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Pat Schroeder / publishers.org:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Publishers Sue Google Over Plans To Digitize Books — Google Print Library Violates Publishers' and Authors' Rights — WASHINGTON D.C., October 19, 2005 -The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Google …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
HERE WE GO AGAIN: PUBLISHERS SUE GOOGLE — If this sounds familiar, it's because the Author's Guild sued Google last month. Now, the Publishers (via their trade group the AAP) are joining in. It seems Eric's WSJ Op Ed was timed ahead of this news... I really don't get this.
Alorie Gilbert / CNET News.com:Publishers sue Google over book search project
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Rali / PaidContent.org:Google Opens 8 Book Search Sites in Europe [by rafat] …
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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Slashes Shared Source Licenses — Microsoft Corp. is slashing the number of licenses it will use for its Shared Source Initiative from now on, while at the same time radically shortening and simplifying the text of those licenses. — The move, which will be announced …
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mail.google.com:
The story behind the new "Google Mail" name — You may have noticed the Google Mail logo. We are changing our service's name in the UK. Starting October 19, 2005, all new users will have @googlemail.com addresses. Don't worry, though - all messages are being sent and delivered as before.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Top Five Web 2.0 Venture Capitalists — Most venture capitalists don't understand tagging, blogs, rss, ajax, or the two way web. They scoff at social bookmarking sites and think podcasting is a fad (maybe it is). They desparately "want in" to this renaissance of the web …
Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com:
Ballmer: Trusting Vista, battling Google — ORLANDO, Fla.—Steve Ballmer wants you to know one thing: He never throws chairs. — "I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life," Microsoft's CEO said in a morning keynote at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo here.
BBC:
Broadband net goes stratospheric — The latest broadband delivery system has seen researchers looking to the skies to provide super-fast internet access via airships. — Airships in the stratosphere beaming back broadband capable of speeds up to 120Mbps may seem like fantasy.
Jon's Radio:
Attention economics — You'd think that Clive Thompson's article Meet the Life Hackers, in this week's New York Times Magazine, would have produced a storm of commentary. After all, it's a major mainstream outing of Linda Stone's evocative phrase "continuous partial attention," …
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Jason Dowdell / marketingshift.com:
MSN adCenter Account Creation Hack — Yep, that's right. Microsoft´s latest product hasn't even been released and I've got your hack right here. The MSN adCenter is going to compete with Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing [formerly known as Overture] and every other ppc program out there.
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Sleuths Crack Tracking Code Discovered in Color Printers — It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it isn't. The pages coming out of your color printer may contain hidden information that could be used to track you down if you ever cross the U.S. government.
Michael Singer / CNET News.com:
Convertibles: The new laptop bling? — news analysis Hold on to your keyboard. Laptop computer screens that flip around to become convertible tablet PCs could be an increasingly common sight within the next three years. — With manufacturing prices dropping and Microsoft touting tablet PCs …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
MSN ADCENTER GEARS UP — MSN's answer to Yahoo and Google's ad platform has been a long time coming, but they are finally gearing up here in the US (MSFT launched AdCenter in Singapore and France - an alpha of sorts - earlier in the year). Today marks AdCenter's pilot launch in the US …
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Eric J. Sinrod / CNET News.com:
Will more courts frown on SMS ads? — SMS messaging has grown in popularity as a marketing tool, but a recent court ruling could mark the beginning of its end. — In the case of Joffe v. Acacia Mortgage, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled last month (view PDF) that cellular SMS …
Philip Langdale / Wubble:
VMs for everyone! — Today, as part of our VMworld 2005 festivities, we announced our VMware Player. This is a freely downloadable tool that, as you might guess, plays virtual machines. People who've been participating in the Workstation 5.5 beta programme will have already seen it in its bundled form …
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Mark Pincus Blog:
If i were rupert murdoch...my roadmap... everyone should check out adam lashinsky's timely piece on rupert murdoch's new internet game - complete with strategy, players and even a newfound web platform called myspace. adam gets some great color around rupert's rapid transformation to internet guy which is impressive.
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