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30 September 2005  

With CEO Swap, CMP Switches Focus From Integration To Growth

FOLIO: Magazine
VNU reportedly mulling sale of business media unit to do IMS Health Deal BtoB Online
The Democratization of Content PC Magazine via ABC News
Joy: Future of the Web is mobile devices CNET News
PDAs facing extinction Blogma
Online Product Information is More Influential Than Price to New-Vehicle Shoppers The Auto Channel
Feds Unable to Search Own Anti-Terrorism Database Electronic Frontier Found'n
Publishers Settle Unauthorized Copying and Selling Lawsuits Against Two Individuals PR Newswire
Cantor Fitzgerald and Telescope, Inc. Launching Premium SMS-Based Content for Financial Markets BusinessWire
MediaBay and OverDrive Partner to Accelerate Adoption of Download Audiobooks and Spoken Word Content PR Newswire
Hostway Partners with Intellext Webhosting.info
EMC Drives Content Management Standardization Through Joint Effort with Adobe ASPStreet
Verizon Signs Agreement for America's Top Two Weather-Information Networks PR Newswire
29 September 2005  
Yahoo Desktop Search Out of Beta Internetnews.com
Internet Grows as Factor in Used-Book Business The New York Times*
VNU Weighs Big Moves To Get Its Prize The Wall Street Journal*
One Internet to rule the world: starting to wag the mobile dog SV Himalayan Expedition
Google and NASA join forces ZDNet UK
Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia CNET News
Current TV Tries Democratizing Ads AdWeek.com
Commission to smooth the way for EU publishers EurActiv
Bittorrent gets financial support Software Journal
Factiva Upgrades Mobile Capability PR Newswire
firstRain(R) Creates Search-Driven Business Intelligence BusinessWire
FAST Partners With SISIS to Enhance Search Functionality of Leading Library Management Solutions PR Newswire
infoUSA to launch databaseamerica.com BtoB Online
Pfizer Launches Novel Resource to Enhance Quality Cancer Care and Improve Patient Outcomes PR Newswire
28 September 2005  
Classified Intelligence Announces That Google Shops for Classified Providers BusinessWire
Wikibooks takes on textbook industry CNET News
Media Firms Dig Into War Chests For Latest Assault on the Internet WSJ Online*
Informative Announces Brand Advocacy Blogs That Transform Weblogs Into Valuable Feedback Channel MarketWire
Internet not eating into TV as it remains the '800lb gorilla' in age of media multi-tasking Revolution
PR professionals find blogs threatening: survey The Blog Herald
Fairchild Says It Will Close 2 Magazines The New York Times*
Proquest Offering 2000+ Medical e-Books From MyiLibrary Managing Informaiton
FAST Selected by FirstGov.gov to Bring Enterprise Search Functionality to Content Management BusinessWire
CCH Capital Changes to Provide IRS With Research for Verifying Taxpayer Capital Gains and Losses PR Newswire
Loudeye Teams With Qpass on Integrated Mobile Media Services PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Elsevier MDL Logistics 1.0 Manages Chemical Reagent Procurement and Inventory Tracking Needs BusinessWire via Yahoo! Finance
FAST Technology to Bring Superior Search to Amp'd Mobile PR Newswire
26 September 2005  
News: Moreover picks a suitor . . . Silicon Valley Watcher
Online local advertising forecast to surge 26% this year BtoB Online
Microsoft Plans to Sell Search Ads of Its Own The New York Times*
Search and Sell: Google Training Ad Agencies on Using Sponsored Links New York Post
China tightens noose with new Web rules Reuters
PC Law is bought; CompuLaw is sued LawSirtes
Six Apart "Ups the Ante" for Weblogging Nick Lewis
TechTarget Debuts Branding and Measurement Programs FOLIO: Magazine
PubSub launches new LinkRanks service The Blog Herald
New Release of Factiva Public Figures & Associates Provides Enhanced Anti-Laundering Compliance PR Newswire
Mirror Image Brings Rollover Pricing to Content Delivery Industry BusinessWire
mophone(TM) Introduces Peer-Driven Discovery Platform for Mobile Content PR Newswire
Yahoo! Finance Introduces Exclusive Columns From Nation's Leading Financial Experts BusinessWire
Autonomy and NetLibrary to Provide Libraries With an Improved Learning Environment PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Handmark(R) Partners with Tele Atlas for Wireless Services Map Data BusinessWire via TMCNet
Thomson Launches MMD Trade Tracker for the Municipal Bond Market PR Newswire
StoredIQ Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program for Classification and Management Solution BusinessWire
Vignette Launches Enterprise Learning Unit to Help Clients  Meet Compliance, Regulatory Requirements BusinessWire
23 September 2005  
The Web as a Platform: Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality CNET News
Google Launches Enterprise Partner Program Ecommerce Times
Ad Spending in China Grew 20% in First Half WSJ Online*
Mary Meeker on China's Online Future BusinessWeek
U.S. News & World Report to Shift Focus to the Web FOLIO: Magazine
We the Bloggers... Ask Jeeves Blog
Aha! Video Straight to a Computer The  New York Times*
Google WiFi hints are on Web SiliconValley.com via Yahoo! News
MetaMatrix Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program PR Newswire
Endeavor Voyager 5.0 library management system increases patron-facing  functionality  and privacy BusinessWire
Safari Books Online Adds Chapter Downloads to Corporate E-Reference Libraries I-Newswire.com
22 September 2005  
Google builds an empire to rival Microsoft CNET News
TimesSelect value adds...with blogs? FishbowlNY
Web Giants Face Issues In Content IBD via Yahoo! News
The Media World Will Never, Ever, Be The Same Online Media Daily
Breaking Views Taking The Wall Street Journal route to crack America The Independent
New Search Engine From Microsoft Gets Cool Welcome WSJ Online*
NetSnippets: A New Approach to Sharing Web Research Search Engine Watch
Have you StumbledUpon this? IrishDev
Tool aims to ease academic file-sharing SeattlePI.com
To Find a Doctor, Mine the Data The New York Times*
Internet deals: A tangled Web CNN Money
Paid Search Expected to Outpace Display By 2010 ClickZ News
Data Depth Launches iCopyright Conductor MarketWire
Gather.com Website for Public Radio Listeners Introduces Earnings-based Model for Posters BusinessWire
Thomson Legal & Regulatory Appoints New CEO for Australia, NZ AsiaNet via Yahoo! Finance
Thomson Financial Introduces Secure Online Communication Tool for Corporate Board Members PR Newswire
Stellent Extends Content Management To Non-Records Information TechWeb via Yahoo! News
21 September  2005  
Writers Sue Google, Accusing It of Copyright Violation The New York Times*
New York Times to lay off 500 MarketWatch*
Microsoft reorg a bulwark against Google? CNET News
RSS Users Visit Three Times as Many News Web Sites as Non-Users, According to Nielsen//NetRatings PR Newswire
Google's Own Private Internet LightReading
MobVision Launch Promotional Tool - Push! XTVWorld
Comtex SmarTrend(SM) Alerts Selected by Track Data for Business Research Engine BusinessWire
Wolters Kluwer Health to Package New Therapeutic Insights & Review with Hospital Pharmacy Genetic Engineering
Vivisimo and RAND Offer Clustered Enterprise Search Search Engine Journal
Siemens Uses 3M Medical Necessity Content to Boost Medicare Compliance and Reimbursement BusinessWire
Knovel Enhances Semiconductor & Electronics Subject Area with Valuable New Content SciTech Library Question
LexisNexis Accurint Business Provides Due Diligence On Small Business Customers, Vendors and Partners BusinessWire
LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R) Makes Available Free Marketing Toolkit to Help Small Law Firms Grow BusinessWire
Reed Smith Deploys LexisNexis Market Intelligence to Improve Business Development & Client Service BusinessWire
20 September 2005  
Google invites 400 to 'off the record' event CNET News
Google Plans Own WiFi Service -Company Web Site Reuters
If It's Going on Sale, Google's Getting a Pitch New York Post*
Web brings ‘us’ and ‘them’ closer FT.com
Magazines Further Experiment With Print's Digital Format WSJ Online*
Content will keep papers alive: Fairfax Fairfax Digital
Dynamic shift in way consumers access Web news USA Today
The Mining of the Invisible Web IT-Director.com
File-Sharing Services Seek Pact With Record Studios The New York Times*
China's Baidu.com 'guilty' on copyright violations P2PNet
Google Earth Gains National Geographic Content Links Search Engine Watch
Nature Publishing Group Chooses ProQuest To Deliver Online Periodicals Managing Information
FAST Signs OEM Agreement With Lexisnexis Applied Discovery Internet Ad Sales
LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R) Introduces New Client Service Center for Law Firms to  Update Listings BusinessWire
TradeWeb Goes Live with U.S. Dollar Denominated Interest Rate Swaps Online Trading & STP PR Newswire
Morningstar Systems Joins LexisNexis Interface Software's InterAction Program with CRM Solutions BusinessWire
19 September 2005  
Google Search:  'AOL' and 'BUY' New York Post
Foreign media has ‘hit a brick wall’ in China FT.com
Niche journals both battle and embrace high tech International Herald Tribune
Yahoo! outlines plans for IPTV Ovum
User feedback drives five principles for multimedia news on the Web USC Annenberg OJR
Even a Darling of the Newspaper Industry Is Starting to Sweat a Bit The New York Times*
Study: B2B Users Need Better Content DM News
Boston publisher uses an arsenal of visual techniques to appeal to today's learner The Boston Globe
The Best Thing a Library Can Be Is Open Library Journal
The 'We're Not Taking Any More' club: Mothers Fight Back Against File Sharing Suits P2P Net
Pre-Browse The Content Of Any Site Via Look-Ahead Search Robin Good
Highline Media acquires Bloomberg’s ‘Wealth Manager’ magazine BtoB Online

TimesSelect, the New Premium Online Offering from The New York Times, Debuts Today

BusinessWire
Congressional Quarterly Unveils Greater Flexibility and Timeliness for Legislative Tracking Process PR Newswire
E-MedicalMalpractice.com Provides an Overview of Medical Malpractice Law PR Web
Apple's iPod 'Nano' Sets the Stage for 'Nanocasting' - A Business Model for Podcasting PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Comtex Names Keith Kaplan Vice President PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
16 September 2005  
Microsoft Is in Talks To Buy a Stake in AOL As Google Looms WSJ Online*
Microsoft Targets Workflow Apps PC World via Yahoo! News
Microsoft takes on Google by opening up MSN Reuters
Google Scholar - SWOT analysis Overdue Ideas
Just What the Professor Ordered: Why should students pay $150 for one textbook? The New York Times*
DRM in ERM: Know Your Rights Providers EContent Magazine
Yahoo: Mistrust Is Popping Up BusinessWeek
PubSub Concepts' Prospective Search Search Tool for Tomorrow ComputerWorld
QPass: Mobile content industry heads for chaos PC Magazine
infoUSA to collect additional information for business database BtoB Online
CCH to Offer BNA Content on CCH Tax Research NetWork PR Newswire
Thomson Pharma Exceeds Expectations With More Than 100 Customers to Date PharmaLive
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine Becomes First Medical Online Service to Launch Free Podcasts PR Newswire
ContextWeb, Inc. Announces the Addition of Venture Capitalist Ross Goldstein to Board of Directors BusinessWire
Reference.com Adds Wikipedia's Online Encyclopedia Content to Search Capabilities PR Newswire
The Seattle Public Library Adds New Service: Patrons Can Download Digital Audio Books and eBooks MarketWire
Sage Software and CCH Canadian Expand Partnership to Benefit Canadian Accountants MarketWire
15 September 2005  
Yahoo set to unveil new search feature CNET News
A.P. Fashions a News Feed for the Young The New York Times
Has the Wall Street Journal signed a blog content deal?Email This Entry Corante
Newspapers, Writing's on the Wall TheStreet.com
Gates on Apple, Google -- and Microsoft's future SeattlePI.com
The Austin American-Statesman launches blogging service The Blog Herald
File-Sharing Firms Are Urged To Protect Music-Industry Rights WSJ Online*
Penton Custom Media wins four accounts BtoB Online
Qpass Launches Fully-Managed Mobile Service for Creating Content-Heavy Digital Superstores BusinessWire
Inxight Powers Discovery Compliance in Content Control Systems' Online Repository System PR Newswire
14 September 2005  
Google launches blog search CNET News
Editor of Opinion Pages Resigns at The Los Angeles Times The New York Times*
What will newspapers look like in 20 years? BBC News
International Herald Tribune Adds Mobile-Friendly Sites to Digital Portfolio The New York Times Company
(Textual) Content is King adBUMb

ECNext Secures Additional $4 Million to Fund Growth

PR Web
Satellite Newspapers and BaySys Technologies Offer On-Demand Global Newspapers Onboard Private Jets MarketWire
PubSub to Offer Prospective Search Tracking Technology for Forbes.com RSS Content PrimeZone
MetaCarta Signs Contract with Environmental Protection Agency Directions Magazine
Sun and FatWire to Bring Free Portal Content Mgt to Sun Java(TM) Enterprise System Subscribers PR Newswire
13 September 2005  
Yahoo Hires Journalist to Report on Wars The New York Times*
Google creates tools for hurricane relief CNET News

Dow Jones Aug WSJ Ad Linage Down 1.9% On Financial Weakness

Dow Jones via SmartMoney
Time Inc. to Merge Business Mag Brands Online FOLIO: Magazine
Wolters Kluwer targets health business data Information World Review
Zinio Systems, Blue Dolphin Group merge BtoB Online
Digital Rights Management - The Next Battle Area for ECM CBR Online
How to build on bubble-up folksonomies... Plasticbag.org
Bankers Systems and S1 Corporation Expand Alliance PR Newswire
OneSource Announces New ''Match and Append'' Content Optimization Service BusinessWire via Yahoo! Finance
Handmark® Announces Content Distribution Agreement with The Associated Press Wireless DevNet
firstRain(R) Incorporates SourceMedia Content for Financial Services and High Technology Customers BusinessWire
Inxight SmartDiscovery Analysis Server Enhances Extraction, Categorization and Search Indexing PR Newswire
180solutions Announces ZangoCash for Web Publishers PR Newswire
NewsGator Technologies Partners With ROO to Deliver Premium Online Video Content MarketWire
12 August 2005  
eBay to buy Skype for $2.6 billion in cash, stock Reuters via CNET
Internet Entrepreneurs Draw a Crowd in China The New York Times*
Remapping The Blogosphere BusinessWeek
I Webbed the news today — oh boy! The Seattle Times
Want a Hedge Fund? Here's Your Homework Hendersonville News
Macromedia FlashCast Technology for New Mobile Phone Service, i-channel 3G
German court supports DRM P2PNet
OneSource Introduces Account Intelligence for AppExchange at Dreamforce '05 BusinessWire

Bango enables mobile phone users to pay for content using PayPal

WebIT-PR
The Wall Street Journal to Launch Weekend Edition on Sept. 17 BusinessWire
Aviation Week Group Debuts Defense Technology International Today PR Newswire
9 August 2005  
Why Google hired Vint Cerf CNET News
News Corporation, With IGN in Its Stable, Backs Up Promise to Be Bigger Web Player The New York Times*
Saatchi CEO: Branded Content Future For Ads SmartMoney
Craigslist: Stopping the Presses? SmartMoney
It's a Web Buying Spree for Big Media Washington Post
Epsilon acquires Bigfoot Interactive BtoB Online
Econtent and the Law Practice EContent Magazine
Lycos, Yahoo offer portals for information on Katrina victims Computerworld
Lancet slams own publisher Reed Elsevier for arms link DeHavilland
Harry Potter online. Again. (But this time it's legal) P2PNet
Wolters Kluwer Health Acquires Boucher Communications PR Newswire
Watson 2.0 Tool Delivers Relevant Content to the Desktop From All Sources Based on Context PR Newswire
8 September 2005  
Acquisition hysteria grips Reuters The Guardian
EBay May Buy Web Phone Firm Skype In Strategy Shift WSJ Online*
Citizens' media gets richer USC Annenberg OJR
IPod Phone Isn't Perfect, but It's a Start The New York Times*
Enterprise Search in Need of Improvement TechNewsWorld
Helping publishers, bloggers get the word out Chicago Sun-Times
Yahoo Spain Sues Blogging Network Over Content Search Engine Journal
Harris Corporation's Metadata Approach Breaks New Ground in Intelligent Content Delivery PR Newswire
LexisNexis(R) Martindale-Hubbell(R) Expands Relationship with Foley & Lardner BusinessWire
Reed Construction Data(R) Teams Up with eBay Business in Content Distribution PR Newswire
7 September  2005  
Saudi prince raises News Corp stake, backs Murdoch Reuters
The New York Times to add comics section Crain's New York Business
Lexis Closes the Research Gap Legal Technology
The global carveout: Magazine M&A enlarges publishing titans The Deal
For Victims, News About Home Can Come From Strangers Online The New York Times*
Keeping my eye on: Web Based Aggregators Solution Watch
Group: Yahoo Helped China Jail Journalist AP via Yahoo! News
Latest B-to-B Publisher on the Block: 101communications FOLIO: Magazine
Knight Ridder sees profits in smaller papers Bellingham Herald
Acquisition Projected to Add More Than $2 Million to Viyya Revenue for 2005 MarketWire
SRC Announces Availability of Geo-Content Business Intelligence Tools for Google Maps PR Newswire
6 September 2005  
Australian court rules against Kazaa CNET News
Hurricane Forces New Orleans Newspaper to Face a Daunting Set of Obstacles The New York Times*
'People are not really flocking' to multipurpose cell phones USA Today
Blogs and Information Community Respond to Hurricane Katrina Information Today
Wikipedia, Prices, and Hayek Lessig.org
Ballmer statement from court proceedings: 'I'm going to f***ing kill Google' P2PNet
Ebooks Worm Their Way into the Reference Market EContent Magazine
Helping publishers, bloggers get the word out via FeedBurner Chicago Sun-Times
Reuters enriches its fixed income and money market content with Telerate benchmark data BusinessWire via Yahoo! Finance
Reactivity Enters Enterprise RSS Market PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Zinio Expands Digital Magazine Publishing in Asia via Agreements with Dow Jones Asia and True Digital BusinessWire
thePlatform Showcases New Release of Media Publishing System at IBC2005 PR Newswire
5 September 2005  
Local Holiday (U.S. Labor Day)  
2 September 2005  
'Times-Picayune' Blog/Forum Reveals True Horror of Disaster Today Editor & Publisher
Google opens digital library to European book publishers USA Today
Thomson files $2 bln debt shelf offering Reuters
Thomson Gale Announces Addition of New Publishers, Titles EContent Magazine
The Dream of OneCleveland Library Journal
Operating Systems as Content Pushers NewsFactor
P2P "Google" search engine P2PNet
Google thinks I care about the Orioles CNET News
Google dives deeper into networking LinuxWorld
'Opening' A Digital Library Campus Technology
AskMe to Integrate FAST InStream Business Intelligence Net
infoUSA's OneSource Division to Upgrade its Global Business Database and Distribution BusinessWire
IDG's CMO Magazine Enters Asian, European Markets with Launches in China, Poland PR Newswire
JISC Agreement Will Bring Elsevier's Scopus - World's Largest Science Database - to British Universities PR Newswire
Institutional Markets Team to Educate Financial Community About Dow Jones Wilshire Indexes PrimeZone
Lionbridge Completes Acquisition of Bowne Global Solutions PR Newswire
Susan Clark-Johnson named president of Gannett's Newspaper Division Gary L. Watson to retire BusinessWIre
1 September 2005  
Google: The next Microsoft? Noooo! CNET News
Australia's media giants may join forces News.com.au
The FOLIO: Roundtable: Strategic Planning For 2006 FOLIO: Magazine
CanWest to spin off newspapers Globe and Mail
MIT’s ‘Technology Review’ cuts print frequency BtoB Online
Reconsidering Apple's Music Store The New York Times*
New Google Adsense ad spotted The Blog Herald
PR Newswire content now packaged into MarketXSPro(tm) BobsGuide
Bloggers Emerge As Information Sources in Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath PR Newswire
The Folio Society Brings Beautiful Books to the Amazon Generation via New E-Commerce Business BusinessWire
washingtonpost.com Partners with Technorati to Deliver Content and Comments from Blogs PR Newswire

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