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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL and Google Formalize Partnership to Include Shared Selling of Ads — America Online formally announced a revived partnership with Google yesterday, a deal that affirmed AOL's value less than a year after a chorus of calls for its parent, Time Warner, to shed the division as a lost cause.
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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 …
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Dan Gillmor / Dan Gillmor's blog:
Coming Soon: Center for Citizen Media — Some news: — Starting in 2006, I'll be putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism.
Pete Mortensen / Wired News:
NeXT Fans Give Up the Ghost — Among the many milestones in the tech world this last year, one occurred almost without notice. The Bay Area NeXT Group, an important user group formed 15 years ago around Steve Jobs' second great computer design, slipped into history in 2005 …
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Will Lester / Associated Press:
Poll: Americans Need High-Tech Gadgets — WASHINGTON - Personal computers, cell phones and high-speed Internet are considered essential to getting by for millions of Americans who are showing early signs of addiction to the next wave of high-tech toys, an AP-Ipsos poll found.
Stacy Cowley / InfoWorld:
Salesforce.com outage cuts users off — Extent of the outage was not immediately clear — Salesforce.com Inc.'s "on demand" CRM (customer relationship management) system came up short in meeting demand on Tuesday, when some customers found the hosted software service unreachable for most of the day.
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.
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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 …
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Laurie Sullivan / techweb.com:Trio Charged With Modifying Xboxes To Pirate Video Games
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Major Nelson / Major Nelson.com:
Major's day at the Mall — Yesterday I crashed the Nintendo 'event' here in Seattle. I wanted to see how they did it...and it was a pretty underwhelming event. It was not able to connect via the wireless connection, or play as my nickname 'Xbox Live.' On the upside I was able to get my DS signed …
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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 …
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
Ask Jeeves Blog:
Word Up — What's in your stocking? New language tools on Ask.com to help find what you are looking for faster. — 1. Page Translation is now available on Ask.com. Why haven't we had it in the past? Because we didn't have many foreign-language pages in our index.
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Gerry Block / IGN:
The NES Reincarnated — And alive again as a higher being. Our review. — December 20, 2005 - For those of us that were actually alive back in the early '80s, there is no denying that the drab grey box that was the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) changed our lives.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
FTC says federal spam law has worked — WASHINGTON—About 70 percent of the world's e-mail messages continue to be spam. But the number is leveling off, which federal officials on Tuesday cited as evidence that a law enacted two years ago is working. — At a press conference here …
informit.com:
The Parts/Tools — This short section will outline the tools/parts I used and some of the reasons why they were used. If you decide to undertake this project, your collection of tools might vary a bit. — Dremel — This project was not going to be a simple steal and swap.
Inquirer:
Seagate to buy Maxtor for $2 billion — Updated Hard drive hard cheese — * SEAGATE and Maxtor confirmed the acquisition. The deal is worth $1.9 billion. The firms said the combination will be 10-20% accretive on a cash EPS basis after the first full year of combined operations.
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