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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies  —  Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, often intimidates its competitors and suppliers.  Makers of goods from diapers to DVD's must cater to its whims.  But there is one company that even Wal-Mart eyes warily these days: Google …
James Fallows / New York Times:
A Journey to the Center of Yahoo  —  I HAVE never known how to think about Yahoo.  I often turn to it for movie listings and driving maps.  I have joined numerous Yahoo-based discussion groups, in which I read and occasionally write messages about various recreational interests.
Discussion: IP Democracy
Marc Orchant / The Tablet PCs Weblog:
Gateway Chronicle: It's here!  —  The new Tablet PC arrived yesterday - six days ahead of the originally promised delivery date.  As I feared, it showed up with no notice.  There will, therefore, be no pictures of the UPS deliver person carrying the box up to my office.
Paul Lashmar / Independent:
PayPal names names as IRS chases tax evaders  —  PayPal, the internet money-transfer arm of eBay, is to disclose the identity of customers who use the service to evade paying US taxes.  —  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is demanding records of customers using Paypal through offshore accounts …
Kim Peterson / Seattle Times:
Calling all geeks; this camp's for you  —  What: The inaugural Seattle Mind Camp, scheduled to run Saturday-Sunday  —  An all-nighter: Mind Camp is a free conference for techies and entrepreneurs that runs for 24 hours straight.  The event is full at 150 attendees, though Edwards might increase …
Discussion: ben barren and J. LeRoy
Fred / A VC:
The Future of Media (aka Please Take My RSS Feed)  —  I have seen the future of media and it looks like this:  —  Mashed Up Blog Posts at tech.memeorandum  —  Mashed Up Funny Videos at delicious  —  Mashed Up Playlists at webjay  —  Here is the future of media:  —  1 - Reduce the content to its simplest form.
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
Microsoft's Other OS  —  Microsoft Research has developed a prototype of a microkernel operating system, code-named 'Singularity.' Its most surprising feature: It has nothing to do with Windows.  —  Contrary to popular opinion, Windows isn't the only operating system in which Microsoft is investing.
Karen Gomm / ZDNet:
Google Print upsets children's hospital … Peter Pan has been funding vital work at Great Ormond Street for decades, but Google Print could 'rob the hospital of a major core of its charity revenue'  —  Great Ormond Street children's hospital is worried that that Google's online publishing scheme could cost it much-needed income.
David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Microsoft to Offer 100,000 Books Free Online  —  Firm Says It Won't Skirt Copyrights in Project With British Library  —  Microsoft Corp. struck a deal yesterday with the British Library to scan 100,000 books from its vast collection and make them freely available for reading and searching on the Internet next year.
Discussion: Digital Tech Life and clock
David Adam / Guardian:
Fuel's paradise?  Power source that turns physics on its head  —  · Scientist says device disproves quantum theory  —  · Opponents claim idea is result of wrong maths  —  It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing …
TJ's Weblog:
WeblogsInc plays dirty  —  Over at Calacanis blog Mr. Calacanis looses his head about our new design.  —  No doubt there are some similarities on the two web sites.  Three boxes incorporate nicely the groups of people WeblogsInc and Creative Weblogging are both are serving to.  But that's where it ends.
Discussion: pc4media and The Blog Herald
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
TransMedia Plots Death Of The Desktop Nov. 3, 2005  —  The Glide suite, due later this month, runs on the vendor's own servers and is accessed through a browser.  It includes applications for creating, sharing, and selling photos, music, video, and documents, as well as doing content management, calendaring, E-mail, and conferencing.
Discussion: Threadwatch.org
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / eWEEK.com:
SuSE Users' Panic Unfounded  —  Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false.  —  A Linux Today story, which asked the rhetorical question "Why has Novell management decided to discontinue their entire SuSE Linux branded desktop …
Discussion: OSNews.com
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
On the 15th birthday of the World Wide Web, a look back  —  In November of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at Europe's CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, invented the very first web server and web browser.  The server, entitled simply httpd, and the browser, called WorldWideWeb …

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