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Jul 18 2008 12:00am EDT

Last Bytes: Yahoo, AT&T, Google, San Fran Muni-Hacker...

-- Uh-oh for Icahn... Legg Mason's Bill Miller has announced he will vote his fund's 4.4 percent of Yahoo shares for the current board. [Portfolio.com]

-- Meanwhile, Yahoo is using its homepage to urge shareholders to vote for Jerry Yang and crew. [TechCrunch]

-- Oops! AT&T mistakenly announces that iPhone users will get free Wi-Fi access. Actually, they won't. [News.com]

-- Google has purchased Rambler, a Russian contextual ad firm, for $140 million. [Paid Content]

-- San Francisco Muni-Hacker Update: Terry Childs is reportedly "willing to cooperate," and hand over the password to the city's computer network. [Information Week]

-Sam Gustin


Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.
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