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6:25 PM ET, December 13, 2006

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CIO.com:
IBM, Yahoo Launch Free Enterprise Search Tool  —  IBM and Yahoo have developed a free, entry-level, enterprise search application that at least one analyst believes will seriously disrupt the low-end segment of this market where Google has been selling many of its Mini search devices.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Enterprise search made easy - and free - from IBM and Yahoo!  —  Earlier this year Yahoo! and IBM got together to ask a simple question —  how can we make enterprise search easier to install, use, and maintain.  The result of that question is IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition which we believe …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:   Hardware costs make IBM-Yahoo's enterprise search less free
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
IBM and Yahoo Offer Free Enterprise Search Software
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Skype's Free Phone Call Plan Will Soon Have Annual Fee  —  Skype, the Internet calling service owned by eBay, said Tuesday that as of Jan. 1 it would begin charging $30 a year for unlimited calls to landline and mobile phones within the United States and Canada.  Those calls had been free since last spring.
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About Skype:
Skype Announces New Skype Unlimited Calling Plan  —  Offers 12 Months of Unlimited Skype Calls to Any Phone Within the US and Canada for a Flat Annual Rate  —  Skype, the global Internet communications company, is now offering U.S. and Canadian consumers the new Skype Unlimited Calling plan …
Josh Bernoff / Devices, Media …:
iTunes sales are NOT plummeting!  Press credibility, on the other hand . . .  What an interesting couple of days it's been.  What follows is a case study in how information — and misinformation — spreads on the Net.  —  We put out a simple little report about iPods and iTunes based …
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BBC:
Apple denies download sales fall  —  Apple has denied a report which claims US sales at its iTunes Music Store fell by 65% in the first half of 2006.  —  Research group Forrester said it was too soon to say whether its findings showed that buyers were "reaching their saturation level for digital music".
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
iTunes sales reportedly recorded in Apple Lossless
Discussion: Reuters
Microsoft:
Microsoft Robotics Studio Now Available to Provide Common Development Platform  —  More than 30 vendors offer support for creating broad range of innovative robotics applications.  —  Among the many remarkable innovations emerging out of the robotics industry, from surveillance robots …
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Scott Martin / Red Herring:
Yahoo Dethroned By MySpace  —  Fox Interactive Media, largely thanks to MySpace, has edged into No. 1 for Internet page views.  —  Yahoo is getting good at being No. 2.  News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media has now edged the search giant out of its long-held perch at the top position for Internet page views.
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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
ComScore: MySpace tops Yahoo in November
MacOSXHints.com:
Take iSight snapshots during invalid login attempts  —  With the new MacBook Pro's including built-in iSight cameras, I thought it would be useful to take an iSight snapshot of anyone trying to break into my laptop.  This is done by tailing /var/log/asl.log for invalid login attempts (both at the login screen and screen saver).
Lifehacker:
Pluck, tag and save the good stuff from YouTube videos  —  Ever wish you could show a friend the really cool part of a YouTube video without making them sit through all the rest?  That's the idea behind Scenemaker, which lets you bookmark, tag and share individual scenes within videos.
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
WHAT WOULD RADICAL TRANSPARENCY MEAN FOR WIRED?  (PART 2)  —  In the previous post, I described how the media landscape is changing, starting with reader expectations.  In this post I'll describe what that might imply for a media organization like ours.  If the key word is "participation", how could we encourage that to the fullest?
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon's EV-DO Rev. A network launches Friday?  —  Sprint may have beaten big ol' Red this time around, but Verizon's not about to let a little friendly rivalry get them down.  Rumor has it that the nation's largest CDMA carrier begins rolling out its EV-DO Revision A network this Friday …
Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Apple May Be Carrier for IPod Phone, Analyst Says (Update1)  —  Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc. may serve as its own wireless carrier if it delivers an iPod-based cell phone next year and rely on the company's network of retail stores to sell service contracts for the device, UBS AG said.
Discussion: TechEffect and digg
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google unveils unorthodox stock option auction  —  Google plans to start an unorthodox stock options program in April that will allow employees to sell their vested options in an online auction, the search giant announced late Tuesday.  —  Traditionally, employees have two ways to deal with stock options …
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Interview: Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster  —  With the hit that is Delicious Library making its rounds around Mac software land and Delicious Library 2 on the way, Delicious Monster and Omni founder Wil Shipley has been, to put it lightly, a busy guy.  We were able to catch him for a few words …
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Putting TechCrunch UK On Hold  —  TechCrunch UK, just a few months old, has been tremendously successful in creating a community for local UK & Ireland Entrepreneurs.  However, today I put the blog on hold and terminated our relationship with editor Sam Sethi.
Heather Champ / FlickrBlog:
Ho ho ho!  Flickr Gifts and Upload Limit Changes  —  It's now easier than ever to spread joy this holiday season by giving the Gift of Flickr.  You can purchase a special activation code that you can give to anyone, whether or not they have an existing Flickr account.
 
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James Alan Miller / SmartPhoneToday:
Release of ACCESS Linux Platform for Smartphones Pushed Back
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
IBM to give birth to 'Second Life' business group
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
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PR Newswire:
Scanbuy, Inc. Hires Industry Veteran Jonathan Bulkeley as CEO
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Search Marketing Platform Opens Online Sign-up for New Customers
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
More Journalists Join Political News Venture
Discussion: PaidContent
Google Blogoscoped:
Does Google Allow Cloaking When They Like the Site?
Discussion: Ramblings About SEO and digg
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
A first look at Firefox 3.0  —  Mozilla has officially released …
Chris Pirillo:
A Tablet PC Wedding
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Search 2.0 - What's Next?