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Google has finally reached a settlement with authors and publishers that will allow user to search through books,read passages, and buy books through Google Books.

It will cost Google $125 million to create the Book Rights Registry. This will allow authors and publishers to register their work and receive money from subscriptions or book sales.

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A new invite has been sent out for a new laptop to be seen at the Cupertino event on October 14. The invite has a big picture of a notebook and a title that reads “The spotlight turns to notebooks”. The is a rumored $800 price friendly laptop.

When HP started to acquire EDS there were talks that HP may layoff some of their employees. So today HP announced that they will layoff 24,600 employees over a span of three years. Hurd stated that"I don’t see anything but goodness coming out of there"

More than half of these cuts are in the U.S. They expect to replace half of these jobs with the global workforce so they will be able to give better services to the diverse world. HP said that the layoffs were done to "streamline" costs. It will allow $1.8 billion in annual savings.

Making a browser that will go against Microsoft`s Internet Explorer and Mozilla`s Firefox is not easy. Google says that their engineer has worked on their new browser, Chrome for two years. When they were making this browser they made it seem that web pages are not just pages but similar to applications. This is something that Firefox has tried to focus on their current release.

Chrome has taken actual code from other browsers such as Mozilla Firefox and the same Webkit engine which is used by Safari. From Firefox they took some anti-phishing tools. One important part that Chrome has developed is its JavaScript rendering engine, which uses a virtual machine to optimize JavaScript execution and to monitor.

The two main features that Chrome has been hyped for are isolated tabs and speedy Javascript performance. Internet Explorer 8 beta already features isolated tabs and Firefox will have an extention called TraceMonkey to speed up javascript performance. THe first version will only be relaeased for Windows, but they are working on a version for Mac and Linux.

Mozilla, the company that made the browser Firefox, has extended its deal with Google for three more years. The deal lets Google be the default homepage of Firefox. In 2006 Google paid Mozilla $57 million, which is about 85% of their revenue. The deal was supposed to expire in 2006 but then was extended to 2008 and now is extended to 2011.

CEO John Lilly:

�We�re very, very happy about our relationship with Google and this
makes sure that Mozilla will be sustainable and thrive for quite a long
time to come�.

Mozilla uses these funds to pay employees, hosting and bandwidth, and to distribute some grants. Mozilla relies highly on Google and that is what the open source community worries about. Mozilla says that the two companies do run independently.