Mozilla's Firefox to switch Russian language users' default search engine from Google to Yandex

http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/yandex-partnership-for-search-services/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/12/AR2009011200411.html
http://mashable.com/2009/01/10/firefox-yandex/
http://www.techspot.com/news/33154-mozilla-firefox-dumps-google-for-yandex-in-russia.html
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/338/1050338/firefox-dumps-google-in-russia

Quietly, AOL Becomes an Overseer of Niche Sites, plans to launch 30 new sites in 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/business/media/12aol.html
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090112/mediaglow-aol-glow-heres-the-entire-press-release-too/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/aol-continues-to-splinter-content-into-anti-portals/
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/aol-bets-on-niche-sites-sites-like-engadget-twx
http://profy.com/2009/01/12/aol-officially-turning-into-content-company/

Google disputes some claims of physicist's study of the environmental impact of Google searches

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5489134.ece
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-search.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/12/google-carbonfootprints
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156893/google_disputes_harvard_fellows_pollution_estimate.html
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2233765/google-debunks-search-energy
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11435
http://gigaom.com/2009/01/11/why-pick-on-google-how-green-are-we-the-people/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/11/are-we-killing-the-planet-one-google-search-at-a-time/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7823387.stm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156899/study_searching_google_damages_the_environment.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10140142-54.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/12/google_kettle_green_it_cobblers/
(related) http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5090AE20090110
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7821754.stm
http://www.webmasterworld.com/foo/3823919.htm

Microsoft $150 million advertising campaign touts software savings

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123172885079572771.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156902/new_microsoft_ads_stress_savings_derived_from_software.html
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/microsofts-new-150-million-ad-campaign-looks-cheap-on-purpose-msft
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1806

Google Helping Bloggers with Data Portability

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/01/google-blog-converters-10-released.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_helping_bloggers_with_d.php

Google Warns of Privacy Issues on the Social Web

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_warns_of_privacy_issues.php

Google showed 57 percent more ads-per-keyword during fourth quarter: AdGooRoo study

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/google-show-57-more-ads-per-keyword-in-q4-goog

Top Yahoo search advertiser earns money selling Google ads: AdGooRoo study

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/yahoos-top-search-advertiser-makes-its-money-selling-google-ads

YipIt offers Deep Local Search for Products and Services

http://www.centernetworks.com/yipit-local-search-manhattan

MediaPost asks: Is There Life After Search Trade Shows?

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98131

Google Deal Kicks Off One True Media 2009 Plans

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98063

Marthon Technologies Corporation teams up with Microsoft

http://blogs.zdnet.com/virtualization/?p=634

Yahoo's Internet-connected television / I Don't Want My Web TV: Slate

http://www.slate.com/id/2208222/

Google test YouTube instand video upload booths

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2009/01/youtube-upload-booth.html

London Times: Far from Silicon Valley comes challenge to Google and Microsoft

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/movers_and_shakers/article5496585.ece

Microsoft launches Live Maps service in Finland

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/01/10/live-maps-finland-hits-the-web.aspx

For United States Presidential Inauguration, Google Plans a Party to Cross Party Lines

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/technology/internet/12google.html
(related) http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=133665

New York Times looks at search engine optimization through LeeReedy Creative's Nick Yorchak

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/jobs/11starts.html

WEB / OTHER

Ubuntu Linux lead evangelist Mark Shuttleworth, A Software Populist Who Doesn’t Do Windows

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html

Computing pioneer who coined term hypertext, Theodor Holm Nelson, offers new book,“Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11stream.html
http://news.cnet.com/In-venting%2C-a-computer-visionary-educates/2100-1047_3-6248697.html

Journal Sleep Medicine examines cases of e-mailing while asleep

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11digi.html

CBS's TV.com Boosts Offerings in Bid to Secure Foothold

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/88e93db4-e045-11dd-9ee9-000077b07658.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123172197839472431.html

Local Ad Startup Yodle Raises additional $10 Million financing

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090112/local-ad-startup-raises-10-million-c-round-what-does-that-mean/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10140408-93.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/local-advertising-booster-yodle-growing-like-a-weed-raises-10-million/
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-lead-gen-provider-yodle-closes-10m-third-round/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/12/yodle-lands-10m-for-local-web-advertising/

China closes 91 Web sites in online crackdown

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSTRE5040F120090112
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/10/china.internet/index.html
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090111/tc_afp/chinainternetcensorship_newsmlmmd

Study: Half of Developers Plan to Work on software as a service, SaaS, in 2009

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156898/study_half_of_developers_plan_to_work_on_saas_in_09.html
(related) http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2773

FCC chairman Kevin Martin looks at making white space wireless Internet access available globally

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090112-fcc-were-taking-white-spaces-global-baby.html

TweetScan eases Twitter users message archiving

http://mashable.com/2009/01/11/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive/

Adobe takes LiveCycle tools to Amazon's cloud

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10140432-92.html
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2233768/adobe-systems-makes-amazon
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11439

Twitter Squatters Take Over Where Domain Squatters Left Off

http://techdirt.com/articles/20090109/1548133348.shtml

Fox Interactive Media To Shut Down Flektor And SpringWidgets

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/10/fox-interactive-media-to-shut-down-flektor-and-springwidgets/

Firefox extension Ghostery helps users see what information Web sites are tracking about them

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/whos_watching_you_on_the_web.php

As Facebook and other social sites expand globally, they face hurdles in local competition

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2009/tc2009017_093945.htm

Developer offers tips for browsing Android source code in Eclipse

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=706

Verizon to route all calls over Web within 7 years

http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-verizon10-2009jan10,0,413914.story