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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo misses Wall Street estimates — Internet bellwether Yahoo posted on Tuesday net income for the fourth quarter that rose from a year ago but was below analyst expectations, sending shares down about 13 percent in after-hours trade. — Net income for the period ended Dec. 31 was $247 million …
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Michael Liedtke / biz.yahoo.com:
Yahoo 4Q Profit Misses Views; Shares Fall — Yahoo Fourth-Quarter Profit Falls Short of Analysts' Expectations; Shares Decline 13.5 Percent — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit nearly doubled as advertisers continued to shift their spending to the Internet …
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Clickety Clack
Staci / PaidContent.org:Earnings: Yahoo Call: Paying Subs Are Yahoo's Fastest Growing Segment : Work in progress.
Los Angeles Times:
Google Purchase of Radio Ads Company Puzzles Some — SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. said today it would pay as much as $1.1 billion to acquire a company that buys radio airtime, in the clearest sign yet that the Internet search giant wants to extend its online dominance to the wider world of advertising.
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Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:Marketers Intrigued by Google's Foray Into Radio
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worthplaying.com:
DVD-ROM — Microsoft DirectX 9.0c (August 2005) is included on this CD. You will be prompted to install DirectX during the installation of this game if this or a more recent version isn't already properly installed on your system. — NOTE: DirectX may require the "latest" updates for your operating system.
Christopher Elliott / New York Times:
On Business, and Blogging on the Road — Hurricane Katrina was a defining moment for Rachel Gradwohl, a frequent business traveler. A consultant for a national accounting firm, Ms. Gradwohl blogged about being made homeless by the disaster in her Web journal, the Princess Diaries (www.prncess674.blogspot.com).
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
New News: Deconstructing the newspaper — [Here's another in a very occasional series of posts suggesting how to change newspapers, all tagged and headlined "NewNews." Prior posts addressed the need to inspire an imperative for change and suggested turning the newsroom into a classroom …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Apple changes iTunes, now obtains consent before collecting info — Apple has changed the way iTunes works so that users are given the chance to decline the iTunes Ministore, a service that gathers detailed information about your listening habits and transmits it to Apple along with a number that uniquely identifies you.
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Matt McAlister, What's New, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, TechBlog, plasticbag.org and Download Squad
Darin / Fried Fish:
I've been meaning to blog about a new web platform feature that we've added to trunk builds of Firefox. It is now possible to define a ping attribute on anchor and area tags. When a user follows a link via one of these tags, the browser will send notification pings to the specified URLs after following the link.
Presentation Zen:
Where can you find good images? — A lot of people ask me where they can get good-quality images, so I thought it would be good to have one post that I could bookmark and send out to people. I mentioned before that I use iStockphoto.com the most (as well as more expensive sites …
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Duct Tape Marketing Blog
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Windows users, don't let your guard down — The problem with relying on software tools to keep you safe is that a user with administrative privileges and a little knowledge (which, as everyone knows, is a dangerous thing) can defeat or disable those tools. Two examples of this phenomenon appeared this week.
BBC:
Blackmailers target $1m website — The site of a UK student who had the idea of selling pixels as advertising space has been hit by a web attack. — Alex Tew, 21, hit the headlines at the start of the year when he revealed his Million Dollar Homepage had made him a million dollars in four months.
Discussion:
Guardian Unlimited
google.com:
Service Choice — What is "service choice" and how does Google Talk enable it? — Whom are you federating with? — Do service providers need explicit approval to federate with the Google Talk service? — Do you plan to support other industry standards for communications interoperability?
koei.com:
KOEI ANNOUNCES TWO GAMES FOR MARCH 2006 — Samurai Warriors®: State of War for PSP™ and Warship Gunner™2 for PlayStation®2 Coming to North America — BURLINGAME, CA —January 17, 2006 — KOEI, recognized worldwide as the premier brand of strategy and action games …
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PSP Fanboy
hillandknowlton.com:
Are you listening? Tools to analyse blogosphere buzz — Niall Cook, Director, UK Netcoms, ncook@hillandknowlton.com — In almost every presentation about blogging, you will hear experts telling you to join the conversation. That is the same 'conversation' made famous by The Cluetrain Manifesto …
O'Reilly Network:
EuroOSCON 2006: Opening Innovation — EuroOSCON 2006 takes place in Brussels, Belgium on 18-21 September. The Call for Participation is now open; registration opens in May 2006. To receive EuroOSCON news and announcements, sign up for the EuroOSCON newsletter.
Computerworld:
Analyst: Replacing lost BlackBerry service would cost $845 per person — The biggest cost would be replacing hardware, according to analyst Jack Gold — JANUARY 17, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Replacing wireless e-mail such as Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry service for 1,000 workers would cost $845,000 …
Abby Christopher / technologyreview.com:
Stopping the Next SARS with Cell Phones — Researchers tap cell phones to keep citizens informed in times of disaster. — As the possibility of massive fatalities from bird flu looms over Asia and other areas, researchers and health officials are concerned about more than vaccines and animal control.
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The Mobile Technology Weblog
Reuters:
Every inch of Netherlands viewable online — A Web site launched by Dutch real estate agents will allow house-hunters and the merely curious to view every inch of the Netherlands—up close—starting next week. — Funda.nl, which lists 75 percent of the Dutch property that's for sale …
