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Venkatesh Rangarajan / Manthan:
Google testing Click to call — Searchin Engine Journal is reporting Google is testing "Click to Call" feature . More details of this are available on Google website on "Click to Call" FAQ page. I had talked about it when Google talk was launched, how Google could leverage its search/ local search …
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Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
VoIP: Here Today! — Google's Click-to-Call beta yesterday is generating some interesting comment about the nature of VoIP over on Om Malik's site. I'm sure that Google is terminating the calls on PSTN handsets, because the vast majority of the customers wanting to use the service do not yet …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Testing Google AdWords Click-To-Call — Google Testing Google AdWords Click-To-Call — Google has come out with a test of their new Google Pay-Per-Call service dubbed "Google Click-to-Call." Google is reportedly only testing this service in designated areas of the United States …
lowendmac.com:
Birth of the PowerBook: How Apple Took Over the Portable Market in 1991 — The PowerBook has consistently been one of the most respected and lusted after brands in the portable computing market. — This wasn't always the case. Apple's first attempt at repackaging the Macintosh as a portable failed (the 15 lb.
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ZDNet:
Search terms on Kazaa to be blocked — update Eminem, Madonna and Kylie Minogue are just some of the popular artists whose songs are to be blocked from being illegally distributed on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa following Federal Court orders yesterday. — Justice Murray Wilcox has ordered …
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Next Generation:
Xbox 360 'Overheating' Problems Emerge — Forum posts are suggesting early teething problems for Xbox 360, with some units overheating. — For the most up-to-date game industry news, opinion and analysis, read Next Generation every weekday morning. www.Next-Gen.Biz
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Associated Press:
Microsoft Reports Isolated Xbox Glitches — REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it had received isolated reports of technical problems with its popular new Xbox 360 videogame system. — Some owners complained that their systems were crashing during game play, sometimes with error messages popping up.
Peter Judge / ZDNet:
Desktop Linux for small business — Is your business ready to take the open source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner. — As desktop Linux becomes ever more professional, and with Microsoft still a year away from shipping its new Vista version …
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Alorie Gilbert / CNET News.com:
Google fixes glitch that unleashed flood of porn — A technology glitch temporarily turned Google's new personal listings service, Google Base, into a vast, virtual red-light district earlier this week. — Launched last week, Google Base is the search company's foray into free classified listings and other user-generated content.
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Duncan Riley / The Blog Herald:
Starting a Blog Part 1: What to blog about — Welcome to part one of my new series on starting a blog, both aimed a people new to blogging and perhaps as a handy refresher to those who are currently writing a blog but who want to start a new blog up. The posts won't necessarily be daily …
David Peterson / shns.com:
From paper to plastic: How credit cards change our lives — Kathy Dodd stood a few steps away from the Mary Tyler Moore statue on the Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. She'd flown in from Washington, D.C., for a few days on business and had arrived at the local icon's feet at lunchtime.
Andrew Donoghue / ZDNet:
Google turns Heathrow into testing lab … Google Space aims to entertain passengers waiting at Heathrow, and will also allow the search firm to road-test new products — Google has taken its first foray into the physical world with the launch of an Internet cafe-style computing booth in London's Heathrow Airport.
Reuters:
Microsoft loses money on each Xbox — The cost of building a Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console is nearly 40 percent higher than the retail price, technology and microchip research company iSuppli said on Wednesday. — The firm estimated the total cost to manufacture and test a premium Xbox 360 …
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Ajit Anthony / DV Guru:
Interview With Mike Curtis From HD for Indies (Part One) — HD for Indies has quickly become one of the most important websites for digital filmmaking. Whether it be HD, DV, Apple or Adobe, the man behind the blog/site, Mike Curtis provides an experienced, thoughtful, unbiased …
