According to PCWorld.com, “
Internetnews.com reports that “[t]he alliance between IBM and Sun drew a rather short but succinct response from HP: Welcome to the party. While IBM is getting into the game to sell Solaris on its x86 hardware, HP has been selling x86 servers for running Solaris for more than a decade. And it has enjoyed a decent business in the process.
According to a different Internetnews.com article, American Airlines “wants Google to stop selling keyword-based sponsored search results tied to any of its trademarks and is seeking punitive damages over the alleged infringement.” A copy of American Airlines’ complaint states that “Google’s search engine is helping third parties to mislead consumers and misappropriate the American Airlines Marks by using them as ‘keyword’ triggers for paid advertisements and by using them within the text or title of paid advertisements."
Slashdot writes that “[a]n anonymous reader sends us to the www.xakep.ru forum where a poster claims that the worldwide Skype crash was caused by Russian hackers (in Russian). The claim is that they found a local buffer overflow vulnerability caused by sending a long string to the Skype authorization server.”
In a related article, the Mercury News points out that “[s]ince Google went public Aug. 19, 2004, at $85 a share, its market value has grown nearly 500 percent to $156 billion. In comparison, Microsoft’s value had not quite quadrupled on its third anniversary way back in March 1989. But Google’s precocious performance has come at a price: Antitrust regulators in the United States are probing its proposed $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, an Internet advertising company, and European regulators are poised to follow suit. Meanwhile, open-source activists are developing alternatives to Google’s popular search engine.”