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Today Yahoo released its new and improved shopping site, complete with comparative shopping. A search for a Sony Cyber-shot camera on Yahoo yielded 89 merchants and a PriceGrabber search found 69 results. Lowest final price on Yahoo was $520 compared to PriceGrabber’s $598, a 15% savings. Does this make PriceGrabber a prime takeover target? Yahoo and Google now have their own comparison service. PriceGrabber provides Ask Jeeves with a cobrand. AOL and MSN have the cash to spend….

Nature profiles the work of Sarah Brosnan of Emory University teaching monkeys to exchange tokens for food. 80% of the monkeys rebelled if they did not receive an equal or better reward. Female monkeys were much more sensitive to the inequalities….

Philip Greenspun says “Java is the SUV of programming tools.”…

COMPAQ Support Library on where to find the “Any” key….

Jon Udell writes about baseball lessons for software teams and the way we value developers….

LA Times (free registration required) : “Computer chip giant Intel Corp. and the leisure class bible Zagat Survey have produced a guide to the best restaurants and hotels in America that offer wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, Internet access.” full article…

Mozilla 1.5 RC1 is now available….

John Hawkins interviews Milton Friedman. “all of the progress that the US has made over the last couple of centuries has come from unemployment” “Roosevelt’s policies made the depression longer and worse than it otherwise would have been.”…

Google has a new coding competition, sponsored by TopCoder. Bypass Google HR and get your code recognized!…

WUSA, the Women’s United Soccer Association, suspended operations this afternoon….