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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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Financial Times:
Google deal to include AOL ads partnership — By Aline van Duyn in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Google is expected to announce a deal with AOL on Tuesday which will include an advertising partnership, the promotion of AOL content on Google and the joint development of video search …
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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 …
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 …
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.
Dave Sifry / Technorati Weblog:
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: — Charts. Get live, updated charts on what people are saying about stuff you care about …
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.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Reuters video to get mass distribution — International news agency Reuters is launching a pilot program on Tuesday that will allow blogs, news organizations and other online publishers to show Reuters news video on their Web sites. — The video affiliate network program will enable Web site operators …
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.
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 …
biz.yahoo.com:
Lexar to Add Google Products to Drives — Lexar Media to Added Google Toolbar, Search Applications to USB Flash Drives — FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — Lexar Media Inc. on Tuesday said it is adding Google applications, including a toolbar and search function, to its USB flash drives.
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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.
