New York Magazine: The End The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after. With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors playing musical chairs, and Amazon looming as the new boogeyman, publishing might have...
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WSJ.com: Revenue Science, one of the leading players in the business of targeted advertising, gathers information about consumers and then sells it to marketers. According to the company's "file" on me, I'm a "hip homemaker" who probably trades stocks and...
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life : ... This boils down to the corporate ideology that "anything that is good for the Web is good for Google". This means Google is in favor of anything that increases the breadth of the Web...
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Harry Lewis, computer science professor at Harvard at the co-author of a very important book called Blown to Bits has written this op-ed in BostonHerald.com: Inaccuracies in an instant Plane Truth: United Airlines stock swooned due to online error By...
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NYTimes.com: Talking Business Stuck in Google’s Doghouse By JOE NOCERA A few days ago, Dan Savage had his lawyer send a nine-page, 4,000-word letter to the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Mr. Savage, 59, runs Sourcetool.com, a business-to-business Web...
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vnunet.com: EU urges Google to cut data retention to six months Nine months good, six months better, says EU justice commissioner Written by Tom Young vnunet.com, 12 Sep 2008 Advertisement Click here to find out more! The EU's top justice...
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Network World: Google Chrome: Is there anything under the hood? Tester provides a deeper dive into the New Browser Engine By Thomas A. Powell , Network World Lab Alliance , 09/08/2008 The recent introduction of the Google Chrome browser wildly...
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is this a change in policy? The Associated Press: YouTube bans terrorism training videos By EILEEN SULLIVAN – 3 days ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The popular video-sharing site YouTube has moved to purge terrorists training films and other videos that...
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CNET News: Sandy Litvack, a dogged trustbuster in pursuit of Google Posted by Dawn Kawamoto Google and Yahoo are household names. But, Sandy Litvack? Not so much. While Litvack may be obscure to the general public, he is well-known in...
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Could There Be More To Google, Android, Chrome, & Gears Than Meets The Eye? - David Berlind's Tech Radar - InformationWeek Could There Be More To Google, Android, Chrome, & Gears Than Meets The Eye? Posted by David Berlind, Sep...
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washingtonpost.com: Even Spies Go to Trade Conferences By Robert O'Harrow Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 13, 2008; D01 The spies and contractors stood side-by-side, pressing by a crowd of pitchmen at the Ronald Reagan Building. It was an...
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Amy Fry, a San Diego-based librarian, wrote this essay, Information is Power - Even When it’s Wrong for the ARC blog. ... This story contains a powerful lesson about information literacy. One: Proper metadata is important. Metadata experts have been...
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NYTimes.com: September 9, 2008 O3b Links With Google for Fast Satellite Internet Capacity By JEREMY KIRK, IDG News Service\London Bureau, IDG Satellite company O3b Networks has linked up with Google and other investors to bring cheaper, high-speed wireless Internet access...
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Have We Reached the End of Book Publishing As We Know It? -- New York Magazine The End The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after. With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors...
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ChronicleReview.com: YOUTH & TECHNOLOGY Generational Myth Not all young people are tech-savvy By SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN Consider all the pundits, professors, and pop critics who have wrung their hands over the inadequacies of the so-called digital generation of young people filling...
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Probe into how Google mix-up caused $1 billion run on United - Times Online The US Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a "preliminary inquiry" into how an outdated bankruptcy story sparked a $1 billion run on an airline’s stock...
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Google's media takeover stuck on the launch pad - Sep. 12, 2008...
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Google deal to sell TV ads on NBC is nightmare for traditional agencies | Blatherskite Google deal to sell TV ads on NBC is nightmare for traditional agencies...
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The Associated Press: Google India runs ad for illegal baby sex test kit Google India runs ad for illegal baby sex test kit...
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Debunking Google's log anonymization propaganda | Surveillance State - CNET News...
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Google, Tribune Co. at odds over spread of United story -- chicagotribune.com...
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Official Google Blog: Today, we're launching an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. Let's say you want to learn more about the landing...
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Hi. I am back at this blog after a three-week hiatus. At first, I took a break from blogging because the folks who run this server informed me that it had been corrupted and they had to move everything. They...
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