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• Microsoft paid A-list bloggers to become spokespeople for their "People Ready" campaign. Controversy ensues as people are shocked to discover that bloggers quotes in banner ads were paid endorsements! Wow. Do you guys think that Sarah Jessica Parker really dyes her hair with Garnier Nutrisse or Catherine Zeta-Jones really thinks T-Mobile is the best cellular provider, too?

• Sigh. Just when I thought Yahoo was getting it together…now, rumor has it that Yahoo is in talks to buy MySpace in exchange for 25% of their stock. Why? Are they really so confused? Why wouldn’t they buy Facebook for the $2 billion they wanted? (MySpace is currently valued at $10 billion) Facebook is growing faster than MySpace and may one day be the favorite social network of choice.

• DRM-free music sales are booming; case in point - Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon’s sales increased by between 272 and 350 percent

• Thanks to Google’s antitrust complaint, Vista will be altered; Microsoft has to make it so that Vista’s built-in search can be removed, if desired. Oh sure, now that Microsoft’s search actually works, Google bothers to complain about it.

• New feature: share a tab of your iGoogle homepage

• I thought we were done with these: Gateway announces battery recall

• No more Gmail in Germany?

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