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Google's revenue has surpassed Windows revenue, thanks Fester2001. A statement like that always comes with qualifiers, and they're detailed below. But the basic fact is this: For the first time, Google Inc.'s revenue edged out Microsoft Corp.'s sales of Windows for PCs in quarterly results reported by the companies last week. Although Google's big growth is common knowledge nowadays, the milestone wasn't widely noticed. If Microsoft and Google were aware of it, they didn't give any indication.
Fester2001 also sent in this article about RIAA college student victimization in the United States. The pleasure of enjoying music has become seriously tainted by the venality of EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US), the members of the Big 4 organised music cartel who together control the corporate music industry. Aided by so-called trade organisations such as their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), which is currently terrorising music lovers in the US, they’ve succeeded in using their financial clout and elements of the mainstream media to escalate copyright infringement, originally a purely civil matter, to the level of major crime.
Bit-Tech have posted part two to their build your own server guide. The previous article about Ubuntu based file serving hit like a bomb. The main focus of that article was to spark interest and get the server up and running in no time, showing what the possibilities were. Today's article starts where the previous one has left off. So if you didn't read the last one, I suggest you start reading there. This one goes a bit more in depth and helps with a couple of requests made in our forums, like Webmin, SFTP and making the server reachable from the Internet.
Current iPhone sales numbers have disappointed investors causing a drop in Apple stock price. AT&T wiped some of the glow off Apple's iPhone, releasing numbers that showed fewer people than expected signed up for service in the first two days of the multimedia mobile phone's release. As a result, Apple shares fell $US8.81, or more than 6 per cent, to $US134.89, wiping out more than $US7 billion of Apple's market value. AT&T - the iPhone's exclusive carrier - said on Tuesday it activated 146,000 iPhones on June 29 and 30, a number that disappointed investors following some analyst forecasts that Apple would sell 500,000 or more iPhones in its first weekend.
Windows Genuine Advantage has helped to nab some major software pirates, thanks Fester2001. Microsoft's controversial Windows Genuine Advantage software validation mechanisms have been a source of frustration for PC users, and a subject of lawsuits against the company. But Microsoft says the anti-piracy tool, and the actions taken by consumers who received WGA alerts, were critical in tracking down a huge counterfeit software syndicate based in Southern China. See this FBI news release for more on the bust, announced today. The company says the syndicate in question was responsible for producing and distributing more than $2 billion worth of counterfeit Microsoft software. David Finn, a Microsoft associate general counsel, called that a conservative estimate.
Phoronix have posted some articles from the Ubuntu Live conference, here is their coverage from day 1 and day 2. On the second day of the Ubuntu Live 2007 conference presented by Canonical and O'Reilly was a keynote by Intel's Doug Fisher, Matt Zimmerman, and Tim O'Reilly among others. Also taking place were sessions on such topics as CloneZilla, Ubuntu on laptops, Dell Linux systems, and over two dozen other sessions. Ubuntu Live 2007 is now more or less done except for all of the parties and OSCON 2007 taking place the remainder of the week.
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