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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 …
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
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
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited and Rough Type
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 …
Discussion: MacSlash
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.
Suzi Turner / ZDNet:
Lawsuit against 180solutions, Direct Revenue and eXact Advertising  —  Hot off the press at SunbeltBLOG: … From law firm Bronson & Associates' website: … The complaint lists the defendants' alleged unlawful business practices:  —  Unauthorized software download.
Discussion: Techdirt
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Sunbelt BLOG:   Exclusive: Lawsuit against 180Solutions, Direct Revenue, eXact
tbray.org:
My Wikipedia Policy  —  Scoble published his, and these days, I think having a policy is a good idea.  Unlike Scoble, I have edited my entry, in my case with a very specific goal.  Both Scoble's entry and mine are labeled as stubs, which I think is silly.  I suggested that we de-stub mine …
Discussion: Scripting News
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Library Stuff
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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 …
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.
Discussion: Techdirt
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.
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.
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.
Discussion: digg
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 …
Arn / Mac Rumors:
Another TV Show Arrives... Microsoft Competition?  [Updated]  —  Apple and ABC have posted another television show to the iTunes Music Store today.  Commander in Chief is now available on iTunes.  —  NBC has also promised that new shows would be added along the way.
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Jordan Running / Download Squad:   Rumor alert: Microsoft to launch its own TV download service

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