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rexblog.com:
iTunes tip — Pre-Christmas morning iTunes tip: Long time readers of the rexblog know I'm a big user of Apple's iTunes service. However, my "power" usage and the length of time I've been using the iTunes store (since the day it was opened), means I know what I'm talking about when I say the following:
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Let me explain this slowly — Rex Hammock: "Another person in my office lost all of her Apple iTunes store purchases when her PowerBook's hard drive crashed. Despite the obvious fact that Apple knows she has purchased these tunes and that her problem was caused by an Apple hardware problem …
MSNBC:
Microsoft, NBC restructure cable channel deal — Both sides remain committed to Internet news site MSNBC.com — NBC Universal will assume majority control of the 24-hour cable channel MSNBC under a restructuring of its 10-year-old joint venture agreement with software giant Microsoft, the two companies announced Friday.
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New York Times:
NBC Takes Control of MSNBC, Reducing Microsoft Role — NBC Universal announced today that it has reached a deal to acquire majority control of MSNBC, the 24-hour cable television news network, from Microsoft. — The transaction could be the first step in ending a nine-year partnership between …
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Predictions of a Tableteer — It's the end of the year so it's prediction time. After a bit of head scratching I think I have a few. Mine won't be as depressing as Jason Calacanis' though. — Here's what I see for 2006: — 1. 2006 will be the year of RSS mods.
Michaelaffronti / search.subscribe.share:
RSS Aggregation - Part 1: The Partnership — RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is meant to provide users with an easy way to monitor multiple sources of news, blogs, and other content which has headline-style delimitations and is updated frequently. It is an open, publicly-defined …
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CNET News.com:
Verizon plans to offer mobile music downloads — Verizon Wireless is expected to introduce a music download service next month that will let subscribers purchase music wirelessly over their mobile phones and transfer songs between their phones and Windows PCs, CNET News.com has learned.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLE CLARIFIES — On the AOL announcement. — I want to take this at face value. But that's not my inclination. Talking to Google in the next few days, and as usual, I am sure there will be clarity there. But for now, why am I skeptical? Because, well, I've negotiated with AOL.
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Kenji Hall / Business Week:
Sony: Shooting from the Chip? — A top exec boasts that the new Cell processor is "as good as the Pentium, if not better." But topping Intel is a tall order — Nearly anyone who owns a PC is familiar with the "Intel Inside" sticker. The blue-and-white logo has been a potent symbol of Intel's …
Shelleyp / Burningbird:
Web2.0 — Jeneane Sessum is writing on Web 2.0 stuff. To her I say Blog! Oh, geez that felt so good! But I digress. — Jeneane writes about Web 1.0 and 2.0 terminology and says you can't have consensus on the web. That's an excellent point. We had agreement about the web.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
American Idol of Search - your search isnt my search — Om Malik in his blog asked the question " Will a people's collective be able to beat Google at the search game? " — The simple answer is - of course not. The better question is - "will objective search remain the people's choice in search engines ?".
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Ahbao / slashphone.com:
Newgen Mega-X Phone Available this month — Views: 1251 — Mega-X is a versatile digital entertainment console for the creative individual seeking fun and enjoys life to the fullest everywhere they go. Designed with a twist, the Mega-X is transformed instantly into a camcorder with a twist of the LCD display panel.
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
MarkL loves 4 a.m. workers — Mark Lucovsky of Google came by Mini-Microsoft and bragged "I worked until 3 a.m. and guess what. … Keep in mind here that Mark is an industry leader that's paid many times my salary of less than $100,000 a year. His comment pisses me off.
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Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:Comment Report - MarkL nee of Microsoft now of Google drops by
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google investment in AOL could lead to 2008 IPO — SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s $1 billion investment in America Online could lead to an IPO in 2008, giving the online search engine leader and AOL parent Time Warner Inc. an opportunity to capitalize on an Internet advertising boom that they hope to fuel through their partnership.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Microsoft settles with Google over executive hire — Microsoft has settled its lawsuit with rival Google over the hiring of Kai-Fu Lee, an expert in speech recognition technology and the man who founded Microsoft's China research lab in the late 1990s. — "The parties have entered …
