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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google touts size of its search index — In the latest round of the search-index size contest, Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors. — "We're celebrating our seventh birthday.... We had a pretty strong year …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES NEW INDEX SIZE, SHIFTS FOCUS FROM COUNTING — Under embargo last week, I spoke to Marissa Mayer about Google search. I do this often, as part of the normal news cycle, but this time was different. After clearing her throat with some 7th birthday news, she dropped the other shoe …
Official Google Blog:
We wanted something special for our birthday... Google opened its doors in September 1998, and we've been pursuing one mission ever since: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Windows' development processes torn apart — It's interesting to watch the reactions to the Wall Street Journal article about how messed up Windows development processes were. Many bloggers called it a "puff piece" but now on Memeorandum the headlines that are attached to it say "Microsoft Windows Officially Broken."
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Paul Thurrott / windowsitpro.com:Allchin on Vista: "It's Not Going to Work"
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Reed Stevenson / Reuters:
Microsoft, Intel throw weight behind HD DVD standard — SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. on Monday threw their weight behind the next-generation HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp. in a blow to Sony Corp.'s, Blu-ray format. — The world's largest software maker …
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Steve Friess / Wired News:
Podcasting Goldrush Is On — The podosphere may be virgin terrain for the online world, but already the race is on to figure out whether there's any real money to be made through the new medium. — Consider the vast variety of approaches that have cropped up since Apple's iTunes upgrade …
Heather Green / Business Week:
BitTorrent's Grab at Respectability — Its technology is beloved by illegal downloaders and file sharers. Now the outfit is raising venture funding in a bid to go commercial — BitTorrent, the maker of popular file-sharing software used to distribute movies, music, and games both legally and illegally, is going commercial.
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:BitTorrent gets $8.75M from venture-capital firm
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Dave Winer / Dave Winer's RSS Weblog:
Browse. Search. Subscribe. — In one of my meetings last Thursday at Yahoo we talked about the icon that Yahoo uses to add items to your subscription list on My Yahoo. This subject came up because of something Yahoo is doing that is very cool, they're supporting OPML export of the user's subscription list.
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Michael Hopkin / Nature:
Computer users move themselves with the mind — Electrode cap allows users to think themselves along a virtual street. — Computer scientists have created a hat that can read your thoughts. It allows you to stroll down a virtual street. All you have to do is think about walking.
Computerworld:
Decline of the Desktop — The PC still rules the desktop — but not for long. Laptops, once considered an expensive luxury, will soon claim the mantle as the personal computing platform of choice in the enterprise. — News Story by Robert L. MItchell — SEPTEMBER 26, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) …
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James Boyle / Financial Times:
More rights are wrong for webcasters — I teach intellectual property law, a subject that is attracting attention from economists, political scientists and people who simply want to make money. These, after all, are the rules that define the hightechnology marketplace.
Dan / PSP Sony PlayStation Portable:
Working PSP Firmware 2.0 to 1.50 Downgrader!!! — Welcome to 1.50, PSP firmware 2.0 users! MPH has created a WORKING downgrader from PSP firmware 2.0 to firmware 1.50. This takes advantage of the toc2rta exploit and allows for the full downgrade of firmware 2.0 to firmware 1.50.
esa.int:
ESA selects targets for asteroid-deflecting mission Don Quijote — ESA PR 41-2005. Based on the recommendations of asteroid experts, ESA has selected two target asteroids for its Near-Earth Object deflecting mission, Don Quijote. — Don Quijote is an asteroid-deflecting mission currently under study …
kodak.com:
Kodak Ships the World's First Wi-Fi Consumer Digital Camera; Groundbreaking EASYSHARE-ONE Model Delivers an Unequaled Digital Photography Experience — Device Significantly Expands Picture-Sharing Possibilities; Wirelessly E-Mail, Upload, and Share Pictures at Thousands of Public Hotspots and at Home
