Google, Yahoo May Go To Old Trafford

With current Manchester United sponsor Vodafone ditching its sponsorship of the Red Devils after the end of this Premiership season, the club's new owners have been looking for a new high-tech sponsor.

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An Online Christmas Carol: Part I

There is so much to tell you, it's hard to find where to start. Start at the beginning? No, I think we'll start with today. Today is Cyber Monday, the latest buzz-phrase hitting commerce news and the online answer to the frantic, good-will-towards-men elbowing and man-handling that occurs on Black Friday, all in the name of a guy who told us to give all our…

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Connecting Google Boxes To Cubes

When last we left the inestimable Robert X Cringely, he had announced the big shipping container slash portable data centers secreted away in Google's parking garage; his newest column claims little cubes with lots of I/O ports and connectivity will connect those containers to Internet users.

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Xbox Media Center Too Hard For Most?

Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research has an article about the Xbox 360's Media Center capabilities, and declares that, "[m]ost consumers simply will either lack the technology or skills to make this thing connect properly".

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