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Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Covert Crawler Descends on Web — WASHINGTON DC — Websites get looked at by two different kinds of visitors: the human ones who peer around, look at the graphics, think about the links and click slowly; and the spiders, those automated scanners that come in from search engines like Google …
Jessie Seyfer / siliconvalley.com:
BlackBerry picking partners — GOOGLE, POCKETMAC DEALS BOOST FEATURES — Even Google appears to have a bit of a BlackBerry addiction. — Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry e-mail and phone device, announced partnerships Thursday with Google and an Apple accessory maker …
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Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Why BlackBerry's Google Talk won't offer voice — When I first heard that Google Talk would be compatible with the BlackBerry OS starting sometime this spring, my first reaction was puzzlement. — I mean, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion draws its very sustenance from cellular carriers.
lessig.org:
the fiction zone that DC has become — The Washington Internet Daily (which apparently is not on the Internet) has a story predicting the Telecom Bill will pass the House this year. The only sticking point seems to be the "controversial" "net neutrality" proposal.
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Security vendors looking to define 'rootkit' — Symantec, Anti-Spyware Coalition hope to ease confusion over cloaking techniques — After being criticized for including rootkit-like cloaking software in its Norton SystemWorks product, security vendor Symantec (Profile, Products, Articles) …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
iLife '06 From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal Interface — WEDNESDAY, 11 JANUARY 2006, THE DAY AFTER THE MACWORLD EXPO KEYNOTE ADDRESS, 8:30 AM PACIFIC … SAFARI: Hey. Brushed. What's up? — BRUSHED METAL: Ah, you know. In the neighborhood, figured I'd stop by.
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Michael Coates / OpsanBlog:
MyHeritage Face Recognition — At first, I thought it was that "monkey" spoof of a few years ago; where a site told you your monitor could serve as a camera and all you had to do was start at it and click a bogus "capture" button. When it rendered your picture, it was of something simian. Ha ha.
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Michael Hopkin / Nature:
Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye — Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds. — Like the look of our website? Whatever the answer (and hopefully it was yes), the chances are you made your mind up within the first twentieth of a second.
William Slawski / SEO by the SEA:
Google's most popular and least popular top level domains — What are the most popularly used top level domains, or at least, which are the ones that show up on pages indexed in Google? — I wondered this yesterday after seeing a news article stating that the registration of .cn (china) …
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Reuters:
600,000 Xbox 360 game units sold in US: group — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) has sold 600,000 of its new Xbox 360 video game consoles in the United States since its November launch, an analyst for market researcher NPD Group said on Friday.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
A virtual catalog — The focus of the company is Delicious Library, which lets Mac users create visual on-screen representations of their personal collections of books, CDs, movies and video games. It taps into Amazon.com's system to display images of the items on virtual shelves …
BBC:
Digital DJs 'unaware of copy law' — Many DJs are still unwittingly breaking the law by playing unlicensed digital copies of tracks months after a new permit scheme began, the BBC has found. — The annual licences, costing £200 plus VAT, were introduced by royalty collection agency PPL in September.
Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
PodZinger Launches Audio Search Service — Now consumers can use the same technology used by the CIA to find podcasts. — PodZinger officially launched its audio search service on Wednesday, based on speech recognition software that parent company BBN Technologies sells to government agencies.
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Video of MacBook Pro in action — While our own Scott McNulty got his hands on a MacBook Pro atMacworld, this is what I've been waiting to see: honest to goodness video of a MacBook Pro in action. TUAW readers Kevin and Peter fromtheory.isthereason have a video of an Apple …
