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Google’s Marissa Mayer over on Official Google Blog clears the air about the current AOL-Google deal, what it means to them and to AOL.
There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. [...]

AOL is pushing its ADSL2+ aggressively in Germany, and will roll out the service in 20 cities. It is selling 16Mbps for EUR39.98 per month.

Andy got a video carol from folks over at Skype … a customized one at that. It immediately made me think - did the video VoIP providers like GloPoint and Vonage, miss an opportunity with the New York Transit strike? What if Vonage, Packet 8 and others offered free video calling to everyone living in [...]

If the cellphone handset line-up from the likes of Nokia, Samsung and LG is any indication, Matt Maier predicts a frenzy of activity around 3G Wireless in 2006, and a lot of these toys could be on display at the CES. In his latest Wireless Report, he writes,
LG, Motorola, and Nokia all plan to introduce [...]

Will a people’s collective be able to beat Google at the search game?
That’s the proverbial $64,000 question, and venture investors are trying to answer that by funding start-ups such as Wink, that plans to go live perhaps as soon as Thursday, according to Silicon Valley sources. The company has been in a limited beta since [...]