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Subscriber and good friend Alex sent this: I’m not sure if this is of any interest, but I ran into it and thought it may be a fun site to include in your PCIN newsletter. It allows you to enter a year and an amount of money and tells you how much money that would …
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 …
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 …
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 🙁