Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Walk softly and carry...

The Justice Dept has announced that it will be looking into the Google Books deal that they struck as a settlement with the Author's Guild. I'm not sure who this is good or bad news for, but it bears watching. Keep in mind that WIRED Magazine reports that this appears to be one front of the ongoing war between Google and Microsoft's lobbyist armies. Read from the Associated Press and Yahoo Newsfeed. Someone Google "Proxy War" for me...

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