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Despite the slumping economy, new figures indicate that at least one industry has actually increased its profitability this year. Google recently released information on a surprisingly strong first-quarter performance. Profits increased 30% from last year to $1.31 billion; sales increased 42% to $5.19 billion.

I am always interested in new technologies that help publishers and copyright holders (namely image licensors) to work more closely together to facilitate the sometimes tricky world of content licensing. So today, as I came across a new service called "Gum Gum" I was very interested to see what they had to offer.

This question gets asked a lot and is often discussed by people in the ISP crowd (see today's Slashdot post). It's an especially critical question for small to medium sized ISPs who are struggling with profitability and continued investment in infrastructure to meet with the changing needs of today's technology.