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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 …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Dan Gillmor's blog
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"
Discussion: Windows Vista Weblog
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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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Intel, Microsoft endorse HD DVD
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.
Discussion: digg
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Jefferson Graham / USA Today:
BitTorrent gets $8.75M from venture-capital firm
Discussion: Perceptric Forum
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 …
Discussion: Geek News Central …
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.
Discussion: The RSS Blog
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Don't like our aggregator? Take your OPML somewhere else!
Discussion: Traffick and The RSS Blog
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.
Discussion: Engadget
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.
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 …

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Computerworld:
Decline of the Desktop  —  The PC still rules the desktop — but not for long.
Discussion: What Is New
Tom Orry / pro-g.co.uk:
Perfect Dark Zero loses features
Discussion: Kotaku and Joystiq
Geoff Adams-Spink / BBC:
Firms urged to back design talent
Discussion: Engadget and textually.org
kodak.com:
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Tom Chance / software.newsforge.com:
KDE 4 promises radical changes to the free desktop
Discussion: OSNews.com
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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
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comingsoon.net:
The Star Wars: Episode III DVD Features
Discussion: digg
Chris Pratley / Chris_Pratley's OneNote WebLog:
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Muniwireless market sizing report now available
Hilary Osborne / Guardian:
24-megabit broadband launched at £24 a month
 
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