open book alliance

Google Books hit with fresh wave of criticism from Microsoft, Open Book Alliance

News As expected, lawyers for Microsoft, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and a coalition called the Open Book Alliance blasted the deal as anticompetitive and detrimental to... [09 Sep 2009]

Amazon steps up Google Books criticism with court filing

News Amazon's opposition was made public last week when it joined the Open Book Alliance, but the company filed its own brief with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York... [03 Sep 2009]

Microsoft leaned on EC to spike open source report

News They [Microsoft] threw the book at us. The European Commission has resisted efforts by Microsoft to make it abandon its report into open source software, it was revealed this week. Harnessing the... [08 Feb 2007]

Google book-scanning bid gets new buddy

News Google has added another partner to its controversial library-book scanning project - the University of California (UC), which is also working with a team led by the Internet Archive, Microsoft and Yahoo! [09 Aug 2006]

Microsoft joins the book search bandwagon

News In the wake of lawsuits filed against Google, Microsoft said on Tuesday that it would join a competing and less controversial library book digitisation project sponsored by Internet Archive and Yahoo! [26 Oct 2005]

Taipei residents to pay for commuting on mobiles

News For example, a businessman making an overseas trip can book his flight and hotel room via his mobile phone and use it at the airport to print out his boarding pass. Philips is also working with electronics and... [15 Jul 2005]

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