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German discount supermarket to sell cars online (AP)
A German discount supermarket known for low-priced groceries and household goods expanded into new territory Monday by selling cars on its Web site.
Spokeswoman Petra Trabert said the Lidl supermarket chain's online shopping portal will offer the Opel Corsa for just under euro11,000 ($14,000) and the Volkswagen Cross Polo for euro14,000, ($17,700) — a discount of about 25 percent off the suggested retail price.
Lidl is launching the sales together with German car distributor ATG-Automobile GmbH.
"Lidl and ATG-Automobile GmbH work with the same target audience," Trabert said. "We are geared toward the customer who seeks quality in conjunction with a favorable price."
Germany's economy is in recession and unemployment is at 8.3 percent, but Lidl believes it can turn a profit in an industry that is bucking the economic downturn. New car sales were up 21 percent in February year-on-year, largely because of a euro50 billion ($67 billion) government stimulus plan that pays citizens euro2,500 ($3,250) to replace cars at least nine years old with new ones.
But Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, the director of the Center for Automotive Research in Gelsenkirchen, said previous efforts to sell cars online and through supermarkets have faltered.
"I think it will be very difficult for Lidl," Dudenhoeffer said. "People don't want to buy high-value products from a discount grocery store."
Dudenhoeffer said that Quelle, a German online marketplace, tried to sell cars online about five years ago.
"It didn't work, even though their site was visited fairly heavily," Dudenhoeffer said. He said Germans might be unwilling to forgo haggling over the price of a car.
"Germans like to go to the dealership," he said.
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On the Net:
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/i.home
Spokeswoman Petra Trabert said the Lidl supermarket chain's online shopping portal will offer the Opel Corsa for just under euro11,000 ($14,000) and the Volkswagen Cross Polo for euro14,000, ($17,700) — a discount of about 25 percent off the suggested retail price.
Lidl is launching the sales together with German car distributor ATG-Automobile GmbH.
"Lidl and ATG-Automobile GmbH work with the same target audience," Trabert said. "We are geared toward the customer who seeks quality in conjunction with a favorable price."
Germany's economy is in recession and unemployment is at 8.3 percent, but Lidl believes it can turn a profit in an industry that is bucking the economic downturn. New car sales were up 21 percent in February year-on-year, largely because of a euro50 billion ($67 billion) government stimulus plan that pays citizens euro2,500 ($3,250) to replace cars at least nine years old with new ones.
But Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, the director of the Center for Automotive Research in Gelsenkirchen, said previous efforts to sell cars online and through supermarkets have faltered.
"I think it will be very difficult for Lidl," Dudenhoeffer said. "People don't want to buy high-value products from a discount grocery store."
Dudenhoeffer said that Quelle, a German online marketplace, tried to sell cars online about five years ago.
"It didn't work, even though their site was visited fairly heavily," Dudenhoeffer said. He said Germans might be unwilling to forgo haggling over the price of a car.
"Germans like to go to the dealership," he said.
___
On the Net:
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/i.home
Bebo launches US social-networking website for Latinos (AFP)
Bebo on Monday launched a Latino version of the US social networking website as the Internet service owned by America On Line strives to gain ground in a market led by Facebook and MySpace.
Bebo's US Latino website is built with a Lifestream platform that lets users link to their accounts at YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or elsewhere on the Internet.
The site, launched at bebo.com/c/latino, will feature videos, photo galleries, polls, quizzes, and surveys from Hearst Magazines Digital Media as well as bilingual US online portal AOL Latino.
Along with Bebo Latino, AOL launched a Tecnopadres.com technology news and information website aimed at Spanish-speaking parents.
"Expanding into new markets is a key pillar of our growth strategy, and we see huge potential for the growing Latino audience in the United States," said Bebo International vice president Nicole Vanderbilt.
"Our platform allows users to connect with other users, entertainment and brands, both globally and locally."
Bebo claims to have more than 22 million users of its online social-networking services in Britain, Ireland, Poland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
Bebo's US Latino website is built with a Lifestream platform that lets users link to their accounts at YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace or elsewhere on the Internet.
The site, launched at bebo.com/c/latino, will feature videos, photo galleries, polls, quizzes, and surveys from Hearst Magazines Digital Media as well as bilingual US online portal AOL Latino.
Along with Bebo Latino, AOL launched a Tecnopadres.com technology news and information website aimed at Spanish-speaking parents.
"Expanding into new markets is a key pillar of our growth strategy, and we see huge potential for the growing Latino audience in the United States," said Bebo International vice president Nicole Vanderbilt.
"Our platform allows users to connect with other users, entertainment and brands, both globally and locally."
Bebo claims to have more than 22 million users of its online social-networking services in Britain, Ireland, Poland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States.
YouTube to block music videos for UK users (Reuters)
Google Inc's online video site, YouTube, said on Monday it will block all music videos to British users after it was unable to reach a rights deal with the main songwriters' collection society.
The world's largest video sharing site said PRS for Music, a British collection society that collects royalties on behalf of nearly 50,000 composers, was asking it to pay "many, many times" more than the previous licensing agreement that has expired.
"The costs are simply prohibitive for us -- under PRS's proposed terms, we would lose significant amounts of money with every playback," the company said in a blog on Monday.
The move is the latest sign of the tension between YouTube and the music industry and also indicates the video site's resolve to keep operating costs under control as it strives to generate meaningful profits for Google.
YouTube said PRS was also unclear about which songs are included in the renewed license.
"We've been talking to them for a long time and we're still talking to them," said Patrick Walker, YouTube director of video partnerships for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Walker described it as a "painful decision."
But PRS disputed YouTube's version of events and said it was caught by surprise by the announcement in the middle of ongoing negotiations.
"We were shocked and disappointed to receive a call late this afternoon informing us of Google's drastic action," said PRS for Music Chief Executive Steve Porter.
PRS said in a statement it was "outraged" on behalf of consumers and songwriters by YouTube's move.
"Google has told us they are taking this step because they wish to pay significantly less than at present to the writers of the music on which their service relies, despite the massive increase in YouTube viewing," the London-based organization said in a statement.
The PRS statement pointed out that Google, YouTube's parent, saw its revenue grow to $5.7 billion in the last quarter. The figure will likely be juxtaposed against the fast dwindling fortunes of the music industry.
Some rights-holders argue the video site should pay a higher fee or share more advertising revenue since many users come to watch their music videos.
The move to block British users access to artists' music videos and user-created videos, which feature licensed music, will take effect on Monday evening British time.
The commercial relationship between YouTube and PRS is separate from YouTube's relationship with major record companies. Those relationships have also been strained at times.
Record companies such as Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group or Warner Music Group Corp own rights to the sound recordings and music videos. In December, rights talks between YouTube and Warner Music broke down after they failed to agree to payment terms, leading to thousands of videos being taken down.
YouTube and the music industry have had an awkward but mutually beneficial partnership. On one hand, label executives acknowledge that the popular video site is the way many people discover new music, especially as the power of radio and MTV wanes.
But at the same time with plunging CD sales, the labels hope that YouTube, which benefits from millions of visitors seeking music videos, will serve both as a promotional outlet and a key revenue source.
(Reporting by Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Derek Caney and Andre Grenon)
The world's largest video sharing site said PRS for Music, a British collection society that collects royalties on behalf of nearly 50,000 composers, was asking it to pay "many, many times" more than the previous licensing agreement that has expired.
"The costs are simply prohibitive for us -- under PRS's proposed terms, we would lose significant amounts of money with every playback," the company said in a blog on Monday.
The move is the latest sign of the tension between YouTube and the music industry and also indicates the video site's resolve to keep operating costs under control as it strives to generate meaningful profits for Google.
YouTube said PRS was also unclear about which songs are included in the renewed license.
"We've been talking to them for a long time and we're still talking to them," said Patrick Walker, YouTube director of video partnerships for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Walker described it as a "painful decision."
But PRS disputed YouTube's version of events and said it was caught by surprise by the announcement in the middle of ongoing negotiations.
"We were shocked and disappointed to receive a call late this afternoon informing us of Google's drastic action," said PRS for Music Chief Executive Steve Porter.
PRS said in a statement it was "outraged" on behalf of consumers and songwriters by YouTube's move.
"Google has told us they are taking this step because they wish to pay significantly less than at present to the writers of the music on which their service relies, despite the massive increase in YouTube viewing," the London-based organization said in a statement.
The PRS statement pointed out that Google, YouTube's parent, saw its revenue grow to $5.7 billion in the last quarter. The figure will likely be juxtaposed against the fast dwindling fortunes of the music industry.
Some rights-holders argue the video site should pay a higher fee or share more advertising revenue since many users come to watch their music videos.
The move to block British users access to artists' music videos and user-created videos, which feature licensed music, will take effect on Monday evening British time.
The commercial relationship between YouTube and PRS is separate from YouTube's relationship with major record companies. Those relationships have also been strained at times.
Record companies such as Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group or Warner Music Group Corp own rights to the sound recordings and music videos. In December, rights talks between YouTube and Warner Music broke down after they failed to agree to payment terms, leading to thousands of videos being taken down.
YouTube and the music industry have had an awkward but mutually beneficial partnership. On one hand, label executives acknowledge that the popular video site is the way many people discover new music, especially as the power of radio and MTV wanes.
But at the same time with plunging CD sales, the labels hope that YouTube, which benefits from millions of visitors seeking music videos, will serve both as a promotional outlet and a key revenue source.
(Reporting by Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Derek Caney and Andre Grenon)
YouTube, Universal mull video venture: reports (AFP)
Google-owned YouTube and the world's largest music recording company Universal Music Group are reportedly discussing collaborating on a premium music video website.
The New York Times on Thursday cited unnamed sources as saying that talks between the companies are "advanced" but still in flux.
Google has been striving for ways to make money on hugely-popular YouTube while avoiding alienating notoriously transient Internet users and assuring film and music studios that video copyrights are being respected.
Neither YouTube nor UMG, owned by France-based Vivendi, would officially comment on reports of talks that have appeared this week in the Times, Wall Street Journal and several other US news publications.
Music videos are extremely popular at YouTube and major labels have reportedly been seeking to renegotiate licensing deals inked in 2006 and 2007 in bids for better terms.
Agreements in place assure recording labels small fees when videos are watched and cuts of advertising revenue generated on the Web pages.
Sony Music Entertainment reached a new agreement with YouTube this year but other labels continue to negotiate with the video-sharing site.
The sides are divided regarding "how to compensate the music industry for the use of their music in things which are promotional," Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said at an investor conference this week.
A licensing arrangement UMG has with YouTube is reportedly set to expire at the end of March. Music videos on the UMG channel at YouTube have received billions of views.
The New York Times on Thursday cited unnamed sources as saying that talks between the companies are "advanced" but still in flux.
Google has been striving for ways to make money on hugely-popular YouTube while avoiding alienating notoriously transient Internet users and assuring film and music studios that video copyrights are being respected.
Neither YouTube nor UMG, owned by France-based Vivendi, would officially comment on reports of talks that have appeared this week in the Times, Wall Street Journal and several other US news publications.
Music videos are extremely popular at YouTube and major labels have reportedly been seeking to renegotiate licensing deals inked in 2006 and 2007 in bids for better terms.
Agreements in place assure recording labels small fees when videos are watched and cuts of advertising revenue generated on the Web pages.
Sony Music Entertainment reached a new agreement with YouTube this year but other labels continue to negotiate with the video-sharing site.
The sides are divided regarding "how to compensate the music industry for the use of their music in things which are promotional," Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said at an investor conference this week.
A licensing arrangement UMG has with YouTube is reportedly set to expire at the end of March. Music videos on the UMG channel at YouTube have received billions of views.
Glitch Exposes Some Google Docs To Others' View (NewsFactor)
Google's reputation for maintaining user privacy took a hit last week when some Google Docs users found their online documents exposed to viewing by others.
"We've identified and fixed a bug which may have caused you to share some of your documents without your knowledge," the Google Docs team told users on Friday. "This inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document."
Few Users Affected
Google said the problem occurred in cases where the document owner -- or a collaborator with sharing rights -- selected multiple documents and presentations from the documents list and changed the sharing permissions. The incident affected only a small percentage of users, who potentially had their documents and presentations exposed but not their spreadsheets, Google said.
"We believe the issue affected less than 0.05 percent of all documents, but in the interest of transparency we wanted to share the details more broadly," said Google Docs Product Manager Jennifer Mazzon in a blog. "The issue affected so few users because it only could have occurred for a very small percentage of documents, and for those documents only when a specific sequence of user actions took place."
Still, it was embarrassing for Google to admit that even some of its own employees had documents exposed. "We understand our users' concerns -- in fact, we were affected by this bug ourselves -- and we're treating this very seriously," Mazzon said.
As part of the fix, Google used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from documents it identified as being affected, then e-mailed the owners in case they needed to re-share them. "We have extensive safeguards in place to protect all documents, and are confident this was an isolated incident," Google said in an e-mail.
Collaboration Risks
Since Google Docs is a general purpose, lightweight collaboration offering, no companies are likely to have used it to put highly sensitive information online, said Jim Murphy, a research director at Forrester Research. But the Google Docs bug did have an impact on some users due to "the inconvenience of having to strip the security rights off the docs and then reapply them," Murphy said.
The glitch underlined one of the potential dangers inherent in cloud-computing platforms where users store documents on remote servers instead of their own computers. "No question about it, there's a risk," Murphy said.
On the other hand, Murphy observed, there are potential risks inherent in whatever method companies may use to enable employees to collaborate with others. "In the past, they may have used an e-mail to do this, and there's no security there," Murphy said.
What's more, Murphy noted that companies are always taking risks whenever they permit sensitive materials to be stored on any employee's computer, which may be subject to loss or theft. If someone loses a laptop, Murphy noted, no one necessarily knows about the incident unless it involves a defense contractor or the CIA and the news gets published.
"However, once you are in a collaboration environment, then everyone knows and the risk gets more exposure," Murphy said. "And if you are Google, then the loss gets hyped in the news."
"We've identified and fixed a bug which may have caused you to share some of your documents without your knowledge," the Google Docs team told users on Friday. "This inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom you, or a collaborator with sharing rights, had previously shared a document."
Few Users Affected
Google said the problem occurred in cases where the document owner -- or a collaborator with sharing rights -- selected multiple documents and presentations from the documents list and changed the sharing permissions. The incident affected only a small percentage of users, who potentially had their documents and presentations exposed but not their spreadsheets, Google said.
"We believe the issue affected less than 0.05 percent of all documents, but in the interest of transparency we wanted to share the details more broadly," said Google Docs Product Manager Jennifer Mazzon in a blog. "The issue affected so few users because it only could have occurred for a very small percentage of documents, and for those documents only when a specific sequence of user actions took place."
Still, it was embarrassing for Google to admit that even some of its own employees had documents exposed. "We understand our users' concerns -- in fact, we were affected by this bug ourselves -- and we're treating this very seriously," Mazzon said.
As part of the fix, Google used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from documents it identified as being affected, then e-mailed the owners in case they needed to re-share them. "We have extensive safeguards in place to protect all documents, and are confident this was an isolated incident," Google said in an e-mail.
Collaboration Risks
Since Google Docs is a general purpose, lightweight collaboration offering, no companies are likely to have used it to put highly sensitive information online, said Jim Murphy, a research director at Forrester Research. But the Google Docs bug did have an impact on some users due to "the inconvenience of having to strip the security rights off the docs and then reapply them," Murphy said.
The glitch underlined one of the potential dangers inherent in cloud-computing platforms where users store documents on remote servers instead of their own computers. "No question about it, there's a risk," Murphy said.
On the other hand, Murphy observed, there are potential risks inherent in whatever method companies may use to enable employees to collaborate with others. "In the past, they may have used an e-mail to do this, and there's no security there," Murphy said.
What's more, Murphy noted that companies are always taking risks whenever they permit sensitive materials to be stored on any employee's computer, which may be subject to loss or theft. If someone loses a laptop, Murphy noted, no one necessarily knows about the incident unless it involves a defense contractor or the CIA and the news gets published.
"However, once you are in a collaboration environment, then everyone knows and the risk gets more exposure," Murphy said. "And if you are Google, then the loss gets hyped in the news."
Groups Recommend Rules for Broadband Grants (PC World)
Government agencies tasked with handing out about US$7 billion in broadband deployment grants over the next couple of years should provide competition in areas where existing services are lacking and should give priority to local broadband providers over national ones, some broadband advocates said Monday.
Spending the money fast to stimulate the U.S. economy isn't the only consideration for the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture when allocating the funds, part of a huge economic stimulus package passed by the U.S. Congress in mid-February, said representatives of Free Press and the Open Internet Coalition.
The nation is headed into an "extraordinary period where the government is directly investing in broadband infrastructure," said Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a media reform group. "This process of handing out $7 billion, although there's a great deal of urgency to get the money out the door, must fundamentally be data driven. We need to make sure the money is spent wisely, on projects that deliver the biggest bang for the buck for the American taxpayer."
Scott also called on the government to fund high-speed networks, not just basic broadband. "We're concerned that stimulus dollars not be used to build obsolete networks," he said. "If we want to make sure that ... we're not simply re-creating a digital divide by building a substandard network that then has to take another leap to catch up."
Scott's comments came a day before the NTIA, RUS and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will host a public meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss how the broadband grants should be distributed. Free Press also published a report Monday outlining some recommendations for the broadband money.
Asked whether the money should go into areas that already have broadband, Scott and other broadband advocates at the press conference suggested that in some cases, it might be appropriate. While large broadband providers have argued that the government shouldn't compete with private companies, large telecom companies have long gotten U.S. government subsidies, said Chip Pickering, a former Republican U.S. representative from Mississippi.
Government policy and deployment subsidies have helped large telecom carriers build their networks over the last 80 years, Pickering said.
If, for example, two broadband carriers offer very slow speed broadband in an area, the new money should be available for additional competition, Scott added. If broadband is offered in a low-income area, but few people can afford the prices charged, the new broadband money could subsidize customers' broadband bills or help create a new lower-cost service, he added.
Scott and Pickering also suggested local companies or community-based groups should be given chances to win the broadband grants. The NTIA and RUS will have to consider different proposals, and in extremely rural areas, "having a local provider that's committed to ... serving that community on a sustainable basis will have just as good a chance as a large commercial operator," Scott said.
A carrier being local should be "a factor to their advantage," Pickering added.
Other broadband advocates have called for the agencies to get the stimulus money out as quickly as possible so that the U.S. economy improves faster.
The agencies should take a "prudent minimalist approach" to putting regulations on the broadband money, said Randolph May, president of the Free State Foundation, a conservative think tank.
"Funds should be targeted predominantly to unserved areas presently lacking any broadband service," he wrote in an e-mail. "This approach is minimalist in the sense that trying to do more is likely to be less impactful and more wasteful. Figuring out which areas meet an 'underserved' criterion and how to disburse funds in a way that efficiently addresses such 'underservedness' is a much more difficult task than identifying areas without service and directing funds to a provider to serve those areas."
Spending the money fast to stimulate the U.S. economy isn't the only consideration for the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture when allocating the funds, part of a huge economic stimulus package passed by the U.S. Congress in mid-February, said representatives of Free Press and the Open Internet Coalition.
The nation is headed into an "extraordinary period where the government is directly investing in broadband infrastructure," said Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press, a media reform group. "This process of handing out $7 billion, although there's a great deal of urgency to get the money out the door, must fundamentally be data driven. We need to make sure the money is spent wisely, on projects that deliver the biggest bang for the buck for the American taxpayer."
Scott also called on the government to fund high-speed networks, not just basic broadband. "We're concerned that stimulus dollars not be used to build obsolete networks," he said. "If we want to make sure that ... we're not simply re-creating a digital divide by building a substandard network that then has to take another leap to catch up."
Scott's comments came a day before the NTIA, RUS and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will host a public meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss how the broadband grants should be distributed. Free Press also published a report Monday outlining some recommendations for the broadband money.
Asked whether the money should go into areas that already have broadband, Scott and other broadband advocates at the press conference suggested that in some cases, it might be appropriate. While large broadband providers have argued that the government shouldn't compete with private companies, large telecom companies have long gotten U.S. government subsidies, said Chip Pickering, a former Republican U.S. representative from Mississippi.
Government policy and deployment subsidies have helped large telecom carriers build their networks over the last 80 years, Pickering said.
If, for example, two broadband carriers offer very slow speed broadband in an area, the new money should be available for additional competition, Scott added. If broadband is offered in a low-income area, but few people can afford the prices charged, the new broadband money could subsidize customers' broadband bills or help create a new lower-cost service, he added.
Scott and Pickering also suggested local companies or community-based groups should be given chances to win the broadband grants. The NTIA and RUS will have to consider different proposals, and in extremely rural areas, "having a local provider that's committed to ... serving that community on a sustainable basis will have just as good a chance as a large commercial operator," Scott said.
A carrier being local should be "a factor to their advantage," Pickering added.
Other broadband advocates have called for the agencies to get the stimulus money out as quickly as possible so that the U.S. economy improves faster.
The agencies should take a "prudent minimalist approach" to putting regulations on the broadband money, said Randolph May, president of the Free State Foundation, a conservative think tank.
"Funds should be targeted predominantly to unserved areas presently lacking any broadband service," he wrote in an e-mail. "This approach is minimalist in the sense that trying to do more is likely to be less impactful and more wasteful. Figuring out which areas meet an 'underserved' criterion and how to disburse funds in a way that efficiently addresses such 'underservedness' is a much more difficult task than identifying areas without service and directing funds to a provider to serve those areas."
Windows 7 Features Besides IE8 Can Be Turned Off (NewsFactor)
It's a simple checkbox, but it has big implications. During a detailed examination of a recent beta build of the forthcoming Windows 7 operating system, Aeroexperience bloggers Bryant Zadegan and Chris Holmes discovered an option to turn off Internet Explorer 8. Last week, the pair posted screen captures of the new off switch, along with a step-by-step description of the removal process.
Microsoft has waged a long-running battle with antitrust regulators in both the United States and Europe on whether Internet Explorer is an intrinsic part of the Windows operating system or a monopolistic, anticompetitive add-on. Europe has been particularly aggressive on the subject, and has assessed millions in fines against Microsoft for its software-bundling practices.
Off Switch Confirmed
Since Windows 7 is still in the beta testing stage, there is no guarantee that any particular element will make it into the final product when it is released late this year or in early 2010. However, in response to inquiries on the Aeroexperience discovery, a Microsoft spokesperson provided a link to a company blog entitled Engineering Windows 7. Based on a post from Friday, Microsoft seems committed to giving users the option to turn off multiple features.
"In Windows 7," said Jack Mayo, group program manager for the Windows 7 documents and printing team, "we are expanding the number of features you have control over in this regard, giving customers more control, flexibility and choice in managing the features available in this version of Windows." In addition to IE 8, users will be able to turn off Windows Media applications, the DVD Maker, Handwriting Recognition, and Windows Search.
As Holmes and Zadegan pointed out, there is no option to prevent Windows 7 from installing Internet Explorer 8 or other unwanted features during the setup process. Instead, you have to drill down into the Control Panel to find the Windows Features screen. Even after you deselect Internet Explorer 8, two reboots and an intermediate configuration step are required to stop the program.
Mayo conceded that Microsoft received numerous requests to offer configuration options during setup, but elected not to do so. "As we balanced feedback," Mayo said, "the vast majority of feedback we have received was to streamline setup and to reduce the amount of potential complexity in getting a PC running. We chose to focus this feature on the post-setup experience for Windows 7."
Will Europe Be Satisfied?
The multimillion-dollar question is whether an off switch for certain Windows features will be enough to placate European regulators. Microsoft is currently battling antitrust claims filed in Europe by its leading browser competitors, including Opera, Mozilla and Google.
Professor Neil Barrett, the European Commission's former monitoring trustee for Microsoft, told the British Broadcasting Company that he welcomes the changes. "For competitors, this will allow them to compete on all fronts," Barrett said. "It also benefits European Commission monitoring, as this will give them a clear understanding of what would be needed in the future should other firms fall afoul of antitrust laws."
Microsoft has waged a long-running battle with antitrust regulators in both the United States and Europe on whether Internet Explorer is an intrinsic part of the Windows operating system or a monopolistic, anticompetitive add-on. Europe has been particularly aggressive on the subject, and has assessed millions in fines against Microsoft for its software-bundling practices.
Off Switch Confirmed
Since Windows 7 is still in the beta testing stage, there is no guarantee that any particular element will make it into the final product when it is released late this year or in early 2010. However, in response to inquiries on the Aeroexperience discovery, a Microsoft spokesperson provided a link to a company blog entitled Engineering Windows 7. Based on a post from Friday, Microsoft seems committed to giving users the option to turn off multiple features.
"In Windows 7," said Jack Mayo, group program manager for the Windows 7 documents and printing team, "we are expanding the number of features you have control over in this regard, giving customers more control, flexibility and choice in managing the features available in this version of Windows." In addition to IE 8, users will be able to turn off Windows Media applications, the DVD Maker, Handwriting Recognition, and Windows Search.
As Holmes and Zadegan pointed out, there is no option to prevent Windows 7 from installing Internet Explorer 8 or other unwanted features during the setup process. Instead, you have to drill down into the Control Panel to find the Windows Features screen. Even after you deselect Internet Explorer 8, two reboots and an intermediate configuration step are required to stop the program.
Mayo conceded that Microsoft received numerous requests to offer configuration options during setup, but elected not to do so. "As we balanced feedback," Mayo said, "the vast majority of feedback we have received was to streamline setup and to reduce the amount of potential complexity in getting a PC running. We chose to focus this feature on the post-setup experience for Windows 7."
Will Europe Be Satisfied?
The multimillion-dollar question is whether an off switch for certain Windows features will be enough to placate European regulators. Microsoft is currently battling antitrust claims filed in Europe by its leading browser competitors, including Opera, Mozilla and Google.
Professor Neil Barrett, the European Commission's former monitoring trustee for Microsoft, told the British Broadcasting Company that he welcomes the changes. "For competitors, this will allow them to compete on all fronts," Barrett said. "It also benefits European Commission monitoring, as this will give them a clear understanding of what would be needed in the future should other firms fall afoul of antitrust laws."
EBay CEO was paid $22.5M in 2008, much in options (AP)
EBay Chief Executive John Donahoe received compensation valued at $22.5 million in 2008, according to a Monday regulatory filing, but a large part of his pay package consisted of equity awards that are currently of little value in the wake of a sharp decline in the company's stock price.
Donahoe, 48, took over as head of the San Jose, Calif.-based online auction site operator after Meg Whitman retired at the end of March 2008. He had previously been eBay's head of marketplaces.
According to the proxy statement eBay filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Donahoe's 2008 pay package included a salary of $879,808 and a bonus of $500,000, which represented the fourth and final installment of Donahoe's special retention bonus awarded in 2005 when he joined the company.
Donahoe also received other compensation equal to $279,108, including $273,447 worth of personal air travel.
He received stock and option awards valued at $20.1 million when they were granted. But of this, $9 million was in option awards granted when eBay shares traded around $25 — the stock is currently trading at less than half that price.
Whitman, who became a special adviser to Donahoe after exiting as CEO, received a salary of $713,947 and $215,051 in other compensation in 2008. She has since formed an exploratory campaign to run for governor of California.
Donahoe leads eBay at a time when the economic decline is causing consumers to cut back on spending, hurting retail sales both off and on the Web. EBay is no exception: It reported growth for the full year, but in the fourth quarter of 2008 — typically a busy time of year for eBay and other e-commerce companies due to the holiday season — its earnings and revenue declined.
In 2008, eBay earned $1.78 billion, or $1.36 per share, on revenue that totaled $8.54 billion. Its shares declined 58 percent over the course of the year, ending at $13.96.
The proxy statement filed with the SEC was required ahead of eBay's annual shareholder meeting on April 29.
The Associated Press calculations of total pay include executives' salary, bonus, incentives, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year.
The calculations don't include changes in the present value of pension benefits, and they sometimes differ from the totals companies list in the summary compensation table of proxy statements filed with the SEC.
Donahoe, 48, took over as head of the San Jose, Calif.-based online auction site operator after Meg Whitman retired at the end of March 2008. He had previously been eBay's head of marketplaces.
According to the proxy statement eBay filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Donahoe's 2008 pay package included a salary of $879,808 and a bonus of $500,000, which represented the fourth and final installment of Donahoe's special retention bonus awarded in 2005 when he joined the company.
Donahoe also received other compensation equal to $279,108, including $273,447 worth of personal air travel.
He received stock and option awards valued at $20.1 million when they were granted. But of this, $9 million was in option awards granted when eBay shares traded around $25 — the stock is currently trading at less than half that price.
Whitman, who became a special adviser to Donahoe after exiting as CEO, received a salary of $713,947 and $215,051 in other compensation in 2008. She has since formed an exploratory campaign to run for governor of California.
Donahoe leads eBay at a time when the economic decline is causing consumers to cut back on spending, hurting retail sales both off and on the Web. EBay is no exception: It reported growth for the full year, but in the fourth quarter of 2008 — typically a busy time of year for eBay and other e-commerce companies due to the holiday season — its earnings and revenue declined.
In 2008, eBay earned $1.78 billion, or $1.36 per share, on revenue that totaled $8.54 billion. Its shares declined 58 percent over the course of the year, ending at $13.96.
The proxy statement filed with the SEC was required ahead of eBay's annual shareholder meeting on April 29.
The Associated Press calculations of total pay include executives' salary, bonus, incentives, perks, above-market returns on deferred compensation and the estimated value of stock options and awards granted during the year.
The calculations don't include changes in the present value of pension benefits, and they sometimes differ from the totals companies list in the summary compensation table of proxy statements filed with the SEC.
Google software bug shared private online documents (AFP)
Google has confirmed that a software bug exposed documents thought to be privately stored in the Internet giant's online Docs application service.
The problem was fixed by the weekend and is believed to have affected only .05 percent of the digital documents at a Google Docs service that provides text-handling programs as services on the Internet.
"We've identified and fixed a bug where a very small percentage of users shared some of their documents inadvertently," Google Docs Product Manager Jennifer Mazzon wrote in a message at the firm's website on Saturday.
"We're sorry for the trouble this has caused. We understand our users' concerns (in fact, we were affected by this bug ourselves) and we're treating this very seriously."
The problem occurred in cases where people had chosen to collaborate on multiple documents and adjusted settings to allow access to others, according to Google.
Collaborators were unintentionally given permission to access documents aside from the ones intended.
"As part of the fix, we used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the documents that we identified as having been affected," Mazzon said.
"We then emailed the document owners to point them to their affected documents in case they need to re-share them."
The slip comes as Google and other Internet firms entice people to rely on applications offered online as services "in the cloud" instead of buying software then installing and maintaining it on their own machines.
While the trend toward cloud services is growing, some still worry about the privacy of data kept online and whether it is shrewd to rely on the Internet for access to information and applications.
The problem was fixed by the weekend and is believed to have affected only .05 percent of the digital documents at a Google Docs service that provides text-handling programs as services on the Internet.
"We've identified and fixed a bug where a very small percentage of users shared some of their documents inadvertently," Google Docs Product Manager Jennifer Mazzon wrote in a message at the firm's website on Saturday.
"We're sorry for the trouble this has caused. We understand our users' concerns (in fact, we were affected by this bug ourselves) and we're treating this very seriously."
The problem occurred in cases where people had chosen to collaborate on multiple documents and adjusted settings to allow access to others, according to Google.
Collaborators were unintentionally given permission to access documents aside from the ones intended.
"As part of the fix, we used an automated process to remove collaborators and viewers from the documents that we identified as having been affected," Mazzon said.
"We then emailed the document owners to point them to their affected documents in case they need to re-share them."
The slip comes as Google and other Internet firms entice people to rely on applications offered online as services "in the cloud" instead of buying software then installing and maintaining it on their own machines.
While the trend toward cloud services is growing, some still worry about the privacy of data kept online and whether it is shrewd to rely on the Internet for access to information and applications.
SpringSource upgrades Groovy, Grails developer technologies (InfoWorld)
San Francisco - SpringSource is offering on Tuesday upgrades to the Groovy dynamic language and Grails Web application framework with such features as improved performance and OSGi support. The upgrades include Groovy 1.6 and Grails 1.1, which can be downloaded at this Web site.
"Grails is a rapid Web application development framework built on the Groovy language and Groovy itself is a language that has the essence of Ruby and Python and so forth," as well as integration with Java and the Java Virtual Machine, said Graeme Rocher, head of Grails development at SpringSource.
[ Last year, SpringSource took over responsibility for the two open source technologies when it bought Groovy-Grails backer G2One. ]
Version 1.6 of Groovy offers better compile-time and runtime performance improvements, abstract syntax tree transformations that support transformation annotations, and support for OSGi. Developers with Groovy can extend the Java platform to match business requirements, SpringSource said. Extension can be done with scripting capabilities supporting domain-specific languages expressing business concepts.
Performance has been improved as much as 100 to 450 percent in some cases, Rocher said. This was done via call site caching, which is a way for dynamic languages to shorten the path to the invocation of a particular method, he said.
"If you can cache the particular method invocation, then you can callow the HotSpot JVM to in-line that into machine code, which improves performance greatly," Rocher said.
AST transformations reduce the number of lines of code needed to express certain patterns and enables further extension of the language. Meta-programming enhancements in version 1.6 streamline code and enable developers to write more expressive business rules. Also, meta-programming supports common enterprise APIs, such as Java 6 scripting APIs and JMX management.
Grails 1.1 offers optimized performance, incremental improvements to components, and easier integration with build systems. The Ant and Maven Java-based build systems are backed. Also, greater potential for modularity is offered through plug-ins. Transitive plug-in resolution in version 1.1 will install plug-ins that are dependent on each other.
"Grails is a rapid Web application development framework built on the Groovy language and Groovy itself is a language that has the essence of Ruby and Python and so forth," as well as integration with Java and the Java Virtual Machine, said Graeme Rocher, head of Grails development at SpringSource.
[ Last year, SpringSource took over responsibility for the two open source technologies when it bought Groovy-Grails backer G2One. ]
Version 1.6 of Groovy offers better compile-time and runtime performance improvements, abstract syntax tree transformations that support transformation annotations, and support for OSGi. Developers with Groovy can extend the Java platform to match business requirements, SpringSource said. Extension can be done with scripting capabilities supporting domain-specific languages expressing business concepts.
Performance has been improved as much as 100 to 450 percent in some cases, Rocher said. This was done via call site caching, which is a way for dynamic languages to shorten the path to the invocation of a particular method, he said.
"If you can cache the particular method invocation, then you can callow the HotSpot JVM to in-line that into machine code, which improves performance greatly," Rocher said.
AST transformations reduce the number of lines of code needed to express certain patterns and enables further extension of the language. Meta-programming enhancements in version 1.6 streamline code and enable developers to write more expressive business rules. Also, meta-programming supports common enterprise APIs, such as Java 6 scripting APIs and JMX management.
Grails 1.1 offers optimized performance, incremental improvements to components, and easier integration with build systems. The Ant and Maven Java-based build systems are backed. Also, greater potential for modularity is offered through plug-ins. Transitive plug-in resolution in version 1.1 will install plug-ins that are dependent on each other.
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