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A roundup of the latest search patents shows some interesting developments. As gathered and noted by SearchEngineWatch, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon…
Bloggers are writing about their day jobs, and it's getting some of them in trouble. An increasing number of companies are adopting policies that would prohibit bloggers from discussing their workplace, with termination as one possible result. In most cases, the law is backing the corporations up.
The call for Google to port its software applications to Linux got off to a good start with the company's photo sharing and editing software Picasa making the jump.
John Koetsier raised the prospect of Google's Trends tool progressing from its very general utility to something more granular, namely something Google can sell to marketers.
Gambling is big business, and in the so-called "lawless land" of the Internet, it's on the rise. Online gambling generated around $12 billion last year, spread out over roughly 2,300 gaming sites. Some studies indicate that the rise in gambling is being accompanied by an increase in gambling addiction.
I got a mail from the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) the other day informing me of their call for papers for Oracle OpenWorld, being run at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA USA from October 22-26, 2006.
