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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google whistles a new tune — Google was set to launch on Thursday a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page. — Google Music will allow a user to type in the name of a band, artist …
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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 …
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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 …
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Om Malik on Broadband:
Google Music, The King Maker? — Google just added music search and 15 minutes later I am hooked. (The rumors of Google Music had flared up back in August!) — The search engine helped me find really obscure artists, their biographies, discographies, latest news, and links to their websites.
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" …
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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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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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CNN:
Witnessing the Revolution — Hands on time with Nintendo's next generation system. Will it change gaming? — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Interesting factoid about the Nintendo Revolution controller: It's smaller and lighter than you might think.
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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.
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Bruce Gain / Wired News:
E-Paper's Killer App: Packaging — The cereal aisle at your local supermarket may soon resemble the Las Vegas strip. Electronics maker Siemens is readying a paper-thin electronic-display technology so cheap it could replace conventional labels on disposable packaging, from milk cartons to boxes of Cheerios.
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Google Blogoscoped:
A Talk to Google's Larry Page in 2038 — First of all, I'm happy you finally agreed to an interview! So welcome, Larry. — Thanks. Glad to be here. — I know you're quite busy, as always. Has the pressure on you increased after Sergey retired? — Not really.
Daniel Goldman / Opera Watch:
Rumor: Google to buy Opera, according to Yahoo Europe president — Pierre Chappaz, the former president of Yahoo Europe, claims to have a source, whom he says is generally very well informed, who told him that Google is planning on buying the Opera web browser.
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J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection — Here's a great gift idea just in time for the holidays: Make your friends and relatives their very own copy-protected CDs using the same industrial-grade passive protection technology built into XCP and Macrovision discs.
Pranam Kolari / EBB:
Welcome to the Splogosphere: 75% of new pings are spings (splogs) — In the blogosphere, pings are notifications sent by updated blogs to PingServers. A major issue recently has been unjustified pings, also known as Spings, sent by Splogs. Splogs have been discussed a lot recently …
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 …
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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Richard White / The Sun:
Bank hero gets calculator — A BRAVE teenager who saved a bank thousands of pounds by foiling a cash machine scam was rewarded yesterday — with a plastic calculator. — Luke Bridges, 17, tore a false fascia off an ATM machine then fled from crooks waiting nearby who had put it there.
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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.
