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Official Google Blog:
The point of Google Print — You may have read about the AAP's lawsuit announced today which objects to Google Print. We'll post our comments about that soon. Meanwhile, we offer this commentary from Eric Schmidt. It ran on the op-ed page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal …
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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.
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Pat Schroeder / publishers.org:FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Publishers Sue Google Over Plans To Digitize Books
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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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.
Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
A Screen Test For the Video iPod — As always, Apple Computer's charismatic CEO Steve Jobs caused quite a stir last week when he introduced his latest product at a big media event — in this case, a sleek new full-sized iPod that, for the first time, can play video as well as music.
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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 …
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.
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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Jennifer Guevin / CNET News.com:
Firefox sees 100 millionth download — Just shy of Firefox's first birthday party, the Mozilla Foundation celebrated the 100 millionth download of its Web browser Wednesday. — Mozilla has seen steady adoption of its browser since its release last November.
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Walter S. Mossberg / WSJ Personal Technology:
Media Companies Go Too Far in Curbing Consumers' Activities — In some quarters of the Internet, the three most hated letters of the alphabet are DRM. They stand for Digital Rights Management, a set of technologies for limiting how people can use the music and video files they've purchased from legal downloading services.
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.
S. Derek Turner / Salon:
Free American broadband! — In France, you can get super-fast DSL, unlimited phone service and 100 TV channels for a mere $38 a month. Why does the same thing cost so much more in the U.S.? — Next time you sit down to pay your cable-modem or DSL bill, consider this …
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL) — The Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL) is a license that is best used for collaborative development projects. This type of license is commonly referred to as a reciprocal source code license and carries specific requirements if you choose to combine Ms-CL code with your own code.
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Matt Cutts:
Update Jagger: Contacting Google — Okay, Brett Tabke decided to call it Update Jagger. Here are the ways that I'd use to contact us if you have feedback on Google search results: — Reporting spam in Google's index — I especially want to hear about webspam that you see in Google.
Major Nelson / Major Nelson.com:
E3 Faceplates WILL fit the Xbox 360 — From the 'why does this keep coming up' department: There is some false information floating around that the limited edition faceplates that we gave away at E3 don't fit the Xbox 360. I'm not sure how folks can confirm that since there are no retail units available …
Eliot Phillips / hack a day:
How-To: Automatically download and convert TV for your iPod — The good folks at Videora have recently released the Videora iPod Converter. Using this tool you can make almost any video iPod ready. They have a handy how-to for ripping and transcoding your own DVDs.
