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ARCHIVE FOR AUGUST 2005
Date/Headlines Source
31 August 2005  
Google takes ad sales to print CNET News
LexisNexis inaugurates corporate reputation monitoring service BtoB Online
So where does digital fit into the media world? MediaWeek
Hurricane Katrina overwhelms Web sites Reuters
Blogger Faces Lawsuit Over Comments Posted by Readers WSJ Online*
Copyscape Searches For Scraped Content Web Pro News
Intel encourages consumers to influence development of DRM Tom's Hardware Guide
China's Sinopharm sells 50 pct of subsidiary to Reed Exhibitions AFX via Forbes
Standard & Poor's to Provide Securities Data to Innovest Systems PR Newswire
Elsevier MDL Announces DiscoveryGate(R) for Mac OS X ''Tiger''  to Reach Scientific Community Online BusinessWire
Thomson ResearchSoft Ships EndNote 9 for Mac OS X PR Newswire
FAST and AskMe Partner to Bring Enterprise Search to Expertise Management Solutions PR Newswire
blinkx Extends Its Lead in Searchable Video Footage, Doubles Content Partner List PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
30 August 2005  
Critics Pan Springer's Merger Plan WSJ Online*
Opposition To Google's Book-Copying Intensifies Information Week
Baidu, Google dominate Net search in China CNET News
Equifax acquires BeNow BtoB Online
J-Lab launches site for D.I.Y. community journalism USC Annenberg OJR
CNNIC Releases China Search Engine Market Survey Report China Tech News
Quality Of Wolters Kluwer Acquired Asset NDC Health is Low New Ratings
Wolters Kluwer Health Adds Chemical Structure Searching to Its Pharmaceutical Intelligence Tools PR Newswire
LexisNexis, Biz360 Expand Alliance EContent Magazine
Variety and TMS to Launch Worldwide Entertainment News Service PR Newswire
Bloomberg Chosen as Trading Platform for Indonesia Bonds PR Newswire

McGill University Selects WebCT Vista to Expand and Enrich Rapidly Growing Online Learning Offerings

BusinessWire
Harris Corporation Demonstrates Integrated Software Applications Delivering Content to Multiple Devices PR Newswire
Max Muscle Selects ISYS Search Software's Enterprise Desktop Search for Advanced  Customer Search BusinessWire
FAST and IntelliReach Partner to Bring Enterprise Search to Email Lifecycle Management BusinessWire
Elluminate Delivers Real-time Collaboration for Insights Learning & Development PR Newswire
29 August 2005  
Free Wi-Fi? Get Ready for GoogleNet. Business 2.0
Craigslist booms on lure of free ads: Usage up 26% in NYC The Daily News
An 'envelope, please' moment for books: Quills Awards stir debate on hype The Boston Globe
When Content Isn't King in SEO ClickZ News
Rocketboom's Powerful Lift-Off BusinessWeek
Finding Profits In Podcasting InformationWeek
Wolters Kluwer to Acquire NDCHealth's Information Management Business PrimeZone
Irish firm in enterprise alliance with Google Silicon Republic
Verity Adds Bloomberg LP as a Customer PR Newswire
EBSCO Creates International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center Information Today
26 August 2005  
Condé Nast Joins the Business Press BusinessWeek
InfoUSA board rejects Gupta’s buyout offer BtoB Online
US: 51% of journalists use blogs Editors Weblog
ABM Debuts New Trade Show Tracking Numbers FOLIO: Magazine
That’s What I’m Talking About EContent Magazine
What Blogs, Podcasts, Feeds Mean to Bottom Line eWeek
Retailers hope shoppers buy blogs as the place to go USA Today
What the BEA/Plumtree merger means for Web portal futures IT Manager's Journal
SIIA Survey Finds State Progress Slow but Steady on Adoption of E-Textbooks PR Newswire
Thomson Gale Introduces New Profiler Module EContent Magazine
25 August 2005  
Google Gets Better. What's Up With That? The New York Times*
Google, Yahoo Ad Battle Could Benefit Publishers Publish
IBM Releases New Identity Resolution Technology MC Press
Reed to increase trade shows in Latin America Norwalk Advocate
The Super Network: Why Yahoo! will be the center of the million-channel universe. Wired Magazine
SwetsWise Online Content Signs Additional Publishers Managing Information
SchemaLogic Introduces Vignette Taxonomy Integrator Adapter using SchemaServer Application BusinessWire
SIRIUS Unveils Wearable Satellite Radio PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
EmediaUSA Joins UK-based 101 Communications to Publish Email Bulletins for Special Interest Markets BusinessWire
ProQuest Appointed For UK eBook Deal Managing Information
24 August  2005  
Google unveils instant-messaging, voice entry CNET News
Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the Villain The New York Times*
Dow Jones rises on more buyout talk; Dow Jones continues to deny it's seeking a suitor MarketWatch*
Yahoo! Offers Cars for Content ClickZ News
Section Targeting by Google AdSense Search Engine Journal
Your Search or Mine? Jeteye hopes searchers will rely on strangers (and friends) Internetnews.com

Yahoo, Viacom Forge Web Search Pact

Dow Jones via SmartMoney
Yipes and LexisNexis Deliver Scalable Network Platform for Law Firms PR Newswire
Productivity from Knovel Library helps Black & Veatch Engineers saves $1.5 Million annually worldwide BusinessWire
Nstein Technologies to drive content indexing on Cyberpresse PR Newswire
Rocketinfo Partners with Viapoint Corporation to Provide News Search Adapter BusinessWire
PennWell Launches PennEnergyJOBS, an Online Employment Service for the Global Energy Industry PR Newswire
Marsteller Announces User Generated Media Alliance with Best of Breed Companies BusinessWire
23 August 2005  
LexisNexis service to defend copyrights Dayton Business Journal
Google changes irk advertisers, please publishers CNET News
Google Searches For New Profits CBS News via WCCO
Curse of the Skyscraper: Towers as Harbingers of Media Doom Fortune
Not So Fas Fax: An Analysis of the Flat Newsstand FOLIO: Magazine
Inxight with Customizable Architecture, Integrated User Authentication in SmartDiscovery Awareness Server DM Review
Knight Ridder VP for news to step down AP via SFGate.com
Dow Jones Newswires and eSignal Expand Distribution Agreement on All eSignal Products BusinessWire
Former Presidents of Ask Jeeves International and Business Solutions Team Up to Join InfoSearch Media PR Newswire
Elsevier Health Sciences uses OutStart Evolution Learning Content Management System for eLearning BusinessWire
Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services Publishes Research Objectivity Policy PR Newswire
The Telegraph Group Selects NewspaperDirect's SmartEdition ePaper Solution BusinessWire
New Oracle Collaboration Suite Takes Aim At Microsoft SharePoint InformationWeek
22 August 2005  
Google search for Trader deal The Times Online
Google Revamps Desktop Search Program Washington Post
Where to Spend $4 Billion? Google Has Plenty of Projects in Mind The New York Times*
Microsoft demos RSS features in IE 7 PC World
United Business Media acquires Informex for $24 million BtoB Online
Sun launches open-source digital rights plan CNET News
Eight Masters Of Information Forbes
Big picture still hazy in video search The Boston Globe
Copyright law needs drastic changes to keep up with technology Barron's Online
At Dow Jones, It's All About Family The New York Times*
19 August 2005  
14,159,265 New Slices of Rich Technology The New York Times*
Despite Earlier Predictions, 'Free' Web Is Going Strong WSJ Online*
"Read All Over" — Including Online: $1 Billion in 2004 Online News Revenues eMarketer
Akamai Launches Internet News Tracking Index Information Week
India govt rejects Reuters content services plan Sify
eMeta's eRights Suite Aids Publishers of Digital Content Electronic Publishing
Internet Is Replacing TV in Korea Donga.com
“Extreme data” revolutionizing the way companies do business, says CSC report Consultant News
The RSS Crisis? Feed Blog
Bucks for blogs; "PR is Dead" SiliconValley.com
Demand For E-books On The Increase Pressbox.co.uk
Melodeo First to Offer Podcasts for Mobile Phones; Company Appoints New CEO BusinessWIre
18 August 2005  
Google to Sell $4.2 Bln of Shares a Year After IPO Bloomberg
About.com boosts New York Times ad revenue Crain's New York
Survey: Google and Yahoo Lead in Customer Satisfaction PCWorld via Yahoo!News
Yahoo embraces user-made content MarketWatch*
Springer hires open access pioneer The Guardian
Book Publishers Can't Buck the Web eWeek
Where Content on-the-go and Rich Mobile Media Services Meet TMCNet
Rowse announces Six Figure Blogging program The Blog Herald
Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content Digital Web
Finet Partners with Factiva to Expand Global Distribution Network PR Newswire
iPhrase Technologies Combines With IBM WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition MarketWire
AuthentiDate Teams with RSA Security to Provide Simplified Enterprise Content User Authentication Finanzen Net
IBM Data Transformation Software to Simplify Complex Integration Tasks in a Service Oriented Environment MarketWire
17 August 2005  
Jigsaw tries leveraging 'Wisdom of Crowds' CNET News
Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal BusinessWeek
Consumers Want Personalized Online Experience but Are Cautious, Survey Says EContent Magazine
The Rise Of RSS Forbes
LexisNexis Butterworths Launches Online Research Tool Managing Information
Peppercoin secures $8m funding Finextra
San Francisco Chronicle Partners With The Korea Times PR Newswire

iVillage to Launch Web Search and Targeted Advertising by Yahoo!

PR Newswire
Best Practice and Benchmarking DB Delivers Data to Executives' Desktops to Aid Strategic Decision Making PR Newswire
Yahoo! Redefines the Local Search Experience With New Neighborhood Focus PR Newswire
16 August 2005  
Bancroft Booty: Younger Clan Members Push Anew for Dow Jones & Co. Sale New York Post*
Yahoo!, Google search for upper hand CNN Money
Google's growing pains: A year after its IPO, despite soaring stock, firm adjusts to growth SFGate
RFID Positioned to Aid Measurement of Traditional Print: Pilots Offer New Possibilities EContent Magazine
Penton reports lower revenue, narrower loss BtoB Online
Hoover's Expands Access to News Information Today
News Corp. Eyes Search Engine Blinkx LA Times*
Yahoo!'s edge? Preoccupations
Econometrics Buzzes Ad World As a Way of Measuring Results WSJ Online*
From Web page to Web platform CNET News
Feedster Develops New Ranking System to Identify The Top 500 Blogs Feedster
Alacra Launches the Alacra Store, a New E-Commerce Site for Consumers to Purchase Premium Content BusinessWire
Wolters Kluwer Appoints Leonard P. Forman to Its Supervisory Board PrimeZone
OneSource and Sales Performance International Partner to Boost Sales and Marketing Effectiveness BusinessWire
McGraw-Hill Higher Education and Zinio Offer High-Tech, Lower-Cost ebooks to College Students PR Newswire
One in 10 Weblog Readers Personalizes Content with RSS Feeds, According to Nielsen//NetRatings PR Newswire
Thomson Financial Partners With Reel Biography To Deliver Corporate Video Online Streaming Media
Viyya Technologies Signs Reseller Agreement With Nationwide Internet MarketWire via ArriveNet
Business Wire is Now Available On Infobolsa, Leading Equities News Service Serving Euro, Latam Markets BusinessWire
15 August 2005  
Inside Yahoo's China Gambit BusinessWeek
Academia's quest for the ultimate search tool CNET News
Libraries overbooked on sharing The Boston Globe
ABC Rules Change Fallout: BusinessWeek Misses Rate Base FOLIO: Magazine
RFID Positioned to Aid Measurement of Traditional Print: Pilots Offer New Possibilities EContent Magazine
An IPod for Your Thoughts: A Web Site Offers Incentives to Reviewers The New York Times*
Reading websites, RSS, ebooks, text adventures, apps, games and more on a watch... MAKE:
Yahoo! Health Launches New Blogging Content, Featuring Health Experts and Celebrities Finanzen.net
Veronis Suhler Stevenson's 2005 Forecast Reveals Accelerated Growth as ''New Media Order'' Transforms BusinessWire
Penton Media Allies with Global Sources/CMP Media Joint Venture to Serve System Designers in China BusinessWire
Autonomy Upgrades Idol Mobile, Bringing Personalized Retrieval and Information Delivery PR Newswire
Elsevier Develops Account Management Tool For Customers Managing Information
Pubsub to deliver search to KnowNow’s Enterprise Syndication Solution The Blog Herald
12 August 2005  
Google pauses library project CNET News
Yahoo! Acquires 40% of Chinese Site Alibaba for $1 Billion; Inbox Robot Offers Extended News Coverage PR Newswire
ValueClick Acquires Fastclick Red Herring
Books, Not Tales, Get Taller Before Baby Boomers' Eyes The New York Times*
New iriver Flash Players Support Subscription Services PC Magazine
Acxiom boosts risk mitigation with InsightAmerica acquisition BtoB Online
Answers.com Partners with Opera PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
New RSS Feeds Feature from BiotechConnection.com Gives Alerts on Product and Industry News I-Newswire.com
Moreover Provides Content for Information360 IT Toolbar
CCH Insurance Services  Announces Eight New AuthenticWeb Matrices Covering Life Insurer Topics PR Newswire
Reed Elsevier Texas Deal Worth EUR75M Dow Jones via NewRatings
11 August 2005  
News Corp's Murdoch: No Bigger Priority Than Internet Dow Jones via SmartMoney.com
Bidding Up Local Ads: Newspapers Bypass Google With Services  Auctioning Online Spots to Businesses WSJ Online*
Tracking the Latest Trends at Law Libraries Legal Technology
Web's Wikipedia to tighten editorial rules-founder Reuters via Yahoo!News
Web Increasingly Cluttered By Sites Full of Paid Links BizReport

30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet

PC World
SchemaLogic Expands Business Alliance with IBM to Enhance WebSphere Enterprise Search Capabilities BusinessWire
ZDNet creates site for government IT professionals BtoB Online
Merger Creates SirsiDynix - a Global Leader of Information Technology Solutions for Libraries BusinessWire
Electronic Discovery Firm Cataphora Strengthens Presence in Key Legal Markets PRWeb
10 August  2005  
Jupiter forecasts online advertising will reach $18.9 billion by 2010 BtoB Online
Barry Diller helps Ask Jeeves get in shape CNET News
In Sale of Marketing News Sites, Jupitermedia Looks to Images as Main Revenue Stream FOLIO: Magazine
Entitlement management systems: Next-generation management for broadband services and content Telephony Online
KnowledgeStorm to Launch Vertical Search ClickZ News
Doing a Vertical Search Internetnews.com
As blogging blooms in China, firms aim to cash in Reuters
Web Sites Have Sex(es) Appeal TechWeb
Recall Ability: Web Content Versus Print Content MarketingProfs
Envisioning RSS as a Web 2.0 platform O'Reilly Network
Tripos and Elsevier MDL Form Strategic Alliance; Companies to Provide Integrated Informatics Platform BusinessWire
Endeca Announces New Government Search & Analysis Solutions BusinessWire
FAST Introduces a New Standard for Application-Based Search PR Newswire
Elsevier MDL Inks 63,000-SF HQ Relocation Lease GlobeSt.com
9 August 2005  
Yahoo! In Talks On Record China Investment Forbes.com
New York Times Takes Job Site Stake TheStreet.com
Web search ads to top banners by 2010 Reuters

IBM To Open Source Enterprise Search

CXO Today
CommonTimes: News Your Choose Common Times
Wiki-mania: free Wikipedia  gets more traffic than the New York Times and USA Today combined AlterNet
Google News does RSS at long, long, long… last The Blog Herald
Growing with Knowledge Management Line56
ebrary Inks Deals With Top International Publishers BusinessWire
   
Elsevier Buys MediMedia’s Medical Publishing Businesses Managing Informaiton
BusinessWeek Online Integrates ZoomInfo People Search; Researching Newsmakers Made Fast BusinessWire
Northern Light Acquires Analyst Direct and Analyst Views PR Newswire
8 August 2005  
Primedia to sell specialized business publications to Wasserstein for $385 million Reuters
Factiva Debuts Reputation Tool DM News
Weblogs Inc. To Make $1 Million A Year From AdSense? Web Pro News
CNET: We've been blackballed by Google CNN Money
IBM plans to podcast audio white papers Reuters via CNET
Analyze This: Combining Data Wired News
Fewer Tools, Smarter Searches Information Week
ClearForest and iPhrase to Offer Support Automation Solutions to the Manufacturing and Technology Sectors BusinessWire
IBM Enterprise Search Software to Enable Discovery and Analysis of Information On Demand MarketWire
ClearForest Debuts IBM Open Source Text Analytics for Quality, Fraud Detection and Customer Loyalty BusinessWire
KANA Unstructured Content Analysis to Support New Open Source Text Analytics Framework from IBM PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
5 August 2005  
Congress Seeks to Better Regulate ChoicePoint, Other Data Brokers WMAZ
In 'Seismic' Shift to E-Media, Business Titles Leverage Content—and Their Newsrooms FOLIO: Magazine
Yahoo's new search master ZDNet
While Web publishers slept: RSS advances CNET News
Storm clouds gather over podcasting USA Today
Primedia’s Q2 financial statement has few details about status of business information unit BtoB Online
Giving Reviews the Thumbs Down WSJ Online*
Times Names Editor for Internet Publishing The New York Times*
AP, News Corp. Combining Sports Operations AP via Newsday
BitPass and The Royal Bank of Scotland Team-Up on Foreign Exchange for Digital Content Sales PR Newswire via Yahoo!Finance
4 August 2005  
Knight Ridder, Gannett, MediaNews Strike Blockbuster Deal Editor & Publisher
Yahoo tests audio search service InfoWorld
Low-key Topix.net tries to recreate a journalist's brain with computers USC Annenberg OJR
Web publishers: Adapt or else ZDNet
Yahoo! Publisher Network to Compete with AdSense StepForth
Rocketinfo Launches RSS Enterprise Web Pro News
Profits disappoint at Wolters Kluwer FT.com via MSN Money
News Corp. Chief Discusses the Newspaper Business World Screen
Mobile downloads to overtake the net The Guardian
Living la vida Craigslist The New York Times via CNET
3 August 2005  

NYT merges print, online newsrooms

USC Annenberg OJR
ClickZ Sold to Incisive for $43 Million ClickZ News
The Beeb Shall Inherit the Earth Wired News
Yahoo, Microsoft Enhance Ad Focus WSJ Online*
Can Google Stay Google? Fast Company
Is RSS Feed Branding The Next Wave? Sales Masters World
Blogs Rule ! - A New Blog Every Second P2PNet
Corporate Blogging Gaining Momentum Datamation
WebEx Snaps Up Intranets.com PC World
Thomson Announces US$400 Million Debenture Offering PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
FinancialContent Seeks Beta-Testers for Financial Podcast Services at StreetIQ.com MarketWire
2 August 2005  
Topix Got About $50 Million in Acquisition PaidContent.org
Oracle To Buy Assets Of Context Media TechWeb via Yahoo! News
Thomson aims to gauge full impact Information World
Larry Kramer on CBSNews.com, Transparency, and Having 1,500 Employees for a Web Site CJR Daily
High Blood Pressure: Doctors Sever Ties With Medical Journal WSJ Online*
Voyager deal fuels gains at ProQuest Ann Arbor News
AOL, Ask Jeeves log double-digit growth in searches BtoB Online
This Pod Is Brought To You By...Current Tries New Sponsorship Models BusinessWeek
Elsevier and MediMedia MAP Partner in Health CNW Group
In-Stat Opens Office in Beijing MRWeb.com
Content Analyst Company Appoints Julie Hartigan Senior Technology Officer PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Thomson Financial Names William Krivoshik Chief Technology Officer PR Newswire via Forbes
1 August 2005  
Pearson names financial executive to be chairman Reuters
U.S. Equity Partners places bid for Primedia’s b-to-b unit BtoB Online
Google tries to patent Web syndication ads CNET News
Yahoo to Partner With CNN, ABC for Video AP via Washington Post
IAC's Ask Jeeves Changes Search Ad Price Program to Provide Bids Reuters
Radically Rethinking Magazine Retail Sales FOLIO: Magazine
New File-Sharing Techniques Are Likely to Test Court Decision The New York Times*
Order From Chaos Via RSS InformationWeek
Pluck-y Approach to RSS Version 2.0 EContent Magazine
SarbOx celebrates third birthday, opinion slowly shifting CBR Online
LexisNexis, Critical Mention Ally to Deliver TV Video Search and Print News Clips via LexisNexis AlaCarte! BusinessWire

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