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C’mon, I know you are out there lurking in the shadows feeling like total losers. Well, no need to feel so bad, according to Macplus.net(in French, but the babelfish can give you a hand with that), Le Figaro, France’s most respected daily newspaper has been caught using the venerable version of Quark.

The real irony of it is that the daily’s Editor had just announced that the methodoly and technologies used in the production of the new Figaro had been selected after very exhaustive testing and research. Macplus.net discovered the dirty little secret embedded in a PDF’s document info. So remember to cover your tracks or the french will call your mother a hamster and accuse your father of smelling of elderberries…

With apologies to Slashdot, from the You-can-run-but-you-can’t-hide department: Motorola has developed a system called Screen 3 that allows cellular carriers to push content to idle cell phone screens over their always on Internet connection. One of the first models to support this is the V551. And to think that John Dvorak was having a cow about too much advertising in the movie theater…

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If you need a good chuckle, or maybe you have a deadline and are really desperate, point you browser to the Ad Conceptor.(Sorry, site is now offline) And try to not hold it against them that their boss has an egomaniacal a lame talk show.

Update:Unfortunately the site is now offline.

The Wall Street Journal writes on Friday that Microsoft and Time Warner are once again engaged in talks. Details are sketchy but it seems that they may be concentrating on consolidating their dial-up operations. If you remember, Microsoft considered buying AOL in the mid nineties but instead took a pass and developed MSN. If the deal deepens this may spell some problems for Google who derives between 12 and 40% of their ad revenue (depending on who you listen to) from AOL.