But the market reaction that Microsoft has left the building and thrown away the key is not entirely held by analysts.

Google was up 2.37 percent to $566.08 a share in early-morning trading.

The continued sell-off in Yahoo’s shares comes despite the Internet search pioneer’s announcement after the markets closed Thursday that it had entered [...]

Once of Google’s 10th birthday gifts to the world is its re-release of a 2001 version of the search index. (The FAQ says there are “various technical reasons” for not displaying results back to Google birth year of 1998.) On it you can see what the service knew about any topic back then. Like you. [...]

No one said securing Windows 7 would be simple. But Microsoft has a vested interest in keeping us safe when we use its OS and UAC is a key component in that. Now it needs it to figure out how to make everyone happy. And maybe, eliminating annoyance isn’t the best way to do that. [...]

It could work like this: The Supreme Court’s ruling in 2004 against the Justice Department and in favor of the ACLU commanded a narrow 5-4 majority, with justices Stephen Breyer, William Rehnquist, Sandra Day O’Connor, and (separately) Antonin Scalia dissenting.

The court concluded that COPA “cannot withstand a strict scrutiny, vagueness, or overbreadth analysis and thus [...]

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And as a little icing on the cake, Google’s logo is on the side of the rocket set to launch the 4,300-pound satellite in six days from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

“The GeoEye-1 satellite has the highest ground resolution color imagery available in the commercial marketplace and [...]

I don’t buy that, but I can’t claim to be clairvoyant, so we’ll see who’s right six months from now. More immediately, does the RIAA understand how much ill will DRM fosters among music listeners? All he has to do is plug in the right search terms on Google. By now, who would be [...]

Thanks Harrison.
This reminds me a lot of Cogmap, a service that lets you map out the hierarchy of your workplace. It’s got a little more flash, though, and is similar to They Rule, a site outdated about four years that chronicles the “ruling class” of corporations around the world.
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