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U.S. online holiday retail sales will reach $39 billion in 2007, an increase of 20 percent over last year's holiday season according…
All philosophies are prisons. That statement in itself is a philosophy and an irony. I bring it up only because Rich Karlgaard did on his Forbes.com blog, relating how (by mostly guessing) that the seemingly oxymoronic "left-libertarian" is making headway in Silicon Valley, and therefore in society.
On Saturday night, parts of San Francisco went dark, and it was to some degree Google’s fault. Google deserves credit, and not blame, for this occurrence, though, since it was part of an energy-saving initiative.
The Google Library Project gains new members fairly frequently, and a comparable service from Microsoft also does all right. A number of libraries have steered clear of the corporate rivalry, though, and have instead opted to side with the Open Content Alliance (OCA).
November 13th will be the new date for the European Union Competition Commission to give its decision on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, based on the Commission's perception of competition issues.
A couple of new domains appeared last week on Microsoft's nameservers, both containing the HealthVault name and registered for com/net/org.
