Archive for February, 2007

Google Begins Charging for Online Google Applications

Posted in Technology News, Web Business on February 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »

Google is now offering premium versions of their free software. They haven’t stopped giving software away and they aren’t running from their ad model but they are offering apps for money. “What,” you say, you thought Google gave everything away and advertisers paid for it all? That was yesterday.
With 450 million Office users and revenue [...]

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Microsoft Ordered to Pay 1.5 Billion and Spending More

Posted in Technology News on February 22nd, 2007 | No Comments »

Holy legal battles! I’ve been reading various perspectives concerning today’s court order for Microsoft to Payl Alcatel-Lucent 1.5 billion for using mp3 technology in their operating system. Basically, Microsoft and nearly every other company in the world has been licensing mp3 technology from Fraunhofer. The court ruling says they all have it wrong and they should have all been paying Alcatel-Lucent [...]

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