Around the voice: Google book scanning on trial; Google crunching YouTube; Ig Nobel Peace Prize unveiled
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Google to subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft on book scanning [Bloomberg] “Google is seeking information on rival projects by the companies, including book lists, costs, estimated sales, dealings with publishers and possible benefit or harm to copyright owners, according to papers filed in U.S. District Court in New York.”
Google is in talks to buy YouTube for $1.6billion [WSJ] “A purchase of YouTube could give a big boost to the online video efforts of Google. YouTube commanded 46% of visits to U.S. online video sites in August, according to market research firm Hitwise. That compared to a 23% share for the video activities of News Corp.’s MySpace social-networking site, and 10% for Google Video.”
Teen repellant takes Ig Nobel Peace Prize [CNet] “Howard Stapleton won the 2006 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for his “electromechanical teenager repellant,” a device that produces a sound audible only to those 30 or younger.”
IBM’s ’secret island’ in Second Life [The Register] “Visualisation tools are already well-advanced in engineering and science, but he feels there is a long way to go in areas such as business modeling and management. When it comes to modeling and simulation, the cutting edge with graphics utilisation is in gaming.”
Oct 6, 2006 | By Nuno
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