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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.
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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.
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.
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Stephen Baker / Blogspotting:
My secret life: keeping the math cover story out of the blog — I've been leading a secret life on this blog. For months and months I worked on this math cover story. I was talking to mathematicians and people who use math, and it was dominating my thinking.
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 …
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jkOnTheRun:
New MacBooks- can they dual boot or not? — Apple surprised no one last week with the MacWorld announcement that the Intel Macs are coming. The news had leaked weeks before and the general reaction to the news was good, although many are voicing displeasure at the rather bland name- MacBook.
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Stepto / the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
Looking at the WMF issue, how did it get there? — Hi everyone, Stephen Toulouse here. Now that the monthly release has passed and people are deploying the updates I wanted to take a moment to discuss some things related to questions we've been receiving on the recent WMF issue.
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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."
John Mark Walker / onlamp.com:
There Is No Open Source Community — Conventional wisdom says that powerful individuals drive open source by working against the grain to institute a methodology of sharing that would balance the power between software vendors and users. — While this makes for an entertaining narrative …
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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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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Another Forrester take on Google Personalized Home for Mobile — My colleague, Charlie Golvin, covers the consumer wireless space and participated in the Google Personalzied Home for mobile briefing with me today. He offers the following thoughts on the service and asks for your thoughts as well:.
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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:Google enables personalized content, RSS on mobile phones
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Alorie Gilbert / CNET News.com:
Anti-spyware guidelines get final version — A coalition of software companies have agreed on standard methods for identifying and combating spyware, those unwelcome downloads that have plagued Internet users with pop-up ads and other annoyances. — The Anti-Spyware Coalition …
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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 …
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."
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Three New Classifieds Companies — I've been watching three new web 2.0 classifieds sites - BlockRocker, rbloc and theadcloud. And for those of you who say I focus on silicon valley companies, I have a surprise for you - all three of these companies are located outside of the U.S. BlockRocker …
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
Doubts Cloud Plan for Cellphone Service in Subway Stations — When proposed nearly five months ago, the idea held the promise of a new era of underground communications. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, long hesitant about enabling cellphone service in the subways …
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