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11:50 PM ET, November 8, 2006

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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple's MacBook goes Core 2 Duo, too

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Old Media and New Media: Friends, Not Foes — Search and advertising services from Google and Yahoo! are helping traditional media companies extend their content online and generate revenue — If content is king, then its queen is making money. This marriage of substance and sales …

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Atari Founder Likes Xbox360, Disses PS3 — Chuck E. Cheese, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell on the latest round of the console wars, and bringing food and games together... again. — Even if you only have a passing familiarity with the gaming industry, you've probably heard of Nolan Bushnell.

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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:

Rumsfeld resignation summarized in Mac OSX screenshot — Created by BoingBoing reader Brian Topping. Previously: Rumsfeld to resign. Who is Bob Gates? Link, and more.

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Reuters:

Google steps up investment in radio industry — Web search leader Google is hiring scores of radio sales people and is spending heavily in a bid to expand its position in the $20 billion radio industry. — Google spokesman Michael Mayzel said this week that the company will begin a public test …

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Eric Auchard / Reuters:

Google CEO denies rumor of YouTube legal reserve — SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on Tuesday denied a widely circulated rumor that his company had set aside $500 million to settle copyright claims by media companies …

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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:

Bezos banks on Amazon's utility services — Chief Amazon Jeff Bezos was first on stage on the second day the Web 2.0 Summit. Bezos pitched Amazon's compute and storage services, EC2 and S3, in the cloud, which grew out of what it took to run Amazon's shopping business.

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William Patry / The Patry Copyright Blog:

What the Election May Mean for Copyright — With the fate of the Senate still unknown, a full picture of the election remains to be drawn. On the House side, there is no uncertainty as to the majority, but we may not know for awhile who becomes chair of the IP subcommittee.

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