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It all starts with a rumour. Someone said something to someone else and that someone told another person and before you can say, "cheese-doodle", a wrong-story rumour grows out of control as speculation spreads it far and wide.

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Each retelling of the story adds another dimension, based on the teller's assumptions and perspective. An interesting phenomenon has played out in the search engine press over the past two days, as a non-story about something Google is not doing grew into the imminent death of Microsoft almost overnight.

Did you hear about Google cornering the market on low-cost PCs? It was a big story, broke by the tech-savvy folks over at the LATimes . According to the story, Google was about to introduce ultra low-cost PC's and sell them through Walmart. In the 24-hour period it took for Google's PR-chief David Krane to respond, speculation led to introduction of the long anticipated (but never confirmed) Goog/OS operating system.

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As the story grew, the Google-branded computers would be manufactured in China and sold below $199 in Walmart stores throughout North America . Sporting a Googlized version of Linux, the mini-computers would run what was essentially a Google made operating system, employing Google's vast array of free, membership based services, server-side software features. Free Gmail accounts and one gig of online storage space with every computer along with the host of other real and anticipated Google features.

The Google/AOL deal would give Google primetime and feature movie content that could be sent via the proprietary Google-Video Viewer that would also come coded into the OS in every unit. Since all the software is free, along with the server-dependent operating system, that older company in Redmond would be made obsolete for the satisfied home user. The wonderful world of the Googleverse in a cube shaped box packaged and ready to ship to an eager market. Amazing but not real.

If the story were a bit more real than a rumour, it would put the fear of a grass-roots god into Microsoft. The mere thought of it should. Gates and Co. should be watching very closely as Google is more than capable of doing something similar, even if they have no plans of delivering their own computer units. Like Microsoft of old, they don't need to make the computers; they just need to work with computer makers. Google, better than any other search engine understands the Internet itself is a meta-operating system used alongside the primary OS running individual computers.

Microsoft has grasped it, appointing Ray Ozzie as VP in charge of getting-it-back-together, in late 2005 however they might have grasped it too late. The biggest speculations about Google are the same story as the biggest speculations around Microsoft. They are two sides of the same ever-spinning coin.

Larry Page is speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. So are Yahoo's Terry Semel and Microsoft's Bill Gates. A number of announcements are expected to emerge, leading to speculation that a lot more column space will be filled thinking about what it's all about.

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Page Bringing Google Pack, Videos To CES

By David Utter

The keynote by Google co-founder Larry Page at CES 2006 will unveil video purchase options and a new downloadable software pack from the company.

Partnerships with the NBA and CBS form the center of the pending keynote address by Page in Las Vegas. On Friday, video download purchasing and a bundle of software from Google should be the major points in Page's talk, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Sources familiar with the upcoming keynote disclosed the topics to the Journal. Google's formal take on the keynote said, "We have a number of exciting announcements that we look forward to sharing in detail on Friday afternoon, during Larry's keynote address at CES."

That excitement should include the NBA and CBS among other video partners. Recent changes to the Google Video terms of service in December revealed language that focused on payment for video downloads. The Journal opined that a broad enough video initiative could put Google in competition with Apple.

The report listed the Google Pack's software contents:

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Total Site Revamp, Need Help

Did anyone watch the Texas/USC game last night? What an incredible game. Absolutely incredible. All congratulations are due to the Longhorns and more notably, Vince Young for a once-in-a-lifetime performance. Wow.

Apologies for the sports sidebar... In today's update, poster Nox is needing some help with updating a site from a FrontPage-designed site to a dynamic, database driven, XHTML-friendly site with search functions. Take a look at Nox's post and see if you can suggest some courses of action to be considered. Take care and if you are in Austin, Texas, don't celebrate too hard.

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Need Recommendations - XML to PHP with Search

I will outline the project I have and the resources and skills that I have and hope that you all can give me some recommendations on the best way to accomplish it. I am going to be doing a full redesign of a terribly old site done in Frontpage with an old cranky ASP database. The new site will be done with fully compliant XHTML & CSS.

The old asp database which is basically a member list, needs to be redone for the new site .. tons of options as to how to do this I know (believe me I know) yet I cannot decide which is the best choice for me.

Here is what I have to work with. They have specialized software that will export fully customizable reports to a variety of formats including XML. I hope to work with xml due to its flexible and open nature.

I know how to create simple XML, XSL to deliver information to XHTML pages but I really need to be able to have a member listing and search that can display the data by name or category at the very least.

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