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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Google admits online stumble  —  Google Inc., trying to extend its dominance of Internet search into the market for videos, said it made a mistake with the design of an online store.  —  Shows for sale weren't well promoted on the home page of Google Video, which was introduced earlier this month …
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Jay Greene / Business Week:
The Bug in Microsoft's Ear  —  The software giant is mulling its own digital device that adds gaming to music and video, in an effort to compete with Apple's iPod empire  —  After getting trounced for four years in the digital music business by Apple Computer (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) finally seems poised to do something about it.
Josh / Bokardo:
Microsoft Didn't Give User Data to DOJ in Privacy Case (podcast)  —  First, the podcast: Microsoft, Google, and the DOJ Privacy Case (7.21 MB mp3 )  —  During a meeting today at the Microsoft Search Champs Conference in Redmond, WA, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior VP of MSN Information Services …
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Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
A VC Rant with an opportunity  —  Short story.  "Joe" has been working for 5 years to bring a software product to market while keeping the day job waiting & bussing tables.  He has a wife, two kids, a dog and they live in a small nothing apartment.  —  For years, Joe toils away while pounding …
Discussion: Mark Evans
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Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:
Disrupting the VC Business and Exploring the Because Effect  —  I keep running into Rick Segal.  Doesn't matter how remote or large the event might be, there's Rick.  It happened last summer in Copenhagen, when Rick was the first guy I recognized in Denmark — sitting in a steetside cafe on the evening before Reboot started.
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Yahoo's New CPO Loves His Mac  —  You might have worked for the company for a decade, but that doesn't mean you will get a new cappuccino machine.  It does mean that you get a new ID card, that says you have worked for the company for 10 years, and it also means you get a new gig.
cellular-news.com:
Cingular Patents the Emoticon :(  —  The USA based mobile operator, Cingular Wireless has managed to get a patent on the concept of using emoticon on mobile phones.  While the aim of the patent is to enable the displaying of MSN style graphics on handsets, they also managed to patent …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Google Cache Ruled Fair Use  —  A district court in Nevada has ruled that the Google Cache is a fair use.  —  Blake Field, an author and attorney, brought the copyright infringement lawsuit against Google after the search engine automatically copied and cached a story he posted on his website.
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EFF: Breaking News:
Nevada Court Rules Google Cache is Fair Use
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Roblimo / interviews.slashdot.org:
MS Security VP Mike Nash Replies  —  You posted a lot of great questions for Mike Nash last week, and he put a lot of time into answering them.  As promised, his answers were not laundered by PR people, which is all too common with "executive" interviews with people from any company.
CNN:
Google founder defends China portal  —  Also: How the powerful make their way to Davos, and what they're doing instead of networking.  —  DAVOS, Switzerland (FORTUNE) - The World Economic Forum, a gathering of leaders from the business world, media, academics, and assorted hollywood stars and do-gooders, is taking place this week.
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Yahoo Will Buy Digg - Announcement Early Next Week  —  I've now heard from two sources close to Yahoo which tell me that Yahoo is going to be buying Digg for nearly $30M.  I haven't yet heard from anyone working for Yahoo that this is 100% (they obviously had 'no comment') …
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
The Problems With 2.0, pt 345314  —  I luv Memeorandum and all it's reconstructor cousins.  It's one of the first things of my reading list.  It's hugely slashed my search costs in finding new stuff.  —  But there's a problem.  Ever since I've started using it to the point where it replaces …
Discussion: The Stalwart and Like It Matters
Associated Press:
U.N. Lends Backing to the $100 Laptop  —  DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The United Nations on Thursday lent its support to a project which aims to ship inexpensive, hand-cranked laptops to school-aged children worldwide.  —  Kemal Dervis, head of the U.N. Development Program …
Discussion: Kevin Maney
Reuters:
BlackBerry blackout threat terrifies CEOs  —  Execs at World Economic Forum fear freeze on their wireless e-mail device; hope for settlement with NTP.  —  DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - It's not the sub-zero temperatures that have the corporate kingpins shivering in Davos this year but the prospect of life without their "BlackBerry."
Discussion: Gizmodo
Marc Perton / Engadget:
Government turns up volume on GPS  —  The US governmentflicked the switch today on a new GPS signal, known as L2C.  The signal, according to the government, is transmitted ata higher effective power, allowing it to "work better in urban areas and indoors."  The new signal, beingtransmitted …
ZDNet:
Ancient flaws leave OS X vulnerable?  —  OS X contains unpatched security flaws of a type that were fixed on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago, according to a security researcher credited with finding numerous bugs in Apple's increasingly popular platform.

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