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John Markoff / New York Times:
New Focus for Intel: The Home — Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, is breaking away from its longstanding love affair with pure computing power to remake itself as a consumer-friendly brand that will seek to dominate the digital home. — Intel's strategy, based on a new generation …
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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Intel Drops Logo After 37 Years; Seeks to Take Image Beyond PCs — Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) — Intel Corp., whose marketing made its computer chips a household name, is changing its logo for the first time in 37 years. — The dropped ``e'' in Intel will be shed in favor of a swoop around …
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The DEP controversy — I admit I'm getting rather tired of talking about this WMF exploit and hope to stop writing about it soon. But because we were the first security company to break the story, a lot of people have been coming to this blog and we feel we have a responsibility to keep people updated.
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Charles C. Mann / Wired News:
How Click Fraud Could Swallow the Internet … Stuart Cauff launched a charter-jet service in Miami Beach back in 2002. Being a 21st-century business, JetNetwork advertised on the Internet, especially on search engines. Anyone who Googled, say, "air charter Miami" would be greeted …
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Ars Technica:
Google Talk targeted in patent lawsuit — The fledging Google instant messaging service known as Google Talk has come under fire from a Delaware corporation that claims that Google is infringing on two of its patents. Rates Technology Inc. claims that Google has violated their patents …
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Lorraine Woellert / Business Week:
Sony BMG Ends a Legal Nightmare — The label has quickly settled the class action over its "secret" copy-protection software. That's good for all parties — including the future of digital music — As peace treaties go, it might be one of history's swiftest negotiations.
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Why I'm working on an aggregator — Background — The first RSS aggregator developed at UserLand was called My.UserLand.Com. It was a centralized application, like Bloglines or My.Yahoo. It first shipped in 1999, alongside My.Netscape.Com, which took a different approach.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without — There have been numerous 2005 "best of" and 2006 "predictions" posts over the last few weeks as the year comes to an end. I'm not going to write one of those. Giving out "best of" awards seems presumptuous to me, given that I've been blogging all of six months.
Daniel B. Wood / ABCNEWS:
No Happy Ending in 2005 For Hollywood — Ticket Sales Drop for Third Year in a Row — LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29. 2005 — Hollywood's year-ending good news is that moviegoers are opening hearts and pocketbooks for "King Kong" — it brought in more than $60 million its debut weekend and counting.
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David Kesmodel / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Places Big Bet On Multiplayer Gaming — Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 videogame console comes bundled with lots of bells and whistles, such as movielike graphics. But Microsoft's bid to reshape the videogame industry largely is tied up in one feature: the machine's emphasis on online play.
Robert Strohmeyer / Wired News:
Best (and Worst) Gadgets of 2005 — 2005 has been a banner year for gearheads, with more hot gadget launches than you could shake a USB cable at. But there's a great chasm separating pre-launch buzz from real-world performance, and not all gizmos live up to the hype.
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Internet Sales Show Big Gains Over Holidays — Online retailers, whose growth was expected to level off after a decade of dizzying gains, experienced a stellar holiday season, according to two preliminary reports released yesterday, as traditional stores like Wal-Mart and Target cemented their place on the Web.
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Big Plastic's Online Challenger — Gary Marino is giving e-shoppers an alternative to credit cards — and his Bill Me Later service is catching on. Is it an idea too good to survive? — Gary Marino knows more than most people about how difficult it is to create a new way for consumers to pay for goods and services.
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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
Windows Security Flaw Is 'Severe' — A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system is leaving computer users vulnerable to spyware, viruses and other programs that could overtake their machines and has sent the company scrambling to come up with a fix.
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