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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads — Users of Google's search engine will soon see something they are not used to on the notoriously spare site: advertising with logos and graphics. And the advertisers will not be limited to America Online, whose talks with Google prompted the change in policy …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Icahn rips into AOL's $1 billion Google deal — Investor tells Time Warner board that pact could prevent more lucrative merger — Google's plans to buy a piece of AOL for $1 billion encountered opposition Monday when billionaire investor Carl Icahn called the plan potentially disastrous …
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Evan Hansen / Wired News:
Wikipedia Founder Edits Own Bio — Sleuthing into the accuracy of the open-source web encyclopedia known as Wikipedia has led to the door of its founder, Jimmy Wales. — Public edit logs reveal that Wales has changed his own Wikipedia bio 18 times, deleting phrases describing former …
useit.com:
One Billion Internet Users … Some time in 2005, we quietly passed a dramatic milestone in Internet history: the one-billionth user went online. Because we have no central register of Internet users, we don't know who that user was, or when he or she first logged on.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
MS Research: Typo-Squatters Are Gaming Google — Researchers at Microsoft Corp. have blown the lid off a large-scale, typo-squatting scheme that uses multi-layer URL redirection to game Google's AdSense for domains program. — The scheme was uncovered when Redmond lab rats decided to extend …
Om Malik on Broadband:
Need For Speed... How Real? — After years of being stuck in the slow lane, the US consumers are finally going to get a massive speed upgrade and taste the true broadband for the first time. From a 512 Kbps world to 6 Mbps, then 8 and soon 15 Mbps.... it seems the future has finally arrived.
Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
Making Technorati easier to use — We just rolled out a whole raft of improvements and tweaks that are built to make Technorati easier to use and easier to understand. A few things that we rolled out: — 1) Charts. Get live, updated charts on what people are saying about stuff you care about …
activewin.com:
Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5270 (December 2005 Community Technical Preview CTP) Screenshots & Features — Advanced Security — Today's computer user is faced with increasingly sophisticated threats from a broad range of sources. Enhanced security is a fundamental element of Windows Vista …
Michael Gartenberg:
Best Laptop 2005 — This was another tough category, there were a lot of contenders from a lot of different folks. I liked a lot of the stuff Toshiba is doing and the newest PowerBooks are excellent systems. There's also that new cool rev of the OQO. In the end, it came down to two from and both are from the same vendor.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Time Saving Search Shortcuts — I'm addicted to shortcuts. Shave 5 minutes from my commute by exiting 2 streets early and cutting through the back roads? I'm there. And with the Internet I'm always looking for ways to do things faster. — Fortunately, one of our engineers, Kannan, is equally impatient.
Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Hackers Break Into Computer-Security Firm's Customer Database — Personal Data for Law Enforcement, Security Professionals Exposed — Guidance Software — the leading provider of software used to diagnose hacker break-ins — has itself been hacked, resulting in the exposure of financial …
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Tom Krazit / PC World:
Dell Recalls Laptop Batteries — About 35,000 Latitude, Precision, Inspiron, and XPS models pose fire risk, vendor says. — Dell and the Consumer Products Safety Commission have announced a recall of about 35,000 notebook batteries that could potentially pose a fire risk.
suprnova.org:
The truth about SuprNova.org shutdown. — sloncek — For a year now, there have been many rumors why SuprNova.org was taken offline. Some have said that it was because of legal issues, some said it was because I sold out to eXeem project, or because I became a millionaire …
blizzard.com:
WORLD OF WARCRAFT® SURPASSES FIVE MILLION CUSTOMERS WORLDWIDE — Customer base reaches new heights as Blizzard Entertainment®'s MMORPG continues its growth in North America, Europe, and Asia — IRVINE, California - December 19, 2005 - Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced …
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digitalnetworksna.com:
ReplayTV Announces New Strategic Direction With DVR For The PC —ReplayTV and Hauppauge Team Up to Offer Innovative PC-Based DVR— SANTA CLARA, CA., December 19, 2005—ReplayTV®, the pioneer of digital video recording , today announced that it will introduce a new Digital Video Recorder …
