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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance — Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance — Over the past three or four hours Search Engine Journal has noticed some interesting referrals from Google.com/finance. — After visitng the referring URL, I saw that the live Google 404 …
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Hey Google — where's my calendar? — Not content with controlling a majority of the market for online search and search-related advertising, Google has been rolling out add-ons to its online hegemony over the past year or so, including GTalk, Google Analytics and so on.
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Page Creator Can't Handle Capacity — Google Page Creator Can't Handle Capacity — In what is becoming a trend with Google Beta product launches (thinking Google Analytics and Accelerator), Google Page Creator, which was launched yesterday, has had to stop issuing new accounts due to heavy demand.
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Claudia H. Deutsch / New York Times:
A Milestone for iTunes; a Windfall for a Downloader — It may well have been the best 99 cents Alex Ostrovsky ever spent. — Early yesterday, he paid that amount to download "Speed of Sound," a song on the Coldplay album "X&Y," from the iTunes Music Store, the Internet music shop …
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Jonathan Silverstein / ABCNEWS:
iTunes: One Billion Served — Apple iTunes Hits Its Billionth Download — Feb. 23, 2006 — There's been a counter on Apple's iTunes Web page since early February that's been ticking up to the music service's 1 billionth download, and sometime last night it happened.
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Amy Gardner / apple.com:
iTunes Music Store Downloads Top One Billion Songs — Scholarship at Juilliard School of Music to be Created — CUPERTINO, California—February 23, 2006—Apple® today announced that one billion songs have been legally downloaded from the iTunes® Music Store since it was launched less than three years ago.
Om Malik / CNN:
The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom — An open-source project tries to break Cisco's lock on the $4 billion corporate router business. — (Business 2.) - At the San Francisco offices of Panorama Capital, two dozen engineers, venture capitalists, and academics gathered around …
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Here Comes Open Source Telecom — My latest Business 2.0 article, The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom, just went online over at the CNN Money website. This is a story about a stealthy startup called Vyatta, that has build the world's first commercial open-source router …
John Borland / CNET News.com:
MPAA sues newsgroup, P2P search sites — The Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it sued a new round of popular Web sites associated with movie piracy, including several that serve as search engines but do not distribute files themselves.
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Will there be a BlackBerry shutoff? Eight experts tell me — On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge James Spencer will hold a hearing on the ongoing patent infringement dispute between BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion and patent holding company NTP. — Based on Judge Spencer's findings …
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Gary / ResourceShelf:
New Academic Paper Offers a Review of Weblog Searching — Search News — Web Search — Weblog Search — New Academic Paper Offers a Review of Weblog Searching — The paper will be presented at the 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'06) 2006 in April.
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
YAHOO! TO BAN COMPARITIVE SEARCH ADS — Danny points at a SEW thread noting that starting next month Yahoo! will no longer allow competing businesses to bid on trademark phrases: … Trademark terms are some of the most valuable words in the search space.
Mike Evangelist / Writers Block Live:
The HD Boycott Begins Now — This is important. I really want you to understand what's going on with the video industry's push towards HD. They are engineering a complete removal of the concept of fair use. They are setting up systems that will completely control how, when and where you can use content that you buy.
Jason Snell / Macworld:
MacBook Pro: First day, first Lab tests — Latest laptop looks and feels like a PowerBook — Our first MacBook Pros arrived yesterday—three 2GHz models bought with our own coin—and the testing started immediately. Macworld Lab has been churning away on benchmark testing …
gizmag.co.uk:
The world's most advanced LCD TV - 56-inch and 3840 x 2160 pixels — February 24, 2006 Taiwanese Chi Mei Optoelectronics is a name you may not know, despite the company being the third largest LCD TV panel supplier in the world. At CEBIT in Hannover in mid-March, the company will display the world's first 56-inch LCD TV panel.
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Mabber Mobile Instant Messaging — Mix open instant messaging protocol Jabber with mobile phones and you get Mabber, a new product from a team based in Cologne, Germany. The team at Mabber were early adopters of the Jabber protocol and with the lower mobile data charges in their home country decided …
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
GQ Magazine Sends a Message — The men's monthly ventures into a new arena — text messaging readers via cell phone. But will advertisers answer the call? — GQ is about to push its men's magazine franchise into the quickly growing world of wireless media.
