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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 …
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade
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.
Discussion: BASEMENT.ORG
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 …
Discussion: InsideGoogle and Fast Company Now
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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Reuters:
Napster in talks with Google-NY Post
Eric Auchard / Reuters:   Google denies it is considering a bid for Napster
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 …
Discussion: Open Resource
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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.
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) …
Discussion: Nik Cubrilovic
Andrew / Traffick:
Did Google Miss?  —  Google's financial report seems to have disappointed Wall Street.  Drilling down on the numbers, though, ad revenues on the Google.com sites continue strong.  The content network revenues — looking a little sickly.  —  As stated by the CFO in the Q&A in the earnings call …
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 …
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.
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 …
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.

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