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Reuters:
Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec: study — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than tripled in December from a year ago and accounted for a larger percentage of overall traffic to those sites, according to data released on Wednesday.
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Jenstar / JenSense:
AdSense Competitive Ads and Services Policy just got a lot tighter for publishers — Publishers have often complained about the rigidness of the AdSense policy that prevents publishers from running AdSense on the same page as another contextual ad program. So running AdSense & Yahoo Publisher Network …
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Jenstar / JenSense:
Google AdSense updates their policies for January 2007 — It's Google AdSense Policy Update Time! — We have had the same Google AdSense policies in place since March 2006, and with recent changes being made to things such as how publishers can use images with their ad units …
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Multiple announcments today — Good news arrives today on several Windows Vista-related fronts, my friends ... read on. — Windows Anytime Upgrade — Today we're announcing further detail on how Windows Anytime Upgrade works. Come 30 January, Windows Anytime Upgrade will allow customers …
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Terry Ott / Toronto Sun:
Deal for Beatles on iTunes in works — The worldwide Beatles grapevine is buzzing over the distinct possibility that the long-awaited remastering of the Fab Four's United Kingdom CD back catalogue will finally see the light of day — by June. — As per usual, Apple/EMI is presently mum …
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Apple:
Apple Reports First Quarter Results — Revenue Exceeds $7 Billion; Record Profit of $1 Billion — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 first quarter ended December 30, 2006. The Company posted record revenue of $7.1 billion and record net quarterly profit of $1.0 billion, or $1.14 per diluted share.
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Serdar Yegulalp / InformationWeek:
Review: Six Rootkit Detectors Protect Your System — While many security suites have a basic level of detection, these standalone tools will do a search-and-destroy on the rootkits that may be hiding in your system. — In October 2005, Windows expert Mark Russinovich broke the news …
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Scott Kirsner / New York Times:
Some Bling for Your Blog — PASTOR BOB HYATT acknowledges that his widget fixation may be getting a little out of control. — On his Web log, Pastor Hyatt, the leader of the Evergreen Community in Portland, Ore., has woven in widgets, or mini-applications, that show a selection of book covers …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Tim Draper IMs Meebo — Meebo, a web based instant messaging service has raised $9 million in series B funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson and existing investors Sequoia Capital. The company had previously raised $3.5 million in Series A funding, mostly from Sequoia Capital.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:IM service Meebo growing quickly, raises more cash
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Derik DeLong / MacUser:
Fuse with me — MacFUSE is the new hotness from Google's Mac genius, Amit Singh. It allows developers to quickly implement their own filesystems into Mac OS X. FUSE itself is a cross platform software package. The most exciting plugins for most Mac users are the sshfs and ntfs.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Don't Like the Dancing Cowboys? Results Say You Do — Most online advertisements are becoming less obtrusive and more tailored to the interests of individual Web users. Among the stubborn holdouts are the two-stepping cowboys, frisky rooftop dancers and weird tattoos in ubiquitous Web banners from LowerMyBills.com.
Mike / Techdirt:
Sony Now Re-Writing History: Claims PS2 Drove Success Of The DVD Format — from the surfing-the-wave-doesn't-mean-you- created-it dept — Sony has been facing plenty of problems (er... challenges) lately, from exploding batteries to rootkits to PS3 launch troubles, and it's even resulted in them claiming awards they didn't win.
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:Newsmaker: Sony's brave Sir Howard
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Brier Dudley's blog
BBC:
Open source gets European boost — The European Commission has added its voice to the debate about the use of open source software. — A report funded by the Commission concludes that the software could offer considerable savings to organisations with little effect on their business.
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Vector One
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Find toxic wastelands via Google Earth — ARLINGTON, Va.—The Environmental Protection Agency wants to make it easier for Google, Microsoft and other enterprising online mappers to spread the word about potentially hazardous sites in your neighborhood. — Agency representatives …
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Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
Trendwatching - Wired Or Tired In The Blogosphere — Last week Apple's iPhone made a stunning debut. There are very few people who were not blown away by what Steve Jobs showed to the world, from the stage of MacWorld 2007. The irony was that beforehand, we didn't know what exactly the iPhone would be …
Read/WriteWeb:
e-learning 2.0 Infiltrates the Classroom — Disclosure: One of the products listed in this post, Digication, has been a recent R/WW sponsor. — One of the more active markets for web 2.0 is e-learning; for example we've written before about ChinesePod (learning Chinese) and Elgg (social network software for education).
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
LG's KE850 PRADA official: iPhone says, wha? — Check it Apple, LG just went official with their iPhone look-a-like LG KE850 Prada phone which they proudly tout as the world's "first completely touch screen mobile phone." A claim they can rightly make since the phone will hit select mobile shops …
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Dale Dougherty / O'Reilly Radar:
The Influence of TiVo … How influential is TiVo? TiVo is at once a lesson in how slowly an industry responds to a new idea and also how a relatively small group of enthusiasts helped create a whole new category of device, which was tougher to commoditize than most people thought.
