Apple iPod under attack from Zune

Apple iPod under attack from Zune

The Business
30 Jul 2006

APPLE chief executive Steve Jobs and his team who created the world’s most successful portable digital music player, the iPod, were keeping quiet this weekend as they decide how to react to arch-rival Microsoft’s planned iPod killer – Zune. The... read more...

Microsoft leases space in Issaquah

Microsoft leases space in Issaquah

Seattle Times
29 Jul 2006

Microsoft has signed a lease for 87,000 square feet of Issaquah office space. The company will move into the Eastpointe Corporate Center on Nov. 1, Wells Real Estate Investment Trust, the property owner, announced Friday. Wells also extended an... read more...

Google challenges Coke in search of fame and fortune

Google challenges Coke in search of fame and fortune
Dan Milmo Media business editor
The Guardian
28 Jul 2006

Google is challenging Coca-Cola and Microsoft for global fame after becoming the fastest growing brand in the world, only eight years after it was set up in a California garage by two college friends. The search engine has dispelled the cynical... read more...

Microchip profits soar as iPod and mobile sales boom

Microchip profits soar as iPod and mobile sales boom
Richard Wray
The Guardian
27 Jul 2006

Consumers’ apparently insatiable demand for gadgets, especially digital music players such as the iPod and mobile phones, yesterday helped two of the UK’s leading designers of microchips — CSR and Wolfson Microelectronics — report a more than doubling... read more...

Has the internet killed the video star? MTV hits back with interactive channel

Has the internet killed the video star? MTV hits back with interactive channel
Bobbie Johnson Technology correspondent
The Guardian
27 Jul 2006

When Buggles launched MTV in 1981 by telling viewers that “video killed the radio star”, it heralded a revolution that altered the television landscape forever. But now the station, which marks its 25th birthday next week, is taking drastic action as... read more...

Microsoft builds devices to rival iPod

Microsoft builds devices to rival iPod

Jerusalem Post
24 Jul 2006

Microsoft Corp. said over the weekend it is building a music player to challenge Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod, confirming months of speculation that the world’s largest software maker was preparing to enter the $4 billion market. The first products go... read more...

Is Skype really free?

Is Skype really free?
DAVID T DAVE ANHELUK
Bangkok Post
26 Jul 2006

Skype Internet from PC to PC is free. Or maybe not? My ISP logs the Skype download volume and at the end of the month, billsmewith excess charges. They are simplycapitalisingonthis ‘‘free’’ Internet service. Doany of your readers also suffer from such... read more...

HP joins critics of Dell sell

HP joins critics of Dell sell
Simon Hayes Marketing
Australian
25 Jul 2006

DELL has again been accused of registering its competitors’ brands on Google AdWords. Hewlett-Packard, BlackBerry and Palm are the latest to say their trademarks have been snapped up. HP has accused Dell of appropriating its company name and the iPAQ... read more...

free broadband a good deal?

free broadband a good deal?
Bobbie Johnson
The Guardian
24 Jul 2006

The spirit of 1969 might seem like ancient history, but this summer a new kind of free love is sweeping Britain. Thousands of people are ready to canoodle with new internet providers after a glut of “free broadband” offers. Punters are now being wooed... read more...

Slices of life from Internet site can be addictive

Slices of life from Internet site can be addictive
MIKE DEVLIN
Times-Colonist, Victoria
24 Jul 2006

Kitchen-sink website Craigslist — www.craigslist.org — is a wonderful tool for those who seek. Need a job? You can find it on Craigslist. Vacation rental? Also there. Want to sell something? Ditto. And it’s all pretty much free. This online version of... read more...

Slices of life from Internet site can be addictive

Slices of life from Internet site can be addictive
MIKE DEVLIN
Times-Colonist, Victoria
24 Jul 2006

Kitchen-sink website Craigslist — www.craigslist.org — is a wonderful tool for those who seek. Need a job? You can find it on Craigslist. Vacation rental? Also there. Want to sell something? Ditto. And it’s all pretty much free. This online version of... read more...

Dell Shares Plunge After Report

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Dell Shares Plunge After Report
By Terril Yue Jones
Los Angeles Times
22 Jul 2006

Dell Inc. shares tumbled nearly 10% on Friday after the world’s largest personal computer maker warned shareholders that second-quarter profit and revenue would fall well short of Wall Street expectations because of cutthroat price competition. It was... read more...

Search goes on for way to tackle Google

Search goes on for way to tackle Google
Richard Wray
The Guardian
21 Jul 2006

Panama is not only a central American country through which passes one of the industrial wonders of the 19th century — the canal — it is also the name given by Yahoo! to its enterprise designed to help advertisers navigate one of the industrial wonders... read more...

I blog therefore I am

I blog therefore I am

The Guardian
20 Jul 2006

Catherine Sanderson was not the first person to be sacked for writing an internet blog that referred to her career, and nor is she likely to be the last. But her case flags up the dangers that bloggers can run, caught between online free-for-all... read more...

Yahoo slumps as crucial new software is delayed

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Yahoo slumps as crucial new software is delayed
Andrew Clark New York
The Guardian
20 Jul 2006

The internet search company Yahoo suffered a battering on Wall Street yesterday after a delay in the introduction of critical new advertising technology renewed fears that it is losing ground to Google. Yahoo’s shares fell by 19% in early trading,... read more...

Microsoft throws out challenge on enterprise resource planning

Microsoft throws out challenge on enterprise resource planning

The Business
16 Jul 2006

MICROSOFT is to challenge German software giant SAP in its home European markets as well as in the US for dominance of the lucrative business computer software market known as enterprise resource planning (ERP). The spearhead of the Microsoft assault... read more...

Create extra storage space on your computer

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Create extra storage space on your computer

Miami Herald
26 Jun 2006

Do you have enough storage in your house? No, not closet or garage space, but space on your home computer for data storage. In either case, chances are you don’t have enough storage space. And as annoying as it can be to run out of places to... read more...

How can I transfer old computer data to my laptop?

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How can I transfer old computer data to my laptop?
Jim Coates
Chicago Tribune
18 Jul 2006

A A QI have a desktop computer, and I want transfer all the information from my hard drive to a laptop. What is the procedure? — Dianna Joslin The safest, easiest and probably least costly way to move data from one Windows XP computer to... read more...

Intel rolls out Itanium model for big PCs

Intel rolls out Itanium model for big PCs
By Don Clark
The Wall Street Journal Europe
18 Jul 2006

Intel Corp. is opening an important chapter in the long-running saga of Itanium, a chip that continues to provoke strong reactions from fans and critics. The company will introduce a long-delayed model, code-named Montecito, which is the first in... read more...

Dell crafts an ad that sings

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Dell crafts an ad that sings
LEWIS LAZARE
Chicago Sun-Times
14 Jul 2006

Done right, music can be a wonderful mood-setting device in commercials. And in “Factory,” the glorious debut commercial from BBDO/Atlanta for new client Dell Computer Co., the mood is set most magnificently in the first few beats of music that... read more...

Microsoft facing EU fines of € 3m daily

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Microsoft facing EU fines of € 3m daily
Conor Sweeney European Editor
Irish Independent
12 Jul 2006

MICROSOFT faces being levied with massive daily fines of around €3m per day by the European Commission today — the highest ever imposed on a private firm by the EU. The backdated fine will also cost the software giant another €500m, since it will be... read more...

Data miners dig a little deeper

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Data miners dig a little deeper
By Michelle Kessler and Byron Acohido USA TODAY
USA Today
12 Jul 2006

SAN FRANCISCO— When customers sign up for a free Hotmail e-mail account fromMicrosoft, they’re required to submit their name, age, gender and ZIP code. But that’s not them. Microsoft takes notice of what time of day they access their inboxes. And it... read more...

Dell’s image goes up in flames

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Dell’s image goes up in flames

Hindustan Times
11 Jul 2006

A DELL notebook computer that burst into flames last month in Osaka, Japan, has damaged more than just the conference table where it sat smoldering. The incident, publicized in photos on the Internet, has also hurt Dell’s recent attempts to improve its... read more...

EU Observer

Publishers unite against Google

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Publishers unite against Google
Richard Wray and Dan Milmo
The Guardian
06 Jul 2006

Invoking the name of Google is enough to spook most media businesses grappling with the impact of the internet but the search giant’s foray into the realm of books has created a firestorm. The book-publishing industry’s portrayal of Google conjures up images of Guy Montag, the “hero” of Ray Bradbury’s 1950s book-burning masterpiece Fahrenheit 451, gleefully destroying works of literature.

The row is a classic clash between the old and the new; between an industry that can trace its roots back to Johannes Gutenberg and other printers of the 15th century and one that has erupted in just half a decade.

Pessimists in the printed world have drawn parallels between Google’s digitisation of books and the ending of Britain’s net book agreement in the early 1990s. But just as relaxing restrictions on how books are priced led to a renaissance in reading, as booksellers launched marketing ploys such as “three for two” offers, Google’s attempt to free the knowledge locked in pen and ink could be a revolution for the better.

Google’s Book Search programme has two sides. It has co-opted thousands of publishers into its partner programme, which gives Google’s millions of users a chance to discover and then buy books, but it is Google’s library project that has infuriated those same publishers.

The fire was lit over a year ago when Google announced plans to work with five libraries — the New York public library, the Bodleian in Oxford and the libraries of Stanford, Harvard and the University of Michigan — to digitise their books as part of its Print Library project, and make the information gleaned accessible within its online search engine through Google Book Search, already available in test form.

The publishing industry raised the alarm, claiming the process infringed its most valuable asset, copyright. Nigel Newton, chief executive of Bloomsbury, the publisher of the Harry Potter series, tore into Google, labelling the search engine’s plans as “literary predation”. In a speech to mark World Book Day this year, he added that copyright laws were being flouted to provide “windowdressing for a search engine”.

Injunction

The French publisher La Martinire and Germany’s ... read more...