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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
14 "Is Google Evil?" Tipping Points Since 2001 — Earlier I wrote how Google seems to have had a bad week, with some recent negative publicity making it seem like the tipping point of Google becoming the big bad company they don't want to be happening — at least perhaps in the eyes of many opinion makers on the web.
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Jimmy Guterman / PaidContent:
Google Under Fire; May Rule Forever Nonetheless — The press/blogosphere pendulum, rarely stable, is swinging to an extreme anti-Google position as we start the new year. The discovery of another contact-list hack inside GMail has led to the usual complaints about the company's dominance.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google, the King & the King Maker — This past weekend a series of posts from some of the more influential bloggers prompted me to ask the question: do we trust Google? Results of our spot poll indicated that at least our readers were almost evenly split into three camps …
Christopher Elliott / New York Times:
Wi-Fi Is Hitting the Road in Cars From Avis, but Technical and Legal Bumps Lie Ahead — Try connecting to a high-speed wireless network from a car, and you are pretty much limited to one method: rigging your laptop computer with a special modem and subscribing to a costly, and sometimes temperamental, wireless service.
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Is it a bargain or obsolete? — It's getting harder to know when to buy — The day after Christmas, prices on big-screen TVs went down and Raul Axtle pounced. — Axtle and his 16-year-old son, Shaheen, headed to a Best Buy electronics store in Emeryville, Calif., to buy the TV that Shaheen …
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Mike / Techdirt:Product Improvements Outpacing Even Planned Obsolescence?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
2007: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without — A year ago I wrote a post called "Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn't Live Without" and listed thirteen startups who's products made a real impact in my life. Those were the products that I loved, and used every day.
Antony Bruno / Reuters:
Ailing music biz set to relax digital restrictions — LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - The anti-digital rights management (DRM) bandwagon is getting more crowded by the day. Even some major-label executives are pushing for the right to sell digital downloads as unprotected MP3s.
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
Xbox 360 topped US hardware sales chart over Xmas - NPD — But Nintendo Wii close behind with 1.8m units sold — Market analysts NPD have suggested that the Xbox 360 was the best-selling console in the US over Christmas - with the Nintendo Wii trailing by just 200,000 units.
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Alex Bailey / cyber-knowledge.net:
GMail Vulnerable To Contact List Hijacking — Affordable Hosting — Using a form of cross scripting, it becomes easy to steal a GMail user's contact list if they visit a certain type of website. The only condition is you have to be logged in to GMail at the time of the attack.
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Music Industry Changes Its Tune on Podcasting — After two years of hesitancy, the music industry is finally taking its first steps toward embracing podcasting. — When podcasts attained prominence in 2004, amateurs and advertisers alike heralded the downloadable audio programs as the next step in the evolution of broadcasting.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Using Web Cams but Few Inhibitions, the Young Turn to Risky Social Sites — Popular Web sites like YouTube and MySpace have hired the equivalent of school hallway monitors to police what visitors to their sites can see and do by cracking down on piracy and depictions of nudity and violence.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Video retrenchment begins, Juice Wireless going for broke — Juice Wireless, the New York mobile video-sharing start-up, is still on hunt for financing, raising questions about its prospects amid a retrenchment hitting the video sharing industry in the new year.
Katherine Conrad / Mercury News:
Google, Apple, Yahoo boost valley market in real estate — Commercial real estate in Silicon Valley turned a corner in 2006 that it had been approaching for three years, thanks largely to property purchased by high-tech behemoths Google, Apple Computer and Yahoo.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker — Just before Christmas, Mozilla designer Alex Faaborg published some introductory posts on his blog about where Mozilla is headed with microformats. Quick background: Mozilla is of course the developer of the popular open source browser Firefox …
George Ou:
Critical Mac QuickTime zero-day exploit released! — A zero-day Apple QuickTime flaw for Mac OS X has officially kicked off the MoAB (Month of Apple Bugs). The exploit has been "100% reliable for a current up-to-date x86-based OS X system". Anyone wishing to confirm the vulnerability …
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InfoWorld:
P-to-P goes Hollywood — BitTorrent co-founder talks up business plans and death of DRM — With all the legal disputes arising from P-to-P (peer to peer) file sharing networks such as Napster, Gnutella, and KaZaa in recent years, it's easy to forget that the concept of P-to-P networks is almost as old as the Internet itself.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
The Race to Beat Google — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — In an article in the January 1st 2007 issue of NYTimes, reporter Miguel Helft writes about the race in Silicon Valley to beat Google. Certainly the future of search has been much talked about lately.
