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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Publishers battle Google book index — Suit joins action filed by authors over copyright — Five major publishing firms filed suit against Internet search giant Google Inc. yesterday to stop the company from creating a digital index of millions of copyrighted books.
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Why we believe in Google Print — We've been asked recently why we're so determined to pursue Google Print, even though it has drawn industry opposition in the form of two lawsuits, the most recent coming today from several members of the American Association of Publishers.
Ed Sim / BeyondVC:
Web 2.0 Bubble — I had an enjoyable lunch with Jeff Jarvis today catching up on a number of things and brainstorming about value in the next generation web. During the conversation I vented a little frustration at the use of buzz words and bubble-like mentality with terms like Web 2.0.
Clint Ecker / Ars Technica:
Video iPod — Introduction — iPod (30 GB) — System requirements: PC with USB port running Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2; Mac with USB port running Mac OS X 10.3.9 — The new iPod was announced by Steve Jobs last week at a highly anticipated "special event" in San Jose, California.
Rob Hof / TechBeat:
No Head-Scratching at eBay About Skype's Potential — If up to $4.1 billion wasn't enough to prove eBay's serious about just-acquired Skype, executive comments Wednesday sure did. And executive moves: eBay Chief Financial Officer Rajiv Dutta soon will become the London-based president …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
A Journey to a Thousand Maps Begins With an Open Code — A Google map is no longer just a Google map. — You can still search Google Maps to figure out how to get from here to there, but why would you, when you can use it to pinpoint kosher restaurants in Cincinnati, traffic cameras in Dublin …
Ken Yarmosh / TECHNOSIGHT:
INTERVIEW WITH SPHERE CEO TONY CONRAD — Last week, I contacted Tony Conrad for an interview about Sphere, a new blog search engine presently in private beta testing. Tony, who is the CEO of Sphere was gracious enough to agree, amidst a very busy schedule.
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Aperture - Wow. — At OSCON, I was asking James Duncan Davidson about photo processing software. He told me that he had tried most of the programs available for the Mac and that they were all inadequate. That was yesterday. Today Apple announced Aperture, which they describe as …
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Anti-game activist Jack Thompson under investigation — Jack Thompson, a Florida lawyer who became infamous in 1988 for accusing Janet Reno of being a closeted lesbian with a drinking problem and a strong candidate for blackmail, has recently been making waves with his crusade against the video game industry.
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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft: No Near-Term Plans to Seek Open-Source Licensing Approval — While Microsoft Corp. has no current plan to apply for Open Source Initiative approval of the new licenses that will govern its Shared Source projects going forward, the Redmond, Wash., software maker has not ruled this out as a possibility going forward.
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.
Andy Oram / O'Reilly Network:
Why they're talking about Internet governance — It's an unlikely matter for the United States and other nations to lock horns over: the administration of names and numbers used to reach Internet sites. But this seemingly trivial function is occupying a lot of time among government representatives traveling …
stuffmag.co.uk:
Gizmondo thief caught by GPS — So the Gizmondo's GPS function does have a use. In addition to providing the power behind the handheld gamer's new in-car sat-nav package, last month it also helped rescue a stolen Gizmondo. — The story reeks of a PR stunt to our sceptical noses but Gizmondo insists it's for real.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel Settlement Revives a Fading Chip Designer — PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 19 - Intel's agreement to pay $300 million to settle a patent dispute with a tiny chip design company is a vindication for a Silicon Valley technologist who was once considered one of the region's visionaries, then vanished from the scene.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
An iPod Worth Keeping an Eye On — CALL it the iPod Paradox: with each successive version, Apple's 30-million-selling music player gets thinner and thinner, but its feature list grows longer and longer. By next year, no doubt, the iPod will act as a radio, remote control and coffee stirrer …
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