Comment Stupid Name (Score 1) 831
Could they have chosen a worse name? I mean seriously, Go? That'll be easy to find on a search engine. Well I guess it's Google so they can special-case the word, but still.
Submission + - Microsoft: Google Was `wake-Up Call'
wooha writes: Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions of desktop programs or following its particular search and advertising model.
Ozzie, who has only made a handful of appearances since his promotion last June to replace Bill Gates as chief software architect, told analysts and investors at a Goldman Sachs conference in Las Vegas that he has been laying the groundwork for programmers across the company to build Internet-based software.
Journal Journal: Al "Green" Gores Shocking Electric Bill 1
Some interested person called the Nashville (TN) Electrical Service and under the Freedom of Information Act asked for the Academy Award Winning Ex-VP's energy bill. Apparently the publicly dull persona has quite the party life going at home. His usage last year? 221,000 kWh, that's a $30,000 bill, more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone he used 22,619 kWh, more than you or me (even with those massive 1000W PS' ru
Submission + - Canadian ISPs Send Thousands of Copyright Notices
An anonymous reader writes: The CBC reports
that Canadian Internet service providers are passing along
thousands of copyright infringement notifications from U.S. copyright lobby groups such as the Business Sofware Alliance to subscribers under
a system called notice and notice. Michael Geist comments
that unlike the U.S. takedown approach, the Canadian system is proving
effective while protecting privacy and free speech.
