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Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Microsoft Plans Launch of Search Ad System  —  Microsoft Corp. plans to launch its system for selling advertising alongside regular search results by June in the United States, giving the company its next piece of ammunition in the battle with rivals including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
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John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft hopes to cash in with click-on ads  —  Advertisers pay top dollar to place products in popular television shows and movies.  —  Now, Microsoft is hoping to expand on the concept with a new technology that allows viewers to click on cars, clothing or other products that appear in online movies or TV shows.
microsoft.com:   Microsoft adCenter Incubation …
Reuters:
Apple files 'Mobile Me' as U.S. trademark  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has filed to trademark the phrase "Mobile Me" for use in a wide range of businesses, furthering speculation it could introduce an iPod phone.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Apple trademark filing points to cellular offering  —  Recent trademark filings by Apple is leading to speculation about the iPod maker's plans regarding the cellular phone market.  Last week, Apple filed four applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office for the term "Mobile Me."
Discussion: Gizmodo and I4U News
Leander / The Cult of Mac Blog:
Scoop: The Inside Dope on Steve Jobs' Weird Keynote
Discussion: ben barren and Engadget
Business Week:
Putting The Screws To Google  —  How Old Media could take back its share of search's ad bounty  —  What if 2006 is the year big media players take aim at Google's (GOOG ) kneecaps?  No, not with more lawsuits; the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers — on behalf, in part …
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Beware the Googeyman  —  Business Week media maven Jon Fine sent me a link to his latest column and said I wouldn't like the idea presented there.  He's quite right.  He proposes a vision of the future that is really just a long-dead dream of the big-media past, back before the internet and before big …
Discussion: Mark Evans and larry borsato
Economist:
St Lawrence of Google  —  Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has always wanted to change the world.  He is well on his way  —  Getty Images  —  DOES Larry Page ever get vertigo when contemplating his life and future?  After all, Mr Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google …
Business Week:
The Great Firewall of China  —  A vast security network and compliant multinationals keep the mainland's Net under Beijing's thumb.  But technology may foil the censors yet  —  Skype had a dilemma.  The Internet telephony and messaging service wanted to enter China with TOM Online (TOMO) …
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Dan Warne / apcmag.com:
Intel Macs may boot XP after all  —  Reports spreading across the web that Intel Macs can't boot Windows XP might be inaccurate, reports Dan Warne.  —  Tech journos far and wide have been quick to jump on the story that while Apple says it isn't doing anything to specifically prevent people …
Business Week:
Math Will Rock Your World  —  A generation ago, quants turned finance upside down.  Now they're mapping out ad campaigns and building new businesses from mountains of personal data  —  Neal Goldman is a math entrepreneur.  He works on Wall Street, where numbers rule.
Discussion: Clickety Clack and Threadwatch.org
John Markoff / New York Times:
Web Site of Agency Is Called Insecure  —  The General Services Administration has shut a Web site for government contractors after a computer industry consultant reported that he was able to view and modify corporate and financial information submitted by vendors.
Discussion: Techdirt
grc.com:
The Windows MetaFile Backdoor?  —  Description: Leo and I carefully examine the operation of the recently patched Windows MetaFile vulnerability.  I describe exactly how it works in an effort to explain why it doesn't have the feeling of another Microsoft "coding error."
Discussion: GROKLAW
acmqueue.com:
A Conversation with Phil Smoot  —  ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 10 - December 2005 / January 2006  —  The challenges of managing a megaservice  —  In the landscape of today's megaservices, Hotmail just might be Mount Everest.  One of the oldest free Web e-mail services, Hotmail relies …
Discussion: Between the Lines
Silicon Valley Watcher:
Disruption in mainstream media but where is the disruption in the mainstream PR industry?  —  Where is the PR industry disruption?  —  The mainstream media is heading to hell in a handbasket but where is the PR industry's handbasket?  —  Over the past two years the PR sector has been growing quite nicely.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
PR Isn't Sinking, It's Adapting
Discussion: POP! PR Jots and Performancing.com
Rich Miller / Netcraft:
DDoS Attack Cited in Million Dollar Homepage Outage  —  The company hosting the Million Dollar Homepage says an electronic attack was responsible for the extended outages earlier today.  The distributed denial of service (DDoS) occurred as college student Alex Tew sold the final 1,000 pixels …

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