Virgin trying for mobile deal:Branson

1. Virgin trying for mobile deal:Branson

A year after announcing he aimed to set up a mobile reselling service in China, Richard Branson said on Monday his Virgin Group was still trying to get a slice of the world's biggest cellular market.

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- read full story from Yahoo! News, Dec 5 2005


2. Bringing Skype To The Masses

The day that you can buy a Skype-enabled headset with your cappuccino is closer than you think. The mostly free Internet communication service, recently acquired by eBay is wildly popular in Europe and Asia and is making a rapid push into mainstream America.

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- read full story from forbes.com, Dec 2 2005


3. With AOL's Triton, the Message Sent Is One of Overmarketing

America Online has come out with a major new software release, one that may change how millions of people experience the Internet. Not too long ago, that sentence could only have meant one thing: AOL had just upgraded the program used by subscribers to connect to the popular online service.

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- read full story from washingtonpost.com, Dec 4 2005


4. Gone Spear-Phishin'

About a year and a half ago, Amnon Jackont, an Israeli mystery novelist and Tel Aviv University history professor, became ensnared in a mystery of his very own: friends and students were receiving e-mail messages from him that he had never written.

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- read full story from the new york times, Dec 4 2005


5. RealNetworks to offer rhapsody service

RealNetworks is to launch a Web-based version of its Rhapsody subscription music service, becoming the latest company hoping to capitalise on growing consumer interest in software and services that can be accessed anywhere via the Internet.

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- read full story from scmp.com, Dec 5 2005


6. Madison Avenue faces Google fears

Google's search for revenue beyond its wildly popular pay-per-click advertising system has everyone from publishers to phone companies unnerved by the seemingly endless scope of the Web leader's ambitions.

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- read full story from CNET News.com, Dec 4 2005


7. Wi-fi venture tests Philadelphia

Wireless Philadelphia is a project that has been in development for several years, but which will not be finished until late 2006. It seems such an agreeable proposition to everybody involved - cheap wi-fi for an entire city.

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- read full story from BBC News, Dec 4 2005


8. Phishing with Google Desktop

It's nice to see Microsoft and Google's respective technologies working in tandem - but not so nice to see it used to expose data on your own hard disk to a malicious website operator.

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- read full story from theregister.co.uk, Dec 3 2005