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Their queries may not yield more than a couple of cents difference in price, but even that adds up enough to compel people to search for gas price comparisons.

I’ve been playing around with Adobe Flex for a few days. Heard about them open sourcing the Flex SDK later this year. Didn’t think much of it, since it was already free. Then I read this from Dana. Maybe Dana has been wearing OSS goggles for a few too many days, but come on.

Two things strike me about the deal between Microsoft and Universal Music, which will see the record company get a cut of every Zune player the software giant (theoretically) sells. The first is that such an arrangement is an obvious sign that Microsoft is desperate, and the second is that it's an obvious sign that the major record labels are not just desperate but creatively bankrupt.

Okay, someone explain this to me: Intel, a company that makes microprocessors, is backing and selling - but not profiting from - a suite of "Enterprise 2.0″ software for companies that includes blogging software (Typepad), a wiki (Socialtext), and RSS feed software (Simplefeed and Newsgator), called Suite Two.

Steve Jobs did it again. For just a brief moment, all eyes in the tech industry swung back to Cupertino to focus on what Steve Jobs was holding in his hand. This time it was the iPod Video. Apple already lined up video content with Disney including "Desperate Housewives" and with 150 hours of video, you can watch all the episodes.

Shifting jobs and poaching executives show how much Microsoft and Google want the Chinese search market.

Accusations of improprieties in the sales of tax shelters have KPMG facing Arthur Andersen's fate.