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Microsoft patents a DRM scheme

Hoping to match rival Apple's successful foray into retailing, Microsoft opened its first store in Scottsdale, Arizona on October 22, 2009

Everybody's talking about content monetisation. David Howe looks at two proposals on the table from Google and Microsoft

Google has tried to made a deal with those opposing it's Google Books deal (such as Amazon and Microsoft) by offering to allow them to resell books from it's site. Amazon has rejected the idea.

Digital publishing for local culture or plain racism?

Microsoft's new social media monitoring & management solution #LookingGlass http://bit.ly/3sAKWA

Microsoft's new social media monitoring & management solution #LookingGlass http://bit.ly/3sAKWA

On Otc. 6th, Microsoft launched its "My Phone" which will compete with iPhone in the smart phone market.

Windows 7, 

News Analysis: Microsoft's recently launched Bing Twitter site is indexing tweets in real time. Not to be outdone, Google promises that Twitter content will be integrated into Google's search results page in a few months. Yahoo is allegedly working on real-time search with startup OneRiot. What are the implications?

After finally reaching a formal agreement with authors and publishers, a host of other heavyweights including Microsoft and Yahoo came forward to challenge the settlement of Google books. Google co-founder Sergey Brin addressed criticisms of the settlement in a lengthy editorial.