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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 Manufacturing Electronic Sales Corp. (MESC) on January 23 and 24 of 2003. During that time, he deleted data, read e-mail, and downloaded a proprietary database from the network using the PC Anywhere remote control software, the agreement says.”
Google Labs has a new way to search. GoogleX pays tribute to Mac OS X by using a similiar interface to their programs bar. I have never used one, but have always liked it when I saw it. Many Google options in one place.
From NYT (via IHT):
“Publishers find it hard to keep giving away content online.
Consumers are willing to spend millions of dollars on the Web when it comes to music services and gaming sites. But when it comes to online news, they are loath to pay for it.”
From Reuters:
“Sales of portable digital music players are set to grow 57 percent this year after more than doubling in 2004, results of a global survey showed on Tuesday.
Over the next five years, shipments of MP3 music players will expand to 132 million units in 2009 from 36.8 million in 2004, market research group iSuppli said.
Shipments of MP3 players, of which Apple’s iPod is the best known, rose by 116 percent in 2004.”
From Wikipedia:
“March 14, written 3-14 in the USA date format, is the official day for Pi Day derived from the common three-digit approximation for the number ?: 3.14.”
I missed it 
From Yahoo! News:
“A software vendor that tried to drum up sales by offering to clean up nonexistent computer ’spyware’ has been temporarily shut down, U.S. regulators said on Friday.
The makers of Spyware Assassin tried to scare consumers into buying software through pop-up ads and e-mail that warned their computers had been infected with malicious monitoring software, the Federal Trade Commission said.”
From NYT:
“At first glance, digital music is the field in which Sony’s considerable assets seem best suited, with a little rearrangement, for a comeback. On one side, Sony has 50 years of experience in producing portable music players, beginning with transistor radios in the 1950’s and extended by its Walkman franchise that has sold more than 340 million players. On the other, it owns one of the world’s largest music labels to supply content. Yet in the iPod era, Sony’s headstart counts for nothing. It’s as if the company were the Sony Graphophone and Wax Record Company.”
Where can you find the most interesting weblogs? Which blogs have made their mark this year? Who will do anything for a nomination? Those questions will be answered in the one and only…
fifth annual weblog awards
the 2005 bloggies
Check it out at http://2005.bloggies.com/
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