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  1. Why Google's New Products Need Not Succeed

    · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the in-and-of-themselves-heretofore-thereunder dept. · 235 comments
    RJS writes "There have been some industry analysts lately who have called into question Google's real success, claiming that while Google's search remains a big winner, it has missed the mark when it comes to generating profitable, secondary products. BusinessWeek has just such an article ("So much fanfare, so few hits") but others argue that success relative to the size of Google's bread-and-butter (search) ultimately doesn't matter because it doesn't cost Google much extra to keep these secondary services — like Gmail — operational: the Google grid is on and growing regardless of what services are being run on top of it."

  2. BBC In Trouble Over Free Music

    News · Music · · posted by timothy · from the generate-money-from-spinning-corpses dept. · 651 comments
    Take a Byte Out of Crime writes "According to this article, British classical labels are claiming that the BBC giving away the these symphonies, which were performed by the BBC Orchestra for free, constitutes unfair government competition. Apparently all free music really is illegal these days, or soon will be, public domain be damned."