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Cingular will go by at&t after the BellSouth merger. Earlier, SBC became at&t — as did AT&T. [GigaOM]

MS vs. Yahoo: Microsoft tries what Yahoo failed: putting original TV shows online. But MS's version is built to flip — they'll sell any successful shows to real TV. [Mercury News]

MS vs. Google: Microsoft's AdWords wannabe launches today. [Mercury News]

Larry and Sergey are still worth about $1.5 billion less than this time last week. [GOOG quote]

"Cable Helps Time Warner Endure AOL," says the Times. Sounds like they're college roommates. [NY Times]

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• Lloyd Braun comes out swinging today with what the NY Times calls "the most extensive of his initiatives to get final approval:" Yahoo Tech. The top-story panel is sometimes overlaid with an interstitial ad. Should've stuck with puppet-anchored news, Lloyd. [Yahoo Tech and NYT]
• By accusing Microsoft of playing dirty by making MSN the default search tool for Internet Explorer, Google's Marissa Mayer takes a stand against default search engines in browsers. Oh, don't worry, Google's still the Firefox default. Let's clarify: Google's Marissa Mayer takes a stand against default search engines other than Google in browsers. [NY Times]
• Dave Sifry of blog index Technorati reminds everyone that the blogosphere doubles every 5 5.5 6 months (it doesn't). [Sifry's Alerts]
• Napster now offers free songs, five plays each, supported by ads. Bittorrent, IRC, Soulseek, Usenet, and LimeWire continue to offer free songs, infinite plays each, supported by RIAA lawsuits. [CNET]
• Bill Gates is still $3 billion poorer one weekend after a Microsoft stock drop. [MSFT on Google Finance]
• A shame. With that $3 bil, maybe he could've bought Vonage. [Financial Times]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=170716&view=rss&microfeed=true TechCrunch lays out an exclusive spread of leaked Google Calendar screenshots. And it looks like...a calendar. Surprise! Calendar apps are about as distinguishable as Nickelback songs.
TC also hears "serious acquisition rumors" about PubSub after the news subscription company replaces its CEO. Who's buying? Probably not Fox.
UK newspaper publisher Johnston Press can't beat its ad drought. Craig Newmark to be blamed by noon.
Microsoft starts testing its Google killer, the least likely David-and-Goliath story since the pro baseball strike.
Our big sister Lifehacker has news on Microsoft's Origami handheld and Google's "total storage" plan in a daily news roundup.
Still waiting for inside confirmation of Jason Calacanis' Netscape takeover. Anyone who leaves the AOL meeting without a job, we're here for ya.

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