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Microsoft Swallows Fast Search & Transfer

Microsoft Swallows Fast Search & Transfer

Microsoft may have been unsuccessful so far in its attempts to romance Yahoo, but its moves on a company from Norway have been much more successful. On Friday, Microsoft announced that it had completed settlement of its tender offer for Fast Search & Transfer ASA, an enterprise search company based in Oslo.

Fast, which provides search platforms to help companies sift through and access internal data, is now a Microsoft subsidiary, but will stay planted in Oslo. The company’s CEO, Markus Lervik, will become Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Enterprise Search, and existing Fast customers will be able to continue their relationships with the company.

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IT Pros Stage Protest In Norway

IT Pros Stage Protest In NorwayIt’s not often you’ll find IT professionals worked up enough to stage a protest out on the streets, especially in peaceful Norway. But, according to AP,that’s exactly what happened in Oslo. Around 60 experts in data use took to the street to demonstrate against the adoption of Microsoft’s OfficeOpen XML standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It was all put together by Steve Pepper, who resigned as chair of the Standards Norway committee after being outvoted on the issue. Many feel that the adoption of OOXML will stifle competition. He claimed that Microsoft put pressure on thecommittee so that it ended up ignoring the advice of software experts in the country. "People shouldn’t have to pay money to Microsoft to be able to read my documents," Pepper said.Opponents of OOXML claim that OpenDocument Format (ODF) was a good ISO standard. The protest, perhaps unsurprisingly, was peaceful.

Opera Browser Features Voice Browsing

“Opera Software ASA unveiled Thursday a beta test version of its next Web browser release that features speech recognition, discovery of news feeds and automatic Web-page resizing.

While the next release had been on track to be Version 7.60, the Oslo, Norway, company announced a change in plans. It is retooling the version to be more than an update, which will include a yet-to-be-determined name, said Jon von Tetzchner, Opera’s chief executive officer. “

There is no doubt that the Opera browser team is ambitious, but has voice recognition technology really come that far yet?  Read more...

DVD Jon Officially Off The Hook

An Oslo appeals court cleared 20-year-old Jon Johansen, dubbed “DVD Jon,” of piracy charges in late December, angering the U.S. film industry which had hoped for a legal precedent to prevent unauthorized copying of DVDs around the world.

Norwegian police, which brought the charges on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), had considered appealing to Norway’s Supreme Court by a two-week deadline from the December 22 ruling.

Police “have decided not to appeal the ruling in the DVD case. The acquittal in the District Court will therefore stand,” they said in a statement, but gave no further detail.  Read more...

Norweigian Cleared Of DVD Piracy

Upholding a verdict by a lower court in January, the court said that Jon Johansen had broken no laws by helping to unlock a code and distribute a computer program on the Internet enabling unauthorized copying of DVD movies.

The U.S. movie industry, which says that piracy costs $3.0 billion a year in lost sales, had accused Johansen of theft in cracking the copy-protection code when he was 15 and appealed against the January acquittal.

Johansen, called “DVD Jon,” had pleaded not guilty to charges that he broke Norwegian law by helping break the code on commercial DVDs. The original court said that he was free to do what he wanted with DVDs he bought legally.  Read more...

Music labels unveil mobile song-swapping

The new digital rights management (DRM) technology, called the OMA DRM server, was developed by Oslo-based Beep Science AS, the companies said in a statement. It is based on a standard developed by industry trade group the Open Mobile Alliance.

The new technology works on the concept of a restricted peer-to-peer network in which owners of mobile phones equipped with multimedia messaging, or MMS, can send and receive pictures and sound clips to and from other mobile phone users.

With OMA DRM, the music labels can collect revenues for each song downloaded off a central computer server and for those that are swapped between mobile phone users, said Jan Rune Hetle, chief executive of Beep Science.  Read more...

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