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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Realigns for Next Wave of Innovation and Growth — CEO Ballmer appoints presidents of three core divisions; Allchin announces retirement plan. — REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 20, 2005 — In order to drive greater agility in the execution of its software and services strategy …
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CNET.com:
Microsoft to reorg; Allchin to retire — update Microsoft on Tuesday announced a sweeping reorganization of the company into three new divisions, a shift that will lead to the retirement of long-time Windows development chief Jim Allchin. — The plan calls for a reorganization of Microsoft …
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Flashpoint
Elinor Mills / CNET.com:
Authors Guild sues Google over library project — The Authors Guild on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit against search engine Google, alleging that its scanning and digitizing of library books constitutes a "massive" copyright infringement. — As part of its Google Print Library Project …
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Google Blog:
Google Print and the Authors Guild — Today we learned that the Authors Guild filed a lawsuit to try to stop Google Print. We regret that this group chose to sue us over a program that will make millions of books more discoverable to the world — especially since any copyright holder can exclude their books from the program.
Paul Aiken / authorsguild.org:
Authors Guild Sues Google, Citing "Massive Copyright Infringement" — NEW YORK — The Authors Guild and a Lincoln biographer, a children's book author, and a former Poet Laureate of the United States filed a class action suit today in federal court in Manhattan against Google …
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Jo Best / hardware.silicon.com:
PDAs … If we want to raise prices on iTunes, it just means getting a little greedy - consumers won't like that. It will just be a message to consumers to go back to piracy and that's not good. — Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple — New insights from leading CIOs at the silicon.com CIO Forum
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Engadget
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Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
Mozilla hits back at browser security claim … Mozilla 'is in much better shape' than Microsoft when it comes to fixing security problems, claims the organisation — Mozilla has reacted to a Symantec report issued on Monday which said serious vulnerabilities were being found …
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Donna's SecurityFlash
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Michael Singer / CNET.com:
Intel dives into the ultra-low power pool — Intel's latest rallying cry seems to be "Save the battery!" — The chipmaking giant announced on Monday a new technique that it said could help cut back on wasted battery power in cell phones and mobile devices by as much as 1,000 times current levels.
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Stephen H. Wildstrom / Business Week:
Palm Taps Microsoft — The PDA makers plans to unveil a Treo powered not by the Palm OS software but by Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5. Could be a good move — Is the Palm software that powered the first practical handheld in 1996 and redefined mobile computing on the road to oblivion?
Business Wire:
AOL to Begin New VoIP Service Roll-Out on October 4 — DULLES, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sept. 20, 2005—America Online, Inc.: — Simple to Use and Affordable VoIP Service Lets Customers Make and Receive Calls Directly from Their PC Through AIM — Partnerships with Pingtel, GIPS …
Dick / Burning Questions:
FeedBurner Aggregate Statistics — It's been a while since we've discussed any broad metrics here, and nature abhors a lack of charts and graphs, so as the leaves begin to turn and the kids have head back to school, we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on a couple of interesting statistics.
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Infectious Greed
Mike Grenville / 160characters.org:
Stats & Research: Research Discovers That Phones Are Phones — Only 17% of those with a mobile use their phone for anything other than to make calls or send text messages on a daily basis, avoiding the more complex features available according to research from Mobeon.
Edward W. Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Movie Studios Form DRM Lab — Hollywood argues — or at least strongly implies — that technology companies could stop copyright infringement if they wanted to, but have chosen not to do so. I have often wondered whether Hollywood really believes this, or whether the claim is just a ploy to gain political advantage.
J. Scott Johnson / MediaPost Publications:
The Newest Front in the Online Wars: Splogs — YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE a denizen of the blog world to understand what a "splog" is, but it won't be long before it enters your lingua franca in the same frame of reference as spam, click fraud, and spyware. — A splog is a spam blog—that is …
