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Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Microsoft Plans Launch of Search Ad System — Microsoft Corp. plans to launch its system for selling advertising alongside regular search results by June in the United States, giving the company its next piece of ammunition in the battle with rivals including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
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Business Week:
Putting The Screws To Google — How Old Media could take back its share of search's ad bounty — What if 2006 is the year big media players take aim at Google's (GOOG ) kneecaps? No, not with more lawsuits; the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers — on behalf, in part …
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Business Week:
The Great Firewall of China — A vast security network and compliant multinationals keep the mainland's Net under Beijing's thumb. But technology may foil the censors yet — Skype had a dilemma. The Internet telephony and messaging service wanted to enter China with TOM Online (TOMO) …
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Gsmith / Gene Smith's Atomiq:
How much wisdom is there in Digg? — I'm in the middle of The Wisdom of Crowds so I found this story about alleged Digg stylesheet thief Steve Mallett, and subsequent follow-ups, quite interesting. Nat Torkington summed up the story well on O'Reilly Radar: … At the end of the post, Nat concludes:
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Web Site of Agency Is Called Insecure — The General Services Administration has shut a Web site for government contractors after a computer industry consultant reported that he was able to view and modify corporate and financial information submitted by vendors.
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Sunrocket's Hogwash — Sun Rocket, a johnny come lately VoIP Service Provider has started a stealth marketing blog called Everyday Hogwash, which essentially is a contest that rewards people for bitching about businesses. (Hat tip, Thread Watch.) Some think it is a bad idea, and gives bloggers a bad name.
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Online News Squared
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Silicon Valley Watcher:
Disruption in mainstream media but where is the disruption in the mainstream PR industry? — Where is the PR industry disruption? — The mainstream media is heading to hell in a handbasket but where is the PR industry's handbasket? — Over the past two years the PR sector has been growing quite nicely.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
False alarm over Windows support deadline — Microsoft is making changes to its support Web site in an attempt to clear up confusion over its plans for the consumer editions of Windows XP. — Until Tuesday night, a posting on Microsoft's Web site stated that support for Windows XP Home …
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Economist:
St Lawrence of Google — Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has always wanted to change the world. He is well on his way — Getty Images — DOES Larry Page ever get vertigo when contemplating his life and future? After all, Mr Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Music stops for Mac Windows Media Player — Microsoft has officially halted development of its Windows Media Player for the Mac and plans no future Apple Computer versions of its music-playing software, CNET News.com has learned. — "We have no plans to provide future updates or product support …
Dan Warne / apcmag.com:
Intel Macs may boot XP after all — Reports spreading across the web that Intel Macs can't boot Windows XP might be inaccurate, reports Dan Warne. — Tech journos far and wide have been quick to jump on the story that while Apple says it isn't doing anything to specifically prevent people …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
McNealy's cold feet and other tales of Sun — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy had to be wined and dined at a Silicon Valley McDonald's before he gave up his reluctance to help launch the workstation maker in 1982, according to one of many tales the company co-founders recounted on Wednesday.
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Chitika Blog:
Chitika eMiniMalls earnings for November and December — November and December final earnings reports are ready. Please log in to your accounts to see the final audited reports for both November and December. — Difference between the daily raw click reports and the monthly audited earnings:
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Leander / The Cult of Mac Blog:
Scoop: The Inside Dope on Steve Jobs' Weird Keynote — There was something strange about Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote on Tuesday. The pacing was off. — It started off high energy with reports of unbelievable iPod sales and record revenues, which got the crowd whooping.
Reuters:
Apple files 'Mobile Me' as U.S. trademark — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has filed to trademark the phrase "Mobile Me" for use in a wide range of businesses, furthering speculation it could introduce an iPod phone.
Rich Miller / Netcraft:
DDoS Attack Cited in Million Dollar Homepage Outage — The company hosting the Million Dollar Homepage says an electronic attack was responsible for the extended outages earlier today. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) occurred as college student Alex Tew sold the final 1,000 pixels …
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Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
Future of Internet TV Is Coming Into View — I was trying to sleep on a flight home from Las Vegas Sunday when the craving hit: I want my Internet TV. — After catching a virus at the gadget show I'd attended, I felt too exhausted to read. I needed distraction, a slice …
