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Privacy is a hot word around the blogosphere today; Google is protecting it and the RIAA is employing every trick in their playbook to circumvent a user’s right to privacy by pressuring ISPs and Universities to voluntarily hand over identifying information pertaining to users who are allegedly violating copyright law by sharing digital music over the school’s network.

I heard a great radio ad about radio advertising, which included the following:

Top Chinese search engine, Baidu, announced plans on Monday to enter the Japanese market in the near future.

IBM's Express Track program "is reaching out to thousands of local IT resellers around the world" in a "$100 million global drive."

Oracle unveiled the latest version of its CRM software this week, the PeopleSoft Enterprise Customer Relationship Management 9. The enhancements come as part of Oracle's "Applications Unlimited" program, adding features aimed at attracting the financial and communications industry sectors.

According to the proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," search competitors Google, Yahoo, and MSN would do well to band together in the face of a new threat. Thirty Japanese companies, with the support of the Japanese government, are joining up to create a competing search engine.

Many bloggers are saying they are getting bombed with right-wing German spam today. I am one of them.

An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal today makes the case that 2005 will be the year of takeovers in the video game industry.