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"Spam King" Edward Davidson, who has been missing since escaping from a minimum-security work camp on Sunday, has been found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, apparently after killing his wife and three year-old daughter in his home town of Bennet, Colorado. An unnamed teenage girl was also wounded.

Now we know: Microsoft and Yahoo! are perfect for each other. Despite watching Microsoft's recent debacle when it announced it was going to shut down the licensing servers for their defunct Music Store - a debacle which resulted in Microsoft reversing its decision - Yahoo! decided to try to do the same thing.

All right, readers, I'm sure some among you participate in the downloading of somewhat dicey material (read: copyrighted). If you could have a license to illegally download as much as you wanted - and I suppose, if you had a license, it would no longer be illegal - how would you feel about it?

After six months of testing, Google has released Knol, sort of a moderated version of Wikipedia, to the public. Google encourages authors to share their knowledge in a wiki format, but they also encourage them to make money in the process, if they don't mind AdSense ads on their knols.

American Airlines has dropped its lawsuit against Google Inc. over its search engine directing some users to advertisements for the airline's competitors.

Is the third time the charm? After all, this is the third time this year that reports have surfaced about Google buying Digg. According to TechCrunch, multiple sources inside of Google have indicated that the two companies are close to a deal - and have been working on it for about six weeks.

Monday at an FCC hearing held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh entitled "Broadband and the Digital Future," AT&T Senior Federal Regulatory Vice President Robert Quinn spoke and outlined a plan for instituting tiered service, starting in October. But wait, it's not what you're thinking!

Yes, you can now use Google Maps to keep from getting lost while walking. If you use Google Maps for your direction finding needs, you'll now find that it has an option for walking directions (as shown above).

Propeller, AOL's Digg clone, has been revamped in a major way as of Tuesday. The revamp had already been announced, but the magnitude of it surprised me. Not only have they dropped voting for an obscure "prop" functionality (prop a story up, get it?), where a story is ranked 1-10 based on a number of factors.

Has the drama finally ended? According to a press release issued today, it seems that Yahoo! and Carl Icahn, who was seeking to replace much if not all of Yahoo!'s Board of Directors (BoD) during the upcoming August 1st shareholders meeting, have come to an agreement.

Google has beaten Microsoft to take the title of the UK's number one brand, according to a poll out today.

Google said Friday it will pay US$140 million for a Russian contextual advertising company as it seeks to expand its services to advertisers and Web-site publishers outside the U.S. The 6-year-old company, Zao ...

To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard.

But new technologies are sparking changes for a centuries-old industry - and pushing CIOs from the backlist to the spotlight.

The Dow is coming off of its best one-day gain since April. The index stands at 11,239 after a 276 point rise.

China's digital and online communities are the world's leading users of mobile communication, instant messaging and web 2.0 applications, according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group .

Google Inc. 's profit trailed analysts' estimates for the third time since the Internet company sold shares to the public as spending on new projects surged, sending the stock down as much as 12 percent.

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In a week where most of the biggest names in technology reported quarterly earnings, two top names, Google and Microsoft, disappointed Wall Street.

EBay Inc. says its second-quarter profit jumped 22 percent. The company enjoyed strong growth in its e-commerce sites and its PayPal payments service.