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Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
Next Up: Google Office? — There's a Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These times must be really interesting for Steve Ballmer. — Microsoft's (Quote, Chart) CEO allegedly said he'd crush Google (Quote, Chart), his company's rival in search, and the lucrative ad business it engenders.
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eWEEK.com:
Sun, Google Form Alliance — Updated: Speculation is rife regarding the new relationship to be unveiled between the computer and search companies. — Speculation is mounting ahead of Tuesday's upcoming announcement of a new relationship between Sun Microsystems and Google …
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Newsgator buying who? NetNewsWire? — Richard asked about who is on the menu for Newsgator? He has many guesses and one of them is right: Ranchero Software, the company behind Mac-a-licious RSS reader NetNewsWire. Sources in Silicon Valley tell me that this deal is pretty much done …
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useit.com:
Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 … For this year's list of worst design mistakes, I decided to try something new: I asked readers of my newsletter to nominate the usability problems they found the most irritating. — I assumed that asking for reader input would highlight many issues that I hadn't noticed in my own user testing.
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Music managers tackle Apple over royalty payments — MUSIC managers will today wade into the row over online royalties with the claim that bands and solo artists are being unfairly squeezed in the digital era. — The Music Managers Forum is unhappy that artists typically receive a royalty …
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Tony Smith / The Register:Artists' managers, royalty collectors turn on iTunes
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Frederico Oliveira / TechCrunch:
Ning launches! — Ning, also known as the official name for 24 Hour Laundry's project, just launched. I actually had to keep myself from posting early because I was excited about it. Now that I got the word from them with the approval to post, here goes the unveiling.
USA Today:
Video-laced websites evolve into pseudo-TV stations — LOS ANGELES — Don't touch that mouse. Online news and entertainment video is booming, says market tracker Forrester Research, with video traffic doubling every six to eight months on average at websites that offer sight, sound and motion.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
HP to ship Netscape browser on new PCs — update In a move that harks back to the browser wars, Hewlett-Packard plans to ship Netscape's Web browser on new consumer PCs and notebooks starting early next year. — The agreement, announced Monday, is the first browser distribution deal …
BBC:
Digital music revenue 'triples' — Digital music sale revenue tripled in the first half of 2005 compared with 2004, figures have suggested. — The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) estimated 6% of record industry sales were digital, worth $790m (£450m).
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Lost Underground? Check Your IPod — Site Offers Subway Maps for Download; Some Cities Claim Copyright Violation — A few months ago, New York-based Web designer William Bright came up with a simple idea: Take digital images of subway maps, slice them into pieces and make them viewable on color iPod screens.
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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Lycos, Yahoo Pushing to Put Media Online — Major Internet sites are vying to become more like traditional media companies, setting up online clearinghouses for books, television, music and more in a bid to lure viewers. — Today Lycos Inc., an early Internet search engine …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft says Office beta coming in November — Has the battle over document file formats forced Microsoft to blink? — Microsoft has been gradually opening its Office formats for years, adding support for options such as Rich Text Format and HTML. But the pressure on Redmond to open things …
Bill Palmer / ipodgarage.com:
How Steve Jobs snookered the entire cell phone industry — So Apple decides to bring an iTunes-compatible cell phone to market. That should be fun to watch, right? But instead we're treated to watching Apple join forces with one of the planet's least-capable companies in Motorola …
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