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eBible Brings You Jesus 2.0

The second coming? No, silly, Bible-centered social media. Having trouble finding that particularly obscure Bible verse? Lose your Strong’s Concordance? eBible.com, still in private beta (shouldn’t that be alpha/omega?), promises a Web 2.0 soul searching experience.

Microsoft Gets Gas Pump

TechWeb writes that the winner of Microsoft’s 2006 OEM Embedded Patner of the Year at their Mobile & Embedded DevCon is gas pump that runs Windows CE.

Google Link Boosts Sony Visits

Sony Pictures enjoyed serious link love when Google UK dropped a link to them at the bottom of its search result pages.

Game Boy Could Cease To Be

The world’s longest-running game system may face a slow, quiet death. According to the president of Nintendo, the Game Boy line is not likely to be continued in the future.

Google Sticks With Stock Structure…

CNET has details of Google’s annual shareholder meeting.

Fleet Maintenance Management Software

The movement of goods in and out of warehouses, distribution centers and final outlets like retail chains form an integral part of supply chain management.

Screen Shots of Google Notebook

Michael Arrington has secured some screen shots of Google’s soon to be launched Google Desktop.

No You Can’t Sell NZ On eBay

There are a number of things one can’t sell on eBay, like an immortal soul or a baby; as it turns out, one can’t sell New Zealand on eBay either. Not even if the seller takes PayPal.

LAPD Blogs

The Los Angeles Police Department has started a blog, joining the LA Fire Department which has had one for quite awhile.

Microsoft Targeting Google, Maybe

Frequent media stories that aim at pushing Microsoft and Google into an all-out battle royale don’t really hit the mark according to Microsoft’s CEO.

Gannett Discovers Local Search

The newspaper publisher picked up Planet Discover, a local search and integrated advertising technology company, for its publication websites.

Lawsuit Against Maine Blogger Dropped

Blogger Lance Dutson earned a victory against Warren Kremer Paino Advertising as the ad agency dropped its lawsuit against the web developer who criticized their business with the state of Maine.

How to Build Trust and Rapport Quickly

If you’re working hard, but aren’t consistently generating enough sales and getting referrals, chances are it’s a matter of trust.

UFO-Hunting Hacker To Be Extradited

A British hacker who broke into U.S. military systems (including those of the Pentagon, Army, Navy, and Air Force, among others) may be extradited to the United States. Gary McKinnon would be “charged with the biggest military computer hack of all time,” according to U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty.

Apple’s 2006 Developer Conference

Excitement is building for Apple Computer’s Worldwide Developer Conference, at which its new operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, is to be shown for the first time. The company says that innovative ideas will abound at the event, with the number of sessions expected to reach 130.

Sarbanes Oxley and IT

For most, the section 404 solution will serve as a central repository for internal control documentation.

New Features in KeywordDiscovery

Customers of Trellian’s KeywordDiscovery service received an announcement today:

AIM Pages Users For Social Network

AOL is going up against MySpace and other sites as it attempts to draw some of the younger online crowd to base their profiles where they do their instant messaging.

No Yahoo Stake For Microsoft

Microsoft did offer Yahoo CEO Terry Semel a deal where Microsoft would get a stake in Yahoo’s search business, but suggestions that Bill Gates was ready to buy Yahoo simply didn’t happen.

France Could Legalize Piracy Software

Not to the get into the intricacies of French lawmaking, I’ll defer to a source nearer to it (thanks ZDNet). French lawmakers have modified proposed legislation on digital rights management (DRM) that will make it legal for hackers to crack copyright protection and distribute the software at will.

25 Things I Learned on Google Trends

To give you a sense of its tremendous power for tapping into the world psyche, here are 25 things I learned on Google Trends. Someone should start a blog on this kind of stuff.

Local Search Hosts The Ad Battleground

The major online players, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, all have advanced their efforts at serving local markets with improved mapping products, high-quality imagery, and advertising tools aimed at bringing the offline small business into the online world.

ICANN Votes Down XXX Domain

The .XXX Sponsored Top Level Domain (sTLD), the so-called “virtual red light district” proposed by the ICM Registry, was voted down by the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) yesterday by a vote of 9 to 5.

JCP Awards Set For JavaOne

The Java Community Project Program Management Office disclosed the nominations for the 2006 JCP Program Annual Awards in five categories.