General's Office is back in court, trying again to get a company that sells search engine ranking services to change its business practices. via ITworld

“More candidates are using the Internet to reach voters, but overall, politicians are spending a tiny portion of their budgets online, just as most corporations were doing several years ago”

Lauren Meller, 917-539-7278 lmeller@yahoo-inc.com An emerging segment of highly engaged, tech-savvy, and vocal voters is poised to impact the outcome of the 2008 national elections, according to new research ... via PR-inside.com

“Our ad network only works with Fortune 500 advertisers", or "our ad network has a proprietary behavioral technology that (major brands X, Y, and Z) have enjoyed for repeated branding campaigns.”

The online advertising technology sector is bubbling over. New startups are launching and getting lots of funding as giants like Google, Microsoft and AOL gobble some of the larger companies up for hundreds of ... via VentureBeat

The top global technology brand for 2007 is ... The top global technology brand for 2007 is ... um, I'm not sure. via CNET News.com

A report from IBM Global Business Services called "The End of Advertising as We Know It," says that there will be more changes over the next five years than have happened over the last 50 in the industry. In what must be a major concern to traditional media companies, online open advertising exchanges like used by AOL , Yahoo and Google , will get about 30 percent of current revenue being generated by traditional media over the next five years, said over half of the ad professionals polled in the survey. Read more

“We will use all the resources we have to focus on search in the next two to three years in China”

While Alibaba is an e-commerce site, not a search engine, and thus doesn't directly compete with the Google, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma has big ambitions for the company. via CIO Today

“Google is willing to do anything necessary to introduce some competition into this space and to really drive the prices of service to where they are most affordable to the broadest number of people.”

On TechRepublic: 10 embarrassing grammar mistakes Perspective: Parsing the Google announcement that wasn't Does Google really need to build a Google Phone? Only if the network carriers try to play tough, says ... via CNET News.com

“This would still be consistent with the results of the demo, since the decohering qubits would act like classical random bits, and the adiabatic computer would act like a classical computer implementing simulated annealing.”

Company says a scientist from Google will join in with an image recognition algorithm at the SC07 supercomputing conference. via CNET News.com

“Gao Qinsheng, the mother of jailed journalist Shi Tao, and Yu Lin, the wife of imprisoned cyber-dissident Wang Xiaoning, spoke passionately about Yahoo's conduct”

Politics:- The truthfulness of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and general counsel Michael Callahan has already been seriously questioned by US House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Tom Lantos. via P2pnet.net

The New York Daily News has joined Yahoo Inc.'s year-old effort to generate more revenue by helping newspapers sell more online advertising. via Las Vegas Sun

Having watched Apple put its stamp on cellphone design, Google is now trying to make its mark on cellphone software. via Media Info Center

“The VanityRing doesn't have a jewel”

A Google VanityRing will tell the wearer just how many hits they get, or don't. People love to Google themselves. via The New Zealand Herald

“We are currently in tests to determine the best approach to in-game advertising.”

The logo of web search engine Google is seen behing a computer keyboard. Google said Thursday it is testing ways to deliver ads in computer games but declined to comment on the Internet buzz that it will be in ... via TurkishPress.com

“We wake up one day and now AOL has become a real player in online advertising”

AOL has scooped up yet another online advertising company - this time, one that has faced off with Google and Yahoo in selling contextual text ads, those small, sponsored links that run next to articles. via New York Times