I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google. During the company's earnings call last week, Liddell indicated that Microsoft is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its online advertising business, an investment he allowed would be "a drag" on the rest of the company.

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The Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center is taking its services to the web. WWRC recently launched a YouTube channel filled with videos of services offered at the center. Director Rick Sizemore says the goal for starting the YouTube channel is to reach more people across the country. He says it's not unusual for people to travel some distance to Woodrow Wilson for rehabilitation.

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Given the way Google has grabbed search traffic over the past couple years, it seemed liked they would have garnered 100 percent of it by now. But we all know that is impossible, and according to comscore data, the Internet giant didn’t even gain this quarter and may even lost a fraction of a percent point.

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You're on the go all the time -- maybe for business, maybe because it's a byproduct of your busy lifestyle. But either way, your life would be easier if you had Internet access wherever you are. Well, when it comes to the Internet, you CAN take it with you! You just need the right stuff, and Mobile Internet For Dummies tells you what that is, how to find it, and how to use it.

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A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that struck down as unconstitutional a 1998 law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, is the latest twist in a decade-long legal battle over the law, the Child Online Protection Act.

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Mere hours after Michael Arrington reported that his sources suggested that MySpace would roll out support of OpenID some time later this week, the rumors have been confirmed officially in a press release. And it would have been strange not to expect a big announcement from MySpace the day before Facebook's developer conference, right?

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Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside and outside of Google. The two companies have reportedly signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source.

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One of the most frustrating things about the iPhone is that it can’t handle Flash, which has become the standard for streaming video on the web. YouTube managed to work around this by transcoding all of its videos into the H.264 format, but other video serving sites have failed to follow suit. Today Episodic, a video web publishing company.

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Social gaming network Zynga just got some serious funding. It raised $29 million in a B round led by Kleiner Perkins. (IVP and prior investors Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group and Avalon Ventures also participated in the round). The company is also announcing the acquisition of YoVille, a virtual-world app for Facebook with 150,000 daily active users. And, along with the cash, new Kleiner partner Bing Gordon is taking a board seat and an operating role at the startup.

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The medical industry is one that thrives on innovation and evolution. New procedures, medicines, diseases, and theories are released practically every day. In such an environment, the need for a website to reflect and allow for documentation is apparent. MedPedia is a new project, currently in development, that will offer an online collaborative medical encyclopedia for use by the general public.

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Glam Media has hired Michael Adair, most recently Google’s head of North American sales finance, as their new VP Corporate Development and Finance. Prior to Google Adair was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and he has an MBA from Harvard. He’ll be responsible for making investments and acquisitions on behalf of Glam.

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Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is out with numbers and it appears that while there is a bit of growth, it's nothing to write home about. According to the Business Wire report: " Revenues were $1,798 million for the second quarter of 2008, a 6 percent increase compared to $1,698 million for the same period of 2007. "

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With Yahoo!YHOO just a day removed from dodging a nasty proxy fight, you could understand if investors let the company off the hook for what looks to be a poor second quarter. No one expects much out of Yahoo!, which has spent most of the year distracted by the prospect of a MicrosoftMSFT takeover and the possible removal of its entire board.

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Google has overtaken Microsoft as the UK's most popular brand, according to this year's Superbrands survey. Microsoft topped last year's list, but was pipped this year by Google which moved up from third place. Microsoft will take some consolation from the fact that it still comfortably trounced Apple, which came in at number 11.

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THE Singapore embassy in Doha has launched its new website, featuring an electronic consulate (e-consulate) information system. The website, http://www.mfa.gov.sg/doha, provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on the consular and visa services to both Singaporeans as well as members of the public residing in Qatar, an embassy spokesperson said yesterday.

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