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Following the wave of concern expressed by several media companies that Google was favoring its own services and websites in search results, like the new Knol service, Timo Paloheimo, a Finnish digital planner for an advertising agency, had an interesting idea – to give people the option to use Google search without getting results from Google’s own websites. He went on and created a service that does just that, and named it Google minus Google.

A while back, Google launched a service called Knol, which aims at becoming an encyclopedia written by experts (as opposed to Wikipedia, which can be edited by anyone). Not long after it was launched, people started to notice that, when searching various names like products or services on Google, results from Knol pages appeared higher than the original pages related to those names.

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The evolution of Windows in parallel with computing architectures can be mapped out in accordance to the following marks: 32-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit and even further along. But while milestones have the potential to offer a consistent growth in terms of performance, they also come with inherent setbacks when it comes down to compatibility. According to Christopher Flores, Director Windows Communications, over the past three months Microsoft has noticed an increasing trend in the adoption of 64-bit editions of Windows Vista to outpace the 32-bit variant of the Windows operating system.

The translation is simple. The Windows client is at a juncture, a point marked by the transition from x86 to x64. And 64-bit Windows is starting to become mainstream with 32-bit versions of the platform beginning to fade into the background. This scenario is possible mainly through the new direction adopted by Original Equipment Manufacturers. While end users have failed to crowd to the new 64-bit technologies and software by themselves, OEMs are offering the necessary catalyst, by adjusting their offerings to reflect the fact that x64 is the future.

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Yesterday, David Recondon announced the launch of the New Open Web Foundation, a virtual place where developers must come to an agreement regarding the development and ratification of web standards. “The foundation is trying to break the trend of creating separate foundations for each specification, coming out of the realization that we could come together and generalize our efforts,” says the official statement released by the
supporting group.

Some of the companies that decided to enter the foundation and join their creative forces in order to decrease efforts and add-up their capabilities are BBC, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Yahoo!. Although the organization has more interest in going unnoticed, the great names that back it up will make it be in the center of attention.

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A court of law has found Carolyn M. Gudmundson, a former employee of industry giant Microsoft, guilty of embezzling approximately $1 million. Consequently, she was sentenced to 22 months incarceration time but, after she is done serving her time, she will continue to be closely supervised for a period of three years. Microsoft has been awarded monetary restitution to the amount of $923,000.

“Other employees who have similar opportunities to place their hands in the corporate till need to understand that society takes this sort of crime very seriously,” said Judge Ricardo
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According to the US DOJ (Department of Justice) three top brass executives from E-Gold, an online service that allows users to send and receive payments, and Gold & Silver Reserve Inc. have pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to engage in money laundering and conspiracy to operate a money transferring business without a license. The three men in question are Douglas Jackson, Director of E-Gold and CEO of Gold & Silver Reserve, Barry Downey and Reid Jackson.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich comments: “By failing to comply with money laundering laws and regulations, the E-Gold operation created an environment ripe for exploitation by criminals seeking anonymity in conducting online transactions. This case demonstrates that online payment systems must operate according to the applicable rules and regulations created to ensure lawful monetary transactions.”

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Social-networking giant Facebook has filed a copyright infringement suit against a German counterpart, according to the Financial Times.

StudiVZ is accused of “copying the look, feel, features and services” of Facebook, including its “wall” feature, according to the complaint filed Friday in California, the Financial Times reported.

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Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer’s decision to warn financial analysts Monday that Apple’s fourth-quarter gross margins will be negatively impacted by a “product transition” should be enough to get the rumor wheels turning: of course, it doesn’t take all that much. The remark came within yet another Apple’s earnings report that produced stellar numbers for the previous quarter but an outlook below what Wall Street had been expecting.

Oppenheimer deftly avoided several questions from analysts who tried to get a little more information on just what that “product transition” might involve. He used the exact same phrase last year in July during an earnings call to warn analysts of pretty much the exact same situation: that the transition would cause lower profits for the upcoming quarter. The result? New iMacs in August, and the iPod Touch in September.

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