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Reuters:
Time Warner in exclusive talks with Google on AOL — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. is in exclusive talks with Web search leader Google Inc. about broadening a partnership with Time Warner's AOL online unit, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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CNET News.com:
AOL to stick with Google — update Google may pay $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in America Online as part of an exclusive deal with Time Warner that would strengthen ties with the search giant instead of dumping Google for Microsoft. — As part of the current negotiations with Google …
Om Malik on Broadband:
The Web 2.0 Hit By Outages — A few weeks ago, I had a healthy and civilized debate with the gents from 37Signals (followed subsequently with a podcast with questionable sound quality) on the issue of scale and scalability. I laid out my case, they responded with theirs and so we went.
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Michael Sippey / Six Apart:
Current Issues with TypePad — During routine maintenance of our network and storage systems last night, we experienced an issue with our primary disk system where data from published blogs are stored. We are currently running diagnostics on the device, and working to restore your data as soon as possible.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Start-up merges cell phone and PC into a handheld — It's a cell phone. It's a computer. It's the two invaluable companions of the modern executive in one. — DualCor Technologies next month will unveil the cPC, a full-fledged handheld Windows XP computer that also comes with a built-in smart phone that runs Windows Mobile 5.0.
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Bill Werde / billboard.biz:
News Analysis: Publisher Apologizes To Online Lyrics Tool — The saga started in early December, in what has become almost standard practice: the music industry using legal threats to quash first, question later an interesting new technology. — But on Dec. 15 there was a less typical development …
Tim Harford / Slate:
The Great Xbox Shortage of 2005 — Why you can't buy the one present you really need. — Gaming enthusiasts camp outside electronics stores, desperate to buy the hot new game console. Corporate flacks are deployed to fend off PR calamity: "Consumer demand for the new console has exceeded …
Alfred Hermida / BBC:
Xbox 360 reaches out to mobiles — Gamers could soon be able to receive alerts on their mobile phones when their friends are playing on Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console. — The software giant is working on a system which would let players on its online gaming service, Xbox Live, send instant messages to a friend's mobile.
Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
Merry Christmas From The RIAA — The music industry dropped 751 copyright-infringement lawsuits in the mail today, bringing the total number of legal actions this year against alleged peer-to-peer (P2P) infringers to more than 7,000. — The John Doe lawsuits filed Thursday cite individuals …
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Guardian:
Searching for a fresher taste — First it bought photo-sharing site Flickr, and now it has snapped up bookmarking phenomenon Delicious. Why is Yahoo investing so heavily in the social networking stars of Web 2.0? Bobbie Johnson reports on the new face of the classic search engine
Neal Singer / eurekalert.org:
'Mighty Mouse' robot frees stuck radiation source — DOE's Sandia, DoD's White Sands achieve successful extraction of deadly material — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories robot recently withstood enough radiation to kill 40 men in freeing a stuck radiation source …
Nino Marchetti / news.designtechnica.com:
Dell Recalls 22,000 Notebook Batteries — Leading computer maker, working in conjunction with CPSC, issues voluntary notebook battery recall notice after reported incidents of overheating and fire damage. — Dell and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission today announced a voluntary recall …
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Daniel J. Solove / Concurring Opinions:
What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere? — Suppose the mainstream media, fed up with the buzz bloggers keep getting and with bloggers criticizing their stories, decided to exact revenge. They initiate a vigorous copyright enforcement strategy …
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platinax.co.uk:
Links are dead - long live links! — Contents: — Links are dead - long live links — Florida — Sandboxing — Clickstream — Clickstream indicates quality — Building for Clickstream — Clickstream vs Links — Conclusion — Links are dead - long live links!
