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Opera:
The Opera browser for Wii launches just in time for the holidays — Opera Software today announces that a trial version of its Web browser for Nintendo's new game console, Wii, will be available on December 22, 2006. The trial version of the Opera browser for Wii is available for download …
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Monkey Bites, Kotaku, Digital Download, CyberNet Technology News, 4 color rebellion, CrunchGear, videogamesblogger.com, TechSpot, Go Nintendo and digg
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Nick / Rough Type:
Dweebs, horndogs and geezers — Now this is mind-boggling. Check out how radically different the top ten search terms of 2006 were for Google, Yahoo and AOL. — Here's Google: — 1. Bebo — 2. Myspace — 3. World Cup — 4. Metacafe — 5. Radioblog — 6. Wikipedia — 7. Video
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Greg Jarboe / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Top news searches differ from top web searches — When is a search term not a search term? That's a question worth asking after looking at a year's worth of search results on Google, Yahoo and AOL. — Google has just released its 2006 Year-End Google Zeitgeist.
Susan Stellin / New York Times:
Offline Involuntarily — Five years ago, the main challenge for data-hungry business travelers was finding a hotel that offered high-speed Internet access. Then came a shift to wireless and even free connections. — But these days, the top priority for many is simply getting consistent …
Zune Insider:
Zune Compatible with Vista: Today — Today (Tuesday the 19th of December) we're issuing a 22 MB update to make Zune compatible with Windows Vista. The update also improves the Zune software installation process, addressing the issues that some of the known issues users reported.
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Gizmodo, Windows Vista Team Blog, Engadget, InfoWorld Tech Watch, Microsoft News Tracker and All about Microsoft
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Ryan Block / Engadget:Installing Zune firmware v1.2... also sucked
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CyberNet Technology News
Smaran / Torrentfreak:
Azureus Partners with the BBC to Sell TV Shows — The popular BitTorrent client, Azureus has just struck a deal with the BBC to offer TV shows on its recently launched content store/website, Zudeo. — Zudeo is Azureus' new video sharing website and content store.
Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
FCC's McDowell Stands By Recusal on Merger Vote — UPDATED: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Robert McDowell is standing by his recusal from the agency's AT&T-BellSouth merger vote, declining an invitation to break the 2-2 deadlock over the $80 billion deal hung up on network neutrality conditions.
Gizmodo:
SlingPlayer Mobile Now Works With the Dash and BlackJack — With the latest update to the SlingMobile software, users of the HTC (T-Mobile) Dash and the Samsung (Cingular) BlackJack can now sling their media to and fro while on-the-go. The Dash has been out for around two months …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
AOL Chief Has a View, a Long One — If AOL were being dressed up for a sale, as has been rumored on and off for several years, Randy Falco is an odd choice to be the new chief executive. — As Mr. Falco notes, he is hardly a short-term guy. Before starting at Time Warner's AOL unit this month …
Tropicaljantie / Watching, Testing, Digesting:
As predicted here is the first Skype worm on the loose... My eagle eyes all over the world just reported this. I was waiting for stuff like this to happen and this is only the beginning of a probably very serious problem. I think the worst thing that could happen is that some worm …
Nick / Rough Type:
Sharecropping the long tail — A while back I wrote that Web 2., by putting the means of production into the hands of the masses but withholding from those same masses any ownership over the product of their work, provides an incredibly efficient mechanism to harvest the economic value …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Coming in January: "Month of Apple Bugs" — A pair of security researchers has picked January 2007 as the starting point for a month-long project in which each passing day will feature a previously undocumented security hole in Apple's OS X operating system or in Apple applications that run on top of it.
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Launches the World's First 'Optical Joystick' Phone — Samsung's SCH-V960 features optical sensor button for user convenience — Samsung Electronics , a leading provider and innovator of mobile phones, launches the world's first mobile phone featuring a n optical joystick for a whole new mobile experience.
Peter Daboll / Yodel Anecdotal:
Time for a new hit — When banner ads started cropping up on the Internet in the mid-'90s, the term "hit" was all the rage. A "hit" (as in, a hit to a server) was the reigning measurement of a site's popularity. Hits attempted to show how many times a page was viewed by a user.
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Micro Persuasion
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Working Anywhere: Video And Planning — Peter makes some good points about pre-planning not being necessary to have meaningful video communications. — To me, the point is, there isn't much difference in having a video call versus a chat or a phone call. That is if you are following the Boy Scout's moto, of always be prepared.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Polar Rose: Europe's Entrant Into Facial Recognition — Malmö, Sweden based Polar Rose is having its coming out party today and pre-announcing a product release slated for early next year. CEO Nikolaj Nyholm gave me demo of what's coming last weekend.
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VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, The Next Net, GigaOM, Net, Incremental Blogger, Ross Mayfield's Weblog and Slashdot
Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Amazon To Enter Crowded Download Market With MP3 Only Store — Late last week Amazon began circulating contracts to labels aiming for a late 1st Q '07 music download store launch. Rumors of an Amazon entry have been circulating all year, but died down as attention shifted first to the URGE launch and then to Microsoft's ZUNE.
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TechEffect, Coolfer, Computers.net, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Frank Barnako, The Next Net, Seeking Alpha and The Digital Music Weblog
Kim / Weatherall's Law:
Reactions to the Cooper decision — Various reactions to the 'linking is authorisation' Cooper decision handed down yesterday by the Full Federal Court: — I commented yesterday (summary? 'troubling'. 'Have we, or have we not just had a very extended debate about copyright law in Australia?
Time:
5 Things That Went From Buzz to Bust — The message of this page is, Beware all hype. Here are five phenomena that captivated the media for a spell, then turned out to be less than huge. Our bad — SNAKES ON A PLANE, AUDIENCE DISEMBARKS — When the words Snakes on a Plane hit the Internet …
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Kotaku
