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Varun Dubey / cooltechzone.com:
Microsoft Buys Out Opera — (Insider Report) - Here comes a surprise. In a recent conversation with one of our insiders at Microsoft, the source revealed that Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, has acquired Opera Software, makers of the Opera browser.
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Matt Loney / ZDNet:
Opera denies Microsoft takeover rumours … As the phones ring off the hook at Opera, the browser vendor insists rumours that Microsoft is buying it out are unfounded — Opera on Friday denied the latest takeover rumour spreading round the Internet, saying that it has not had any approaches from Microsoft or anyone else.
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Mark Evans
Marissa Mayer / Official Google Blog:
About the AOL announcement — The recent announcement of the AOL partnership has been the source of a lot of rumors and misconceptions. We'd like to clear some of those up. — Biased results? No way. Providing great search is the core of what we do.
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Federated Media …, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Watch Blog and Marketing Pilgrim
Reuters:
Microsoft to contest "unjustified" EU move — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft said on Thursday it would contest what it called an unjustified European Commission decision to impose backdated daily fines if it fails to comply with European Union antitrust sanctions.
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Raf Casert / Associated Press:
EU threatens Microsoft with penalties — DEC. 22 9:26 A.M. ET The European Union has threatened to fine Microsoft up to 2 million euros ($2.37 million) a day, saying Thursday the software company is not fully complying with the EU's 2004 antitrust ruling. — Microsoft immediately retorted …
Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
My Predictions for 2006 — 1. Someone will do the Wikipedia version of Weblogs, Inc. and and it will fail because it never reaches critical mass. — 2. 30 of the 50 blog networks will fizzle out and/or die. Only one or two (other than Gawker) will break 20M pages a month.
biosmagazine.co.uk:
eDimensional Force Feedback Gaming Headset — Sound should be more than just heard. It should be felt, pulsing through your body like a grenade exploding at your six or the rumble of heavy turbulence. Your doctor will probably disagree, but what does he/she know about gaming anyway!
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
One in Five Blogs Is Spam — NEW YORK While 80,000 blogs may be created every day, about one in five is spam, according to new research. — Umbria Communications, a Boulder, Colo.-based consumer-generated media monitor, found that 2.7 million out of 20.3 million blogs are spam, or splogs as they are sometimes known.
Jonathan Krim / Washington Post:
Microsoft Is Losing Some Of Its Elbow Room — As Software King's Growth Slows, Rivals Stake Out Their Own Territory — Rob Enderle, a longtime Silicon Valley analyst and observer of Microsoft Corp., remembers what used to happen when a tech start-up sought funding for a business …
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David Card
The Register:
Evesham/AOpen Mini PC Plus — The Intel-powered alternative to the Mac Mini — Review It's finally arrived - the first Mac Mini clone. Our review system was supplied by Evesham, but the barebone chassis is manufactured by AOpen and has been known as the 'Pandora'.
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Engadget
Elizabeth Biddlecombe / BBC:
Women tempted by gadget gifts — When it comes to gadgets, American women are most likely to get a digital camera or an iPod for Christmas this year. — So expects Jeremy Clay, a personal shopping assistant at a Best Buy store in Walnut Creek, California. — He is in a position to know.
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Popgadget
Alorie Gilbert / silicon.com:
Customers vent spleen at Salesforce.com outage — "We're losing sales. It's a busy time of the year" — A Salesforce.com outage lasting nearly a day cut off access to critical business data for many of the company's customers on Tuesday in what appears to be Salesforce's most severe service disruption to date.
Jennifer LeClaire / linuxinsider.com:
Nessus 3.0: The End of the Age of Open-Source Innocence? — "Here's the danger we are running into," said Alan Shimel, Chief Strategy Officer for StillSecure. "People contribute resources to these communities, whether it be time, money, or code. When they see everything they give converted …
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Open Resource
Michael Tanne / Wink Blog:
Open Beta One (OB1) — We've been working away for the last few months, getting feedback from our beta users (thank you so much!) and refining the Wink experience. As we got closer to a public beta we gave accounts to the rest of the people who'd requested them so they could try it out.
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Steve Connor / Independent:
Surveillance UK: why this revolution is only the start — The new national surveillance network for tracking car journeys, which has taken more than 25 years to develop, is only the beginning of plans to monitor the movements of all British citizens. The Home Office Scientific Development Branch …
