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In the news this week.
 Windows Live Search Goes Live as Beta. Microsoft is trying to tackle its declining share in the search-engine market by introducing new tools it says will make Web searching easier and more efficient.

Google talk of online storage service
The Web world was abuzz this week over rumors that Google is preparing a service that will let people store every bit of their data online.

 Cisco Systems is getting into the security surveillance market with the acquisition of a company called SyPixx Networks.

 Microsoft Corp. has reached a patenting milestone by logging its 5,000th patent granted in the United States.

Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday that it has acquired Apptimum Inc., the creator of the Alohabob PC Relocator software tool. -

Cebit opens up world of hi-tech in Hanover Germany.

 The Kiss My Butt award of the week.
This week it goes to the company White Lake. They get it for producing a USB stick made of 14kt gold encrusted with 5 diamonds. It costs around $3,500. 

News from Henk Devos of SharewareBlogs.com  Nice Writeup About Digital River. TwinCities has a nice writeup about Digital River.
New Software
AKVIS Noise Buster: noise suppression for digital and scanned images.


News from Dave Collins of SharewarePromotions
Origami photos - The virtue of bloggers - Yahoo as relevant as Google? - Microsoft says "we never said that" - Keep an eye out for Relerank, and more - Do your search skills need improving?  Dave has a number of hints on how to do this on his blog page take a look.

 Our guest this week is Don Robinson of Robinmatch Limited. Don is the developer of DDFileCatcher - "Convert Windows files to text. " Use with Microsoft Word and Excel

This interview was held in Brussels at ESWC.