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Michele Gershberg / Reuters:
Yahoo edges Google in US user satisfaction survey — Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) may be struggling to convince Wall Street of its future prospects, but for the first time its users gave its services overall a better rating than what Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search — For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Bigger not better: Google, Apple down in customer satisfaction; Yahoo gains
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
VMware: EMC Has No Plans To Sell More; Did They Price Too Low? — EMC (EMC) today generated a massive return on its investment in VMware (VMW). — EMC bought the company in 2004 for $625 million. At the time, as EMC CFO Dave Goulden noted in an interview with Tech Trader Dailythis morning …
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Nokia:
Nokia announces product advisory for BL-5C battery — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today issued a product advisory for the Nokia-branded BL-5C battery manufactured by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. of Japan between December 2005 and November 2006. This product advisory does not apply to any other Nokia-branded battery.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia-branded batteries at risk of overheating — 46 million devices affected — Here we go again kids. After all those notorious fires related to the batteries used by the world's largest handset manufacturer, Nokia has issued a product advisory for the BL-5C, Nokia-branded battery.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
First Google Health Screenshots — Google Health, codename "Weaver", is Google's planned health information storage program. Google's Vice President of Engineering Adam Bosworth lobbies for the program for quite a while now. Adam said the current US health care system is challenged when it comes to …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care — In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their plans to improve the nation's health care.
Dan Warne / APC:
Google launches YouTube-style embeddable maps … First up, if you know how to embed a YouTube video in your blog, you'll be able to embed Google Maps in your website, Google promises. — It'll be as simple as cutting and pasting a bit of HTML code into your website, just like a YouTube video.
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John Borland / Wired News:
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign — On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 in Technology Preview — New software builds on Exchange Server 2007's anywhere access* to information, operational efficiency and built-in protection. — Microsoft Corp. today announced Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and opened a technology preview for the software.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft readies new test builds of Exchange 2007 SP1, PerformancePoint 2007
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Reuters:
Half of Web time spent viewing content: study — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Content online is king. Internet users spend nearly half their time online viewing news or entertainment content, surpassing activities such as sending e-mails, shopping or searching for information …
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Jason Roth / Apple:
John Lennon Solo Catalog Debuts on iTunes Store — Apple® today announced the debut of the John Lennon solo catalog on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). Sixteen of Lennon's solo works from EMI Music are available for the first time on iTunes starting today, with the "Lennon Legend" …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AOL Launches Mobile Search — Google may have won the fixed line search sweepstakes, but mobile search remains an open territory, for anyone to conquer — countless start-ups, Yahoo, Nokia. Add AOL to the list, which is launching a revamped (beta) version of its mobile search service today.
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BBC:
Paper battery offers future power — Flexible paper batteries could meet the energy demands of the next generation of gadgets, says a team of researchers. — They have produced a sample slightly larger than a postage stamp that can release about 2.3 volts, enough to illuminate a small light.
John Tierney / New York Times:
Our Lives, Controlled From Some Guy's Couch — Until I talked to Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford University, it never occurred to me that our universe might be somebody else's hobby. I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version …
Chris Williams / The Register:
Free software campaigners stonewalled at BBC — The Free Software Foundation (FSF) mounted its protests against "corruption" of the BBC by Microsoft in London and Manchester this morning. — In filthy weather, about 20 assorted free software and open source advocates turned out at the BBC's Television Centre in west London.
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John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Microsoft's Bach sold more stock before Xbox news — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Microsoft Corp. executive Robbie Bach sold $3 million more in company stock during the period leading up to an announcement about a costly flaw in its Xbox video game console than previously reported …
