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Greg Yardley / Greg Yardley's Internet Blog:
Google tests out Click-to-Call AdWords  —  Google is apparently testing out click-to-call AdWords - I can't see it myself, but Seth just searched for 'refinance' and spotted some phone icons alongside the AdWords listings.  He entered his phone number and within five seconds received an automated phone call …
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Begins Test of "Click-to-Call" Advertising Program  —  If you wondered when Google might begin offering pay-per-call ads it looks like the time is now.  —  In a very thorough blog post, Greg Yardley reports (nice work Greg, screen caps, too) that Google has started to test a pay-per-call advertising program.
Jack Shafer / Slate:
The Great Google Wipeout  —  Chronicle of a corporate death foretold.  —  It wasn't like it had never happened before in the tech world.  At the beginning of the 1980s, an Apple computer was the only box a self-respecting user would own.  Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, IBM PCs, CompuServe …
Ars Technica:
Xbox 360: shortages no joke  —  While some people insisted that the talk relating to Xbox 360 scarcity was just a veiled publicity stunt, I headed out this morning to see what the scene looked like on the ground.  In a word: chaos.  —  The shortage is very real, and it has plenty of people angry and frustrated.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Microsoft's Red-Ink Game  —  Redmond will sell every Xbox console at a big loss, says researcher iSuppli.  Not to worry, the profit is in the associated software  —  Microsoft's newest gaming console marks an improvement on the earlier version in some decisive ways.
Discussion: Kotaku and GameInsider
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Reuters:
Gamers Wait in Rain for Xbox 360  —  NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters)—Hundreds of video game fans braved chilly temperatures on both U.S. coasts on Tuesday to be among the first to get their hands on Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game console, which went on sale in North America on Tuesday.
Discussion: Microsoft Watch and Gearlog
hardocp.com:
Preface:  —  OCP is primarily a PC enthusiast Web site …
Discussion: Joystiq and Slashdot
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Web Site Agrees to Help Curb Access to Movies  —  LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22 - The creator of software used by millions of computer owners to download movies agreed on Tuesday to prevent his Web site from linking to illegally available movies online, the latest result of a bid by Hollywood to gain control of a growing piracy problem.
Discussion: Darknet
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Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Hollywood Hopes to Reduce Movie Downloads  —  LOS ANGELES - Hollywood hopes that an agreement with the creator of BitTorrent software, popular for downloading pirated movies over the Internet, will reduce illegal traffic in online films.  —  The agreement negotiated Tuesday requires 30-year …
Discussion: IP Democracy
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Hollywood, BitTorrent Reach Agreement
Discussion: PaidContent.org
Barry Fox / newscientist.com:
Invention: Landmine arrows  —  For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled the world's weird and wonderful patent applications each week, digging out the most exciting, intriguing and even terrifying new ideas.  His column, Invention, is now available exclusively online.
Todd Sattersten / hbswk.hbs.edu:
More Space: Nine Antidotes to Complacency in Business  —  Do business bloggers have a unique take on business and management?  More Space editor Todd Sattersten believes the nine writers he has collected in this self-published volume have, if not new ideas, at least compelling and innovative ways of expressing them.
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Jackie Huba / Church of the Customer Blog:   A new kind of business book
Associated Press:
Online Video Service Pairs Up With AOL  —  The migration of television to the Internet is getting another boost with a deal that gives Web video startup Brightcove Networks Inc. a foothold on AOL's Web portal.  —  America Online Inc. and media companies IAC/InterActiveCorp and The Hearst Corp …
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Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Dark Cloud Hovers Over Black Hat  —  Last week Black Hat, the Vegas security conference that was at the center of the Ciscogate controversy last summer, was purchased by CMP Media.  The sale has the internet hens clucking about whether ownership by a larger, wealthier corporation …
Samuel G. Freedman / New York Times:
School Radio Stations Face Competition Over Licenses  —  THE week before classes started in August 2004 at Franklin Central High School here, Steve George stopped in to prepare the school radio station for the coming year.  As the faculty adviser to WRFT, he wanted to make sure his students …
Discussion: TeleRead
Brian Jones / Office XML Formats:
New approach to licensing with the Office XML formats  —  Well, as expected there is a lot of speculation out there about what the new approach we've decided to take with the license may mean.  Yesterday I posted about our move to standardize the Office XML formats and to change the license based …
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Search technology comes to the camera phone  —  What do MP3s have in common with dairy?  —  Milk marketing.  —  By early next year, cartons of milk sold by a European dairy manufacturer will have images of CD art printed on them.  Accompanying each image will be a message urging people …
Discussion: The Pondering Primate
Jim Dalrymple / macworld.com:
San Francisco gets Wi-Fi feet wet with 'hot zones'  —  Residents and visitors in some areas of San Francisco won't have to wait for the controversial proposed citywide Wi-Fi service to get free wireless Internet access.  —  MetroFi Inc., a maker of wireless mesh network gear, has set up three …
Michael Gartenberg:
Xbox 360, the Media Side  —  One of the most impressive things about the first generation of Xbox was the ability to use the console as a low cost media center extender for windows media center PCs.  It was a cumbersome process though, requiring a special boot disk for the console …
Discussion: PaidContent.org
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