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For more stories, log on to http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1349-3-58-224580-132608-0-0-0-1 IN THIS ISSUE: * Google: Bringing Library Books and More Online * Christmas Virus Makes the Rounds * Photo Fever * Make Way for Mozilla ============================================================ Google: Bringing Library Books and More Online The libraries of some of the biggest academic institutions in the world have joined forces with Google to scan library books into digital files and make them searchable online, Google announced Tuesday. The move follows several other similar recent initiatives from the company. Last week, Google announced that the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New York Public Library will help Google scan their books and make them searchable online, within Google. More is available here: http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1349-3-58-224580-132611-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Christmas Virus Makes the Rounds Security firm MessageLabs, which tracks millions of e-mail messages each year and posts graphical propagation data on the Web ( http://www.messagelabs.com/emailthreats/ ), is warning of a fast-moving new virus that is spread through Christmas greeting messages. MessageLabs had intercepted 25,000 copies of the W32/Zafi.D-mm virus--a variant of the Zafi family of viruses--by last Tuesday morning. The first copy was intercepted Monday, so the virus is relatively new. Find out more here: http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1349-3-58-224580-132614-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Photo Fever There's no stopping digital cameras, and 2004 was a banner year for them. They are now the number-one planned consumer-electronics holiday gift, replacing DVD players, according to survey data from the Consumer Electronics Association. U.S. unit sales for digital cameras are expected to show 40 percent annual growth, with more than 20 million cameras sold, say market researchers at Gartner. Find out more here: http://ct.enews.pcmag.com/rd/cts?d=184-1349-3-58-224580-132617-0-0-0-1 ============================================================ Make Way for Mozilla Is spyware slowing down your surfing? If so, you may want to join millions of others who are hopping off the Microsoft Internet Explorer merry-go-round and jumping on the Firefox browser bandwagon. According to Web analytics firm WebSideStory, at the beginning of June over 95 percent of American Web surfers were using IE, but by October's end, that percentage had fallen to 92.9. Where did those users go? Most of them apparently switched to Mozilla and its open-source derivative browser, Firefox. 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