User group Newsletter Editors: Utilize this content in your newsletter -- PLEASE ... reference The User Group Network _ / _ UG Network Channel _ / _ NEWS_/ _ Rumor Manager The Rumor Manager is looking for your rumors and tidbits... give him a post! ...or subscribe... see subscription notes below 9912.17 -- ACT!; Samsung; Barnes & Noble; End of Fair Use? **** ACT! Symantec is selling ACT! to SalesLogix for a price of $80 million in cash and common stock. Symantec claims 3 million users. Saleslogix's current products are Interact.com and its name sake product. This acquisition is suppose to help drive SalesLogix's business to business web activities. No word if they are going to do anything more with ACT! for the Mac than Symantec did. I would guess not. I also wonder how many of those 3 million people merely acquired it and then discovered how difficult it was to use and never did anything with it. (Sometimes I think Symantec wants out of the non-utility software business. Maybe they will soon change their name to Norton.) **** Samsung Samsung has some interesting products in line for the future. "Samsung is taking particular aim at chips for so-called convergence products, like the cell phones with built-in MP3 players and TV receivers that Samsung itself recently rolled out. In the microcontroller area, Samsung has developed a proprietary architecture called CalmRISC. Featuring an on-chip DSP as a coprocessor, the device is said to be very low in power, suiting it for portables. The company has produced 8-bit and 16-bit versions of CalmRISC, and a 32-bit version is due out next year, Chin said. The device could displace the ARM processor as Samsung's high-end MCU offering. " This according to an article in Electronic Engineering Times. (No your Rumor Manager doesn't have a subscription and probably couldn't understand most of the magazine if he did). **** Barnes & Noble According to ComputerWorld starting this spring, Banres & Noble will be starting to print books on demand. Initially starting with books from 8 publishers. This of course is an effort to reduce inventory costs. We have heard in the past about text books being published by demand and have also heard that music scores are being published by demand. But this is the first example of mass books being done this way. Sounds exciting to me. That would mean almost never having a book go out of print. And of course, it will be easier for the Library of Congress to store e-books than paper ones. More inof <http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=197755> **** End of Fair Use? In a decision that is bound to be appealed, Federal District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, issued a temporary injunction last week against the Utah Lighthouse Ministry, a Salt Lake City non-profit organization. The ruling was intended to stop the Utah Lighthouse Ministry from posting e-mail messages on its Website telling readers where to find online copies of a book published by the Mormon Church. In essence, the Utah court upheld the contention of the Mormon Church that the Lighthouse Ministry was guilty of "contributory infringement" of the Mormon Church's copyrighted Handbook of Instruction. From this ruling, it would be impossible for a web site to link to any copyrighted material. It would appear to this writer that the ruling is an error and the ruling could have been influenced by its direct connection to the church located in the ruling city. I am sure that it will be reversed. **** Don't forget Any suggestions for topics and reports of rumors are always welcome. 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