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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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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Yahoo intros Instant Search — Yahoo!'s new "Instant Search" product leverages its search short cuts (those little modules that appear above regular search results) that return anything from the local weather forecast to gas prices (type "[city] weather" and "gas [zip code]" in the query box, respectively).
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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Bloomberg:
Time Warner Rises After NY Post Says Microsoft to Buy AOL Stake — Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — Shares of Time Warner Inc., the world's largest media company, rose in European trading after the New York Post said the company is in talks to sell a stake in America Online to Microsoft Corp.
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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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.
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.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET.com:
Hacking's a snap in Legoland — When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company's new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: They cheered. — Unlike executives at so many corporations …
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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.
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 …
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.
Chris Pratley / Chris_Pratley's OneNote WebLog:
Unifying the analog and the digital with OneNote — One of the long term visions for OneNote is to bring together "your information" and make it findable and reusable, regardless of format. When we look at the types of info we try to help people organize, it is obvious that a lot …