Google vs Microsoft - Case over Dr. Kai-Fu Lee

According to a news after the court case over Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, from today Dr. Lee will be working for Google on the lab at China, but he is not allowed to work on the areas that he was working under Microsoft such as Search and Speech Recognition.

Both of the companies say that they have won the case. Anyway hearing that Dr. Lee is back on work is nice.

Anyway in this case there are two sides as I feel. Microsoft has a right to say that Dr. Lee should not be using what he gained at Microsoft in a competing company like Google. In the other way if he is not using those, then it is ethical for him to work in a competing company.

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eBay is on fire

Today I heard two impressive news on eBay.

One news is that eBay is buying Skype for $2.6 billion. The next is eBay plans to acquire Shopping.com in a $620 million cash transaction.

Buying Skype would be great communication tool for the buyers and sellers at eBay. But according to an older news, Google and Yahoo were in the battle for buying Skype (which did not come true).
Now eBay will have to take part in the competition with Google (VoIP-bound Google Talk), AOL (VoIP-bound AIM), and Yahoo (VoIP-bound Dialpad integration).

According to these news, is eBay moving to a competition with other internet gients.

Google hires the Father of the Internet

A big event happend at Google. As a news said Google has hired Vint Cerf (Vinton Gray Cerf), the Father of the Internet.


Cerf's job title will be 'Chief Internet Evangelist', as though Google needs one of those. His role will be to build network infrastructure, architectures, systems, and standards for the next generation of Internet applications.
He will also continue in his role as the Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
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This must be related to the news on Google's plan of launching their Own WI_FI network.

So is that news going to become true?

By concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it

Today I found a nice little story which reminds us that we have a great life to live.

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A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old University of Notre Dame lecturer.

Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups." "Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change." "Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

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But I'm still wondering how we could spend the life if we do not think of those tools that hold and contain Life. How do you feel?

TheServerSide Creator Floyd Marinescu leaves TSS after 6 years

According to a mail from Floyd Marinescu, Editorial Director of TheServerSide Communities and co-editor of www.theserverside.com, has decided to leave the Company after 6 years of work.

As www.theserverside.com is one of the best sites that provide quality and new technology discussions and articles, he must have contributed a lot. So your great work is appreciated. I hope the good work at www.theserverside.com will be continued even with the absence of Floyd Marinescu.

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Nice job. His home site has much more interesting stuff.

Is Google building their own WI-FI network

Today morning I so an impressive news related to Google, the search giant.

Google seems like building their own network through out America. As google has bought resources for providing network services this may become real soon.

As Business 2.0 says, Google is already building such a network, though ostensibly for many reasons. It's also acquiring superfast connections from Cogent Communications and WilTel, among others, between East Coast cities including Atlanta, Miami, and New York. Google has sponsored Wi-Fi hotspot, built by a local startup called Feeva. Feeva is reportedly readying more free hotspots.

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But will Google become a free ISP? How huge will be the impact on ISP industry? What do you feel?

OpenOffice 2.0 Beta released

Today I saw that OpenOffice 2.0 beta second release is available for testing now.

As the OpenOffice site expresses;

Beginning with version 2.0 OpenOffice.org uses the open standard OASIS OpenDocument XML format as the default file format. The OASIS OpenDocument format is a vendor and implementation independent file format, and thus guarantees freedom and independence.

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Actually I saw this news through one of the blogs at blogspot http://cnpchillers.blogspot.com/.