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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Google's Shadow Payroll Is Not Such a Secret Anymore — Shawn Hogan, the founder of Digital Point Solutions, said his company received about $10,000 a month from Google for ads placed on its online forum. It shares the revenue with users. — FEELING depressed because you missed out on Google's stock bonanza?
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Jenstar / JenSense:AdSense pays publishers 78.5 cents on the dollar, according to NYTimes
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Marketers Want to Appear on Small Screen — Forget the 30-second spot on a 50-inch high-definition TV. How about a three-second message on the tiniest of screens? — Television-style advertising is coming to a mobile phone near you. It is part of a broader push by marketers to create …
Simon Dumenco / AdAge:
A BLOGGER IS JUST A WRITER WITH A COOLER NAME — Why Blogging vs. Traditional Media Has Been Oversold — I've been thinking of what I am — about what any media person in the digital age is — since having coffee last week with a 30-something newspaper editor who bemoaned the fact …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Sharing Broadband to Increase Speed — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15 - Two West Coast start-up companies have built new wireless technologies that take to heart Benjamin Franklin's exhortation to hang together rather than hang separately. — Both Mushroom Networks, which was started at the University …
Justin Sullivan / Newsweek:
A (New) Chip on His Shoulder — Apple CEO Steve Jobs brought new Intel chips to his machines faster than anyone expected. What's next for Macs and iPods? — Partners: Intel CEO Paul Otellini (left) and Jobs at Macworld — By By Steven Levy — Jan. 14, 2006 - Steve Jobs foiled …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Jobs suggests Dell should eat his words — It may not be the last laugh, but on Friday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, shared an e-mail chuckle with his employees at the expense of Dell, a big rival.
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revolutionreport.com:
Frequently Asked Nintendo Revolution Questions — Welcome to Revolution Report's Revolution FAQ. — Our staff at Revolution Report receives about 30 mailbag questions per week, countless message board questions per day and ungodly hours of communication with our readers.
Robert McCrum / Observer:
E-read all about it — The world of publishing stands on the cusp of the greatest innovation since Gutenberg. With cheap, portable electronic readers just around the corner, what is the future of the printed book? — Every year at the Booker Prize, there's an odd little ritual …
Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:
Rootkits In Commercial Software — By now many of you have heard that Symantec released a security advisory last Tuesday that reported its use of rootkit-like cloaking technology in its SystemWorks product. The Symantec use of rootkit-like cloaking raises the question of what exactly defines a …
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Gather Blather — There is an awful lot of Gather blather tonight, proving, once again, that there is no such thing as bad publicity. After all, most people aren't saying particularly nice things about the walled-garden blog-hosting outfit, but that undoubtedly doesn't matter much to the company …
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press.nokia.com:
Compact Nokia 6125 offers excellent performance in stylish folding design — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today expanded its porfolio of highly popular mid-range mobile phones with the stylish Nokia 6125 fold phone. Sleek and compact outside, the Nokia 6125 offers excellent performance …
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Google, You Tube & Dark Side Online Video — Online video is hot, and you can judge that from the break neck growth of You Tube. The San Mateo, California company was founded in February 2005, and a year later it is serving more than 3 million video views a day, receiving about 8,000 video uploads …
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MSNBC:
Bertelsmann set to head Quaero internet project — By By Tom Braithwaite in Paris and Tobias Bayer in Hamburg — Bertelsmann, the media group, is close to signing up as German leader on a project to create a multimedia search engine to challenge US dominance.
Jason Schramm / Shiwej:
Blog Series: Robert Scoble on the Blogosphere — Together with Miel Van Opstal from Coolz0r, we've decided to start a guestblogging series which will run on both our blogs at about the same time. — Today is the tenth and last interview in this series, and to end in style we feature …
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
China, Still Winning Against the Web — FOUND AND LOST A Yahoo search for "Falun Gong," a quasi-Buddhist religious sect that the Chinese Communist Party outlawed in 1999, found nearly 2 million sites. The same search on Yahoo China "did not find any related news."
