Score one for Microsoft 
in its battle with Google. Google’s complaints about its rival’s practices failed to move the judge who is overseeing Microsoft’s antitrust agreement with federal and state governments.On Tuesday, Federal District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said she would not rule on a complaint Google filed about Vista’s search features. The judge has decided to leave the matter in the hands of government lawyers.
At issue are the changes Microsoft agreed to make to Windows Vista last week to address Google’s concerns. Google feared users of the operating system would be discouraged from using competing desktop search tools — namely its own. Although Google wasn’t satisfied with the proposed changes, lawyers representing federal and state governments were content with Microsoft’s move to make other desktop search tools more interchangeable with their own.
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June 27th, 2007
On Tuesday, tens of thousands of webcasters interrupted their regularly scheduled programming to give their listeners a taste of the future — complete silence. Yahoo, Live365, Rhapsody, MTV Online, AccuRadio, Radioio, Born Again Radio, Pearadio.com, and Ear.fm were among the many webcasters who participated in the the “Day of Silence” protest.The radio silence was a protest against the recent 300 percent royalty rate increase for online music webcasters. The twofold goal of the blackout was to raise awareness of the threat these new rates pose to the future of Internet radio and rally support for legislation pending in Congress.
The question now is whether the last-ditch effort will serve as a catalyst to stir listeners to storm the gates of Capitol Hill with e-mails, letters, and phone calls, or whether listeners will stay quiet as the House Committee on Small Business prepares to hold a hearing to assess the effects of the increase on recording artists and webcasters on June 28.
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June 27th, 2007
