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10:45 AM ET, February 14, 2007

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Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Our Valentine's day gift: out of beta and adding comments  —  Here at webmaster central, we love the webmaster community — and today, Valentine's Day, we want to show you that our commitment to you is stronger than ever.  We're taking webmaster tools out of beta and enabling comments on this blog.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and WebProNews
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Marianna / Official Google Checkout Blog:
Shopping cart badge updates  —  Posted by Jonathan Berger, Google Checkout Buyer Product Manager  —  An important part of Google Checkout since we launched last summer has been helping users find convenient, secure places to shop through tight integration with AdWords, the advertisements on our search results pages.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Valentine's Gifts: Logos, Comments, Buttons
Eric Sylvers / New York Times:
The Ad-Free Cellphone May Soon Be Extinct  —  ADVERTISING on your cellphone?  —  Yes, and soon.  —  Already, ads are creeping onto cellphones around the globe.  At this rate, experts say, it will not be long before the 2.2 billion mobile phone users around the world consider it natural …
Discussion: Chip Griffin, HipMojo.com and 10e20
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Cell Phones Are The Final Frontier for Advertising
Discussion: textually.org
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Is Radio Still Radio if There's Video?  —  Ted Stryker, a D.J. at KROQ in Los Angeles, considers it a perk of the job to wear shorts and T-shirts to work.  But last Sunday as he dressed for the Grammy Awards, he pulled out his best blazer and a flashy belt buckle, knowing three video cameras …
Discussion: PaidContent, Reel Pop and Lost Remote
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Online Video Industry Index  —  Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus  —  There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it's easy to lose track of them all.  So let's take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the major players.
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Google Said to Violate Copyright Laws  —  A Brussels court ruled Tuesday that Google had violated copyright laws by publishing links to articles from Belgian newspapers without permission.  Legal experts said the case could have broad implications in Europe for the news indexes provided by search engines.
Discussion: Slashdot
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Aoife White / Associated Press:
Court Orders Google to Pull Belgian News
Discussion: Neowin.net and TechSpot News
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
RIAA to Launch P2PLawsuits.com  —  Among other things, the recently leaked letter from the RIAA to ISPs revealed that the RIAA plans on launching a "website with information about the copyright lawsuits that should facilitate early settlement," to be located at P2PLawsuits.com …
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Mike / Techdirt:
RIAA's New Settlement Website Promoting P2P File Sharing Clients?
Discussion: Monkey Bites
John Blau / Macworld:
T-Mobile CEO: VoIP will have no major impact  —  Don't expect new mobile phone services based on the Internet Protocol to become nearly as prevalent as those running over PCs.  That's the view of Hamid Akhavan, CEO of T-Mobile International, one of Europe's largest mobile phone operators.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Statement in Response to Speculation on Next Version of Windows  —  No official guidance yet; company will provide more details when ready.  —  REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 13, 2007 - Microsoft released the following statement today from Kevin Kutz, Director, Windows Client …
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Microsoft Tells Pundits to Shut Up About Windows 7, Talk About Vista
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
House OKs specialized patent judges  —  The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would allow certain federal judges to defer patent cases to colleagues considered better-versed in the complex area.  —  The proposal, first introduced last year by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) …
Discussion: Ars Technica and Techdirt
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Yahoo Music exec agreeing with Jobs' DRM-free sentiment?  —  It's not everyday that you see two rivals agreeing on a subject where they become the vast minority in a horde of DRM-enforcing media protectors, but it seems like this parallel universe isn't so far out after all.
Discussion: Techdirt and CNET News.com
John Austin / Dallas Star-Telegram:
The next class fits in your pocket  —  Distance learning has been around for decades, but thanks to the iPod and other digital music players, higher education is becoming as portable as a pop song.  —  "I do testing for offshore rigs," said Melvin Robinson, a Sugar Land engineer …
Svetlana Gladkova / Profy.Com:
Seven Special Valentine's Day Logos  —  Today I have seen the new Google's special Valentine's Day logo on TechCrunch - I am sure someone in the company will have a really bad Valentine's day (and not because of being lonely but because of the logo).  I think that Valentine's Day must …
Discussion: WebProNews
GameDaily:
Marc Ecko Expands Game Business  —  If you thought that fashion designer Marc Ecko's last game, Getting Up, was a one shot deal, think again.  Ecko (right) is back in a big way with a new video games division, Marc Ecko Entertainment (MEE).  More within...
Discussion: Kotaku and Joystiq
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw  —  Joanna Rutkowska has always been a big supporter of the Windows Vista security model.  Until she stumbled upon a "very severe hole" in the design of UAC (User Account Control) and found out — from Microsoft officials …
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Dual-screen laptop sees double  —  Earlier this month we mentioned a prototype dual touch-screen laptop but didn't think we'd be seeing anything like it off the drawing boards anytime soon.  Shows you how much we know.  —  Pennsylvania-based Estari started out as a software company …
 
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Paul Kapustka / NewTeeVee:
SightSpeed Vlogger Gets DirectTV Gig
Inside AdWords:
Test CPC Site Targeting
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-010
Discussion: Zero Day, Security Fix and TechBlog
Greg Jarboe / Search Engine Watch:
Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog?
Discussion: Search Engine Land
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Nokia Video Center Hands On
Discussion: Gizmodo
Alex Clover / The Bivings Report:
Pipe your RSS feeds the way you want them - Yahoo Pipes is a sign of things to come
Neil McIntosh / Complete Tosh,:
Telegraph gets touchy about Comment is free
Discussion: Telegraph Blogs and Wordblog
Ars Technica:
Nokia N800 Internet Tablet
Discussion: Ring Nokia and digg
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Lorelle VanFossen / The Blog Herald:
Selling Your Blog: What Are Blog Buyers Looking For?
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing:
Get Illuminated podcast 005 - Scott Rosenberg
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
BBC explains decision to go with Microsoft DRM
Ryan Freebern / The Uber-Review:
Horntones: Customize Your Honk
Zephoria / apophenia:
Facebook's little digital gift
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Symantec CEO says no Vista for me
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Tencent Music reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $971M and a $198M profit; in 2023, paying subscribers rose 21% YoY to 107M and net profit rose 36% YoY to $735M

 
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