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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Releases Upgraded Toolbar — Google has enhanced its toolbar for Internet Explorer, introducing several new features that will appeal to regular users of the program. — The new features include enhanced "suggestions" that appear on the fly as you type a query …
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Google Bookmarks — Google just introduced version 4 of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer including support for centralized bookmark tagging and notation from multiple computers. The new feature allows any toolbar user with a Google account to store bookmarks within their Google search history for synchronization and editing.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Bubble 2.0 Is a Bubble in Media — There is a bubble in the tech industry, but it has nothing to do with the behavior of venture capital, as so many people are discussing. There's a bubble because the tech industry is trying to be the new media industry, and very few people …
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Paul Kedrosky's …, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Mark Evans, The Blackfriars Blog, Lloyd@work and Weblogsky
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Alexbarn / Alex Barnett blog:ATTENTION ENGINES NOT JUST FOR THE GEEKOSPHERE
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone — DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 29 — It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers in the developing world to help education.
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Scobleizer, Techdirt, Microsoft News Tracker, TeleRead, IP Democracy and Brian Sullivan's Random …
neosmart.net:
Dual-Booting Windows XP on a Macintel — The Problems — The modified Darwin Bootloader is made for EFI w/ EFI supporting operating systems — OK... So step by step. — Where is the BIOS used? For what? How? — The OS sends low-level calls to the BIOS that tell it exactly how to deal with the hardware.
Business Week:
Steve Jobs' Magic Kingdom — How Apple's demanding visionary will shake up Disney and the world of entertainment — Early on a July workday in 1997, Jim McCluney, then head of Apple's worldwide operations got the call. McCluney was summoned with other top brass of the beleaguered company …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Q&A with Jim Allchin of Microsoft — Talk about a swan song. — Retiring Windows boss Jim Allchin is putting final touches on software that could finally help people start feeling safe and secure using a PC, if all goes according to plan. — Allchin gave an overview last week of Windows Vista …
Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Warner Bros. to Try File Sharing Of Films, TV Shows in Germany — In a move that shows Hollywood is examining the benefits of a technology it long reviled, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. is expected to announce today that it will sell movies and television shows online in Germany using peer-to-peer technology.
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Science Puts Enron E-Mail to Use — In March 2001, just a few months before Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling resigned, an employee e-mailed him a joke about a policeman pulling over a speeding driver, whose wife subsequently rats him out to the cop for other offenses, including being drunk.
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Traditional Venture Capital Sure Seems Broken - It's About Time — The traditional venture capital model formula in technology was simple from 1945 to 1995. It was a form of arbitrage based on two scarcities — risk capital and understanding of technology. — Starting in 1995 the scarcity of both these drivers began to disappear.
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Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:Disrupting Venture Capital with UDDT
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Anne 2.0, Ensight, Venture Chronicles, Techdirt, The Doc Searls Weblog, Newsome.Org and imajes.info
Marc Perton / Engadget:
Behind the scenes in the RIM/NTP patent war — If you thought theBlackberry patent battle between RIM and NTP was just a fight between a successful wireless company and a greedy patentfarmer, this lengthy article from the Toronto Globe and Mail may be an eye-opener.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google's Censorship In China — Plenty are writing and writing about Google's agreement to censor results for China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the differences that Google now endorses. — Google Images Censors Too in China from Google Blogoscoped shows …
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Search Engine Roundtable
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Martin LaMonica / ZDNet:
IBM sets DB2 database free … IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database, a move designed to win software developers over to its products. — DB2 Express-C is the same database as IBM's commercial offerings but the company places limits on what kind of hardware it can run on.
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Microsoft News Tracker
Google Blogoscoped:
How Much Did Google Agree to Censor? — How much does Google self-censor (or "filter", as they call it) in China? We don't know exactly, as Google doesn't tell us so far. — What we do know is that the Chinese gov't handed Google some sort of list of sites which should be censored.
tmcnet.com:
FOCUS: Blogs by Olympics participants to be banned+ — (Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, Jan. 30_(Kyodo) _ The Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at the Turin Winter Olympic Games not to open web logs because the Olympic Charter bans athletes …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Google logo redesigned by Students for Free Tibet — Inspired by Xeni's post about Google's active role in the supression of information in China, Han Shan sent us this graphic from The Students for a Free Tibet, showing Google's logo over a sniper-and-barbed-wire checkpoint. JPEG Link
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Wikinews:
Congressional staff actions prompt Wikipedia investigation — Edits by Massachusetts congressman Marty Meehan's staff on his Wikipedia article spurred a Lowell Sun story and a subsequent Wikipedia investigation of all Internet addresses assigned to the Congress of the United States.
Computerworld:
Exemption for government BlackBerry users riles others facing shutdown — 'They're sticking it to private business,' says one CIO — JANUARY 26, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Government workers and emergency personnel would be exempt from a possible shutdown of BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in the U.S. …
