14 December – Five Stories You Need to Read

According to SFGate.com, “[t]he Internet accelerates while [the] U.S. trails behind”. 

CNetNews.com features an interview with Google’s open source programs manager Chris DiBona in which he talks about how Google, despite being a heavy user of open-source software and an active participant in many projects that develop it, is also a firm believer in proprietary software.

BusinessWeek.com writes that “[a] lawsuit against IBM is reviving debate over whether Web overuse may be classified as an addiction”.

ZDNet observes that “[h]ardware costs make IBM-Yahoo’s enterprise search less free”.

The Register reports that “[b]esieged by hedge fund managers and anxious Apple stockholders, research outfit Forrester today sought to distance itself from reporting of its research into digital download sales at Apple’s iTunes Store.