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Loyal Searchers or Just A Bunch of Yahoopla?

In recent news, Yahoo! has invited a test group to participate in a new search incentive program.

Blogs House “Brand Assassins”

Beware the lowly blogger, all ye mighty multinational corporations, for the keyboard, the RSS feed, and the comments section are mightier than the public relations sword.

I’m Feed Up with Feedless News Sites

I am “feed up” with news sites that don’t offer quality RSS feeds.

Yahoo! Teams With Linksys For Wireless Audio

Yahoo and Linksys have integrated the Yahoo! Music Engine and a new wireless router to allow streaming audio from PC to the home stereo system and other audio devices.

Gmail for Business

Google is taking beta subscription requests for hosted Gmail accounts using your company or organization’s domain name.

WSJ, EFF Seething Over Blogs, Google

A sense of general unhappiness pervaded over a couple of issues, with the Wall Street Journal hinting at A-list blog types not fully disclosing their relationships with startups while the Electronic Frontier Foundation blasted Google’s Desktop 3 for its potential privacy threats.

UpSNAP Offers Cash for Mobile Browsing

If you’re going to use your cell phone to search for entertainment, news and weather, you may as well use a service that gives you a chance to win ten big ones

The UK Loans Market gets Competitive

As if the UK debt market isn’t at busting point already, there are several Loan companies vying for new customers and the year has just begun.

US Auto Makers Get Best Website Kudos

A new study released by Harris Interactive reports that of all the automotive websites out there, Cadillac, Hummer and Jeep get top marks by users. These sites won overall satisfaction awards because of key features like reliability, design, discovery speed, and ease of navigation.

QumanaXP Public Beta Launched

For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying out the closed beta versions of QumanaXP, an offline blog editing tool that is available in versions for Windows and Mac platforms.

Engaging Podcasts from IBM

I’ve been subscribed to IBM’s investor relations podcast series “IBM and The Future of…” since IBM started this series last August.

Microsoft Opens Up Windows Live Expo

Windows Live Expo (previously code-named Fremont) has opened for business, and since BetaNews is talking about, that means I don’t need to worry about my NDA (much) anymore on this one.

Generation Xbox Gets Tech-Literacy Test

While a teenager can artfully describe how to download a movie released just last weekend and how avoid the entertainment police, can he build a spreadsheet that would make an Accounting professor weep?

Intel Still Focus Of South Korean Inquiries

Previous visits by investigators in South Korea on Intel’s rebate and marketing programs have been scheduled, but the most recent visit came unannounced.

Google AdSense Hints

Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Roundtable and Webmasterworld are discussing Google AdSense hints.

Windows Live Messenger Beta Refresh

Neowin reports on and has screenshots of the Windows Live Messenger beta refresh that features a different UI and new features.

Craigslist To Charge Fees In Select Cities

Because of apartment broker and job-list spamming, Craigslist will begin imposing a nominal fee in the New York City website area and in other large cities.

Search Handled Five Billion December Queries

Search engines led by Google and Yahoo processed nearly 5.1 billion queries from users in December 2005, a huge jump from the 3.2 billion they delivered in December 2004.

Microsoft To Pick Up Legal Defense Tab For Partners

Microsoft has announced it will expand its protections for device makers who use Windows in embedded products.

Microsoft Campus Feels Middle-Age Spread

The company plans to spend $1 billion over the next three years to add fourteen buildings to its Redmond campus, a move they had originally said would be performed over a twenty-year period.

Goodmail Denies Fee-Mail Monopoly Game

We may never know what happened before AOL ran to the microphone to announce their Enhanced Whitelist’s resuscitation. But both Goodmail and AOL deny there was any intent to corner the bulk email market, leaving the world outside AOL conference rooms to wonder.

Loyalty Programs for Search

A number of folks have commented on the survey that some Yahoo! Mail users received about search incentives.

7 Security Updates Next Tuesday

Microsoft has announced seven patches coming next week’s Patch Tuesday, according to Bink.

Forum Nokia And Adobe On Mobile Flash Development

Finnish based Nokia announced on Thursday the creation of Forum Nokia PRO: Flash Zone. It’s a support program put together between Nokia and Adobe with the intention of helping Forum Nokia PRO companies to develop Macromedia Flash applications for devices deployed by wireless operators.