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  8 Jan 06, 03:33

  Google to launch online video store
  
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Friday the company is expanding into two new fields with an online video store and a computer maintenance service, moves that mark stepped-up challenges to its biggest computer and media rivals, including Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:36

  Google Pack: A Big Move Beyond Search
  
  At a late afternoon keynote address on Friday at the CES show, Google co-founder and president of products Larry Page made several new announcements on behalf of the company and painted a picture of how the consumer electronics industry—on the hardware side—could make life easier for everyone. Among the biggest announcements he made was Google Pack, a free download available now at pack.google.com, which installs a raft of software titles that "can make any PC run better."
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  8 Jan 06, 03:39

  ukHgsWMZT6VbIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Google Plans to Expand Video Offerings
  
  LAS VEGAS - Google Inc. is upping the ante in the online video gold rush, allowing content owners to set their own prices in a bid to create a more flexible alternative to Apple Computer Inc.'s pioneering iTunes store.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:42

  Cell Phone Includes Internet Telephony Capability
  
  LAS VEGAS-- A new cell phone about to debut could drastically reduce your cell phone bill by splitting calls between cell networks and less-expensive VoIP over WiFi.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:43

  Google Launches Video Download Service
  
  LAS VEGAS-- As expected, Google today launched a new video download service during a keynote here by co-founder and President Larry Page at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:44

  Citigroup rates Amazon.com No. 1 in Web shopping
  
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc. was the top-rated Web shopping site this holiday, according to a Citigroup study released on Friday that considered factors such as simplicity of checkout, price and product assortment.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:46

  Google not in competition with Microsoft: Schmidt
  
  LONDON (AFP) - The expansion of Internet search engine Google is not about direct competition with IT giant Microsoft, the company's chief executive said.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:47

  Google Introduces Software Starter Kit
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is distributing a free software startup kit designed to make computing safer and easier — a generous gesture driven by the company's desire to steer technology offline as well as online.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:50

  Wal-Mart: Error to Blame for MLK Link
  
  Human error is to blame for an offensive link at Wal-Mart's Web site that recommended a film about Martin Luther King Jr. to potential buyers of a "Planet of the Apes" DVD, the retail company said Friday.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:52

  Clear Channel to launch music video-on-demand
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clear Channel Communications Inc., the top U.S. radio conglomerate, on Friday said it planned to begin testing a free, music video-on-demand service next Tuesday as part of a strategy to bolster its Internet presence.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:53

  Yahoo expanding Web on TV, phones with Go service
  
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), the world's largest Internet media company, on Friday unveiled a new service that will make using its Web, media and personal services as easy to use on mobile phones and TVs as on computers.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:54

  Motorola to Add Google Button to Phones
  
  NEW YORK - Motorola Inc. will soon begin selling Web-enabled cell phones that feature easy access to Google's search engine by clicking on a button on the phone's keypad, the world's second-largest maker of cell phones said.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:54

  Microsoft Shuts Down Chinese Blog
  
  BEIJING - Microsoft Corp. has shut down the Internet journal of a Chinese blogger that discussed politically sensitive issues, including a recent strike at a Beijing newspaper.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:55

  S7Iyqx73rVz6VbIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DivX and Google Partner Up
  
  DivX, the video compression and content company with the sometimes renegade reputation, is actually more pervasive and established than some people might think. According to company executives, the DivX digital video file format is in some 50 million devices (DVD players, for example) around the world. This may explain today's announcement of a new partnership between Google and DivX.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:56

  Tech industry scrambles to get into Internet telephony
  
  LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) - High-tech companies are scrambling to get a piece of the action of Internet telephony as the new technology gains more ground against traditional phone service.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:57

  eBay Hacker Indicted in Massachusetts
  
  A 20-year-old Massachusetts man has been charged with hacking into dozens of customer accounts at online auctioneer eBay Inc. and racking up $32,000 in charges.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:59

  Google to cooperate with Motorola in mobile phones
  
  FRANKFURT (AFP) - Google, the US Internet search engine, is to cooperate with Motorola in the area of mobile phones, the head of Google Europe, Nikesh Arora, said in a German newspaper interview.
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  8 Jan 06, 03:59

  Review: Online News Video Better
  
  NEW YORK - Online news video is plentiful: NBC, ABC and CBS all have Web editions of their evening news, and CNN recently launched a four-channel broadband network carrying feeds mostly unavailable on its U.S. cable channels.
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  8 Jan 06, 04:00

  In Brief: Motorola joins Google for search, Kodak for pictures
  
  San Francisco (InfoWorld) - Google and Motorola have joined forces to make it easier for users to search for information from their mobile phones. Motorola will put a Google icon on some handset models that will enable users to connect wirelessly to Google's search engine. The handsets will be made available worldwide during the first quarter of 2006.
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  8 Jan 06, 04:02

  HP Drops iTunes for Rhapsody
  
  HP and Rhapsody made the joint announcement that HP will no longer be offering iTunes as a preinstall on consumer desktops and laptops, and will now include Rhapsody. This is a major coup for RealNetwork's Rhapsody, which has been without a preinstall contract since the Gateway days. It's also the final nail in the coffin for HP's partnership with Apple, which included not only an iTunes preinstall but an HP-branded iPod that was recently discontinued.
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  8 Jan 06, 04:03

  Portable media, connected devices dominate CES
  
  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Portable digital media and myriad devices connected to the Internet dominated the biggest U.S. technology trade show on Thursday, underscoring how entertainment has broken free of the living room.
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  8 Jan 06, 04:04

  Motorola Hooks Up iTunes, Google, Kodak
  
  The bar-style Motorola SLVR L7 will be the next phone to run Apple's iTunes software, Motorola executive vice president Ron Garriques hinted at a press conference last night.
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  8 Jan 06, 04:05

  Microsoft has no plan to buy Opera browser: paper
  
  OSLO (Reuters) - Software giant Microsoft has no plan to buy its small Norwegian Internet browser rival Opera Software, Microsoft's chief executive told Norwegian daily Aftenposten in an interview.
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  8 Jan 06, 04:16

  Tech industry works to move Web content off PCs
  
  Yahoo will dramatically leap out of the PC Friday.
  
  At the giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the search-engine giant plans to announce a set of popular Yahoo tools - including movie listings, trailers and online music - for televisions. It's free, though it requires the TV be hooked up to a PC running Microsoft's
  Windows XP or Media Center operating system. The Yahoo tools can be accessed by remote control if the PC has one. Otherwise, users navigate with the regular computer mouse.
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  8 Jan 06, 04:17

  Yahoo CEO sees easier Internet access in '06
  
  Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is intent on expanding the reach of the $58 billion Internet juggernaut to handheld devices and TVs. Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Semel will deliver a speech in which he shares details about plans and partners to extend Yahoo's many services, including search, instant messaging, photo sharing and Internet phone services.