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If you’re a gearhead and have a bunch of MP3 players from different companies, the Amazon MP3 Store is your best source for buying music downloads. It’s the only store in which all tracks are unprotected MP3s, meaning they can be played on any player and in any software. (Microsoft’s
Zune Marketplace is getting [...]
SuperBowl-Ads.com provides past commercials, much like Hulu does, but it goes one better: you can view commercials from Super Bowls dating back to 1998. It even has a few ads that aired earlier than that.
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The potential economic impact
Groups in favor of broader legislation agree that recent court rulings have altered the debate, but members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness, including the Business Software Alliance, Apple, Symantec, and Google, say there is still plenty of room for clarification in the courts in the area of damages.
“I’ve always believed [...]
A security researcher has discovered fake profiles for celebrities on LinkedIn that have links to malicious code, according to a blog posting on Trend Micro’s site.
Graham Cluley of Sophos also found many other fake celeb profiles and says that as recently as Thursday, the Troj/Decdec-A malicious JavaScript code was being found on them.
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News.com Poll Yang’s follies What was Jerry Yang’s biggest mistake as Yahoo’s chief exec?
CNET News’ Elinor Mills and Greg Sandoval contributed to this story.
Yang needed to step aside to give Yahoo a chance to start fresh, said David Wertheimer, the former president of Paramount Digital Entertainment and now the chief of the Entertainment [...]
What I really like about this tool is that it’s not cutting out the publisher and whatever ad system they have set up. It’s still loading every page, in full below the content that’s already loaded. It’s simply taking a step out for the user to have to click over and over again.
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Craigslist spokeswoman Susan MacTavish Best said the privately held company, headquartered in San Francisco, has seen a sharp uptick in business.
The research group suggested more consumers are logging on at Craigslist, the Web’s largest classifieds publication, as the ailing economy prods them to look for bargains.
Craigslist overtook MySpace as the most searched-for term on the Web last week, according to traffic-tracking firm Hitwise
On a recent trip to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., I got a quick peek at one of the test rooms Google uses to track user interactions with its products. Gmail’s product manager Todd Jackson told me it was just one of the many other user testing facilities the company had, and that collectively the testing had given the team important feedback of how people were using Gmail. Enough to change where entire features like user chat took up residence on a user’s screen.
