Enjoy the digest:
Steve Vamos, Microsoft Australia's managing director, says he doesn't believe
IE's share is under attack from Firefox, but has never used it personally:
http://news.com.com/Microsoft+says+Firefox+not+a+threat+to+IE/2100-1032_3-5448719.html
Microsoft unleash their latest version of a web search engine, mostly aimed at
boosting advertising revenue:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6786938
Google improve themselves too, by the more useful expedient of doubling their
index to more than 8 billion pages:
http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/11/googles-index-nearly-doubles.html
And so, inevitably, Microsoft's search engine appears to be mining Google:
http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20041111MicrosoftCrawlingGoogleResultsForNewSearchEngine.html
Microsoft's indemnification is put under the Groklaw microscope, and turns out
to have more "buts" than a bus station ashtray:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041111125109451
Three releases of the Xbox 2 are apparently under consideration, one of which
looks remarkably like a PC:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19615
A review of "Wi-Fi Toys", a how-to book for the amateur constructor and WiFi
enthusiast that would look at home in, say, my Xmas stocking:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/206246&mode=nocomment&tid=193&tid=6
And finally. After many years of enthusiastic support for Clippings, ECONZ has decided to consider a replacement for it. I'd like to thank ECONZ for their support, and hope to be involved in the creation of its replacement. As an interim measure, I'll be offering a limited version of Clippings off my own back that will continue with the brevity and lack of advertisements which you seem to like.
News collated from various sources by Vik Olliver for ECONZ Ltd. The views presented in this document are those of the collator, not those of ECONZ Ltd.