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Ben King / The Register:
Google at work on desktop Linux — Search engine giant preps own version of Ubuntu — Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. — A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop …
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Anders Bylund / Ars Technica:
Google denies plans to distribute OS based on Ubuntu — A post on the Register, claiming that Google might be close to rolling out a "Goobuntu" Linux desktop distro, has been making the usual rounds in the tech news circuit today. Despite today being earnings release day …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Earnings Disappoint; Shares Plunge — Google Fourth-Quarter Profit Fails to Meet Analysts' Expectations; Shares Plummet 15.5 Percent — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc.'s rapid financial growth decelerated in the fourth quarter as the online search leader's profit fell below analyst expectation …
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Eric Auchard / biz.yahoo.com:
Google profit misses Street target, shares tumble — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Google Inc. (NasdaqNM:GOOG - News) fell as much as 19 percent on Tuesday after the Web search company widely missed Wall Street earnings targets due to relatively weak British results which led to a high tax rate.
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Associated Press:
Google earnings jump but miss lofty expectations — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google's (GOOG) fourth-quarter profit nearly doubled, but fell well below the high expectations for the online search engine leader. — The Mountain View, Calif-based company said Tuesday that it earned $372.2 million …
Rhys Blakely / Times of London:
Google plays down Napster bid talk — Google today played down speculation it is poised to battle Apple's dominance in the online music market, amid reports that the internet company is considering buying Napster, the one-time illegal music website. — However, despite Google's firm denial …
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Jack Loftus / searchopensource.techtarget.com:
OSBC director: Can Microsoft become one of the OSS guys? — As part of what has become a tradition at SearchOpenSource.com, Open Source Business Conference director Matt Asay sat down for an update on what to expect in open source. — In this interview, Asay contends that Microsoft …
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Dave Rosenberg / Open Resource:
Banking on Open Source in Europe — Our man in Europe, Matthew Langham (aka Silent Penguin) contributes this piece on the state of open source in Germany. — Banking on Open Source — Last week, I attended the "Open Source meets business" conference in Nuremberg, Germany.
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
Microsoft ships RSS platform — This morning Microsoft has released a public beta of version 7 of their Internet Explorer web browser, aimed at developers, although I'm sure a lot of tech-savvy and adventurous users will download and install it as well. — This release is significant …
IEBlog:
IE7 Beta 2 Preview Available — If you're a developer, an IT Pro, or just plain interested, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ ie7/ to try the IE7 Beta 2 Preview. — What's a beta preview? It's a release for everyone involved in making the Internet work.
Adam Pasick / Reuters:
Newspapers take aim at Google in copyright dispute — DUBLIN (Reuters) - A group representing global newspaper publishers has launched a lobbying campaign to challenge search engines like Google that aggregate news content. — The move comes as the newspaper industry's traditional business model …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
StarForce threatens to sue me for criticizing its products — A company that was criticized on Boing Boing has threatened to sue me, and claims to have sworn out a complaint against me with the FBI. — Yesterday, I posted about StarForce, a harmful technology used by game companies to restrict their customers' freedom.
Matthew Levine / alistapart.com:
In Search of the Holy Grail — I'm sorry. Really. I didn't name it. I don't mean to overstate its importance or trivialize the other and rather weightier Holy Grails. — But the name's out there, and we all know what it means. — Three columns. One fixed-width sidebar for your navigation …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Online Storage Gang — The online storage market is evolving fast. In the past, users could expect no more than a simple service where files could be slowly uploaded and downloaded from a mapped virtual drive or a simple web based interface. Little competition (and the bursting of the bubble) …
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