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Peter Drucker as Life Coach: Book Shares His Wisdom
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Droid and Android, ICANN votes, Win 7 residue
The world got another smartphone this week with Motorola's Droid, available from Verizon. Google rolled out Android 2.0 as well. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers finally voted to allow non-Latin characters in domain names, and Windows 7 news continued apace, among other things. So read on and Happy Halloween everyone (see number 10).

EFF launches 'Takedown Hall of Shame'
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Migrate to Windows 7--Slowly: Installing Apps
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Hands-On: Google's Music Search Is Just So-So
Google got a lot more musical this week, when it unveiled a new integrated music feature that lets you play full songs and limited previews in your search results. Enter a music-related query like a song title, artist, album name, or even partial song lyrics and Google says it will give you results with a song clip if available. The new service sounds great in theory, but in my tests it didn't quite match up to Google's claims.

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