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ARCHIVE FOR JANUARY 2005
Date/Headlines Source
31 January 2005  
Yahoo to Offer Financial Data Feeds Reuters
Lee Enterprises to Buy Pulitzer In a $1.46 Billion Agreement WSJ Online*
Monkeys pay per view innovations report
Search Sites Play a Game of Constant Catch-Up The New York Times*
The Weblog Question: Ownership InformationWeek
Thomson Financial enhances Datastream service Finextra
OverDrive Now Offers Libraries Unlimited Download Audiobook Plan OverDrive
Stratify Breaks New Ground in Electronic Discovery BusinessWire
Interwoven Takes Web Content Management to a New Level with Introduction of LiveSite i-newswire
Business Blogger Turns Free Traffic Tips Web Log Into 400 Page Book – Has Giveaway at Site PRWeb
28 January 2005  

U.S. Backs Off Relaxing Rules for Big Media

The New York Times*
United Kingdom: Court Judgement Reduces Protection for Databases Mondaq
Court Throws Out Case Against VNU's ACNielsen Unit Reuters
Technology Threats to Advertising Breach Newsroom Walls USC Annenberg OJR
Special Report: The State of Analyst Weblogs, Part 1 Tekrati
Blog Overkill:The danger of hyping a good thing into the ground. Slate
Shoptalk: Beware of the Blog Editor & Publisher
Sad end for BBC journo's health blog Sify News
Tribune's Net Falls 36% On Staff-Cuts Charge WSJ Online*
ECNext Launches eMarketing Consulting Service to Help Business Publishers Drive Web Revenue BusinessWire
Tekrati Debuts Directory of Industry Analyst Weblogs in Conjunction with New Communications Forum 2005 BusinessWire
Compliance Web Portal With Legal Focus Launches to Meet Industry Hunger for Knowledge, Trends and Facts BusinessWire
Discovery Education Introduces Discovery Health Connection PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
27 January 2005  
Amazon's A9.com search pictures your destination CNET News
Dow Jones-MarketWatch deal to result in job cuts SFGate
EU Parialment Approves eContentplus Programme to Promote Multilingual European Digital Content noticias.info
C2C Address Freedom of Information Act Data Challenge Managing Information
Big Wigs From the Blogging & Journalism Conference Say What They Found PressThink
Gannett, Knight Ridder Report Robust Q4s on Strong Ad Upticks, but USA Today Down AP via Editor & Publisher
Germany: Blogs On Their Way To Media WebProNews
Business.com ''People Search'' Provides Access to 24 Million Business Professionals Online BusinessWire
PARC Chooses LexisNexis Collections Solutions For Skip Tracing, Locates Debtors Faster, More Efficiently BusinessWire via TMCNet
Interwoven and Landor Associates Partner to Deliver Superior Brand Management and Marketing Solutions PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
26 January 2005  
Bloggers tackle the Super Bowl CNET News
New York Times Net Slips On Payroll, Print Expenses WSJ Online*
Are Sites Revealing Microsoft's Secrets? PC World via Yahoo!News
Sue different: Apple threatens insider sites after leaks USC Annenberg OJR

IBM raises BI ambitions

DataMonitor
ALM Launches ALM Research Online BusinessWire via Yahoo!Finance
Qpass Buys Up ucp morgen 16 Characters
Stellent Partners With Fast Search & Transfer to Expand Search Technology Suite PR Newswire
LexisNexis RiskWise and Quova Align to Prevent Credit Card Fraud for Global E-Commerce LexisNexis
Nielsen BookData Strikes Data Deal With Askews Library Services Managing Information
25 January 2005  
Google Steps Into TV Search, Joining Rivals Reuters
Bloggers, Traditional Journos Face Off in Harvard Square AP via Editor & Publisher
Internet searchers are confident, satisfied and trusting – but they are also unaware and naïve Pew Internet & American Life
iTunes sell at brisk clip -- a million per day SeattlePI.com
Legal Music Downloading Up marketnews.ca
Top Vendors’ Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Information Today
At Free Library of Philadelphia, 20 Branches to Operate Without Librarians Library Journal
The growing market for organizing: Tomorrow's content may be home grown MarketWatch*
LexisNexis Launches Chinese Online Service EContent Magazine
Factiva Offers Company Information from Leading Global Providers with Unrivalled Global News BusinessWire
Research: Why Has Europe Been Reluctant To Fully Embrace ICTs And Advanced E-Business Tools? BusinessWire
Survey: One out of Four Enterprise Companies Plans to Purchase a Dashboard Solution in 2005 BusinessWire
24 January 2005  
Internet News Sites Are Back in Vogue The New York Times*
Newspapers Face Antitrust Scrutiny WSJ Online*
Blogs: Some Rights Reserved ClickZ Network
Rich, Tailored Content InformationWeek
Seeking Better Web Searches Scientific American
RSS Becoming the Next Standard in Commercial Web-Publishing and Online Information Distribution eMediaWire
Friendster, Love and Money The New York Times*
OneSource Debuts Tool for Small, Midsize Businesses DM News
Reed Elsevier's legal unit LexisNexis buys China's PRCInvestment AFX via Yahoo!News
ProQuest Extends Factiva Agreements, New Latam Newsstand, Enhances Collection, Federated Search EContent Magazine
Stylus Studio and Mark Logic Announce Integrated XQuery Development Support for XML Content Server MarketWire via ArriveNet
Bankrate, Inc. Renews Agreement With The New York Times on the Web PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Dow Jones & Company Closes $528 Million MarketWatch Acquisition BusinessWire
21 January 2005  
Media leadership nears changing of the guard USA Today
Magazines Gussy Up Web Sites to Court Ad Dollars ClickZ Network
Google outgunned? CNET News
ALA in Boston: Attendance Bounces Back Library Journal
When Bloggers Make News WSJ Online*
Send 'free' to work: Creative Commons brings copyrights into the digital age USC Annenberg OJR
FinancialContent Offers Business News Headlines From Reuters.com I-Newswire
Fasteer: The P2P Digital Store that Rewards its Users PR Web
Believe It or Not! Young Reader Defends Newspapers Editor & Publisher
ALM and Harvard Business School Publishing to Collaborate on Law Exec Management Development BusinessWire
20 January 2005  
Putting the Mac Mini in your dashboard CNET News
Electronics Firms Form Digital Media Rights Accord Reuters
Belo Localizes Interactive Division in Bid to Recapture Classifieds USC Annenberg OJR
ChoicePoint finds wealth in information Washington Post via MSNBC
Australian Content Added To Dialog Newsroom Managing Information
Seeking Man-on-the-Street Views of Iraq, U.S. Reporters Turn to Bloggers Editor & Publisher
AOL to Expand Its Capabilities In Web Searches WSJ Online*
HandHeld Entertainment Announces Plans to Launch a Digital Content Download System BusinessWire via TMCNet
Farlex, Inc. Adds Houghton Mifflin's American Heritage Dictionary to www.TheFreeDictionary.com PRWeb via Yahoo!News
Rethink Data Protection or ... Risk Catching Data Protection 'Pneumonia' PR Newswire
19 January 2004  
Yahoo beats the Street CNET News
'Blame The Readers' Tech Central Station
Google's No-Google tag blesses the Balkanized web The Register
Freedom of Information and Blogging: A Potentially Dangerous Mix? Mondaq
German library allowed to crack copy protection MobileRead.com
Why blogging matters to your business and your IT ZDNet
Wolters Kluwer UK wins FSA approval Onrec.com
Taiwan Encyclopedia opens site to users Taiwan News
LexisNexis Announces New Customizable Start Page, 'My Lexis'; New Features Available in February BusinessWire via TMCNet
On Demand Rich Media Market Will Grow to a Nearly $1 Billion Industry by 2007 BusinessWire
NYTimes.com Relaunches Autos Section with Larger Dealer Inventory Database and Revved up Search The New York Times Company
Verizon SuperPages Delivers 2005 Edition of Boston Yellow Pages With New Health and Wellness Guide PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Blackwell's Book Services Makes First Ebook Library Sale in Africa PR Newswire
18 January 2005  
Factiva to drop IBM's WebFountain IT Week
Elsevier Announces First-ever Journal of Nanomedicine PharmaLive
Profile: DataStream Content Solutions Washington Post
Peer-to-peer 'seeders' could be targeted NewScientist
P2P (peer to peer) Manifesto Has Been Launched i-Newswire.com
The Boston Globe Joins ProQuest Historical Newspapers(TM) Collection The New York Times Company
Revere Introduces Supplier Risk Report PR Newswire
HighBeam Research Announces Anniversary Open House, Provides Free Access January 24 - 28 BusinessWire via Investors.com
Novelis Inc. Selects ISYS Search Software's Desktop Search Solution to Empower Its Research Scientists BusinessWire
Interwoven Takes Web Content Management to a New Level with Introduction of LiveSite PR Newswire via ArriveNet
Thomas Technologies Teams with Authentica for Enterprise Rights Management BusinessWire via Yahoo!Finance
Wachovia Selects Verity for Time-Critical Cross-Enterprise Search PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Cadmus Communications Upgrades RapidRights(TM) DRM Service for Macintosh(R) Users PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
17 January 2005  
Dispute Puts a Medical Journal Under Fire The New York Times*
Springer Science + Business Media plans £1.4bn float The Times Online
Craigslist's global expansion could threaten big players International Herald Tribune
XM eyes TiVo, iTunes functions CNET News
Self-learning machines for document interpretation and analysis IST Results
Virtual Reference: Alive & Well Library Journal
Making Databases Work for Clients Washington Post
Podcasting: A new news outlet Cyberjournalist
How copyright could be killing culture Globe and Mail
Dialog Adds Univentio's German Patent Information dBusinessNews
14 January 2005  
Mac mini is the future of Apple Computer MacDailyNews
TheStreet.com to Explore 'Strategic Alternatives' TheStreet.com
Tsunami Video Alliance Portends Future Distribution for Amateurs USC Annenberg OJR
AvantGo Gets a Face-Lift PC World
Why advertising, marketing and PR pros should blog Digital Bulletin
Blog today, gone tomorrow ZDNet Australia
Google Settles with SEC on Pre-IPO Options Reuters
SunGard Workflow Solutions Introduces Digital Dashboard Application for Octane8 DM Review
LexisNexis Introduces PatentOptimizer for Intellectual Property Attorneys BusinessWire via TMCNet
SurfNet - New Focus and Direction for Online Media Company and Web Publisher PR Newswire
13 January 2005  
Let a Thousand Googles Bloom LA Times
Reuters Expect Sales Decline WSJ Online*
Google Shrinks Enterprise Search Internetnews.com
Yahoo, Microsoft gaining ground on Google CNET News
New and Improved Access to Hoover's Business Data Search Engine News
Contextual Advertising Company To Serve Ads On Weblogs, RSS Feeds MediaPost
Tender moment for Reed Elsevier InfoLink
P2P companies face patent threat Out-law.com
eBooks Compiler Has Been Released i-Newswire
Elsevier's "iCONSULT" Puts Clinical Info Directly Into Health Records in Hospitals and Medical Practices PR Newswire
Scripps Networks Launches New Online Network BusinessWire
Wolters Kluwer Reaches an Agreement to Acquire De Agostini Professionale and UTET Professionale in Italy PrimeZone via Yahoo!Finance
12 January 2005  
Apple details Mini release CNET News
FTC Wins Order to Shut Down Spam From Adult Web Sites WSJ Online*
MSN tests new blog, search features CNET via ZDNet
Google critic releases source code for proxy SMH.com.au
GetLocalNews.com: Turning Bloggers Into Your Site’s Citizen Journalists PR Web
What's wrong with RSS is also what's right with it Builder.AU
When Worlds Collide Intelligent Enterprise
Autonomy Announces Agreement With EidosMedia PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Axiom to Sell Retrieve Knowledge Management System TenLinks.com
eSignal Adds New European Market Data and News to eSignal 7.8 Release BusinessWire via TMCNet
11 January 2005  
Yahoo joins desktop search fray CNET News
PLoS to Launch New Journals Library Journal
IVillage Acquires Healthology For $17.2 Million Dow Jones News via Excite
ebrary Announces New Technology, Custom Collections, and Partnerships Information Today
Museum-Quality High Resolution Art and Photography Now Comes Into the Home on Flat Panel TVs and PCs MarketWire
Engineering & Construction Firm, Burns & McDonnell, Selects LexisNexis InterAction for CRM BusinessWire via TMCNet
Elsevier deal with Hellenic Academic Libraries brings scientific and medical information to Greece M2.com
Thomson Taps Wilens to Drive Integrated Business, Product Development Strategy for N.A. Legal Business PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
SAIC's Content Analyst Product Division Sold PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
New Version of AvantGo Delivers Enhancements for Managing, Exploring and Personalizing Mobile Content PR Newswire via ArriveNet
Major U.S. TV Broadcasters Content Added to Rocketinfo Database MarketWire via ArriveNet
The Principal Financial Group Selects Mobular Technologies' mobileCompliance Software Solution PrimeZone
10 January 2005  
New York Times Mulls Charging Web Readers Reuters
Elsevier Upgrades ScienceDirect Library Journal
HP's Fiorina Sees Innovation as Key LA Times
Content and Control: Harvard Law School Paper P2PNet
Citigroup Unit Buys Real Estate Publications The New York Times*
Report Sizes 2005 Global Financial Market Data Industry at $7.11 Billion PR Newswire
Convergence is the rage, but it's a ways from reality SiliconValley.com
Apple's Legal Moves May Force Blog Closure Web Pro News
Search engine war spreads to weblogs The Korea Herald
MPEG LA unveils patent pool plan for digital rights scheme InformaitonWeek
7 January 2005  
Breaking Free of Cable's Stranglehold The New York Times*
Six Apart Acquires Maker of LiveJournal Weblogs Reuters
Blogs' Power Stretches Far Beyond Politics eWeek
Investors Should be Open to Open Text Barron's
Revived Spyware Bill Could Crunch Cookies ClickZ
New DRM Scheme Could Make Current DVD Players Obsolete eWeek
Apple music store smacked with antitrust suit The Register
LexisNexis Acquires of Key Assets from Rachel Hollingsworth Court Reporting, Inc. for Public Records BusinessWire via Yahoo!Finance
Blinkx Brings Desktop Search to Macs Internetnews.com
Frost & Sullivan Technology Leadership Award for SealedMedia BusinessWire
Mobliss  'Thumbdance' Channel to Deliver Exclusive Made-for-Mobile Video Entertainment BusinessWire
6 January 2005  
Newspaper 2.0: The Blog Revolution Editor & Publisher
Who'll conquer the digital home? CNET News
Reed Elsevier facing fresh threat to science journal profits The Independent
Will Pricing Stall The Mobile Content Industry? The Feature
The Federal Web: Content at the Ten-year Mark LLRX.com
Court rejects RIAA request to identify song-swappers Macworld
Publishers join SwetsWise online service InformationWorld
Monster Partners with Internet Broadcasting Systems to Target Local Job Seekers and Employers BusinessWire
Handmark(R) Announces Pocket Express(R) Wireless Services For BlackBerry(R) Users PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Yahoo! Launches Developer Program in Next Phase of Its Digital Home Strategy, Partners With Microsoft BusinessWire
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Introduces Law Firm Diversity Profiles on martindale.com BusinessWire
5 January 2004  
Adobe Policy Server Sets PDF Access Rights eWeek
BlogKits BlogMatch Network: World’s First ‘Paid to Blog’ Network eMediaWire
Times Co. to buy stake in free Boston paper The Boston Globe
Book biz website takes on industry mainstay The Daily News
HP unveils plans for digital home invasion CNET News
New 'Scene' for pirates: TV show made for P2P Variety via Yahoo!
The Paradies Shops Signs Exclusive Agreement with The New York Times Company PR Newswire
SIIA's Financial Information Services Division Announces New Vice-President PR Newswire via ArriveNet
Wolters Kluwer Selects RSA Security Identity and Access Management for Access to Online Services PR Newswire
American Lawyer Media Changes Name To ALM PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
EarthLink Wireless Introduces Upgraded BlackBerry Browser and Personalized Web Content BusinessWire via Forbes
4 January 2005  
Google's Billion-Dollar Idea Motley Fool*
2005 Ad Outlook: Paging Bill Murray Editor & Publisher
Topix offers start-up, VC news sites SiliconValley.com
Commercial Interest in Blogs Booming TechNewsWorld
Study: Magazines Risk Losing Core CPG Advertisers to Web ClickZ News
Wikipedia Criticised by Its Co-founder Slashdot
Bacon's pays $8M for Norwalk company The Stamford Advocate
GuruNet Launches Answers.com PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
NextTrim.com Launches - The First Apparel Trim and Packaging Trend and Market Survey Service Investors.com
Using RSS syndication  Pheedz provides eight channels of travel information and specials. I-Newswire
Viyya Technologies: User Feedback and Software Downloads Exceed Expectations BusinessWire
3 January 2005  
Report: The state of blogging Pew Internet & American Life
Myths Run Wild in Blog Tsunami Debate The New York Times*
Wireless Politics May Determine Future of Digital Democracy Dissident Voice
Wrapping Up 2004; Looking Forward Information Today
Online Groups Brag About Movie Piracy AP via Yahoo!
IM is a must in lots of offices SA.com
New Jersey researches ways to find more librarians Philly.com*
New service brings takeout to TiVo AP via Wash. Times
Concord Communications Deploys Verity K2 Enterprise for Corporate Intranet and Internet PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
MarketingJobs.com Successfully Launches Strategic Partner Program for 2005 i-newswire.com

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