And also today (08-Feb-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Revenues in recommendations Amazon.com plans to let publishers nominate books for recommendation on its site, rather than its own editors being solely responsible for the process. ...more

Google hits text copyright wall

Google has backtracked on plans to put the full text of books from the world's leading libraries on the Internet. The search engine's plans have been widely criticised as a clear breach of copyright and it has now agreed to withhold books where the copyright holders request it to do so. Adam M Smith, product manager for the Google Print project said that the new policy would balance the needs of users and publishers. ...more

18-11-2000 Essential news of the week

Catch up on the essential news of this week and find out what the movers and shakers of the IT industry have been up to. New top-level domain names announced Hitachi unleash PC-TV Recording with your Palm Toshiba gets first shot at NVIDIA's new mobile GPU Visual Studio.NET, in Beta 1 form Netscape 6. ...more

Redten halts 'free PC' offer

The company that offered customers a 'free PC' when they signed up for three years of broadband has suddenly pulled the offer - two days after its parent company was subject to a mysterious takeover. Redten Internet has posted a message on its website claiming: 'Unfortunately, Redten Internet has run out of free PCs. In the interests of our customers, and to limit waiting times, the broadband with free PC offer has therefore been temporarily suspended. ...more

Pin sharp compression from LizardTech

There's a new file compression system for image files that doesn't affect their resolution. The compression technology known as DjVu, splits an image into two components, the background and the foreground and then uses these elements to compress the file. The system was bought from AT&T Labs, who developed the system to compress the thousands of documents in its libraries. ...more