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SAS, Google top Fortune's best-employer list
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| Among the technology firms that ended up on
| Fortune's list were SAS at No. 1, Google at
| No. 4, Cisco Systems at No. 16, Adobe
| Systems at No. 42, and Microsoft at No. 51.
| The firms scored points for a couple of
| different factors, including top pay and
| best perks. And with the job market still
| tight, Fortune also looked at the job
| growth for each company.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10440381-92.html
Steve Ballmer, did you âfucking kill Googleâ yet?
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| Well About 1/2 a decade ago, a key
| individual defected from Microsoft to
| Google that lead to one heck of lawsuit.
| According to official documents, Steve said
| he was going to âfucking kill Googleâ as he
| hurled a chair across the room. literally.
|
| [...]
|
| We were just wondering Mr. Ballmer, did you
| âfucking kill Googleâ yet? We figured 1/2 a
| decade has passed now and we were just
| wondering the status of it.
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http://www.tribbleagency.com/?p=6769
Two futures of the internet: Cold War or up in the clouds
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| If you think this is creepy, then join the
| club. In terms of collective IQ, Google is
| the smartest company in cyberspace: for
| five years it's been taking the cleverest
| graduates from elite universities and the
| most experienced computer engineers. It's
| been such a magnet for talent that even
| Microsoft is enraged. In 2005, for example,
| an ex-Microsoft engineer named Mark
| Lucovsky alleged in a sworn statement to a
| Washington state court that Steve Ballmer,
| Microsoft's chief executive, became so
| enraged on hearing that Lucovsky was about
| to leave Microsoft for Google, that he
| picked up his chair, and threw it across
| his office. (Ballmer called this a "gross
| exaggeration".)
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http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-02-07-two-futures-of-the-internet-cold-war-or-up-in-clouds
Microsoft: Google Likely to Face Questions on Ads
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9664122
Microsoft lawyer: Google may face antitrust queries over search advertising market share
http://www.cnbc.com/id/35078004
Armstrong Hints AOL Will Renew Search Deal With Google: "Distribution Is Almost As Important To Us As Money"
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| During today's AOL earnings call, which
| just finished, CEO Tim Armstrong dropped
| the strongest hint yet that Google is the
| front-runner in negotiations for who will
| power search across AOL properties. Google
| is AOL's current partner, as it has been
| for nearly a decade, but snatching the
| search partnership away would be a coup for
| Microsoft's Bing search engine. Bing wants
| the search deal, which would help it
| increase its total volume of searches by a
| couple percentage points since AOL on its
| own has the fifth largest search share in
| the U.S.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020301201.html
Germans and French more likely to Google themselves
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| Germans and Frenchmen are more likely to
| Google themselves than are Brits and
| Americans.
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http://www.examiner.com/x-22639-Google-Trends-Examiner~y2010m1d29-Germans-and-French-more-likely-to-Google-themselves
Recent:
The Google Books Settlement Culture Clash, and What About Fair Use?
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| That's the dream of more than book
| publishers. Here's an exhibit from the
| Comes v. Microsoft antitrust case of a few
| years back, Exhibit 3590 [PDF]. It's a
| discussion in 1994 with Bill Gates and his
| executives about the Internet, and it
| includes an email from Nathan Myhrvold on
| how Microsoft could in time take over
| control of the Internet.
|
| [...]
|
| Old-fashioned copyright owners want the
| Internet to cut it out and be about them
| feeding us content and we sit back and
| just consume what they send us. After we
| pay. And agree to DRM.
|
| Of course, it's funny, what Myhrvold
| wrote, in that they totally missed the
| boat about the Internet, and about Linux,
| but that's a good thing. They probably
| could have killed Linux early on, had they
| tried. Their arrogance has cost them. It's
| too late now, hopefully, to just crush it,
| not that they haven't been trying. They'll
| have to buy community members to sell out
| and write their software to run on Windows
| instead of Linux now one by one, if they
| can find enough greedy types, and that
| takes longer even in Microsoft's best case
| scenario.
|
| [...]
|
| I hope the EU Commission is reading
| Groklaw at moments like this. The email is
| from 1995, but didn't they do what he
| suggested? I'm remembering the Microsoft
| extensions to HTML. I'm also thinking
| about OOXML. There's lots more in the
| exhibit about their browser plans, but are
| you thinking Silverlight? I am. Here's a
| snip from one last exhibit, Exhibit 3589
| [PDF], an email thread with a memo shared
| with the top brass at Microsoft on how to
| get the Internet away from open standards
| bit by bit:
|
| I recommend a recipe not unlike the
| one we've used with our TCP/IP
| efforts: embrace, extend, then
| innovate.
|
| Phase I (Embrace): all participants
| need to establish a solid
| understanding of the infostructure and
| the community - determine the needs
| and the trends of the user base. Only
| then can we effectively enable
| Microsoft system products to be great
| Internet systems.
|
| Phase II (Extend): establish
| relationships with the appropriate
| organizations and corporations with
| goals similar to ours. Offer well-
| integrated tools and services
| compatible with established and
| popular standards that have been
| developed in the Internet community.
|
| Phase 3 (Innovate): move into a
| leadership role with new Internet
| standards as appropriate, enable
| standard off-the-shelf titles with
| Internet awareness. Change the rules:
| Windows becomes the next-generation
| Internet tool of the future.
|
| Are you reading this Apache guys? Ubuntu
| Mono freaks? In the "Potential Risks"
| section on page 15:
|
| Microsoft/Internet Culture Clash. -
| One of the biggest challenges facing
| Microsoft's success in the Internet
| community is acceptance and respect.
| Although we have an incredible amount
| of respect in the commercial software
| business, the Internet has been
| founded on public domain protocols and
| products which generally included
| source availability at no charge. It
| has been only recently that vendors
| have suggested profiting from the
| Internet by selling the browsing tools
| and technologies, and offering
| commercial services on the Internet
| itself. The information and software
| has been free for 15 years, we need to
| be careful to embrace the current
| technologies and community before we
| attempt to reshape it.
|
| Put 'Open Source' everywhere in that snip
| where it says 'Internet' and you have the
| picture. They pretend to be with you,
| sharing goals, and then they win. If you
| are stupid enough to fall for the "let's
| be friends" part of their scheme.
|
| Their concept of the Internet is that it's
| a strip mall. They want it to be their
| strip mall.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100131212745380
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