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(Taken from Reuters.com)

Amazon.com Inc joined the opposition to Google Inc’s plan to digitize millions of books, saying that the proposed deal would fundamentally change copyright law and violate antitrust law.

Amazon, which scans books after getting permission from the copyright holder, said that the court should reject a settlement between Google and the Authors Guild because the deal would change copyright law by allowing Google to digitize books even if the copyright holder cannot be found, often called “orphan works.” continue reading…

(Taken from Reuters.com)

Online video site YouTube is in talks with several major movie studios about renting movies to users by streaming the movies over the Internet according to a person familiar with the talks on Wednesday.

It would mark the first time the world’s most popular video site would charge its users to watch videos.

YouTube, which is owned by Internet search giant Google Inc, has held discussions with Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony Corp, and Time Warner Inc’s Warner Brothers about online movie rentals, the person said. continue reading…

(Taken from PCWorld)

Microprocessors are wondrous devices: They integrate the brain of a computer onto a single electronic component. The computing power that once required a room full of equipment now fits onto a razor-thin slice of silicon, usually no larger than a centimeter square. Almost everything we do these days — such as cooking our food, driving our cars, doing our laundry, and, of course, reading articles just like this one — depends on these mighty mites.

In the wide field of microprocessors, some chips have stood out for the influence they’ve had technologically, culturally, and economically. They aren’t necessarily the most successful, the best selling, or the most powerful, but they each started an important and persistent trend — an architecture, a marketing concept, or a whole new use for computing. continue reading…