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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.
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) …
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.
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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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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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.
Stepto / the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
Looking at the WMF issue, how did it get there? — Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. Now that the monthly release has passed and people are deploying the updates I wanted to take a moment to discuss some things related to questions we've been receiving on the recent WMF issue.
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.
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 …
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.
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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 …
