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Staci / PaidContent.org:
AOL-Microsoft: Will Cash-Rich Google Make A Play? : Day 2 of the new hot miniseries. Influential Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Rich Fine stirred the pot today with a client note suggesting that Google could jump in. — From Fine: "Depending on the limitations of the AOL-Google contract …
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:AOL, Microsoft Discussing Possible Internet Joint Venture
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Jonathan Krim / Washington Post:
New Lines of Communication — Some Want to Scrap the Old Infrastructure To Create a High-Tech, Wireless Region — As crews rush to restore basic telephone and Internet services to areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, some executives, academics and analysts are urging a more ambitious approach …
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Globe and Mail:
Rogers, Bell Canada team up — Bitter rivals Rogers Communications Inc. and Bell Canada have agreed to jointly build and manage a wireless high-speed Internet network that is expected to reach more than two-thirds of Canadians in less than three years. — The two communications companies …
Linda S. Boreman / pressbox.co.uk:
Google unveils new erotica search engine — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - September 15, 2005 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today its plans to enter the lucrative adult content market with a new search engine that will be kept separate from its main line of search services.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Grotica - Google Erotica Engine or Webmaster World Joke? — Grotica - Google Erotica Engine or Webmaster World Joke? — While running across the search engine news this morning I found a press release, apparently from Google, hosted on Pressbox.co.uk and indexed in Google News.
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Hands On With the Revolution — TOKYO — The Revolution will be televised, and so will every movement of your hands. — After months of teasing, Nintendo has pulled back the curtain on the controller that will accompany its upcoming home game console, called Revolution, when the system launches in 2006.
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Mark McDonald / 1up.com:Revolution Controller Finally Revealed
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Laurieanne McLaughlin / Macworld:
Analysis: Why Apple picked Intel over AMD — Steve Jobs sent a seismic shocker across the tech landscape in June when he announced Apple would phase out PowerPC chips and put Intel processors inside Macs starting in 2006. To some, the move seemed puzzling: Why would Jobs, the king of cool design …
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Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Power Mac G5 revision expected soon, signs point to dual-core — September 15, 2005 - Apple's Power Mac G5 line will see an upgrade in the near future, possibly before the close of the month, sources have informed Think Secret. Poor sales of the current models is likely the driving force behind …
Mike / Techdirt:
Why Baidu's Investors Should Have Done Some Research — When Baidu first announced plans to go public, we pointed out that people were saying the reason Baidu had been so successful was that it let people download unauthorized music and movies and that by going public in the US …
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Business Week:
Troubling Exits At Microsoft — Once the dream workplace of tech's highest achievers, it is suffering key defections to Google and elsewhere. What's behind the losses? — When Microsoft Corp. (MFST ) hired computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee away from hardware maker Silicon Graphics Inc. …
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A Rendezvous With Microsoft's Deep Throat — Meet mystery blogger Mini-Microsoft, an employee who runs a virtual watercooler for his corporate colleagues, also anonymous — I didn't have to change cabs twice and slip into the shadows of a suburban parking garage at 2 in the morning.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Congress shows off draft of new broadband legislation — At long last, Congress is attempting to rework the laws governing telecommunications in the US to account for that whole Internet thing. Passed in 1996, the Telecommunications Act has been stretched to the limit in trying to account …
Paul F. Roberts / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Scraps Old Encryption in New Code — Microsoft is banning certain cryptographic functions from new computer code, citing increasingly sophisticated attacks that make them less secure, according to a company executive. — The Redmond, Wash., software company instituted a new policy …
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Dennis Moser / macsimumnews.com:
Apple files patent for a unique camera built into laptop — On September 15, 2005, the US Patent & Trademark Office revealed Apple's patent application 20050201047 entitled Camera Latch. The inventor listed is Christoph H. Krah for serial number 800166, originally filed March 12, 2004.
innovations-report.com:
Robot weeds fields — Weeding is a major problem for ecological growers since it is both expensive and time-consuming. New robot technology may have the solution. In a new dissertation, Björn Åstrand, from Halmstad University in Sweden, presents how weeds can be removed mechanically -with the fully automated robot Lukas.