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Ebay is introducing its own social networking area today in an effort to try and keep sellers and buyers alike on the site.

Google brings AdSense to YouTube. The internet giant will be offering specific YouTube videos to the AdSense network. Any AdSense profits would be shared by the web publisher and the video maker. Adsense publishers will be able to specify the types of videos they’re willing to have appear on their site.

Acording to a newly released comscore study which looked at worldwide search engine use, web users perform 1.4 million searches every minute. According to this study more than 37 billion searches were done via Google in August, making them the clearly dominant search engine garnering about 60% of all searches. Second was Yahoo with 8.5 billion. Third was Baidu of China with 3.3 billion. Fourth was Microsoft with 2.2 billion. Rounding out the top five was NHN of South Korea with 2 billion. The data for the study came from 2 million users in over 170 countries.

Disney Mobile will be ending operations in the US on 12/31/07 because the market here is so very competitive.

Verizon Wireless introduced the Voyager as direct competition for the iphone. The Voyager is manufactured by LG. The phone is hinged and opens to reveal a keyboard and second screen. It will have a 2 megapixel camera, a high speed wireless connection and a slot for an additional 8gb of storage. Release is expected before the end of this year.

• 10/03/07 News bytes
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I’ve been contemplating upgrading my cellphone plan and/or my cellphone. I am not a heavy duty cell phone user at all, I tend to believe they are for emergencies and quick calls. I have a land line in my home and have no intention of giving it up. Noone gets my cell phone except people I need to speak to - family, a few friends and the kids schools. I do not text message. I do not go on the internet. I have Nextel, their service is ok in this area. I almost never use the 2way. But I go on the internet quite a bit and I blog. I’m trying to decide if either of these might impact my decision on what to do. Thoughts?

• 10/10/07 News bytes