John C. Dvorak / MarketWatch:
Is the party over for Microsoft?  —  Everyone knew the day would come when the fortunes of Microsoft Corp. would reverse.  The company might now be in actual decline.  If it’s true, it brought it on itself by ignoring its core competencies, because it exhibits signs of what can only […]

Miguel Helft / New York Times:
For Mozilla and Google, Group Hugs Get Tricky  —  BOXES lined the cubicles and hallways in the offices of Mozilla on a recent afternoon, and its chief executive, John Lilly, seemed a bit disoriented as he looked for a place to sit.  Mozilla, which makes the Firefox Web browser […]

John Markoff / New York Times:
Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man  —  A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself.  Computer viruses that no one can stop.  Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously.

Marc Ferranti / PC World:
Ericsson Wins Auction to Buy Nortel Wireless Business  —  Sweden’s LM Ericsson has won the bidding war over the wireless assets of Nortel Networks, agreeing to pay US$1.13 billion for the financially beleaguered Canadian company’s CDMA business and LTE Access technology.

Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard:
A.P. goes nuclear on fair use  —  “A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web.”  That’s the headline on a New York Times article right now.  But if you read the article, you see that the Associated Press’s new campaign isn’t only about “unpaid use of articles,” […]

Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
How Reuters Should Be Responding To The AP’s Suicide  —  Earlier today we wrote about the AP’s plans to DRM the news, explaining what a backwards plan it was.  The story is getting lots of play elsewhere, with many pointing to a NY Times report, where the AP’s CEO Tom Curley […]