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In another blow to online banner advertising, Ask Jeeves is announcing that it will stop running banner ads on its website in favor of more paid listings. Says Steve Berkowitz, president of Ask Jeeves Web Properties, ‘I think banners have seen their day. They’re not as compelling as they once were.’ In contrast, he describes paid listings as ‘kind of a next evolution of the yellow pages.’ (Slashdot)

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Running Mac OS X Binaries With NetBSD

An anonymous reader writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article about an effort to add a Mach and Darwin binary compatibility layer to NetBSD. The project has evidently already made a fair amount of progress, currently working to stabilize the WindowServer emulation portion that will then allow NetBSD to run Mac OS X graphical applications." (Slashdot)