The LA Times (registration required) http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aol7mar07001427,1,5870376.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness picked up on a report issued today by Merrill Lynch [Jessica Cohen] which speculated that AOL may be a takeover target of the likes of Microsoft, Viacom or GE.

The LA Times (registration required) picked up on a report from Merrill Lynch http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-aol7mar07001427,1,5870376.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dbusiness which speculated that AOL may be a takeover target of the likes of Microsoft, Viacom or GE.

Here's Moto's press release on the "connected home" stuff they are showing at CeBit: http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail/0,1958,2441_2000_23,00.html

Here's some press coverage of that: http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20939.html

Narad made some management changes, essentially as follows:

"Dev Gupta, founder and chief executive officer of Narad, will assume the role of chairman of the board, passing his post as CEO to Craig Dynes, Narad's chief financial officer. Chuck Kaplan, now vice president of marketing and operations, will become chief operating officer; and Marc Aldrich will expand his role as vice president of North American sales to include worldwide sales and customer service. "

Here's the whole press release: http://www.naradnetworks.com/pr_030603b.html

Ucentric was awarded US Patent No. 6,526,581 in February 2003. The patent is related to the distribution of media from multiple sources outside the home and across any number of in-home networks. Here's a copy of their news release: http://www.ucentric.com/index.php?news/releases/38

The LISFeeds portal is a centralized RSS aggregator for library science professionals. We have a similar aggregator at Harvard Law. [Scripting News]

Technology Briefing: Software. MICROSOFT TO INVEST $2 BILLION IN PROGRAMS;. [New York Times: Business]

Cities Deliver Broadband for Less. Following a recent FCC decision that could limit competition among broadband providers, publicly owned high-speed access networks may prove a more popular alternative to private ISPs. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]