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On the lookout for the next search winner | CNET News.com

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NEW YORK--If Oscars-like obsessive analysis is the mark of an "it" industry, then Internet search has arrived.

Here at the Search Engine Strategies conference on Monday, people packed the seats, walls and floor of an opening session, "The Search Landscape," in which researchers parsed the market to show the latest trends. Data lovers could confirm which are the most popular search engines--Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, in that order--or find out how fickle Web surfers are: very.

Technology News Article | Reuters.com

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XM Satellite Radio (XMSR.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it would raise the monthly fee for its nationwide radio services by about $3, or 30 percent, and would fold some premium features into its basic plan.

Yahoo! News - AOL Integrates Buddy Lists With Outlook

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NEW YORK - Users of America Online Inc.'s instant messaging service can now automatically see from Microsoft Corp.'s popular Outlook e-mail application whether their friends and colleagues are online.

CBS News | A Real Johnny Appleseed | February 28, 2005�01:30:02

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He didn't stay at Apple long enough to be part of the team that shipped it out the door, but Jef Raskin, who died on Saturday, is widely regarded as the creator of the Apple Macintosh.

Raskin, who started working as head of the Apple publications department in 1978 as employee # 31, envisioned a computer that was cheaper and easier to use than the machines that were around during the late 70s and very early 80s.

Jef Raskin, Mac interface expert, dies at 61 | CNET News.com

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Jef Raskin, the human-computer interface expert largely credited with beginning the Macintosh project for Apple Computer, died Saturday at age 61.

Raskin, the author of The Humane Interface, died of cancer, according to a man who answered the telephone Sunday at Raskin's Pacifica, Calif., home.

What makes a good surgeon? Video games | CNET News.com

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The running joke that playfully follows Dr. James Clarence Rosser Jr. when he prepares to operate at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York is that this ebullient man possesses hands too large to perform traditional surgery.

Instead, Rosser prefers laparoscopic surgery, a technique that relies on an ultrasmall video camera to help him manipulate long, slender instruments inserted into patients through small incisions. It is, he said recently, as his hulking 6-foot-4 frame loomed over a surgical simulator using instruments he designed, an elegantly efficient approach to repairing the human body.

Spyware infiltrates blogs | CNET News.com

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Hackers are using blogs to infect computers with spyware, exposing serious security flaws in self-publishing tools used by millions of people on the Web.

The problem involves the use of JavaScript and ActiveX, two common methods used to launch programs on a Web page. Security experts said malicious programmers can use JavaScript and ActiveX to automatically deliver spyware from a blog to people who visit the site with a vulnerable Web browser.

Technology News Article | Reuters.com

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Imagine a wireless hotspot the size of Philadelphia or a rural community in the American heartland.

U.S. cities and companies are eyeing an emerging technology known as WiMax as a way to make high-speed wireless Internet services available in areas much larger that a typical Wi-Fi coffee bar or the local McDonald's. But it may prove difficult to make such services commercially viable

MercuryNews.com | 02/26/2005 | Sports-talk providers get in on Podcast game

Link: MercuryNews.com | 02/26/2005 | Sports-talk providers get in on Podcast game.

Have you ever wished your favorite sports radio show was talking about basketball instead of baseball, or hockey instead of football?

Sam Curtis Coutin feels your pain. That's one reason the San Francisco consultant is taking advantage of a phenomenon called podcasting to launch a network of specialized sports talk shows.

MercuryNews.com | 02/25/2005 | Everybody loves TiVo, but will it survive?

Link: MercuryNews.com | 02/25/2005 | Everybody loves TiVo, but will it survive?.

re TiVo and its well-known brand up for sale?

The pioneer of digital video recording has been swamped by Wall Street takeover speculation, causing a run-up in TiVo's stock price.