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...eyeballs for their sites. AOL (which, like this magazine, is owned by Time Warner) has worked with shows like Big Brother and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on advertising cross-promotions and last month announced it was talking to TV production houses about developing its own online content. Microsoft, though slower to embrace Hollywood, is putting its Encarta encyclopedia on its search site. Even Google, which says it is committed to search, last month launched a service allowing users to look up movies, find local screen times and link to reviews...
...posted to BusinessWeek.com’s online forums with instructions for finding out business school admissions decisions for schools, like HBS, who use the ApplyYourself online application system These instructions included advanced “hacking” techniques, previously exclusive to the domain of 8-year-old Microsoft Word users, of “copying” and “pasting” text—including their own personal identification numbers—into the URL of their internet browser’s address box. At no point did these students lie, misrepresent who they were...
Several changes made by administrators to the document were visible in a Microsoft Word tracking system...
BILL GATES, Microsoft founder, at a London press conference before accepting an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth...
...initiative to help far-flung graduates keep in touch with campus events, contains several lengthy passages that are lifted verbatim from other sources without any attribution. The site includes a 69-word section on Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler that is identical to an article in the computerized encyclopedia Microsoft Encarta, as well as a 46-word passage on Euler that appears to have been copied straight from Encyclopedia Britannica. The site also published a 65-word passage that previously appeared verbatim in a 1997 law review article on cryptography...