John Battelle links to this scary/thought-provoking/it-could-happen Flash video on the ACLU’s website showing a world where any business you call can know pretty much anything about you.

Media and bloggers everywhere reported Microsoft’s release yesterday of the Internet Explorer 7 beta with its tabbed browsing, built-in support for RSS (including enclosures), and improved security.

Mark Evans has news of a deal between Google and VoIP Inc, which will provide Google with internet telephony services.

I remember driving home one night listening the radio (in the days before podcasting, maybe 20 months ago).

Microsoft has said that it won’t release an updated version of its Malicious Software Removal Tool until February 14, as was always scheduled, even though that version will contain a fix for the Kama Sutra/Blackworm/MyWife virus, which is set to delete Office documents on February 3.

Girl Geekette has instructions on how to install IE7 and keep IE6, letting you run both side-by-side on the same machine.

My dad taught me many lessons growing up and one that stands out as relevant to lead generation went something like this:

This clever mashup from a Winnipeg, Manitoba native (I actually lived there back in my high school days) enables users to easily add items for sale and list in the online classifieds…

News.com reports that the firewall in the Windows OneCare beta comes with blanket default rules for the Java Virtual Machine, creating a security hole that would be a major exploit point if OneCare were in wide use.

Lean is about flow and the elimination of waste. Waste can be defined as anything that does not add value to the product – anything that the customer would not want to pay for.

Is the Google party over? I don’t think so.

Google blamed a higher than expected tax rate for the reason it missed expected earnings, raising the question of whether they should have warned investors.

Download Squad links to a great tip for freeing Windows of device drivers you don’t use, which sit in system memory.

Bill Gates’ personal fortune overtaxed the IRS tax computers, while Larry Ellison’s accountant fusses at him for maxing out a $1 billion credit limit.

Tristan Louis takes a look at Google’s situation, compares it to Netscape’s, and determines that ” now is the time for executives at Google to look at history and, hopefully, not repeat it”.

New episodes of the reality show “Survivor” will be sold through the CBS.com website as well as Google Video and Comcast.

With the online Flash movement just about done with, we’re left with a ton of visual enhancements that do little more than animate or entertain.

DMV at MemeStreams has a theory that I find both shocking and believable, that Google borrowed against its tax rate the previous three quarters, leaving us with the whopping tax rate in the final quarter.

Voice Of America reports that American congressmen took to the floor today, blasting internet companies for being partners in censorship efforts, during a briefing earlier today.

One short sentence in Google’s fourth quarter financial press release has raised some eyebrows. “Google does not expect to make further donations to the Google Foundation for the foreseeable future.” But, seeing as the philanthropic arm of Google made a call for job applicants today, it doesn’t appear to have been thrown in the recycle bin.

Agence-France Presse demanded Google stop including its content in Google News, and a group of 18,000 newspapers could press search engines on the issue of content aggregation too.

The VoiceOne Communications unit of VoIP Inc. signed a pact with Google in September 2005, and Google began implementing services from the company the following month.

Ted Demopoulos and Shel Holtz have a new blog called Blogging for Business that accompanies a forthcoming book with the same name.

What’s the point of this? A 4GB portable hard drive for the Xbox 360, selling for 74.99, about $133.