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From USA Today: “Searching for an answer to the music download revolution, automakers and audio suppliers are preparing a new wave of car stereos with enough built-in memory for hours of recorded music. Chevrolet will introduce an entertainment-system option on its Uplander minivan this spring that has hard-drive memory capable of storing 40 movies, 10,000 …
I blogged awhile ago about Yahoo!’s 10 annivertsary. The latest Search Engine Watch links to a neat page where they have thumbnails of 100 web moments. Check it out at http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
From PC World: “Google opened up its Gmail Web mail service to a wider scope of users this week by randomly offering, for the first time, accounts to some visitors of the main Google.com page. Until Monday, to get a Gmail account, a user had to be invited to the service by either Google or …
From Yahoo! News: “Following the lead of Google Inc. and other online competitors, Microsoft Corp. plans to start selling sponsored links on its search Web pages. Microsoft’s move into this potentially lucrative area capitalizes on detailed demographic information the software company has gathered over the years, raising privacy concerns for some.”
From PC World: “An Orange, California, IT manager who earlier pled guilty to hacking into his previous employer’s computer network was sentenced Monday to five months in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said this week. According to a plea agreement dated August 30, 2004, Mark Erfurt broke into the computer systems of Santa Clara, California’s …