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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Bush Administration Demands Search Data; Google Says No, Yahoo Said Yes, MSN May Have Said Yes  —  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 …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: IP Democracy
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,
TDavid / Things That:   Google will fight feds 'vigorously' over search subpoena
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
Discussion: Gizmodo
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 …
Discussion: SiliconBeat and Threadwatch.org
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!
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?
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Talk of Taipei: First Citywide Wi-Fi Access  —  City-Private Venture  —  Is Ahead of the West;  —  Online at Bus Depot  —  One evening last July, in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei, Web-site consultant Rong Chen was on a subway train when a client called needing urgent repairs to its network.
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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.
Discussion: The Trademark Blog
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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John Palfrey:
Susan Mernit's Point on RSS and Copyright
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work
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.
Discussion: Techdirt and ben barren
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:   What Business are theaters in ?  —  With the release of Bubble …
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 …
Discussion: PC World's Techlog
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
22 Days of Apple  —  I just don't feel like blogging tonight, especially about Apple's earnings and how there has been a sell-off in the stock, because of "expected" slowdown in sales in the first quarter of 2006.  Still, wanted to share with you this historical pattern in Apple stock.
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apple.com:
Apple Reports First Quarter Results
Discussion: PaidContent.org
Charles Onyett / IGN:
Top Sellers on Xbox Live Arcade  —  Which game draws the most dollars?  The official top 10.  —  January 18, 2006 - In the wake of yesterday's article about which Xbox Live Arcade games you most wanted to see released, we're bound to wonder which games have fared the best so far.
Discussion: Kotaku and Xbox 360 Fanboy
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Web 2.0 Is Not Media 2.0  —  There may or may not be a Web 2.0 crash coming, as Steve Rubel has predicted, but there's certainly blood in the water, with Yahoo's earnings miss, Gather.com's bad reviews, the demise of SearchFox, and the gathering buzz about an impending crash.

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