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- Google Book Settlement revised; Open Book Alliance pans it as mere 'nip and tuck'
- Orphan worksShould become non-copyrighted after 4 years without a known rights owner. PERIOD!
- Tags: alliance, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-14
- Google Book Settlement revised; Open Book Alliance pans it as mere 'nip and tuck'
- Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have modified their digital book agreement in an effort to placate the Justice Department and other critics. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Settlement, Litigation, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-14
- HTC Hero (Sprint)
- Sprint was one of the first carriers to join the Open Handset Alliance when it was founded in November 2007 to promote Google Android. However, unlike T-Mobile, which released the T-Mobile G1 and the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G, the carrier wasn't so quick to offer an Android handset to its customers...
- Tags: 3G, Cellular phones, Smart phones, HTC Hero, High Tech Computer Corp., T-Mobile, Sprint Communications
- Product reviews 2009-09-17
- Amazon knocks Google Book Settlement; Opposition (and some support) lines up
- All partisan and self-interestedI've read several of the briefs as well as Google's proposal, and all of them are filled with self-serving doubletalk. The challenge for the courts will be to decide if one way or the other is less harmful than the other.The "Open Book Alliance" is truly an...
- Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- A spirited defense of the Google Book Search settlement
- You've heard Google's case for digitizing out-of-copyright books and its settlement with publishers and authors. And you've heard the opposition from the newly formed Open Book Alliance. The most spirited take on the out-of-copyright book issue may have come from Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Book Search, Settlement, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Open Book Alliances opens up assault on Google's book settlement
- The Open Book Alliance, a group of library associations, Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft, have officially unveiled an effort to derail Google's $125 million class action settlement with the Association of American Publishers and the Authors' Guild. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Alliance, Settlement, Class Action, Litigation, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Industry fight against Google hurts education
- So it's NOT OK for Microsoft to control technology......but it IS OK for Google to try and take over the world of information?Sorry...not buying it.Google does no evil, just IS evil?Look at the account TOS. Anything that requires an active Google account -- gMail, gTalk, gApps, etc. -- is...
- Tags: Google Inc., education
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Industry fight against Google hurts education
- Everyone knows I'm something of a Google devotee. I don't think it's without reason, though. Google's Education Apps have allowed me to completely transform communication within our district this summer and provide state-of-the-art collaboration tools to teachers for free. Google's Summer of Code puts 1000 students to...
- Tags: Education, Google Inc., Industry, Internet, Litigation, Business Operations, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- MSFT, YHOO, AMZN join fight against Google Books
- Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon will join the Internet Archive and library associations in opposing the Google Book deal, The New York Times reports. Says lawyer Gary Reback, who is advising the soon-to-be-announced Open Book Alliance: This deal has enormous, far-reaching anticompetitive consequences that people are...
- Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Archive, Internet, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3
- Photos and image samples: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3While it might be overstating the case to say the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3's Wi-Fi implementation drove me to tears, I can state without hyperbole that it terribly disappointed me. When I was first briefed on the camera, I had high hopes that with...
- Tags: Keyboards, Wireless LANs, Wireless and Mobility, Wi-Fi, Sony Corp., camera, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-G3, Sony Cyber-Shot
- Product reviews 2009-03-16
- Get 30% off "Hello, Android" book
- It's out! My new book, Hello, Android, is back from the printers: "Android combines the ubiquity of cell phones, the excitement of open source software, and the corporate backing of Google and other Open Handset Alliance members. The result is a mobile platform you can’t afford not to learn....
- Tags: Mobile, Android, Advertising & Promotion, Printers, Marketing, Hardware, Peripherals, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Microsoft and Novell at two: Was the patent pact worth it?
- Microsoft and Novell at two: Was the patent pact worth it?Sheer brillianceNot that I'm going to start any wars or anything, but from a business perspective this deal was totally worth it. Microsoft got to wiggle its way into mixed source environments. Novell got a lifeline and became a bigger...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp., openSUSE
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Google: it’s time to get Real
- In my previous post, I alluded to some of the issues that might prevent an average consumer -- "Joe Sixpack", John Q. Public, or Jane Doe from migrating to Linux on the desktop. One of them, without any doubt, is the lack of a way to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Linux, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Android losing it's mojo fast
- Android losing it's mojo fastForcing GTalk != do no evilYou can't get more lame than that...A note on iPhone apps.Apple would do well to remove the restriction where any non Apple application must exit not stay resident when another function is used like answering an incoming call. This will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Blogging, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Beta version of Hello, Android book is out
- Ever since Google and other members of the Open Handset Alliance announced the Android platform last November, I've been working on a book to help developers write programs for it. The book, called Hello, Android, is now available in Beta form at the Pragmatic Programmers web site. The current version...
- Tags: Version, Adobe PDF, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Is Google locking up historical works?
- Google provides funding to universities and researchers around the world who scan and digitize books for them. Many of these books have considerable historical significance, although Google's real goal, according to a CNN piece on the effort, is to create Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal...
- Tags: Google Inc., Book Search, Portals, Channel Management, Internet, Web Technology, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Backed by Intel, Ubuntu, Google, mobile linux is poised for commercial takeoff in 2008
- The momentum behind mobile Linux is accelerating because several communities -- and commercial giants -- are finally backing it. Despite earlier efforts from pioneering companies like MontaVista, Lineo and Access, the open source operating system has always taken a back seat to proprietary mobile operating systems such as Nokia-backed...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Mobile, Intel Corp., Mobile Linux, LIPS Specification, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Can+we+cut+Microsoft+some+slack+here%3F
- Can+we+cut+Microsoft+some+slack+here%3FWho is that loon?That guy in your blog talking about pre-emptively whatever is a kook. They are the ones that act like Microsoft is the great satan. I think Microsoft has done alot to help advance this industry and no one can deny that fact. Its funny how...
- Tags: Government, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- Google outlines the Open Handset Alliance; Will it succeed?
- Google outlines the Open Handset Alliance; Will it succeed?OSS rules the handset marketThat's the dawning of a new era in software that will spell trouble for proprietary OSes.I Go With the Least Expensive-Not GlitsiestI did not buy an iPhone because I refuse to pay $60 a month for cell phone....
- Tags: DVD, Wi-Fi, Consumer electronics, OSS, Google Inc., Open Handset Alliance, carrier, Blueray, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
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