Comcast is adding a social media element to its services through the acquisition of Plaxo, a contract the two companies announced Wednesday afternoon. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but the purchase price is consideration to be in the $150 to $170 million range.

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Geni.com, top rated genealogy and family networking site announced today that genealogists can now import their family history into Geni using the popular GEDCOM format. The launch of this features makes it easy to move their research into Geni to easily share it with their family. Geni gave genealogists the ability to upload their family history from other programs to the Geni site using the industry standard GEDCOM file format. GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication and is used to exchange data between genealogy applications.

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XID Technologies, a Redwood City, California and Singapore-based innovative facial recognition company, announced the availability of its new biometric PC access application, Face LogOn Xpress. Face LogOn Xpress is a user friendly application that enables PCs to be accessed only by authorized users.

Ideal for both home and office PCs, Face LogOn Xpress uses a simple web camera to ensure the identity of the user by providing biometric verification in an automatic, continuous process, based on XID’s award winning face recognition technology. The new software uses XID’s Face Recognition artificial intelligence technology and learns each time a user enrolls his or her face, enabling Face LogOn Xpress to develop high accuracy in varied conditions.

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Google is responding to the devastation (as worse as Tsumani) in Myanmar caused by Cyclone Nargis with an outpouring of support to Unicef and Direct Relief International for raising donations. Your donation will help survivors and other disaster victims rebuild their communities and their lives. In addition, when you donate on this page, Google donates too. They’ll donate up to $1 million to help organizations provide relief.

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Spleak Media Network, a platform for distributing user generated content (UGC) side-by-side with mainstream media content across a variety of communication networks including AIM, Facebook, MSN Messenger, SMS, and many others. Spleak is the first company to offer a hybrid publishing system that enables individuals and editors of traditional publications to contribute content and put the consumer in charge of deciding what’s hot and what’s not.

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The conquest of the desktop network ended once Google passed 50 percent of the search market. To grow, they need to roll into broader lands beyond their empire.

Firms that measure Internet traffic agree: these days, Google owns two-thirds of the US search market. Yahoo sits in a distant second place spot, with Microsoft and the rest of the search world trailing far behind.

The struggle for search supremacy probably ended once Google scaled to reach peak performance for queries, however many years ago that happened. Google is a verb, much to the dismay of the search advertising company’s marketers and brand experts.

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HCAR (Hershey Center for Applied Research) KnowledgeMesh, a cutting-edge social networking and scientific mapping online community that will drive research and development in the life sciences and high technology sectors.

The HCAR KnowledgeMesh is being developed and supported by Intelmarx, LLC, a software solutions and services company whose primary market is non-profit organizations and higher education institutions.

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College Tonight announced its new partnership with legendary FBI agent John Douglas as part of its ongoing commitment to protect the privacy of its users. Douglas pioneered the modern techniques in psychological profiling and behavioral science now used by law enforcement agencies throughout the country. College Tonight hopes to utilize his expertise to help guide its technological tools being created and implemented, and make it the safest network of its kind. Because of College Tonight’s strong stance on user privacy and protection of students’ well-being, Lauren Conrad (“The Hills”) recently joined forces with College Tonight to become its national spokesperson.

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The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) announces the release of “Digital Video In-Stream Ad Format Guidelines.” Created by the IAB’s Digital Video Committee, a group comprised of 145 leading interactive companies, they are the definitive format guidelines that directly address digital video advertising.

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The full transcript of Microsoft CEO Steven Ballmer’s withdrawal of his company’s offer for Yahoo follows:

May 3, 2008

Mr. Jerry Yang
CEO and Chief Yahoo
Yahoo! Inc.
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Dear Jerry:

After over three months, we have reached the conclusion of the process regarding a possible combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!.

I first want to convey my personal thanks to you, your management team, and Yahoo!’s Board of Directors for your consideration of our proposal. I appreciate the time and attention all of you have given to this matter, and I especially appreciate the time that you have invested personally. I feel that our discussions this week have been particularly useful, providing me for the first time with real clarity on what is and is not possible.

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