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Blogs versus the NY Times in Google — In 2002, Dave Winer of Scripting News and Martin Nisenholtz of the New York Times made a Long Bet about the authority of weblogs versus that of NY Times in Google: … I decided to see how well each side is doing by checking the results for the top news stories of 2005.

The Resurgence of E-Cards — THE online greeting card industry is starting to make some noise again. Just ask the screaming banshee. — The highly freaked-out woman, known by millions from an animated Halloween e-card from Hallmark.com, is back, this time in a Valentine's Day revival of her hair-raising neuroses.

MacIntel Dual Boot? Fer Real? — Looks like an intrepid haxor has dumped Vista on a MacBook by fooling Vista into thinking that the MacBook has a BIOS in there somewhere. The instructions are kind of convoluted but we encourage you to try this at home and confirm that it works.

Countdown for nasty Windows virus — PC users have been urged to scan their computers before 3 February to avoid falling victim to a destructive virus. — On that date the Nyxem virus is set to delete Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Acrobat files on infected machines.

180solutions Dismisses Lawsuit Against Internet Security Application Company — Updated Labeling of 180solutions' S3-Enabled Search Assistant Software — BELLEVUE, Wash. - January 30, 2006 - 180solutions, Inc., a leader in online search marketing services, today announced the dismissal …

Much too early to comment on Live Labs — I've been reading several comments on one of Microsoft's newest brainchilds: Live Labs. In fact, I was sitting two rows back at Search Champs when Dr. Gary Flake gave the speech about Live Labs that included Robert Scoble's infamous "edge case" outburst.

Is TiVo next on Cisco's push into homes? — news analysis If its history of acquisitiveness is a guide, computer networking king Cisco Systems will likely buy a number of companies as it expands into the consumer electronics market. — Already Cisco has announced plans to spend $6.9 billion on cable set-top maker Scientific-Atlanta.

Using Google Base For Selling Stock Photography — In early summer 1999 Miroslaw Malek told me that a new start up named Google, founded in September 1998, was starting to develope a new and completely different internet search engine. I thought "Heck, who cares?", because the internet …

AOL Is Selling Access To Your Inbox — I have been an investor in a company called Return Path for almost six years. Return Path is in a number of email related businesses, but one that they basically invented is the email delivery assurance business. They work for commercial emailers …
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Would You Buy a Used Dotcom from this Man? — As a corporate lawyer, Allen Morgan wore a suit every day for 20 years. But since joining the Mayfield Fund, he's gotten used to the more casual uniform of the venture capitalist - Levi's, plaid shirt, company-logo fleece vest.
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MetroFi Switches to All Free — Bay Area metro-scale wireless ISP MetroFi drops charges: MetroFi offers Wi-Fi-based service across Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara. Its Cupertino and Santa Clara services originally required a monthly fee for mobile or fixed access.

The winds of change are blowing — I've had this phrase set on my various instant messaging clients for the past few days and it's prompted more than a fewcurious inquiries about just what is up. — This will be my last post here at The Office Weblog. I've beeninvited to contribute …

RIM rivals cash in as BlackBerry hearing looms — Competitors are muscling into the wireless e-mail market dominated by Research In Motion as the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device grapples with a patent battle that could shut down its U.S. service. — While few analysts and none …
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Papers take a leap forward, opening up to new ideas — NEW YORK — If you made a list of today's great media innovators you'd probably fill it with people whose dazzling ideas are shaping the Internet, television and even radio. — Not newspapers, though. The industry is famously risk-averse.
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DirecTV, EchoStar Bundle Up — Rupert Murdoch's DirecTV (DTV:NYSE - news - research - Cramer's Take) is linking up with rival EchoStar Communications (DISH:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) to launch a nationwide wireless broadband network, TheStreet.com has learned.

'Electronic Discovery' Industry Blooming — EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Even just a few years ago, lawyers in corporate lawsuits sometimes agreed not to poke around in their opponents' e-mails. Instead they'd confine themselves to paper memos and other documents on file as they pursued evidence.

Sometimes There Is a Free Lunch — Has gameplay innovation ground to a halt? Surf the aisles of your local game store, and you'd suspect that game publishers kinda given up. It's always the same tired play mechanics, over and over. … Obviously, part of this endless looping is that success works …
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MSN Falls Farther Behind — The press hype about a coming "war" between Google and MSN has mercifully abated in recent weeks, perhaps because it is becoming clearer that, far from being a credible Google challenger, MSN isn't even in the same league. — Last week, Microsoft reported MSN's …
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