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Listen to the Internet With Yahoo! Podcasts — I'm finally able to talk about Yahoo! Podcasts, now in public beta. This new source for online audio programming uses Yahoo! Search to make it easier than ever to find and subscribe to audio content and listen wherever and whenever you want.
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gada.be — Largely, I've found it easier to tag or link to an aggregated location of results than it is to tag to a specific vendor all the time. Share the love, man! Announcing the public beta of http://gada.be/ (yes, that's .be). This is a metasearch service with a few unique features …

Microsoft's Web Mail Gets Overhaul — The Hotmail millions (Microsoft reports 200 million users) know and perhaps love could be replaced. For the last seven months, Microsoft has been beta testing a radically different Web mail client, one that makes Hotmail's largely standard HTML interface look like yesterday's news.

Cuban to Launch DVD Label? — Mark Cuban is hiring staff that could form the nucleus of a new DVD label, Wired News has learned, a move that comes as the dot-com billionaire attempts to shatter Hollywood's release window system by making first-run films available simultaneously in theaters, on cable TV, online and on DVD.

Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod — SOMETIMES what appears to be a threat is actually a life preserver. — The poor defenseless music industry cowered - then prosecuted - when the monster of digital downloads came lurching over the horizon. Then the iPod came along and music looks …

INTERVIEW: LOOKING BACK... HALF-LIFE 2 — Valve's Doug Lombardi and Marc Laidlaw spill the beans on how the best FPS ever got whipped into shape — 12:01 Valve Software's Half-Life 2, for 99.9 percent of those who played it, proved a phenomenal first-person shooter experience and the best title …

Court Ruling in BlackBerry Case Puts Service to U.S. Users at Risk — OTTAWA, Oct. 7 - A court decision Friday renewed the possibility that service to BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices might be cut off for most users in the United States. — The United States Court of Appeals …

Matt Cutts Interview — How and when did you get into search? — I got into search in 1999. I was working on my Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (go Tarheels!). The computer science department there makes you take two outside classes, so I took classes …

Defending Google's licence to print — Google's plan to create an index of millions of books has got them into legal trouble, but technology analyst Bill Thompson thinks they should press on despite the lawsuits. — Google wants to scan around 20 million books from four major libraries …

Red Hat CEO unmoved by Linux consolidation — Red Hat's CEO has rejected the idea that a reduction in the number of Linux distributions would be good for the industry, and described Novell's acquisition of SUSE Linux as "theatre". — There are over 300 distributions listed on DistroWatch.com …

Microsoft takes stand on 'virtual' licensing — Microsoft is taking a stand on an emerging technology that threatens to reshape software pricing models. — The company on Monday is expected to detail changes to its server product licensing to better accommodate virtualization software …
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