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Sears opens 'Second Life' showroom
Date: 01/08/07
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Virtual showroom lets customers do tasks such as changing cabinet and countertop colors in a kitchen and organizing a garage.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6147999.html
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Yahoo optimizes Messenger for Vista
Date: 01/08/07
Keywords: yahoo
Loaded with new features, Yahoo Messenger for Vista is set to be released in second quarter of the year.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6147793.html
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Game time for Showtime
Date: 01/05/07
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Cable channel's upcoming On Broadband Networks will offer online video game trials, rentals and downloads.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6147641.html
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British pop chart to incorporate downloads
Date: 01/05/07
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Starting Sunday, any song downloaded from the Internet can compete for the No. 1 single spot.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6147537.html
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Democrat politico ventures into 'Second Life'
Date: 01/05/07
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A House Democrat shows up in the popular virtual world and says it will eventually turn into "an important forum" for politicians.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6147432.html
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Mobile search Google's newest Chinese endeavor
Date: 01/04/07
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Tech megalith collaborates with China's largest cellular provider to offer mobile search services.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6147112.html
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Two more executives depart Guba
Date: 01/04/07
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Seven months after ridding site of porn, video-sharing company sees management shakeup and declining traffic.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6147044.html
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Young turn to Web sites without rules
Date: 01/03/07
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While sites like YouTube and Myspace crack down on nudity and violence, new sites are treading into the realm of unfiltered live broadcasts.
The New York Times
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6146707.html
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Firefox developer blasts Google
Date: 01/02/07
Keywords: google
Blake Ross, a leading Firefox developer, charges that Google uses its powerful search engines to unfairly promote their own products.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6146583.html
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CheckFree to buy Carreker
Date: 01/02/07
Keywords: software
Maker of software for online bill paying agrees to pay $206 million for banking-services specialist Carreker.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6146520.html
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Ailing music biz set to relax digital restrictions
Date: 01/02/07
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With CD sales continuing to decline, major labels may have no choice but to offer unprotected MP3 downloads.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6146478.html
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Washington Post shoots for closer Web, print ties
Date: 01/02/07
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Newspaper is latest example of how top U.S. publishers are retooling news operations for the Internet.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6146468.html
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France: UFO sightings are no X-Files
Date: 12/29/06
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Thirty years' worth of reports, from general public and airline pilots, to go online in late January or mid-February.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6146358.html
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Guba CEO steps down, says more execs may follow
Date: 12/29/06
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Thomas McInerney, competing in video sharing longer than almost everyone, doubts YouTube's success can be duplicated.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6146255.html
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U.S. 'Joe Blow' tracks Iraq war dead
Date: 12/27/06
Keywords: web
His Web site attracts as many as 1 million hits a day from analysts, journalists, military officials and general public.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6146072.html
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Judge: Can't link to Webcast if copyright owner objects
Date: 12/22/06
Keywords: web
Decision appears to be the first to deal with direct or "deep" links to Webcasts.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6145744.html
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Virtual world may revive outlawed experiments
Date: 12/21/06
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Psychologists consider using virtual environments to run experiments that wouldn't be practical or ethical in real world.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6145400.html
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Yahoo China wins unfair-competition lawsuit
Date: 12/21/06
Keywords: yahoo
Operator of the Qihoo search engine ordered to stop competing unfairly and compensate Yahoo China's owner.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6145353.html
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Yahoo's Sue Decker has a big to-do list
Date: 12/21/06
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Current CFO is taking on a key advertising role next year as the suddenly wobbly company looks to get back on firm ground.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6145304.html
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Grant funds open-source challenge to Google library
Date: 12/20/06
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Internet Archive receives $1 million from charitable trust to help boost up its open-source alternative to book-scanning efforts.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6145239.html