Jubo reminds that June 30, 2006 brings the end of extended support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows Me, which is the final death for any Microsoft operating system.

Yesterday at Northern Voice we had a panel discussion called “geeking out.”

John Peddie’s TechWatch: [...] Over 600 million PCs shipped in the last 3 years, and are still in service.

One of the best articles about the value of blogs that I’ve read in a long time was posted by Robin Good.

Robert Scoble says that some SEO’s are paying bloggers to do some link juicing.

MSN did that months ago…

Hmmm, I find this trend very troubling too (we were talking about it at Northern Voice yesterday). Seems that if you can get 20 bloggers together into a network you can lock out all others. Here’s an example.

Maryam and I are at the Northern Voice conference.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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