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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Portals 2.0 flesh out their product lines — Tristan Louis has compiled some excellent comparison charts of products across the Big 4 Internet companies - Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL [nb: Tristan's site was down when I checked, but you can also access his post here on Google cache].
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Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON GOOGLE BEING YAHOO! 2.0 AND THE ROAD TO PORTAL 2.0 — One of the most popular discussions today on tech.memeorandum is around Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny's (aka Yahoo!'s "Scoble") post titled "Google is Building Yahoo! 2.0". As Om Malik pithily summarizes it,
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Tom Sanders / vnunet.com:
SAP dismisses open source innovation — 'IP socialism is the worst that can happen,' argues SAP president Shai Agassi — Open source will fail to deliver innovation and is more likely to break applications, according to Shai Agassi, president of the product and technology group at SAP.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:SAP's Shai Agassi on Oracle's 'folly' and the shift to services
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Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
Amazon Gets Patents on Consumer Reviews — Review your local dry cleaner, pay $10 million? — User reviews are a hot new content area, being used by Google (Quote, Chart), Yahoo (Quote, Chart) and MSN to sweeten their local search results. But as of Thursday, such consumer reviews …
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Rachel A. Weintraub / nasa.gov:
STEREO Spacecraft Arrive at NASA Goddard for Final Testing — The two Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft arrive at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Nov. 9 for major testing as they near completion. Set to launch in Spring 2006 …
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mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp:
Mobile phones making a monkey out of Japanese — Going bananas over mobile phones for so many years is turning Japanese into monkeys, according to Sapio (11/23). — Nobuo Masataka, a professor at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute and author of the monster best seller …
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
And the Emmy for Best Actor on iPods Goes to ... LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 - The newest award in broadcasting excellence gives new meaning to the line Gloria Swanson made famous in "Sunset Boulevard": "I am big. It's the pictures that got small." — The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's ad pitch underpins Net moves — Microsoft's grand ambitions for free services rest on one thing: its ability to get to know you better. — The company has outlined a whole host of things it would like to offer as part of its "Live" services effort.
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Business Week:
How digg Uncovers the News — The founders of the wildly popular tech-news site explain how their mass of users sift and rank stories. Now they've got expansion plans — Overwhelmed by the fast-multiplying amount of content on the Web? Breathe easy: digg.com could provide some guidance, and some relief.
Tom Loftus / MSNBC:
'King Kong' game raises emotional stakes — Game maker aims for thrills and chills — but some tears and sorrow, as well — There's no love lost between King Kong and this TRex. — Ubisoft game producer Xavier Poix is hoping for a certain response from gamers when they play …
John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Venture Capital: Seattle startup to offer online news, etc. — Newsvine Inc. is looking to transform the way people write, edit and consume online news — a tall order given that deep-pocketed companies such as Google, News Corp. and E.W. Scripps Co. are trying to do the same thing.
Business Wire:
Advent Solar Secures $30 Million in Series C Funding; Company to build a 25 megawatt solar cell plant at Mesa del Sol — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 10, 2005—Advent Solar, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced solar cells and modules, announced today that it has secured $30 million in Series C funding.
CNN:
Nintendo hints at coming price war — Revolution may lowball competitors to help attract consumer eyes. — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - While the Xbox 360 is going to be dominating the media spotlight for the next few weeks (and possibly months) …
Matt Haughey / PVRblog:
Get TiVo for only 16.95* including the box! — Interesting, it looks like TiVo's moving to the cellphone business model completely, offering a free TiVo box for a slightly higher monthly charge. No word on if the monthly changes after the 1 year contract is up, but great to see TiVo trying new stuff.
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Battelle talk at Search SIG — The Search SIG event tonight was very good. In the first segment Dan Farber interviewed John Battelle on his new book, The Search. I've read the book and so a lot of what was said wasn't new, but John did mention one thing that I had missed …
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