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A patent granted to Microsoft this week hints at the invention of new technology for personalizing searches for online media, particularly music titles.

PeopleSoft may be spending its nights tossing and turning about a hostile takeover by Oracle, but maybe Oracle should be the one losing sleep. At least that's what O'Reilly & Associates Chief Executive Officer Tim O'Reilly believes.

Supporters of open source and free software saw an extravagant lobbying exercise against a planned European Union law on software patents backfire on them Thursday.

Bertelsmann AG is reassessing its e-commerce businesses across Europe. The company will withdraw from stand-alone e-commerce sites and concentrate on its offline book and music club businesses, and Web-based book and music clubs such as it runs in the U.K., it announced Tuesday.

For all of its virtual connotations, the Internet depends entirely upon its physical infrastructure to move information around. And the physical distance from server to end user leaves plenty of time for information, in the form of packets, to get lost, resulting in e-mails that never arrive, Web pages that load incompletely and streaming audio or video that pops, flickers or just dies. So getting files closer to end users can improve performance.

Seattle-based Digimine Inc., A BI (business intelligence) ASP (application service provider), on Monday acquired CoRelation Inc., an ASP focusing on personalisation services.

In its second alliance with an offline chain, Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that it would run the online operations for rival Borders Group Inc.

Blaming weak holiday sales, Barnes & Noble (BKS) reported that its fourth-quarter earnings before charges dropped nearly 20 percent to US$1.21 per share, in line with analysts' estimates.

Does online bookseller Barnesandnoble.com Inc. now have the smoking gun it needs to defend itself against a lawsuit filed by arch rival Amazon.com Inc. over alleged infringement of a controversial patent on one-click shopping technology?

Big companies routinely collect mountains of personal information about customers in the hope that the data can be used to do targeted marketing based on individual preferences. But getting positive business results from such customer relationship management (CRM) endeavors isn't anything close to a sure thing.

The patent case between online retailers Amazon.com Inc. and Barnesandnoble.com Inc. saw some movement last week when the US Court of Appeals ruled that Barnesandnoble.com could continue to use the one-click system technology under contention until a full ruling is made in the case.