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Reuters:
Google acquires stake in AOL  —  Internet search giant to pay $1 billion for 5 percent stake in AOL; Microsoft shut out of deal.  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc. and America Online Inc. Tuesday expanded their search and advertising alliance to include video and instant messaging …
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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
$1 Billion AOL Stake For Google Approved  —  Time Warner Inc. approved Google Inc.'s $1 billion investment in its America Online Inc. unit yesterday, a deal aimed at giving both companies a greater share of the burgeoning online advertising business.  —  Company executives also characterized the deal …
Elinor Mills / ZDNet:
Google, Time Warner strike $1 billion deal on AOL … Google will invest $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in Time Warner's America Online unit as part of a partnership that expands their existing search engine deal to include collaboration on advertising, instant messaging and video.
Jonathan Thaw / Bloomberg:
Google to pay dearly for AOL
Discussion: PaidContent.org
Red Herring:
3 Charged With Modifying Xbox  —  Authorities charge three Los Angeles-area men with hacking Xbox game consoles to allow pirated games to run on them.  —  Three Los Angeles area men including two game store owners were charged Monday with copyright infringement for selling modified Xbox game consoles …
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy and Joystiq
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Laurie Sullivan / techweb.com:
Trio Charged With Modifying Xboxes To Pirate Video Games
Discussion: Geek News Central …
Nick Wilson / Performancing.com:
Performancing for Firefox is Here!  —  Well, despite falling asleep on the job last night, Performancing for Firefox is finally here!  Jed and I worked all night on this, and we're finally happy to put our new blogging firefox extension out in beta for your feedback.
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Stephen Lawson / InfoWorld:
SF leaders voice concerns about Wi-Fi project  —  More public input is sought before a decision on a vendor is made  —  San Francisco's plan for citywide Wi-Fi ran into some friction Friday from a local regulatory agency.  —  The government of the City and County of San Francisco is readying …
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News
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Keith Reed / Boston Globe:
If we're Tech City, where's our WiFi?
Discussion: broadband
cadenhead.org:
Wikipedia Founder Looks Out for Number 1  —  I spent a little time this morning expanding the Wikipedia biography of Gordon Keith, a dark-humored and hilarious radio host on the Dallas sportstalk station KTCK.  —  Having a biography in Wikipedia is a double-edged sword, as John Siegenthaler Sr. can attest.
Conrad Blickenstorfer / webpronews.com:
A Brief History Of Tablet PCs  —  In the late 1980s, early pen computer systems generated a lot of excitement and there was a time when it was thought they might eventually replace conventional computers with keyboards.  —  After all, everyone knows how to use a pen and pens are certainly less intimidating than keyboards.
Leo Lewis / Times of London:
Tokyo search for a rival to Google  —  THE Japanese Government has marshalled a coalition of technological and corporate firepower in an attempt to break the global stranglehold of Yahoo! and Google.  —  The project is tipped to cost about £500 million and will probably take about three years …
Discussion: Neowin.net and TechSpot
Tony / tony spencer:
What all the cool kids of search want for Christmas (or Winter Holiday)  —  Today I was having a hard time updating my Amazon wishlist so my family can buy me gifts that I actually want.  So I decided to get ideas by looking up Amazon wishlists that my friends created.
Paperghost / Vitalsecurity.org:
BitTorrent Reloaded: Unauthorised installs lead to pirated movie files on victim's PCs  —  Yep, the title is a mouthful but you heard it correctly: those crazy guys behind the Middle-East connected Rootkit-powered Botnet (phew! mouthful alert) experimented with something I haven't seen before …
Discussion: Techdirt and digg
Lone Ronin / The Lone Ronin:
Banned by Google  —  Let us suppose, for a moment, you are a small company (like kozoru) and you've figured out a way to take results from another search engine (like, say, Google) and run them through your own statistical approach and do the following:  —  Keyword search their system
O'Reilly Network:
PROXY HACK  —  Google free proxy!  —  Access restricted web sites using Google language tools service as a proxy.  —  Contributed by: bigthistle  —  A little tutorial found on the italian site www.manuali.net inspired me for this hack.  That tutorial suggests to translate a webpage …
Julie Clothier / CNN:
Ioning your way to cleaner clothes  —  (CNN) — Designers behind a washing machine that does not require water or detergent to clean clothes say the idea could be a common household appliance one day.  —  The idea is the brainchild of two Singaporean design students who won top honors …
Poynter Online:
Pegasus Partly Debuts 'CitJ'-Based Operation in Dallas  —  For those of us watching the "citizen journalism"/"grassroots media" space, the wait to see what Pegasus News is up to is almost over.  The Dallas-based start-up, which first announced its intention to build a "new" …

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