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1:05 AM ET, January 19, 2009

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Financial Times:
‘Extraordinary’ attack on Microsoft  —  By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Nikki Tait in Brussels  —  By reopening an old battle over Microsoft's dominance of the internet browser market, European regulators late last week took a controversial step that some legal and technology observers argued …
Discussion: Ars Technica
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Google Watch:
Is Google Talking Trash to the European Commission Over Internet Explorer?  —  So Microsoft is again being called to the anticompetitive carpet by the European Commission (Wall Street Journal pay wall), this time over the bundling of its Internet Explorer Browser with its Windows operating system.
Discussion: AdAge
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Belkin replies to Mechanical Turk shilling  —  Belkin responded to the Mechanical Turk Shilling Incident (as it's now called around the office.)  Their response?  “We're sorry, we didn't know it was going on, and we're doing something about it.”  Read the full note from Belkin's President Mark Reynoso below.
BBC:
New phone features ‘baffle users’  —  The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research suggests.  —  Setting up a new handset is as challenging as changing bank accounts, said 61% of those interviewed.  —  Compiled by consultants Mformation …
Discussion: All About Symbian
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: Historical Photos in Web Archives Gain Vivid New Lives  —  IN barely 100 years, photography has gone from a magical, even mystical process, to an afterthought.  Nothing better captures how much of an afterthought photography is today than the banal miracle that is Flickr …
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Windows 7 Beta takes another crown, besting Vista in SSD performance  —  It's no huge surprise, since Microsoft was planning on improving performance on this front, but now we've got some of our first solid numbers on Windows 7 Beta SSD performance.  Nothing crazy spectacular …
Paul Foy / Associated Press:
Technology to block phones in cars isn't foolproof  —  SALT LAKE CITY - Many parents would love to be able to give their teenagers a cell phone that couldn't be used while driving.  Now some inventors say they have come up with ways to make that possible, but they appear to be relying on wishful thinking.
Discussion: Identity Woman
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Text Ads in Google Image Search  —  After months of experimentation, Google choose to show text ads above image search results.  It's not clear if the ads are actually useful for those who visit Google Image Search to find images, but Google mentioned last year that the volume of commercial queries has increased significantly.
Discussion: Webmetricsguru
Aviv / MacBlogz:
Steve Wozniak Sheds Some Light On Steve Jobs' Health Issues (Video)  —  Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has been making rounds in the media weighing in on Steve Jobs' medical leave of absence with his own analysis.  The latest is a video interview on NBC where he mentions …
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Preferred Sites  —  Preferred Sites is a new experimental feature for Google Search that lets you personalize the results by adding a list of sites you want to appear more often when you search.  Based on your search history, Google suggests some frequently-visited sites, but you can add any other site.
Discussion: Webware.com and The Noisy Channel
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Will “Google Web Drive” Launch in 2009?  —  When asked to make a wish list for Google in 2009, many of you said you wanted the legendary “GDrive” product to be released.  Being the most eagerly anticipated Google product ever, with rumors literally going back years, could new evidence suggest …
Discussion: Download Squad and Googling Google
L.M.Orchard / 0xDECAFBAD:
Tags do work (for me, at least)  —  For the “too long; didn't read” crowd:  — I've been using a lot of tags on Delicious over a relatively long time, so they seem very useful to me.  — Delicious encourages the use of tags through UI convention and tool usage patterns …
 
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