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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
AOL, and Other Online Keys — A Stake in the ISP, Paired With These Strengths, Could Create a Web Giant — The most ferocious battle on the Internet these days is between Microsoft Corp., the incumbent software giant, and Google Inc., the extraordinarily profitable Internet search firm.
thegreenhead.com:
Alive Chimpanzee by WowWee - Animatronic Life-Size Bust with Video! — I was looking through the cool new Sharper Image catalog today and came across the coolest and creepiest state-of-the-art, fully-animated, lifelike, robotic chimpanzee head ever! I absolutely must get one of these for my desk at work.
Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire:
The Secret Behind Google's Success: The Instant Massage — Google's profits are indeed impressive, and if my local newspaper (no link available, I'm afraid) is right, it's clear clear why: the company is offering a service no right-minded person could refuse:
Spy / Bink.nu:
Xbox Live to close for 1 day on 24th October 2005. — Microsoft has announced a planned single day closure of its online console gaming service Xbox Live and the associated Xbox.com website, in order to make changes in preparation for the Xbox 360 launch. — Scheduled for October 24th …
Bloomberg:
Motorola's ITunes Phone Gets Off to `Rough Start' (Update1) — Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — Motorola Inc.'s iTunes music phone, developed with Apple Computer Inc. and unveiled last month in front of an audience of more than 500, may have flopped. — As many as six times more customers are returning …
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John Borland / ZDNet:
Yahoo boosts prices on music service … Yahoo is boosting the cost of a key part of its digital music subscription service, after launching it six months ago with a price tag startlingly lower than rival offerings. — The company sent an e-mail message to subscribers late Thursday night saying …
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Carlo / Techdirt:
Yahoo Raises Music Subscription Fees, But Will Anyone Notice? — Yahoo has raised the prices of its portable music subscription services, basically doubling the cost to $9.99 per month for users that pay for a year in advance, or $11.99 per month for those that pay monthly.
Nick Taylor / Washington Post:
. . . But Not at Writers' Expense — I am a writer. — For some time now — too much time, I suspect my editor believes — I have been working on a history of the Works Progress Administration. This has taken me to states from Maine to California, into archives and libraries …
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Anoop Gantayat / cube.ign.com:
Revolution Controller: Japanese Creators Speak — The makers of F-Zero, Killer 7, Pac Man, Harvest Moon, Kirby, Pokemon, and Final Fantasy tell us what they think. — October 21, 2005 - Japan's gaming elite have spoken out on Nintendo's Revolution controller.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Web 2.0: It's ... like your brain on LSD! — But what is it really? — Friday Poll There's much fretting about what Web 2.0 really is. It's twice as cosmic, but what is it? — Conference co-organizer Tim O'Reilly's first attempt to explain it spanned five pages, and produced the following.
New York Times:
Colleges Protest Call to Upgrade Online Systems — The federal government, vastly extending the reach of an 11-year-old law, is requiring hundreds of universities, online communications companies and cities to overhaul their Internet computer networks to make it easier for law enforcement authorities …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Thank You For Coming To Our Party — I believe we had as many as 200 people here last night for TechCrunch Meetup #3. The last of the guests left at 4 am. Thank you to everyone who came and everyone who tried to attend via festoon. — Scott Beale took my favorite picture of the event.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
$94, ER, $106 BILLION — That's a very large market cap. Today is a quiet posting day, for various reasons, but I did find the time to step into a CNBC studio and mull why Google seems to be pulling away from everyone else in search related earnings. My really, brilliant, over the top observation?
