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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Aims to Speed the Online Checkout Line — In its quest to "organize the world's information," Google now wants to keep track of your credit card number and where you live. — The company is introducing Google Checkout today, a service that will allow users to make purchases …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Google Checkout offers low-cost transactions for sellers; what's in it for me? — Google Checkout launched early this morning and may significantly change the online shopping sector. The system offers low transaction costs for merchants and mediation between buyers and sellers online …
Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Google Checkout: Amazon's worst nightmare — On Thursday, Google is launching its buying service, Google Checkout (known previously by Google-watchers as GBuy). It is going to make purchasing easier for Web users. You'll just enter your credit card billing and address information once …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google Checkout checks in — update Google on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated online payment processing system designed to offer shoppers with a Google account a quick way to pay for things. — Web sites and merchants can integrate Google Checkout into their sites …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Google Is Doing Checkouts? — The discourse and discussion in the blogosphere today is Google Checkout. — "The goal here is to make it be one nanosecond from the time the customer decides to buy to the time the transaction is complete and the product is on the way," Eric Schmidt …
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Checkout Is Live — Google released the long-rumored Google Checkout (Codename "Sierra"), a PayPal-like system to shop online without having to re-enter your personal information, and without having to remember different passwords. As opposed to PayPal though, Checkout …
PowerSellerKing:
eBay employee talks GBuy vs Paypal - calling GBuy (Google Checkout) evil? — eBay Strategies reported that an eBay employee, Rogelio Choy, "talked smack" about Google's GBuy in a recent blog post. — When I went to the employee's blog, no smack was to be found, just this nice little post:
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Launches Checkout, not the Rumored GBuy — Google has launched Google Checkout, a payment system for online retailers that's tightly integrated with Google AdWords. Checkout isn't the rumored PayPal killer, but it does offer some compelling features for both merchants and online shoppers alike.
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Official Google Blog:
Find it with Google. Buy it with Google Checkout. — We've heard time and again from users: "I find great stores through Google search, but every time I try to buy from an online store, I have to re-enter the same billing, shipping, and credit card information. There are too many steps.
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:It's official: Google launches 'Checkout' with predatory pricing …
Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants:
Saying "goodbye" to the Net — The Senate Commerce Committee, splitting 11 to 11 and therefore rejecting compromise language, set the stage for a carrier-controlled Internet. If the bill passes the Senate and is signed by the President, you can kiss the Net you know "goodbye."
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Chris Anderson / Wired News:
People Power — First, steam power replaced muscle power and launched the Industrial Revolution. Then Henry Ford's assembly line, along with advances in steel and plastic, ushered in the Second Industrial Revolution. Next came silicon and the Information Age.
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Credit Card-Sized PC — Computers are getting even smaller, and this CM-X270 from Compulab of Israel is the size of a credit card. It's a real PC, with four USB ports, a PCI bus, 128MB of RAM, a 512MB flash memory card, AC '97 audio, all running on an Intel XScale processor.
Microsoft Team RSS Blog:
Read Feeds with Ease in Beta 3 — IE7 Beta 3 is here! We've snuck in some goodies in the feed reading user experience based on your Beta 2 feedback (keep the comments coming!). We are feature-complete for feed reading in IE7, but we're still looking for feedback to make tweaks and fixes for the final release.
Agence France Presse:
Smile! A new Canadian tool can re-grow teeth say inventors — Snaggle-toothed hockey players and sugar lovers may soon rejoice as Canadian scientists said they have created the first device able to re-grow teeth and bones. — The researchers at the University of Alberta …
Scott Carney / Wired News:
One Cheap Desktop for All — Imagine a world where the next generation of computers isn't a hundred times faster and a lot more expensive than the one you just bought. What if they were designed without all the bells and whistles to be just a little more practical at a fraction of the price?
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Owen Thomas / CNNMoney.com:
Brain Drain: Another Microsoft exec jumps to Google — One more Microsoft executive looks at the Google threat - and concludes, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft's Google-fighters. So bad that one left abruptly last week …
