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Yahoo! Search blog:
Instant Search Gives You Instant Answers — If search engines are so smart, why do they give you millions of results when you type in "boston weather"? Why even ten, for that matter? Why not just one? Or better yet, why not just tell me what the weather is?
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Bloomberg:
Time Warner Rises on Report Microsoft May Share AOL (Update1) — Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Shares of Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, rose as much as 2.4 percent after the New York Post said the company is in talks to sell a stake in America Online to Microsoft Corp.
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Ars Technica:
Apple supports video podcasting — Apple surprised a few people in June when they rolled podcasting support into iTunes 4.9, giving users the ability to download recorded audio programs automatically through the iTunes Music Store. What is less known is that the company took another step …
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Barb Dybwad / Engadget:
Apple files for "iPodcast" trademark — Whatchu talkin' about, Apple? Maybe it's really just a noble gesture to try and finally end the feud between Dave Winer and Adam Curry but sheesh, Apple — trying to get a trademark on the term "iPodcast" is kind of a slap in the face to all the folks …
MSNBC:
Gillette ups the ante, unveils 5-blade razor — Fusion is market leader's answer to rival Schick's 4-blade Quattro — A drawing released by Gillette Co. shows its Fusion razor, which has five blades in the front and a precision trimmer in the back. — NEW YORK - Gillette Co. Wednesday unveiled …
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Robert McLaws:
Exclusive: BillG Goes To College — You want it, we've got it. The camera work is a little bumpy, but here's the spoof video that was shown at PDC 2005... uncut. Some highlight screenshots are below... Watch It Here! — Update: For those of you wondering, it was shot with an HP Photosmart R707 digital camera.
Ben Elgin / Business Week:
Yahoo: Mistrust Is Popping Up — A string of issues related to its trustworthiness, especially about adware, could tarnish the portal's reputation on the Net — Yahoo! (YHOO ) has been taking a beating in the blogosphere lately. On Sept. 6 came the revelation that it provided information that helped Beijing jail a journalist.
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Careful or they'll hear your password — Computer scientists at the University of California at Berkeley have found a new way to crack computer passwords: By listening. — Professor Doug Tygar and graduate student Li Zhuang use off-the-shelf microphones to record keystroke sounds and run …
Jo Twist / BBC:
Broadband to rule the TV waves — TV delivered into living rooms over broadband connections will completely change TV as well as the internet as we know it, concludes a major report. — IPTV (internet protocol TV), as it is known, is a budding area that is exciting telecoms and media companies.
Jon's Radio:
Bill Gates interview: the transcript — I've been too busy here at the PDC to transcribe Tuesday's podcast of my interview with Bill Gates, but the folks at IDG kindly took care of that, so here it is: — JU: So, the Napoleon Dynamite thing was delightful. — BG: It was fun to do that.
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redherring.com:
'People believe their partnership with Yahoo is extremely valuable,' —David Chao, — Doll Capital — Management — CAPITAL — AllAbout IPO Soars 727% — Japan's answer to U.S. information portal About.com makes a splash in its first day of trading in Tokyo.
Pete Mortensen / Wired News:
Meet the Apple Pack Rats — Gary Ian Reich remembers his first time in lurid detail: The struggle to get home, how he fumbled with the outer layers, his delight with what was concealed, the many lingering caresses in the ecstatic aftermath. — Seven years later, it's hard to describe …
Lauren Hammit / nsbri.org:
Space Cycle tests artificial gravity as solution to muscle loss — A bike-like centrifuge that creates artificial gravity may help astronauts combat muscle atrophy in space. Through a study at the University of California, Irvine, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) …