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_______________________________________________________ INTERNET THINK TANK FLASH NEWS February 20, 2008 _______________________________________________________ About Us Internet Think Tank is an Internet technology and research firm specializing in enterprise web applications and web services. Internet Think Tank develops and promotes technology that enhances how people use the Internet in new and exciting ways. To learn more about Internet Think Tank, visit our web site at http://www.inttk.com _______________________________________________________ Business *Report: Microsoft Prepping Proxy Fight for Yahoo Bid Microsoft is stepping up the pressure on Yahoo to accept its $44.6 billion bid. The software giant is reportedly preparing for a proxy fight after deciding not to raise its initial offer, a move that comes one day after Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told the AP that he believed his company's offer was "fair." Since Yahoo officially spurned its overtures, speculation has arisen that Microsoft would launch a proxy battle for control of Yahoo's board. That's about to happen, according to The New York Times' DealBook blog. Microsoft is reportedly lining up candidates for Yahoo's board of directors and will attempt to gain the support of institutional investors and other large shareholders amenable to its plans. (Source: http://arstechnica.com ) *Analyst: 2008 to see Bullish Demand for IT Emerging markets will maintain double-digit IT investment growth despite recessionary concerns, according to Access Markets International (AMI) Partners' report on this year's top IT trends for small and medium businesses (SMBs) worldwide. The consulting firm specializing in infocomm technology and business services market intelligence, said given the strong growth rates expected of regional economies in 2008, bullish demand for IT products and services will continue in emerging markets. "In fact, in countries such as China and India, IT spending will continue to rise rapidly as companies increasingly look to IT to spur effectiveness in their operations and compete more aggressively," AMI Partners said in a press release Wednesday. (Source: http://www.zdnetasia.com ) *Mobile Exec: Google, Yahoo are Stealing our Billions Mobile carriers need to step up their game and make mobile services easier to use, says Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, lest they willingly hand over business to media giants like Google. Sarin made the comments when speaking to the press during this week's Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, admitting that his industry has not traditionally done a good job in making new mobile services appealing to users. Not doing anything to fix that, will be the industry's biggest mistake, he said. "We have lots of very complicated tariffs out there," Sarin told the crowd. The services are often expensive, slow, difficult to find, and even more difficult to use, which is not how things should be if carriers want to keep their three billion person (and growing) global audience. "If you get this wrong, the upside will still be enormous, but it won't be realized by us." Sarin's comments come as companies like Google, Yahoo, and Ask continue to work on their own mobile services that have, thus far, given a far better media experience than what the carriers themselves offer. (Source: http://arstechnica.com ) *SCO to get $100M Bankruptcy Bailout Five months after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as part of a reorganization effort last September, The SCO Group Inc. today unveiled a potential $100 million cash infusion and a plan to take the embattled company private. In an announcement, Lindon, Utah-based SCO said that the cash will come from Stephen Norris & Co. Capital Partners L.P. (SNCP) and partners in the Middle East who "have agreed to provide up to $100 million to finance a plan of reorganization for The SCO Group Inc." Under the deal, which must be approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Delaware who is reviewing the company's bankruptcy filing, SNCP would gain a controlling interest in the company and take it private. Two notable clauses are present in a 15-page "Memorandum of Understanding" filed with the court by SNCP to outline the proposal: SCO CEO Darl C. McBride, who has led the company since 2002, would be required to "resign immediately" once the deal is completed, and SCO must "continue to pursue aggressively the company's claims in the Novell/IBM litigation and other pending litigation against AutoZone Inc." (Source: http://www.computerworld.com ) _______________________________________________________ Early Adaptor Blog Now it is possible to listen to Goldfrapp on your Favicon while eating a Clif Bar in your BloKlok. Find out how in the E.A. Blog. http://earlyadaptor.tumblr.com/ _______________________________________________________ Portals *Cayman Island Bank Gets Wikileaks Taken Offline in U.S. A federal judge in San Francisco has shut down a Web site that posted more than a million government and corporate documents from whistleblowers and others alleging criminal acts worldwide. A permanent injunction was issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White. It was sought by the Swiss banking group Julius Baer after internal documents were posted to Wikileaks.org claiming to show the bank was connected to money laundering and tax evasion in its offshore operations in the Cayman Islands. The bank has accused a former vice president of leaking the records, which it claims are confidential. White ordered California-based domain registry Dynadot to "immediately lock the wikileaks.org domain name to prevent transfer of the domain name to a different domain registrar, and shall immediately disable the wikileaks.org domain name and account to prevent access to and any changes from being made to the domain name and account information, until further order of this Court." Despite the judge's order, you can still access Wikileaks through many mirror sites, including those in Belgium and Germany. (Source: http://blog.wired.com ) WikiLeaks Mirror Site http://wikileaks.be/wiki/Wikileaks Wikileaks' Press Release http://wikileaks.org.uk/wiki/Wikileaks.org_under_injunction *iMantri to Pair Mentors Up with Mentees iMantri seeks to match mentors up with mentees using a niche social network that focuses on "goals" and "competencies". The website is very text heavy and generally not very well designed, but the idea should gain traction if executed better over time. Members can list themselves as mentors and/or mentees for any needs imaginable. For example, you can become a mentor for someone who wants to develop better time management skills or you can seek help with project management. The service creates a space for people to match themselves up directly instead of going through services like Big Brothers Big Sisters. In addition to people profiles that display relevant needs and skills, the site also provides survey tools for the identification of competencies that a mentor could help you strengthen. (Source: http://www.techcrunch.com ) iMantri http://www.imantri.com/ *A YouTube for Artists DeviantArt gets 1.5 billion page views a month, making it one of the most popular Web sites that many people have never even heard of. Despite the name, only a fraction of the art on the site is what might be labeled deviant. In reality, the site boasts millions of user-uploaded works of art, everything from photography to 3D digital conceptual art to old-fashioned canvas-and-paint portraits. Think of it as a YouTube for artists trying to show their own work. Pieces can be viewed, commented on, even added to a user's own gallery of favorites. The range of work defies characterization, but there is a heavy dose of cartooning and fantasy art as well as some adult content, which is blocked for unregistered users. In some cases, artists have posted their digital leftovers in a "stock" pile that other artists can use as the genesis for their own work. (Source: http://www.news.com ) Devian Art http://www.deviantart.com/ _______________________________________________________ Internet *Report: Asia-Pacific Net Users to Cross 500M China could be home to the most number of Internet users in the world by end 2008, according to a report released Tuesday. eMarketer, a research house specializing in e-business and the Internet, reported that China's Internet population reached 176.5 million in 2007, compared to 188.1 million in the United States. The tally for China included Hong Kong. Ben Macklin, senior analyst at eMarketer, said China would "overtake the United States as the most populous Internet nation in the world" this year. The Internet market in the Asian country, he added, is still relatively immature and together with countries such as Brazil and India, will drive growth in the number of Internet users globally. Macklin noted that the number of Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region is also expected to grow by about 14.1 percent to 543.8 million, from 476.6 million last year. The region's Internet population is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 11.4 percent--the second highest in the world after Latin America--between 2007 and 2012. By 2012, nearly one in four persons worldwide will access the Internet at least once a month. About half of the total Internet population will come from the Asia-Pacific region. (Source: http://www.zdnetasia.com ) *Amazon Doesn't Love New York Tax Plan Amazon has set up shop in the New York State capital in Albany, lobbying state legislators to block a measure in the governor's budget that would require out-of-state online retailers to begin collecting sales taxes on orders shipped to New York addresses. "This, in fact, would be a tax on New York consumers, not on out-of-state companies," Paul Misener, Amazon's vice president of global public policy, said. A spokesman from the governor's office countered that the bill does not create a new tax, but rather places the onus of collecting sales taxes on out-of-state retailers. Currently, states' e-commerce taxation relies on the honor system. Consumers are expected to report online purchases they make from companies that do not collect sales tax because they have no base of operations within the state. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *Mozilla Offering Live Chat Support for Firefox Mozilla Corp. has been quietly offering live Web support for the Firefox Web browser since the beginning of the year. It is one of the open-source group's experiments in improving the user experience and woo more of them from Microsoft Corp.'s still-dominant Internet Explorer. True to its open-source heritage, Firefox Live Chat is a valiant, all-volunteer effort. But the service remains in beta, buggy, and only available to users several hours a day during U.S. working hours. "The hours of operation are currently very conservative," acknowledged David Tenser, who runs Mozilla's support programs, in an e-mail. Rivaling Linux itself as most popular open-source project, Firefox has never had trouble attracting volunteers. More than 1,000 people freely contribute code, 20,000 test pre-beta versions of Firefox every night and another 500,000 test the actual betas. But for the unglamorous job of chat-based technical support, Tenser has only been able to recruit about 20 volunteers. And during the actual 3-4 hour sessions, only about 3-5 of them are actually available answering users' questions. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com ) ________________________________________________________ Weekly Quote "We have a huge market opportunity - and are uniquely positioned to capitalize on it. The global online advertising market is projected to grow from $45 billion in 2007 to $75 billion in 2010. And we are moving quickly to take advantage of what we see as a unique window of time in the growth - and evolution - of this market to build market share and to create value for stockholders." --Jerry Yang, the chief executive of Yahoo, explained his company's rejection of Microsoft's buyout offer in a letter to shareholders late Wednesday outlining why he believed the bid, initially valued at $44.6 billion, was too low. The letter is not likely to hold many surprises for investors who follow Yahoo closely, as it largely repeats points the company's executives have made in recent months. And it sheds no light into what next steps Yahoo might pursue, following Monday's rejection of Microsoft's offer. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com) Yahoo's Letter to Stockholders http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=294288 ________________________________________________________ Wireless *Symbian Shrugs off iPhone and Android The Symbian operating system grew 50% over 2007 and is well positioned to grow in the future, according to Symbian Software Ltd.'s chief executive, Nigel Clifford, who shrugged off Google Android, Apple iPhone and Microsoft Windows phones at the Mobile World Congress (MWC). .4 million Symbian phones shipped in the fourth quarter of 2007, bringing the full-year total to 77 million, with €179 million in royalties for the year. However, Symbian is making its operating system cheaper in order to reach beyond the smart-phone sector to lower-cost phones, which are expected to grow much faster than any other kind of device in the next few years. "We've established a base camp at the top of the pyramid," said Clifford, coining what is surely MWC's best mixed metaphor so far. "The midrange is key to our growth -- that's where we'll get our next 300 million subscribers." The operating system has kept its lead in the smart-phone market and now accounts for a respectable 7% of all phones, including low-cost devices, said Clifford. (Source: http://www.computerworld.com ) *Japan Delays High-Speed Internet Satellite: Agency Japan's space agency said it was delaying the launch of a satellite aimed at providing high-speed Internet access across Asia due to a technical problem with its rocket. Japan was slated Friday to launch the Kazuna, an experimental satellite looking at how to bring broadband-speed service across Asia even when terrestrial infrastructure goes down. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said it discovered a problem with the gas jet thruster for its H-2A launch rocket on Tuesday at its station on the southern island of Tanegashima. "The new launch date will be announced as soon as it is determined," a JAXA statement said. The satellite was jointly developed by JAXA and industrial giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., which is handling the launch for the second time since the H-2A was privatised in April 2007. (Source: http://news.smh.com.au ) *Bluetooth to Get Speed Boost The popular wireless technology known as Bluetooth could get a lot faster next year by taking advantage of Wi-Fi technology already built into many gadgets. Linking Bluetooth and Wi-Fi may make it easier and faster to transfer large amounts of music between computers and mobile phones, or send pictures from a camera phone to a printer, or video from a camcorder to a TV. Michael Foley, director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, said the first devices with the technology could be on the market in the middle of next year. The industry group behind Bluetooth, which has more than 10,000 member companies, plans to announce tomorrow that it is pursuing the technology and will make it available next year. A fast transfer channel for Bluetooth using a different radio technology, ultra-wideband, was announced in 2006, but delays in getting it to work prompted the Bluetooth group to look at Wi-Fi too, Foley said. (Source: http://www.smh.com.au ) *Apple in Third Place as Smartphone Shipments Soar Apple has managed to develop the third-best selling smartphone in the world, according to a new report from Canalys. The market researcher's latest tally of the "smart mobile device" market found that Apple's iPhone had 6.5 percent of the worldwide market in the fourth quarter. That might not sound like a lot, but it's good enough for third place behind Nokia, which has a whopping 53 percent of the market, and Research In Motion, which has 11.4 percent. And last year, of course, Apple had 0.0 percent of this market. Canalys doesn't provide an exact definition of what exactly constitutes a "smart mobile device" in the press release touting the research, but said it's talking about smartphones, handhelds, and wireless handhelds. That segment comprised about 35.5 million devices in the fourth quarter, a small fraction of the overall cell phone market's 300 million units in the fourth quarter. But it's growing quickly: 60 percent from 2006 to 2007, and 71 percent from last year's fourth quarter to this year's, according to Canalys. Asia and Europe purchase the bulk of the world's smartphones, but shipments to the U.S. doubled last year. (Source: http://www.news.com ) ________________________________________________________ Technology *Converter Box Coupons to be Mailed Next Week Coupons days are here for American owners of outdated analog televisions. The federal government said Friday it will begin mailing out $40 coupons next week to consumers to help pay for converter boxes that will save their analog sets from becoming obsolete. TV viewers who get their programming over an antenna and are not connected to cable or satellite will need a converter box when full-power broadcast stations begin transmitting digital-only signals in February 2009. An estimated 13 million to 21 million U.S. households are in the analog-set set. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration agency is overseeing the $1.5 billion coupon program to subsidize converter-box costs, estimated to run between $40 and $70. More than 2.6 million households have requested nearly 5 million coupons since Jan. 1, the agency said. (Source: http://www.usatoday.com ) *Novell Pushes Deeper Into Collaboration Tech Novell is moving farther into the collaboration market by acquiring SiteScape, an open source player in team workspaces -- and a partner in an existing joint offering. As a result of the acquisition, terms of which were not disclosed, Novell plans to integrate SiteScape's technology into its core collaboration wares, which compete against IBM's Lotus Notes and Microsoft's Exchange, among others. "We looked at it and decided now is the time to demonstrate our commitment to this market, do this acquisition and invest back into our collaboration business," said Kent Erickson, general manager for Novell's Workspace Solutions, told InternetNews.com. That product forms the crux of Novell's "Teaming + Conferencing" solution, which the two companies partnered to develop in 2007. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) ________________________________________________________ You Tube *Video On The Web, Billions Served Online video viewing in the U.S. broke new records in the month of December, according to the latest research by comScore's Video Metrix service. The research firm's stats indicate U.S. Internet users watched a staggering 10 billion videos in the month of December, with Google's YouTube service leading the charge as the most viewed destination site for videos. "YouTube represents almost a third of all videos viewed on the Web for December," Andrew Lipsman, senior analyst at comScore, told InternetNews.com. "And YouTube's total keeps going up. It's 12 percent higher than November." Google's combined video sites accounted for 43 percent of unique video viewers in December. The next five, Fox Interactive Media (23), Yahoo (20.8), Time Warner (14.8), Viacom Digital (13.3) and Microsoft (10.9) were the only other Web properties to reach double digits in percentage share. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *Nielsen: YouTube is from Mars, Streaming Video is from Venus There is a gender split when it comes to preferences in online video, according to new data from market research group Nielsen Online. While streams of network TV shows have proven to be pretty popular among women, men seem to take more interest in user-generated video sites (such as YouTube). Viewers tend to view the two types of sites at different times, too-data that could help online video advertisers better target their audiences. The findings come as part of Nielsen Online's official launch of VideoCensus, the company's syndicated online video measurement service. VideoCensus uses "patented panel and server research methodologies" in order to monitor trends in video watching online, according to the company. Such a service is in high demand among content creators, Nielsen says, because video ad revenue is highly dependent on it. VideoCensus' first month of data revealed some unexpected trends with online video viewing. This past December, Nielsen found that women aged 18 to 34 were almost twice as likely as men of the same age group to watch network TV streams, like those offered on NBC.com or Hulu. Nielsen did not provide an explanation, but it may be that men are more likely to get their TV shows in other ways (e.g., via BitTorrent). (Source: http://arstechnica.com ) ________________________________________________________ Security *Adobe PDF Exploit Infects 'Many Thousands,' Says Researcher Attackers have been exploiting one of the recently-revealed vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader for at least three weeks, security researchers said today, with one estimating the infection count at "many thousands" so far. On Tuesday, Adobe Systems Inc. acknowledged that its popular PDF viewer sported several flaws, and patched them that same day. However, it has yet to spell out the exact number or nature of the bugs. But one of those vulnerabilities has been actively exploited since at least Jan. 20, said researchers at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC) and VeriSign Inc.'s iDefense unit. According to Raul Siles, an analyst with ISC, a malicious PDF file has been spreading a Trojan horse from a server based in the Netherlands. The first evidence of the attack, said Siles, came in a Jan. 20 message on an Italian message forum from a user who noted that three of his PCs had been infected, and the attack was traced back to the Dutch IP address. (Source: http://www.computerworld.com ) *Most Mobile Users Don't Know if They Have Security Security vendor McAfee released results of a survey of mobile users focused on their awareness and concerns related to security threats, which showed more than three quarters of respondents don't have any security at all. The survey was conducted on McAfee's behalf by analysis firm Datamonitor and released this week. Respondents were spread evenly between the U.S. the U.K. and Japan. It found 79 percent of mobile device users don't use any antivirus or other security software on their devices at all while 15 percent said they were unsure if their device had security software. However, the number is somewhat misleading, as many of what count as a "mobile device" are non-PCs, such as Blackberries, iPhones and other smart phones. These products have generally not been the target of malware nor is there antivirus software available for them. McAfee concedes there is a considerable gap between the volume and severity of threats facing PC users versus mobile. The company also notes the relatively closed software architecture of most mobile devices prevents user from installing security software. (Source: http://www.internetnews.com ) *Hackers Spread Malware With 'Hilary Clinton' Spam Cybercriminals may have weighed risk and reward and figured that the first isn't worth the second if they try to exploit the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, a security researcher at Symantec Corp. said Friday. At least for now. "We've now seen just two instances of spam using political candidates to spread malicious code," said Oliver Friedrichs, director of Symantec's security response team and a writer on electoral cybercrime. "I think [hackers] are still a little skittish. The high visibility of the federal elections makes them cautious about stepping into it." Earlier this week, researchers at both Symantec and McAfee Inc. reported a spam run that tried to trick users into downloading a Trojan horse posing as a video of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton supposedly shot before Tuesday's Virginia primary. (Source: http://www.pcworld.com ) ________________________________________________________ Legal *Bill Bars Web Traffic Discrimination A Democratic lawmaker has proposed legislation to stop network providers from playing traffic cop on the Internet. Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet, introduced the bill to promote the principle, known as "Net neutrality," of treating all Internet traffic equally. Markey, who introduced similar legislation in 2006, said the bill doesn't regulate the Internet, only makes sure the rules of online engagement are fair. His spokeswoman said he wanted to defuse critics' arguments that the bill amounts to regulation, which she called inaccurate. "It does, however, suggest that the principles which have guided the Internet's development and expansion are highly worthy of retention, and it seeks to enshrine such principles in the law as guide stars for U.S. broadband policy," Markey said of The Internet Freedom Preservation Act (Source: http://www.sfgate.com ) *University Group Sues Intel over Patents The University of Wisconsin-Madison's research arm has sued computer chip maker Intel claiming the company violated the university's patents in making the popular Core 2 Duo processor. The federal lawsuit, filed Tuesday, alleges technology used in the processor to increase its speed and efficiency was created by researchers at the university and Intel should have obtained a licensing agreement to use it. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a private, nonprofit patent management organization that supports research and controls the university's patents, filed the lawsuit. It claims the computer chip's microarchitecture infringes on a 1998 patent based on work by four researchers including Gurindar S. Sohi, chair of the computer science department. "The technology of the UW-Madison researchers has been widely recognized in the field of computer architecture as a pioneering invention," WARF's attorney Michael Falk said. WARF contacted Intel about the issue in 2001 and repeatedly offered the company legal licensing opportunities for the technology, Falk said. But Intel, the world's largest semiconductor company, starting using the technology in the Core 2 Duo processor without a licensing deal, according to the lawsuit. The company also never told Sohi it was using the technology, the lawsuit says. (Source: http://news.yahoo.com ) *First Lawsuit Filed In Microsoft-Yahoo Deal After turning down a 62 percent premium for shareholders in the form of Microsoft's takeover bid, Yahoo opened itself to litigation from unhappy stakeholders. Unhappiness manifested itself quickly as one group decided they would rather take their chances with Microsoft acquiring Yahoo, and filed a lawsuit to force Yahoo to consider takeover overtures. A Bloomberg report said the Wayne County Employees' Retirement System of Michigan, owner of about 13,600 Yahoo shares, sued Yahoo in Delaware's Court of Chancery. Theirs could be the first of several others, depending on how Yahoo handles the ongoing negotiations. Yahoo wants no part of a Microsoft buy, and announced they consider Microsoft's initial $44.6 billion bid as undervaluing the company. If they choose to use it, Yahoo has a 'poison pill' defense they could invoke to keep out of Microsoft's hands. But the report said use of the poison pill appears unlikely, as it would further anger shareholders who have seen Yahoo lose more than half its market value over the past two years. (Source: http://www.webpronews.com ) *Google Sued over Sky Layer in Google Earth A former Google contractor is suing the company for allegedly stealing from him the idea for the Sky layer in Google Earth. The lawsuit filed this week in federal district court in Atlanta seeks punitive damages of US$25 million from Google. Jonathan Cobb claims in his suit that he disclosed the idea for a Google Sky idea in internal e-mail discussion groups when he worked at Google as a contractor beginning in 2006. The Google Earth Sky layer, when it launched in August 2007, was similar in interface and functionality to what he had conceptualized, Cobb claims. Google representatives did not return e-mail messages seeking comment. The case may not be as straightforward as it sounds, says one Internet law expert. "These types of misappropriation claims are easy to make and hard to disprove," says Eric Goldman, an assistant professor at Santa Clara University School of Law. "It's not entirely clear that Cobb wins even if everything he says is true." (Source: http://www.zdnetasia.com ) ________________________________________________________ Gadget of the Week *ASUS Nova P22 Mac Mini Clone Now on Sale ASUS has just introduced one of its rare desktop systems. Called the Nova P22, the PC is aimed squarely at the micro-PC field of the Mac mini and effectively hides virtually all of the front desktops while sitting roughly two inches tall; it includes a slot-load optical drive and places virtually all input at the back. Unlike the mobile CPU of its Apple counterpart, the system is driven by a desktop 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo with a far faster 1.06GHz front side bus. Most specifcations have been left out of the launch, though ASUS promises the Nova will sell for the equivalent of $1,019 in the company's home of Taiwan and is likely to bring the system to other countries in the future. A line of external add-ons will also be introduced to augment the compact PC, according to the company. (Source: http://www.electronista.com ) Review: Asus Nova P22 Mini PC Is No Small Wonder http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/review-asus-nov.html _______________________________________________________ Tech Terms geotagging Geotagging, sometimes referred to as Geocoding, is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as websites, RSS feeds, or images and is a form of geospatial metadata. This data usually consists of latitude and longitude coordinates, though it can also include altitude, bearing, and place names. _________________________________________________________ On the Web For the cellphone industry, software is growing in importance as smartphones, capable of accessing the Web, become more popular. "Trying to Capture That iPhone Flair" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/technology/personaltech/14basics.html?8cir&emc=cir Borders, the nation's second-largest bookstore chain, hopes to reverse years of sluggish sales by reinventing itself as a hub for knowledge, entertainment and digital downloading. "Borders opens bookshelves to digital services" http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2008-02-13-borders-downloads_N.htm?csp=34 What makes Office Live Small Business so compelling is its sharp focus on a single problem: that half the small businesses in America, and 70 percent of one-person businesses, don't even have Web sites. "A Little Piece of Microsoft Aids Small Business" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/technology/14pogue.html?em&ex=1203138000&en=09fe64a0d33e0bcd&ei=5087%0A _________________________________________________________ Wired Index February 19, 2008 $19.52 Last Week +0.02 Year to Date -9.96% Guinness Atkinson Global Innovators Fund (IWIRX) tracks the share prices of 40 public companies, selected by the editors of Wired magazine to represent the forces driving the new economy. For more information about the fund including past performance, see the link below: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=iwirx ___________________________________________________________ ***Apeluri umanitare George Cuzuc: website http://www.cuzuc.netfirms.com/index.htm Emilia Baba-Paun: website http://www.help-ema.puls-il.ro ------------------------------------------------------------- **[RomaniaUSA] "Romani. 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