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Howard Mintz / siliconvalley.com:
Feds want Google search records — BUSH LAWYERS ASK JUDGE TO MAKE GOOGLE HAND OVER DATA; GOOGLE PROMISES A FIGHT — The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc. to turn over a broad range of material from its closely guarded databases.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Bush Administration Demands Search Data; Google Says No, Others Comply — Via John Battelle and Google Morning Silicon Valley, Feds want Google search records from the San Jose Mercury News covers the Bush administration demanding last year that Google and other search engines turn …
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
What if we promise not to show the records to Karl Rove? — If you don't regularly anonymize your Google cookie and purge your personalized search history, now might be a good time to start (then again, in this day and age, why bother?). The Department of Justice on Wednesday asked …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT IT'S HAPPENING — From my book, written a year or so ago: — As we move our data to the servers at Amazon.com, Hotmail.com, — Yahoo.com, and Gmail.com, we are making an implicit bargain, one — that the public at large is either entirely content with, or, more likely,
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
Google's privacy fight with the government — We asked John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Conference last fall what he thought could hurt Google, what event or action could ultimately get in the way of the company's meteoric rise. Battelle, who wrote the book The Search, said that if Google got emeshed …
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
The battle over bundling: Top Ten Sources and more — Executive Director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society John Palfrey has a post today about whether the way his independent venture, Ten Top Sources, sources and then publishes content from blogger's RSS feeds is a) legal and b) appropriate.
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konicaminolta.com:
Konica Minolta Announces Withdrawal Plan for Camera Business and Photo Business — Konica Minolta has long been a leading company in photo imaging business covering wide range of imaging from input to output. In addition, we have provided inspiring products and services by fusing our unique technologies.
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Darren / Digital Camera Reviews, Ratings …:Konica Minolta Abandons Photo Industry
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Gretchen Gallen / xbiz.com:
Sex.com Sold to Escom LLC For $14M — SAN FRANCISCO - The infamous and controversial domain Sex.com has officially been sold to Boston-based Escom LLC for a reported $14 million, XBiz has learned. — Sex.com owner Gary Kremen was unavailable for comment, but a source from Kremen's company …
Glenn Fleishman / New York Times:
Advocates of Wi-Fi in Cities Learn Art of Politics — SEATTLE, Jan. 18 - The idea of building citywide wireless networks from the community level was suspiciously simple back in 2000, although the plans sounded like the work of underground revolutionaries. "All of us were very idealistic …
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Percy / SnapStream Blog:
Godzilla PVR — Introduction: — With the third installment of our Monster PVR series, we here at SnapStream asked ourselves, "How can we beat the Medusa PVR, our 6 tuner beast, and our Hydra PVR, our 10 tuner monster?" — Why, by making an 11 tuner system with HDTV support, of course!
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
'Bubble' hits theaters, TV, DVD on same day — LOS ANGELES — If you live in New Jersey, Virginia or Nevada and want to see the new Steven Soderbergh film Bubble in a theater, pack your bags. It won't be showing in those or more than a dozen other states.
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apple.com:
Apple Reports First Quarter Results — Apple Delivers Record Revenue & Earnings — CUPERTINO, California—January 18, 2006—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 first quarter ended December 31, 2005, reporting the highest revenue and earnings in the Company's history.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Following the money: how Subway ads ended up in Counter-Strike — Big brands, strange places — If you've ever seen a computer infested with spyware (not your own, of course), you know that it's not uncommon for ads from well-respected companies to start popping up on the desktop.
Business Week:
Is Google Out of Steam? — Downgrading its stock to sell, S&P's Scott Kessler explains why the search giant is vulnerable on several fronts. Key among them: click fraud — Here's a gazillion-dollar question for investors: Has Google's (GOOG ) stock peaked?
David Pogue / New York Times:
Google Video: Trash Mixed With Treasure — BY now, everybody knows that anything audio is eventually followed by something video. Radio first, then TV. Audio tape, then videotape. CD, then DVD. Music iPod, then video iPod. — And then, of course, there's Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Jason Snell / Macworld:
First Lab Tests: iMac with Intel Core Duo processor — Intel-based iMacs are fast, but gains don't match Apple's claims — Since the first rumors of an Apple switch to Intel, everyone has been wondering about the potential speed of Intel-based Macs. Last week's announcement …
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