Competing with Google

Who's Afraid of Google? Everyone. Kevin Kelleher. Wired. December 2005.
Google's plan to organize the world's information reaches into numerous areas and makes many companies nervous.

Origins of Sony CD Fiasco

CD Woes May have had Roots in Merger. Jefferson Graham. USA Today. November 18, 2005.
In this article Graham provides an interesting look at the corporate conditions that may have contributed to Sony's release of CDs containing copy-protection spyware.

Endangering Medical Libraries

RX for Medical Libraries. Cheryl R. Banick. Library Journal. November 15, 2005.
The author identifies four threats to medical libraries - deprofessionalization, failure to provide outreach services, budget crunches and McInformation - and suggests strategies for overcoming them.

Machines to be Biggest Users of Internet

Machines and Ojects to Overtake Humans on the Internet: ITU. AFP (via Yahoo News). November 17, 2005.
A report release at a UN summit predicts that there will be more machines than humans using the Internet in the near future.

U.S. Left in Charge of Domain Names

U.S. Will Retain Control of Internet. Elizabeth Millard. Newsfactor. November 16, 2005.
At the recent United Nations World Summit on the Information Society the decision was made to leave the administration of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to the United States.

The Censorware Battle

The Business of Censorship. Red Herring. October 31, 2005.
This article profiles he way in which companies are facilitating censorship in other countries through the provision of censorware. Content filtering is a big business.

Microsft Removes Sony Spyware

Microsoft to Remove Sony CD Code. BBC News. November 14, 2005.
In its weekly antispyware update, Microsoft will include tools to detect and remove Sony's XCP copy protection system.

Microsft Removes ony spyware

Microsoft to Remove Sony CD Code. BBC News. November 14, 2005.
In its weekly antispyware update, Microsoft will include tools to detect and remove Sony's XCP copy protection system.