From The Money Times:
“Internet search engine Google announced on Monday that it has acquired Postini Inc., a San Carlos, California-based e-mail security and management company, for $625 million in cash, intensifying its battle with rival Microsoft to offer better services to corporate customers.
Google said it has entered a definitive agreement with Postini to acquire the [...]

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“John Szarkowski, a curator who almost single-handedly elevated photography’s status in the last half-century to that of a fine art, making his case in seminal writings and landmark exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died in on Saturday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 81.”
From The New York Times

From today’s Cnet report:
“Fujitsu Siemens Computers has introduced a new range of professional notebook computers, all of which have integrated 3G connectivity.  The Esprimo series of laptops, which will go on sale beginning in August, includes three models, ranging from the ultra-portable 12.1-inch U9200 to the 15.4-inch D9500 desktop replacement model. All are based on [...]

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Fascinating article found on Wired News about Stock, microstock and macrostock photography :
“In the world of photojournalism, there is a noticeable difference between the quality of images generated by a passerby with a camera phone and the photojournalist with a digital SLR that cost thousands of dollars. But elsewhere, photographers are finding themselves hard-pressed to [...]

From Read/Write Web:
This is the third annual Best Web Companies round-up from Read/WriteWeb:
Google: influential and all around impressive.
Amazon: innovative, but not quite enough impact.
Apple, Yahoo and Microsoft: interesting… 
You can vote for this years (2007) Best Webco here!

Artist: Greg Kessler
Project: Cover Shoot of guitarist John Petrucci
Client: Guitar Player Magazine
Art Director: Paul Haggard
When: On Newstands July 1st
Notes: Shot backstage at the theatre in Madison Square Garden while on ‘G3 Tour’ with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai

James Surowiecki, author of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations spends a lot of time discussing this phenomenon. There can be wise crowds as opposed to the “mob” that characterized the Internet or real estate bubbles. What characterizes [...]