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1:50 AM ET, December 12, 2006

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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!?  —  I'm not sure if this is stupidity, laziness, or a mix of both, but check this out.  —  Back when IE7 launched, Yahoo! created a customized version and began to market it to our existing IE users.  The "splash page" looked like this:
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Squeezing Money From the Music  —  "Konvicted," a new CD from Akon, promised to be one of the year's big sellers when it appeared in record stores last month.  Buoyed by two of the hottest singles in the country, Akon, a silky-voiced R&B singer, even had the most-viewed page among major label acts on MySpace.com.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Record Labels Looking For Ways To Squeeze More Money Out Musicians — But They're Too Late  —  from the squeeze-away dept  —  For years, many people have been pointing out that the real problem with the recording industry is that they didn't seem to understand their own market.
Discussion: Technically Speaking
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Windows development chief: 'I would buy a Mac if I didn't work for Microsoft'  —  Microsoft's James Allchin made the comment in a 2004 e-mail to colleagues  —  Longtime Windows development chief James Allchin wrote in a January 2004 e-mail to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and company co-founder Bill Gates …
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Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Wikia Announces Free Wiki Hosting
Discussion: Mashable!
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Exclusive: Google's Click Fraud Rate is Less than 2%  —  Back in November, Google's business product manager for trust and safety, Shuman Ghosemajumder, declared that click fraud at Google was "on average is in the single digits, quarter over quarter."  I recently sat down with Ghosemajumder …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Federal judge: Making files available for download = distribution  —  The RIAA's argument that making files available for download constitutes copyright infringement received an important boost from a federal judge.  In an decision delivered in October and first reported over the weekend …
Discussion: Technically Speaking and digg
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Desperately seeking Zune  —  reporter's notebook SAN FRANCISCO—Welcome to the social.  —  That's the promise Microsoft makes with its new Zune.  Unlike the solitary iPods, the digital music player lets you make new friends and discover new music.  Using its built-in Wi-Fi …
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Disk Drives Face Challenge If New Chip Comes to Market  —  Design Touted as 500 Times  —  As Fast as Flash Memory  —  With More Usage Options  —  Researchers are reporting significant progress in perfecting a different way to store data in semiconductors, which could replace …
Discussion: The Tech Report and Slashdot
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Goodbye flash memory, hello "phase-change" memory?
Google Blogoscoped:
The Anti-Google FAQ  —  The year 2006 is nearing its inevitable end, but a lot of unanswered questions remain - I hope to answer some of them in this little Anti-FAQ.  —  How can I get banned from Google's web index?  —  There's a variety of methods to get "googleaxed."
Discussion: Technically Speaking
Anil Dash:
How Matt Haughey Beat Google  —  Summary: In 2002, Google launched one of their few pay services, Google Answers.  The service attracted only 800 responders in the past 4 years, and was shut down a few weeks ago.  Three years ago, Matt Haughey created Ask MetaFilter, pays no money …
Official Google Base Blog:
Plastic surgery  —  Living in Los Angeles, I see a lot of facelifts.  Some would say one-year-olds are too young for plastic surgery, but for Google Base we're making an exception.  Today I'd like to announce a new look for our search interface.  We've introduced new ways for you to view your favorite type of data.
Rachael King / Business Week:
Outsourcing: Beyond Bangalore  —  Companies are increasingly sending IT work to hubs outside India.  They're saving money but facing a whole new raft of challenges  —  After 10 months of working with software developers in Bangalore, India, Bill Wood was ready to call it quits.
Discussion: Gadgetopia, digg and Slashdot
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
More Spectrum for Sale in UK  —  British carriers might have spent over 20 billion pounds on 3G wireless auctions several years ago, but they will soon get a chance to spend even more for "the UK's largest single release of radio spectrum", says British regulator Ofcom.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Metacafe Traffic Dips, Acquisition May Have Stalled  —  The rumors around a possible Metacafe acquisition continue to swirl around silicon valley, with Yahoo or Microsoft being considered the most likely acquiror, at a $300 millionish acquisition price.  Another potential acquiror …
Roughly Drafted:
Newton Lessons for Apple's New Platform  —  Apple's press releases all end with the phrase "Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh."  Today, Apple is building a new platform, and applying lessons it learned from the 90s.
Discussion: O'Grady's PowerPage
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
iTunes sales 'collapsing'  —  Digital flatline looks ominous for music labels  —  The leading DRM digital download service, Apple's iTunes, has experienced a collapse in sales revenues this year according to analyst company Forrester Research.  —  Secretive Apple doesn't break out revenues from iTunes …
Discussion: Macsimum News
 
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
By Some Measures, Blogging May Be Peaking
Discussion: The Zone Read
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Red 5 Studios Aims To Be Pixar of Online Gaming
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Xcavator joins race in visual search
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
On Windows Live Re-Rebranding as MSN
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Making Cisco a household name
Discussion: NewTeeVee
Lifehacker:
Q&A with Microsoft about Windows Vista
Lifehacker:
Authorize your iTunes library on more than 5 computers
LXer Linux News:
Microsoft answers IP questions posed in LXer open letter
Discussion: Channel 9
 Earlier Items: 
San Francisco Chronicle:
A FAMILY'S TRAGEDY  —  Fumbles, missteps hindered search
Discussion: Techdirt and textually.org
Hitwise US:
Heelys: Hot Trend or IPO Interest
Toby Sterling / Associated Press:
Dutch pull plug on free analog TV
Scott Gilbertson / Wired News:
RSS Delivers Web's Best Deals
Microsoft:
Microsoft Releases XNA Game Studio Express and Launches XNA …
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
Why digg is destined for failure
Peter Edmonston / New York Times:
In Web Traffic Tallies, Intruders Can Say You Visited Them
New York Times:
Times Sq. Ads Spread Via Tourists' Cameras
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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