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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Rumor Mill: Acquisition Time? Is Google Going to the Opera? — I'm not one for spreading rumors but sometimes...? Feel like a hot one? OK, we've got one or should I say Dirson has one. What is it? Google is going to acquire Opera. That's right, the wonderful and powerful Opera browser from Norway …
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Om Malik on Broadband:
Google Dressing Up For Opera — Pierre Chappaz, former head of Yahoo Europe, on his french language blog says that Google might be interested in buying Opera. (Translation of the original post here) This would be a response to Microsoft's Internet Explorer etc etc etc.
Jim Giles / Nature:
Internet encyclopaedias go head to head — Abstract — Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds. — One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit.
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Stephen Cauchi / The Age:
Online encyclopedias put to the test — IT HAS proved one of the most radical yet popular ideas of the internet age: a free online encyclopedia that anybody can contribute to and edit. But is Wikipedia a reliable source of information, or is it filled with inaccuracy and hoaxes?
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Microsoft Team RSS Blog:
Icons: It's still orange — My last post shared some of our conceptual designs of the feed icon and expressed some of the criteria that we are using to select the right icon. Several of the comments liked icon #4 simply because it looked liked the Firefox icon, and many (like this one) …
Reuters:
No action needed now on Net neutrality-FCC chief — WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - There is no immediate need for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules protecting consumers' ability to surf anywhere on the Internet, the agency's chairman Kevin Martin said on Wednesday.
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Associated Press:
GUS Buys PriceGrabber.com for $485 Million — Retail and financial services company GUS PLC said Wednesday it has bought PriceGrabber.com, a U.S. company that offers online comparison prices for shoppers, for $485 million. — GUS is purchasing PriceGrabber, which provides information …
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Phillip Pearson / Second p0st:
Structured Blogging is official — It's been announced, so now Structured Blogging 1.0(pre-X) is official! — Doing a Technorati search for structuredblogging.org seems to be the easiest way to see what people are saying at the moment. I'll try to respond to some of the comments here.
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cingular.mediaroom.com:
Industry Leaders Announce First Large-Scale Near Field Communication Trial in North America — Atlanta Spirit, Chase, Cingular, Nokia, Philips, Visa USA and VIVOtech to pilot next-generation mobile phone contactless payment and content applications — Atlanta, Dec. 14, 2005 …
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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Now that we've got your attention — I was in a conversation last night where the subject turned to Office and whether it's dead or not. You know, the good old Notes is Dead micromeme that I pushed out into the world way back when Ray Ozzie was not the Prince of Redmond.
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theonion.com:
New Video Game Designed To Have No Influence On Kids' Behavior — Issue 41 •50 — NEW YORK— Electronic-entertainment giant Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Grand Theft Auto series creator Rockstar Games, released Stacker Tuesday, a first-person vertical-crate-arranger guaranteed …
Steve McClellan / Adweek:
DVR Buyers Shift and Zap — NEW YORK Contrary to recent assertions by the major broadcast networks, new research on digital video recorders by WPP Group's Mindshare found that consumers buy the devices mainly to "time shift" (record programs for later viewing) and skip commercials.
MSN Search's WebLog:
Windows Live Local: Location Finder & Your Privacy — A few days ago, Mike Liebhold on Geowanking expressed concern over privacy of personal information in the context of the "Locate Me" feature in Windows Live Local. This has been discussed further on BoingBoing and O'Reilly's Radar …
Alfred Hermida / BBC:
TV glitch mars Xbox 360 Kong game — Fans wanting to get the best out of the King Kong video game should avoid the version for Microsoft's new Xbox 360, the game's maker Ubisoft has suggested. — Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot admitted that the 360 game is too dark on standard TVs, making it hard to play.
