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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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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.
Eric Auchard / Reuters:Google adds music search and purchase features
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:Google Adds Music Search Feature
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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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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.
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 …
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.
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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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.
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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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.
David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Googling Google — A deal with NASA? A subculture of former employees? What's really going on behind the walls of the Googleplex? Washington Post staff writer David A. Vise was online Thursday, Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. ET to dig into what makes Google Google. — In a recent Outlook piece titled What Lurks in Its Soul?
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Gmail Now Accessible via Mobile Phones — If you've got a web-enabled mobile phone and a Gmail account, you can now access your mail on the run. Gmail mobile allows you to get your mail from just about any mobile phone browser, and most of the key features of Gmail are availble in the smaller format as well.
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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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.
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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