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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.
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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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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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.
Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
But Downloads Can Be Slow; Christopher Walken Dances — 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 …
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.
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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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.
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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Rob / BusinessPundit:
OPEN: QUESTION 1 — One of the goals of this American Express Conference is to explore some ideas about small businesses. They have provided a series of questions that Dane, Anita, and I will answer, and of course as always you are welcome to leave comments. Today's question is
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 …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The value of networks of trust — The most valuable and necessary networks of the next economy will be built around trust. — I just had lunch with my VC friend Ed Sim and I was boring him with my view of the future of advertising. The days of one-stop shopping for a mass of "consumers" …
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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.
