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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
RSS Everywhere II - but where is Google? — Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and alerts products. As Scott Gatz explained in an interview with PodTech: Yahoo's plan, which started in January 2004 when they launched RSS in the My Yahoo portal, is to "bring RSS to the masses".
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal: Yahoo Mail RSS Reader (Screenshots!) Integrates Blogs into Email
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
THINKING ABOUT GOOGLE AND THE TURNING POINT — Has the worm turned? That's the question a lot of folks are asking about Google these days, not the least of which is John Heilemann, whose piece has opened up a great discussion in the comments area of my post about it.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge to RIM: We're not delaying this any longer — update Research In Motion on Wednesday lost two rounds in the long-running patent lawsuit that threatens to imperil the company's BlackBerry service in the United States. — U.S. District Judge James Spencer denied RIM's request to halt …
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft tries classifieds — An upcoming online classified service from Microsoft Corp. may sound like Craigslist or the new Google Base, but the team behind the project says it found inspiration closer to home. — Microsoft employees have long used an internal listing service to sell …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tests classifieds service — Microsoft is developing a free online service that will let people list items for sale, events and other classifieds-type of information that can be shared either with groups of friends or anyone over the Internet, the company said Tuesday.
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Associated Press:
High-tech 'repo man' keeps car payments coming — NORFOLK, Va. — NOTE TO REPO MAN: Might want to look into another line of work. — A new gizmo is upping the odds that even the most hard-knock customer will come up with the car payment. Hooked into the ignition system …
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Web-based Google Talk with Gtalkr — A new web-based client named Gtalkr has been released just yesterday which gives you the ability to use Google Talk through any browser, anywhere. I talked about meebo a while back, but what is different about the two is that Gtalkr is only for Google Talk …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Deadheads Outraged Over Web Crackdown — The Grateful Dead, the business, is testing the loyalty of longtime fans of the Grateful Dead, the pioneering jam band, by cracking down on an independently run Web site that made thousands of recordings of its live concerts available for free downloading.
WSJ Personal Technology:
A New Gold Standard for PCs — When Apple Computer launched its video iPod last month, the hype was so great that another important Apple product announcement was lost in the shuffle. The company also released that day a new, improved, and yet cheaper, version of the already excellent iMac G5, its flagship consumer desktop computer.
Kim Zetter / Wired News:
Podcast Chaos Be Gone — Two new search engines offer to do for podcasting what Technorati does for blogs by letting users search podcasts by keyword to single out audio that suits their interests. — Podzinger and blinkx scour audio content for keywords by translating the audio into text and creating an index for quick searching.
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Matthew Fordahl / Associated Press:
Intel to Partner With TiVo on PC Platform — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Looking to boost the number of computers whirring away in living rooms, Intel Corp. on Wednesday unveiled its first list of companies whose products are expected to work with the chip maker's upcoming Viiv entertainment PC platform.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Trojan horse rides on unpatched IE flaw — Attackers are taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to target users of the ubiquitous Web browser, Microsoft warned late Tuesday. — Malicious software that exploits the security flaw to download a Trojan horse …
Richard S. Tedlow / Fortune:
The Education of Andy Grove — A Harvard historian explains how Intel's legendary chief became the best model we have for leading a business in the 21st century. — In 1991, an instructor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business presented his class with a case study.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
DMCA Triennial Rulemaking: Failing Consumers Completely — December 1 is the last day to submit proposals (by 5p EST) to the Copyright Office seeking a 3-year DMCA exemption for noninfringing activities that are otherwise squelched by "digital rights management" (DRM) restrictions.
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Pete Wright / The secret life of an MS Author:
First impressions of Motion LE 1600 — Jealousy is an ugly thing, especially when it comes from an old friend you thought you could trust. — The new Motion LE-1600 arrived just around lunchtime today, leaving me just about enough time to unpack the thing, plug it into a power source and rest it next to the M200.
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Mark Glaser / Online Journalism Review:
Will NPR's podcasts birth a new business model for public radio? — How the public radio giant has become a leading podcaster in just two months. Plus, a fond farewell from this columnist. — Last summer, the folks running National Public Radio started to get a clear message …
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