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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google adds music search and purchase features  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is introducing a music search feature that details the work of certain featured artists, the company said late on Wednesday.  —  "In analyzing our traffic …
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Adds Music Search Feature  —  Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries.  —  The new feature works directly from any Google web search form, and results are returned as "one box" …
David Alpert / Official Google Blog:
Searching for music  —  It may come as no surprise, but I like to search for things on Google.  Yep, when I'm looking for something, I always try it on Google first.  And sometimes, that thing I'm looking for is music.  Many of our users feel the same way, and we get a lot of search traffic …
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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BBC:
Wikipedia survives research test  —  The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows.  —  The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy.
Discussion: Nature and Licence to Roam
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?
Discussion: digg
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Structured Blogging Will Flop  —  Darn it all, techno utopians are so cute.  Nevertheless, structured blogging — the over-ballyhooed idea that people will post to their blogs using different forms depending on what they're posting — is going to be a flop.
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Reuters:
NTP signs license deal with Visto … Wireless e-mail firm Visto, a rival of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, has signed a licensing agreement with patent-holding company NTP, the two firms said on Wednesday.  —  NTP is best-known for a patent infringement ruling it won against RIM in 2002.
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Ian Austen / New York Times:   BlackBerry Dispute Aids Rivals
Michael Rogers / MSNBC:
Let's see some ID, please  —  The end of anonymity on the Internet?  —  Michael Rogers  —  •Profile  —  •E-mail  —  As the joke goes, on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog.  But although anonymity has been part of Internet culture since the first browser …
Om Malik on Broadband:
Google Dressing Up For Opera  —  Update: Google spokesperson emailed and said, no comment and that this is just a rumor.  Opera spokesperson was even more blunt and said: "This is just as new to me as it is to you.  We do not know of any such plans."  —  Pierre Chappaz, former head of Yahoo Europe …
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Suzanne Panoplos / visto.com:
Visto Files Legal Action Against Microsoft for Misuse of Visto's Proprietary Technology  —  (Redwood Shores, CA, December 15, 2005) - Visto Corporation has filed a legal action against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for misappropriating Visto's intellectual property.
Kevin C. Tofel / HD Beat:
HDTV over WiFi: tips and tricks  —  Well, that graph says it all, doesn't it?  This is the Windows Media Center Network Performance Tuner in action and it could spell doom for HDTV over WiFi.  Let me explain a little.  We showed you a video where we streamed high-def content from a Media Center PC to an Xbox 360 via WiFi.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Mr. LUA Goes to Washington  —  WASHINGTON, DC—The gospel according to LUA (least-privileged user account) took center stage at Microsoft Corp.'s Security Summit East here with a pair of Redmond consultants pitching the idea of a well-funded security deployment repository to help developers create applications for non-admin users.
Discussion: Microsoft Watch and OSNews.com
Chris Noon / Forbes:
Late Fees Back At Some Of Antioco's Blockbuster Stores  —  LONDON - Even though it's pretty unlikely a wide-eyed five-year old would have rented an X-rated movie, rationality goes out of the window when you're using your youngest child as a pawn for returning overdue DVDs.  Will the old classic still work?

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