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ARCHIVE FOR FEBRUARY 2005
Date/Headlines Source
28 February 2005  
Bank of America Says Federal Charge Card Data Lost Reuters
Bloggers bring in the big bucks USC Annenberg OJR
NFAIS Conference Addresses the Battle for Mindshare Information Today
A Tag Team's Novel Net Navigation BusinessWeek
IBM's Serrano heats up information integration CBR Online
   
Kanoodle Announces 'BrightAds RSS' - Self-Service RSS Monetization and Distribution with Moreover PR Newswire
Ranking.com Database Releases "Free Usage" Guidelines PR Leap
Crystal Semantics Granted Patent for World's First Sense Engine PR Newswire
OneSource Sees 130% Increase in Legal Sector Business in Three-Year Period BusinessWire
25 February 2005  
Study Shows Rapid Growth in Online News Consumption PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Google Toolbar's AutoLink & The Need For Opt-Out Search Engine Watch
IBM expands corporate search ambitions CNET News
LexisNexis creates new start page for researchers Dayton Business Journal
ProQuest tops profits, sales estimates Ann Arbor News
Googlisation cometh! Bios Magazine
Collaboration is the name of the game in New Zealand's libraries Scoop
German Search Engines Self-Regulating Slashdot
Will Apple buy Tivo? P2PNet
AOL Debuts Local Search Online Media Daily
24 February 2005  
Online Ad Points to Product Commentary Rather Than Homepage AdRants
Ads Embedded in Online News Raise Questions The New York Times*
A tangled web of law governing content Financial Times

Bloggers Add Moving Images to Their Musings

The New York Times*
Wireless's New Hookup WSJ Online*
Apple revamps its iPod lineup CNET News
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Launches Attorney Match, Online Client Development Service for Attorneys BusinessWire
Rocketinfo to Access Prestigious NewsStand Inc. Content BusinessWire
Investor's Business Daily(R) Announces Content Relationship With Yahoo! Finance PR Newswire
Authentica Delivers Next-Generation Rights Management Platform Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Jrnl
Viyya Technologies to Release Second Application in the VIYYA Product Suite BusinessWire
RSS Marketing May Overtake E--mail as Top Info Delivery Tool PR Web
Managing all forms of engineering content Manufacturing Talk
23 February 2005  
Apple to unveil new iPod? Reuters via CNET
Don't Fear the Blog and the Fury BusinessWeek
ChoicePoint Suffers Fall in Share Price on Privacy Concerns The New York Times*
Desktop Search Tools Spark Enterprise Interest Enterprise IT Planet
UN edges closer to "internet governance" CBR Online
MagazineLaunch.com Website Launched to Provide Online Resources for Magazine Startups eMediaWire
SemioTagger and Skyline--EContent Decision-maker Review EContent Magazine
Volantis Launches World’s First Device-Independent Mobile Content “Player” Wireless Dev Net

Market Reports and Information Portal Launched

XTVWorld
ToolButton RSS Reader Announced PRWeb via ArriveNet
Searchfeed.com Providing Sponsored Content on Toolbars PRWeb via ArriveNet
22 February 2005  
Google book plan sparks French war of words Reuters via CNET
Bloomberg Mess: CEO's Portfolio Trimmed New York Post
Tribune cuts CEO bonus Chicago Tribune
My Life In Media: Andrew Gowers Reflects on the FT The Independent
Sprucing Up: Financial Websites expand and merge, adding new features Barron's Online
IT is from Mars; Web Content from Venus CMSWire
A Fluid Look at the News Wired News
PR Newswire Adds Print Clips to Industry-Leading Monitoring Service, eWatch(TM) PR Newswire
Autonomy Announces Strategic Acquisition of Revolutionary Structured Data Technology PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
FAST Improves the Search Capabilities of the National Instruments Intranet and Corporate Web Site PR Newswire via ArriveNet
21 February 2005  
Newspapers' $1 billion bet. Slate
Hard News: Daily Papers Face Unprecedented Competition Washington Post
Reuters: Not quite all the news fit to print out MarketWatch*
Google toolbar move raises online ire CNET News
Yahoo 'in talks' over Indian deal BBC News
Tired of TiVo? Beyond Blogs? Podcasts Are Here The New York Times*
Couple build startup into blog powerhouse AP via Boston.com
Reuters' U.S. Workers Vote in Favor of Strike WSJ Online*
Wikipedia's Growth Comes with Concerns (audio) NPR
Redefine Information Services and Competitive Intelligence to Impact Bottom Line PR Newswire
18 February 2005  
The Times Company Acquires About.com for $410 Million The New York Times*
Random House Joins Media Rush to Mobile Phones Reuters
Buy and Read Ebooks with Your Mobile Phones Slashphone.com
The Bloggers are at the Gate, Sire - Pat Oliphant Ucomics.com
The cost of ethics: Influence peddling in the blogosphere USC Annenberg OJR
Firefox reaches 25 million desktops CNET News
Web Executive Sees Online Video Ads Taking Off Reuters
Startup tags along as weblogs go corporate SeattlePI.com
The copyright 'copyfight' is on BBC News
Google blazes trail to Oregon Reuters via CNET
Factiva Adds Critical Web Content From Moreover Technologies to Media Monitoring and Reputation Mgt. Moreover
McGraw-Hill's New Digital Engineering Library Provides Unrivalled Content, Functionality, Editorial PR Newswire
FAST Launches Search Best Practices Consulting Service d-Business News
17 February 2005  
Search: Scaling Down for a Big Market BusinessWeek
Reed Elsevier Rises as Company Predicts Business Titles Growth Bloomberg News
The Cahners have left the building The Boston Globe
Google soups up search toolbar CNET News
The Underrated Enterprise Web: No Gerbil Cannonballs But a Lot More Bang AlwaysOn
IPod and MP3 player ownership soars VNUNet
Dow Jones News Service is Available on William O'Neil + Company's WONDA 5.2 BusinessWire
Weblogs Inc named by Business Week in top five online firms to watch in 2005 The Blog Herald
Rabobank switches to Temtec analysis system Finextra
First Wave of Enterprise Customers Adopt Vivisimo Velocity BusinessWire
CNN.com Offers Free RSS Feeds to Users, Bloggers I-Newswire.com
16 February 2005  
Citizen Journalists: Could Wikinews Become The Next Associated Press? BusinessWeek
Reuters's Profit Soars On Cost Cuts, Asset Sales WSJ Online*

Blog Awards: Like Blogs, They're Diverse, Global and Freewheeling

USC Annenberg OJR
Thanks to Cellphones, TV Screens Get Smaller The New York Times*
Media pros ask: 'Is it time for a new business model?' BtoBOnline
Can Bloggers Be Sued For Libel? Web Pro News
Concepts and a Design for Fair Use and Privacy in DRM D-Lib
Everything I Need To Know I Learned Online Library Journal
Thomson Financial Launches Thomson Financial News PR Newswire
WSJ Online and Outercurve Technologies Announce Launch of 'The Wall Street Journal for BlackBerry' BuisinessWire
Go Beyond Search Engines. Introducing Keepad. A novel concept in web research tools. PR Leap
Factiva Educates Global Staff More Efficiently with 'eTopics' Training Initiative Using Brainshark BusinessWire
Bibliotheque Municipale de Lyon Chooses Autonomy to Guide Users to the Right Information PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
The Fannie Mae Foundation Taps Vignette Collaboration Solutions,  E-Mail Integration Key BusinessWire
15 February 2005  
Yahoo desktop search tools may move from desktop to Intranet ZDNet Australia
Ask Jeeves mulls Firefox-based browser CNET News
Content Management for Everyone: ECM for the masses Line56.com
Reuters launches interactive TV channel on the internet Revolution Magazine
Reed Elsevier deals online recruiter Emailjob.com Dayton Business Journal
Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Reporters in CIA Leak WSJ Online*
Adding semantics to the Web IST Results
ALA Is a Business! - Restore the balance between revenue and service Library Journal
Healthvision To Include Elsevier's iCONSULT As Part Of Electronic Health Record For Physicians PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
VNU's  SMART SUPPLIER Web Site Provides Coverage of Strategies of World's Largest Retailer Modern Materials Handling
Thomson Delivers New End-to-End Product Labeling Solution to the Pharmaceutical Industry PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
ValeoIP to Provide Knight Ridder Digital with Online Content-Licensing Services ValeoIP
Mashboxx Selects Peppercoin to Process Small Payments for its Online Peer-to-Peer Music Network PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Blackboard Reports Record Growth for ASP Services in 2004; More than 80 New Clients in 2004 for Hosting PR Newswire
14 February 2005  
Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters The New York Times*
Picture This: Multimedia Messaging Grows In Europe WSJ Online*
Federal Library Funding Would Rise Under Bush Budget Library Journal
Read (but Not All!) About It Washington Post
Elsevier's Scopus bags 50th licence IT Week
New tools ease online collaboration and publishing Boston Globe
Google lends Wikipedia a hand P2PNet
Content-Targeted Sponsored Links Fastest Growing Interactive Marketing Tool, Says Kanoodle Survey BusinessWire
Onfolio and Feedster Join to Offer Persistent Web Searching Capabilities in New Release of Onfolio 2.0 eMediaWire
Wolters Kluwer Health Launches .Net Edition of Drug Information Bridge for Medi-Span Drug Database BusinessWire via Yahoo!Finance
Floridata.com Plant Encyclopedia Launches RSS Syndicated Content, Grows Traffic 16% in First Week PR Web
11 February 2005  
Speaking Up Through Bespoke Ads WSJ Online*
The Rising Popularity of Online Video News Poynter Online
Keywords For Ad Buyers: Pay Up BusinessWeek
EU reviews Microsoft, ContentGuard deal SeattlePI.com
Content Management does analytics: WebSideStory Acquires Atomz ContentWire
mSpace: Exploring The Semantic Web. A Technical Report in Support of the mSpace software framework ECS School, U of Southampton
Jury Verdicts Now on AccessPlus(R) for the Web From Law Bulletin PR Newswire
eLaw Adds Legal Expert Information in Its Latest Release PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
.Blog software for creating and administering personal and corporate weblogs. PRWeb via WWWCoder.com
FileNet Retains Worldwide Content Management Leadership i-newswire
10 February 2005  
The Unassociated Press The New York Times*
Amazon invests in blogging site CNET News
Sirius seeks place for satellite radio in iPods Financial Times
Yahoo Unveils Firefox Toolbar News Factor Network
Pay P2P Makes Headway in New York Slyck
Infotrieve® Acquires GenSys Software, Enters Electronic Laboratory Notebook Space Medical News Today
LexisNexis Adds Enhanced D&B Credit and Business Reports BusinessWire
eMeta Enables Software Vendors to License and Sell Software by Subscription and as a Service BusinessWire
Blake Cassels deploys LawPort portal system Legal IT
Endeca Reports 100 Percent Annual Growth, Names Jim Baum CEO BusinessWire
The Bank of New York's Pershing Unit and Dow Jones Newswires NewsPlus Available on NetExchange BusinessWire
Escape the Blogomess with AFreePress.com eMediaWire
XOsoft Introduces WANSyncCD for Real-Time Content Distribution ThomasNet
Ctr. for Information Therapy: Information Prescriptions Population Care and Disease Management BusinessWire
9 February 2005  
The Coming of blog.gov? GovTech.com
Wanted: Just About Everything - Film on Craigslist Wired News
Yahoo Seeks Spotlight in Hollywood LA Times
Dialog's evolution develops into a split CNET News
Digital rights management 'could threaten privacy' Silicon.com
Copyright/Copyleft: Myths About Copyright NewBrainFrames
Online Collaboration At No Cost InformationWeek
Hummingbird Announces New Release of ECM Platform EContent Magazine
Ignite taps utility model for digital content delivery InfoWorld
LexisNexis to Enhance Content for Legal Professionals with Top News and Business Sources BusinessWire
Inxight Software Announces ThingFinder Advanced to Allow Users to Customize Entity Extraction PR Newswire
8 February 2005  
About.com, Primedia's Web Venture, Is for Sale The New York Times*
Special Report: The State of Analyst Weblogs, Part 2 Tekrati
Search engine designers trying to provide better information NewsTarget.com
PubSub Offers Real-Time Feed of Earthquake Information Search Engine Watch
Ingenta Expands Relationship With Infotrieve Managing Information
FBI Selects Captiva's InputAccel for Major Document Capture Initiative to Streamline Access Field Offices BusinessWire via TMCNet
eLaw Adds Legal Expert Information in Its Latest Release PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Reed Smith LLP Selects LexisNexis to Host the Firm's Data Network BusinessWire
FinancialContent Opens Shanghai Office to Start Newsroom and Wire Service MarketWire
Interwoven at Australian Department of Family and Community Services for Compliance and Efficiency PR Newswire
7 February 2005  
Different visions drive Google, Yahoo AP via North Jersey News
A New Direction at Google The New York Times*
Ask Jeeves to buy Bloglines? CNET News
Niall Fitzgerald: The brand plays on The Independent
Atypon Acquires Extenza e-Publishing Services From Swets Managing Information
Dialog Divides into Sci-Tech/Intellectual Property and Business/News Information Today
Custom Publishing Deserves a Second Look for CRM DM News
Answers.com: The Best Internet Innovation In Years Forbes
Search engine surge a boon, but it's ads nauseam from MSN Chicago Tribune
Showdown builds over Net piracy International Herald Tribune
LexisNexis Adds Content for Academic and Library Community EContent Magazine
4 February 2005  
Time Warner's Net Income Jumped 76% in 4th Quarter WSJ ONline*
Microsoft's Office bucks for a workflow promotion CNET News
U.S. Publishers Eye Growth Outside Newspaper Sector Reuters
New York Times buys featured position on Topix.net SiliconValley.com
Factiva Acquisition Enables Effective Reputation Management Managing Information
Are bloggers journalists? Do they deserve press protections? Christian Science Monitor
eSelf  Introduces Mulgrew, Advanced Information Lifecycle Management System eMediaWire
Newspaper made of gold News.com.au
TNS sees 5.1% ad growth in 2005 MarketWatch
MS, Macrovision, sign DRM pact P2PNet
3 February 2005  
Yahoo to launch search tool The Mercury News*
The Google Opportunity Library Journal
Hide Your iPod, Here Comes Bill Wired News
Analysts Give Thumbs Up to Pulitzer Deal, Stay Cautious on Lee Stock Editor & Publisher
Visualize A Weblogs "Neighborhood" Search Engine Watch
RSS feeds attract venture dollars CNET News
After death, a fight for digital memories Washington Post via MSNBC
It's a Wiki, Wiki World AlwaysOn
2B enhances Factiva's reputation ComputerActive
Moreover Technologies Provides MSN With RSS Feed Search and Access Capability PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
ProQuest Business Solutions to Acquire Syncata Corporation PR Newswire
Convera's Next-Generation Search Technology Achieves 1 Billion Page Web Index BusinessWire
MediaPost introduces new publication site USC Annenberg OJR
2 February 2005  
Google Defies Its Warning, Growing Briskly The New York Times*
TiVo Says President Yudkovitz Resigns Reuters
Pay or Free?: Newspaper Archives Not Ready for Open Web...Yet USC Annenberg OJR
Yahoo Japan launches blog beta CNET News
AP, Too, Offers a Blog; 'Bad Language' Will Cover Pop Culture AP via Editor & Publisher
Reuters Faces Integration Struggle Waters
ProQuest closes on $361M Voyager acquisition Crain's Detriot
The digital context revolution IT World
Elsevier Global Partnership To Grow Libraries In Developing Countries Managing Information
Icrossing Moves Beyond Search ClickZ Network
ALM Acquires Insight Information, Leading Producer of Canadian Business, Financial and Legal Conferences BusinessWire
Bond Market Association Launches Redesigned Investor Ed Website PR Newswire via Forbes.com
Factiva Acquisition of 2B Group Adds Critical Elements for Effective Reputation Management BusinessWire
Three New Partner Properties Expand the KnowledgeStorm Network eMediaWire
ClearForest Sees Growing Adoption of Text Analytics Solutions in Business Intelligence Market BusinessWire
Global Healthcare Exchange Opens AllSource(TM) Content Repository to All Healthcare Suppliers PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Intellext  Software that Revolutionizes the Way Computer Users Get Context-Relevant Content ThomasNet
Autonomy Unveils New Idol IP Television Suite PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
Handango Expands European Operations With Fully Localized Support for continuing European Expansion PR Newswire
1 February 2005  
Microsoft Introduces Its Own Search Service The New York Times*
The Rise Of Business Blogging Web Pro News
Europe fluffs its digital content opportunity Telecom Redux
In search of more: the ‘friendly’ engines that will manage the data of daily life FT.com
Dumb Jones & Co. New York Post
Web site publisher not liable for content of e-messages, appeals court rules AP via Newsday
Study Asserts South Carolina PLs Produce $347 Million Economic Impact Library Journal
Thomson West to Offer Information Technology Management Services for Law Firms PR Newswire
ALM's Law.Com Launches Legal Technology Center, Featuring News, Software Downloads and Papers BusinessWire via Yahoo!Finance
Unleash the Marketing Power of Corporate Blogs and RSS - New Book for Marketers eMediaWire
Thomson Gale Adds Content and Features to Select Databases EContent Magazine
McClatchy, UPI Arabia 2000, NoticiasFinancieras News Titles Now Available Via LexisNexis Academic BusinessWire via Yahoo!Finance

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