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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google — Rebuffing aggressive overtures from Microsoft, Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of an expanded partnership between AOL, once the dominant company on the Internet, and Google, the current online king.
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Google Buying Stake in AOL for $1 Billion — Google Inc. is buying a 5 percent stake in Dulles-based America Online for $1 billion as part of a far-reaching business and advertising partnership that will link the two companies in many ways and will greatly enhance AOL's financial prospects …
Wall Street Journal:
Google Zooms Past Microsoft To Near an Ad Deal With AOL — Search Giant Offers $1 Billion — To Time Warner for a Stake, — Closer Ties on Sales Front — A Year of Intense Jockeying — Google Inc. neared a deal with Time Warner Inc.'s America Online Friday that would help cement …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Exclusive: TypePad outage update and details — Popular blog hosting provider TypePad.com was unavailable to its members for 18 hours today as a result of a failed storage upgrade during scheduled maintenance late last night. I visited Six Apart's headquarters in San Francisco earlier …
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Michael Sippey / Six Apart:
Update on TypePad Issues — Here is an update on the current issues we're experiencing with TypePad. — Most importantly, we want you to know that your blog data is safe. We have no reason to believe that any of your posts, comments, TrackBacks, photos or files have been lost.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Day is Darkest Before the Dawn — A small Internet company you might be familiar with raced to address a mammoth crisis. The relatively young firm took its system down for scheduled routine maintenance as it tried to install the technology it desparately needed for future growth.
Michael Sippey / Six Apart:Current Issues with TypePad
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Michael Sippey / Six Apart:TypePad is Back Up — The TypePad application is back up, and users can now log in.
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Not Too Geeky
Larry Rohter / New York Times:
An Unlikely Trendsetter Made Earphones a Way of Life — IN the late 1960's, Andreas Pavel and his friends gathered regularly at his house here to listen to records, from Bach to Janis Joplin, and talk politics and philosophy. In their flights of fancy, they wondered why it should not be possible …
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Matthew Fordahl / Associated Press:
Microsoft Sued Over Patent Infringements — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Visto Corp., a maker of mobile e-mail technology, has sued Microsoft Corp. for allegedly infringing on three of its patents related to how information is handled between servers and handheld devices such as cellular phones.
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Ian Austen / New York Times:Patent Lawsuit Seeks to Block Microsoft's Wireless E-Mail Service
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The TNL.net weblog:
Getting to Know You — Google's introduction of new extensions for Firefox is all about knowing more about some users. — This week, Google introduced two new Firefox extensions: Google Safe Browsing and Blogger Web Comments which are providing richer integration with the desktop and a number …
Alexbarn / Alex Barnett blog:
STRUCTURED BLOGGING PODCAST WITH MARC CANTER AND JOE REGER — You might have heard of the Structured Blogging initiative announced earlier this week by Marc Canter and others...there was certainly plenty of buzz and reaction to the news, but not all the reaction was rosy.
Sandy / blog.meebo.com:
did you hear? — Did you hear? — Okay, so Elaine, Seth, and I have never been the cool, popular kids in high school, so we're not really used to being the center of attention. Seth was the kid with asthma. Sandy had crazy bangs and braces. Elaine actually wore knickers to school one day.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Will Apple Push "Intel Inside"? — It sure is hard to imagine Jobs & Co. putting the chipmaker's ubiquitous logo on their gleaming machines — or in their ads — The coming year for Apple Computer (AAPL) is full of questions, and many of them are connected one way or another with the switch …
Associated Press:
Patriot provisions set to expire — (AP) — Sixteen provisions of the USA Patriot Act expire December 31 if not renewed by Congress: — Section 201: Gives federal officials the authority to intercept wire, spoken and electronic communications relating to terrorism.
BBC:
eBay faces up to online fraud — The online auctioneer eBay has admitted an "extreme growth" in the number of personal accounts being hijacked by fraudsters. — Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and using their sites to conduct bogus auctions for non-existent goods.
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Cyrus Farivar / Wired News:
The Web Will Read You a Story — This summer, Hugh McGuire was searching for free audio books online from his home in Montreal. He didn't find very much. — So McGuire launched LibriVox by recruiting amateur readers to create audio files of works of literature.
Reuters:
Driver cell phone use still increasing — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of people who use their cell phones while driving continued to increase in 2005, according to a government survey released on Thursday. — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration survey found that 974,000 vehicles …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:Start-up merges cell phone and PC into a handheld
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