GMail Name Won't Belong to Google in Europe [Richmond IP Blog]
Spastic legal thrashing is no avail: someone else owns the trademark "Gmail" in Europe (pictured here in 1360) and there's nothing Google can do about it.
Publisher launches its first "wiki" novel [Reuters]
Penguin launches a collaborative novel experiment using the wiki platform. Taking a look at 6 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, 2007, the first line is, of course, "It was a dark and stormy night."
"Silver surfers" choose Web over gardening [Reuters]
According to new research, the elderly prefer relaxing and chilling out on the net to having to slave away in the yard.
Japan's biggest satellite suffers glitch on antenna [Reuters]
The Kiku satellite, designed to improve cellphone services, has another glitch.
Cell phone content, services set to boom: report [Reuters]
Another story chants the mantras, "Tomorrow the world will using cellphone-based broadband services." This one can't even be bothered to find a read human to quote; it is a press release barely rewritten as news.
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