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Steve Bryant / Google Watch:
Google to Merge Writely and Spreadsheets to Form Google Docs — Breaking news: Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and document management solution, according to sources.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google "Docs & Spreadsheets" Launches — Google just launched Docs & Spreadsheets at docs.google.com. It integrates the previously separate Writely and Spreadsheet product silos into a single control panel and admin area (the previous sites for those products redirect to docs.google).
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Not quite Google Office, but closer — Google just launched the feature I was kvetching about yesterday when I covered Zoho: an integrated file system for its productivity applications. Until now, documents created in Writely and in Google Spreadsheets lived separately.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Google Docs & Spreadsheets Goes Live: Writely Is No More
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Feels Breath on Neck — As Google whips out its fat wallet to buy the video site YouTube, it is making Yahoo look even more out of step with the fast-changing Internet advertising market. — Yahoo itself tried to buy YouTube just a few weeks ago and got as close as negotiating price and terms …
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paidContent.org, IP Democracy, Mark Evans, Business Filter, Search Engine Watch Blog, Mr Wave Theory and Paul Kedrosky's …
Benjamin Edelman / BenEdelman.org:
False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads … Read Google's voluminous Adwords Content Policy, and you'd think Google is awfully tough on bad ads. If your company sells illegal drugs, makes fake documents, or helps customers cheat drug tests, you can't advertise at Google.
Reuters:
Cingular sues telemarketers for unsolicited calls — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T - news) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS - news), on Tuesday said it filed three lawsuits in a U.S. federal court against telemarketers to stop them from making unsolicited …
Ashley M. Heher / Associated Press:
Group Warns Of More Junk E-mail — Font Scale: — CHICAGO (AP) - The anti-spam group Spamhaus Project warned more junk e-mail could be on the way as it prepares to lose its domain name thanks to a company it has accused of sending spam. — Executives at the U.K.-based Spamhaus Project …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Edelman and Technorati Detail the Most Influential Blogs in German, French and Italian — As we've all seen from Technorati's latest State of the Blogosphere post, the conversation is indeed global. However, as you will soon see, it's very local too. — Two thirds of all blog posts are written in languages other than English.
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Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
After YouTube: The beginning of the end? — Now that Google has snatched up the leading online video site, will rivals shell out big bucks, or will the competition dry up for smaller sites? — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Has the online video shakeout only begun or is the bubble about to burst?
Zephoria / apophenia:
comScore misinterprets data: MySpace is *NOT* gray — Read the ComScore press release. Completely. Read the details. They have found that the unique VISITORS have gotten older. This is _not_ the same thing as USERS. A year ago, most adults hadn't heard about MySpace.
Joni Morse / RCR Wireless News:
Sprint Nextel trials Qualcomm's MediaFLO as 'Vue' — Verizon Wireless to launch MediaFLO by the fist quarter of next year — OVERLAND PARK, Kan.—Qualcomm Inc.'s highly anticipated MediaFLO mobile TV service is gaining momentum as Sprint Nextel Corp. confirmed it is conducting trials using …
John Markoff / New York Times:
U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren — The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008.
cpwplc.com:
AOL to provide co-branded audience services and manage online advertising sales for combined customer base through a revenue-sharing agreement — Carphone Warehouse and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) have reached agreement for Carphone Warehouse to acquire AOL's Internet access business in the UK …
roughlydrafted.com:
The Secret Failures of Microsoft — Why Microsoft Can't Compete With iTunes examined Microsoft's past success in software development, and demonstrated why its past practices won't be of any help in expanding into the consumer electronics and digital media download business.
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John P. Falcone / Alpha.CNET.com:
Copy never: DRM 'glitch' keeps TiVo Series3, JVC A/V receivers from playing nice — Connecting a TiVo Series3 to a JVC A/V receiver via HDMI seems to awaken an otherwise dormant copy-protection feature in the DVR. At least, that's what happened during testing in the CNET Labs.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …, SeekingAlpha CE Stocks, Boing Boing, PVR Wire, Smalltalk Tidbits … and digg
Unfettered Blather:
Top 10 annoying things about next gen — October 9th, 2006 by Jason "Botswana" Cox — So here we are, supposedly in a new generation of console hardware while there are still new releases for the last generation. For a market that is supposed to be all about "next gen" …
