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Judge: YouTube must turn over its viewer data
Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when. U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders argued that they needed the data to show whether ...
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Recent Original Stories
"Not that long ago, a significant portion of desktop GNU/Linux enthusiasts were actively advocating GNU/Linux among Windows users. I even remember doing it myself at one point, though now I really don't care what you use on your computer as long as I don't have to use it too.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 22nd Sep 2007 01:14 UTC
I upgraded my laptop to the latest Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon a few days ago only to be greeted with an additional feel of polish and goodness. Read more for our mini preview.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jul 2008 05:57 UTC
Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, S. Tucker Taft on the Ada 1995 and 2005 revisions, Microsoft about its server-side script engine ASP, Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash, Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame, and to Charles H. Moore about the design and ...
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Praguers can find noise level info on the web
Prague, July 3 (CTK) - The residents of selected Prague neighbourhoods can find out on the Internet what the level of noise is in their place of residence and who is the biggest air polluter in the area, City Hall officials told journalists Thursday.
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Internet address agency loses track of its own domain
NEW YORK — This doesn’t sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet’s addresses recently lost track of its own.
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Controversial Google Street View to arrive in Britain
Google Street View, the online mapping website that has angered campaigners for privacy, is to be available in Britain by the end of the year.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Sep 2006 22:31 UTC
Microsoft will release just one more build of Windows Vista for testing before the code goes gold, said Brad Goldberg, the general manager for the Windows client business group.
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Mike Martin sets up a high-tech fireworks display at Flathead Lake Lodge on Thursday afternoon. After the private show ...
This show, designed on a computer and launched with a state-of-the-art digital firing system, seems a dazzling universe away from Martin’s early days of hand-lighting his first professional displays.
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MPC gets OK to remain on AMEX
MPC Corp. said Thursday that it had received a letter from the American Stock Exchange accepting the Nampa computer maker's plan for regaining compliance with the exchange's listing standards.
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Critical vulnerability found in popular VLC Media Player
Danish security company Secunia has found a flaw in the VLC Media Player that could allow an attacker to gain control of someone's (Windows) PC. The problem, which Secunia ranks as "highly critical," affects version 0.8.6h on Windows.
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US court ruling on Google/Youtube data handover very worrying for UK consumers say Lib Dems
“This ruling sets a very worrying precedent for the future of the internet, with internet users’ personal details being passed around different corporations without consent.
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YouNews reporters like YOU cover the Olympic Trials
Citizen journalists are putting their cameras and computers to work this week chronicling the Eugene 08 Olympic Track and Field team trials on YouNews TV.
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T-D readers take Web speed test
More than 250 readers of the Richmond Times-Dispatch tested the speed of their Internet broadband download and upload speeds and reported their results.
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Nokia Eseries unveils E71 and E66
NEW DELHI, INDIA: Nokia, the world leader in mobility, unveiled two new stylish email-optimised devices – the Nokia E71 and Nokia E66.
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Internet agency regains its lost addresses
NEW YORK --The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said the loss occurred when an Internet-registration company it oversees got fooled into transferring the domain names to someone else. The attack was quickly noticed, and ICANN's domain names were restored within 20 minutes. However, ...
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Judge tells YouTube to disclose who watches clips
A federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.
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Department installs in-car computers in cruisers
The installation of in-car computers for the Fremont Police Department is expected to increase productivity, officials sai... (3 comments)
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Defence reviews Microsoft contract
THE Department of Defence is looking for a partner to help extract greater value from its Microsoft software licensing agreement.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 15:19 UTC
KDE developer Pinheiro revealed his ideas on the next KDE menu , dubbed 'Raptor'. "What is Raptor? Raptor is a an amazing project I have been working on in the last few days. It tries to be a fresh new way of finding your desktop applications, and interacting with its users."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Apr 2006 19:35 UTC
ColorWare , a company which offers pre-coloured (my apologies for using that abomination of an English word) notebooks and desktops using a special coating process, has added the MacBook Pro to their product line up.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th Nov 2005 17:51 UTC
Without getting into specific dates at this time, sources familiar with Apple's Macintosh hardware roadmap say the company is striving to unveil a completely redesigned set of Intel iBook laptops just in time for next year's K-12 educational buying season, which takes place around April or May. Expected to make its debut even earlier than the new iBooks will be Apple's first Intel-based ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 10th Jan 2007 22:59 UTC
In a surprise criticism of Microsoft, the UK government's schools computer agency, has warned that deploying Vista carries too much risk and that its benefits are unclear.
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Kenner cops nab Internet sex suspect
Kenner police have arrested a Lake Charles man on charges of using the Internet to try to arrange a sexual encounter with a detective posing as an underage girl.
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Eee PC getting GGG in September
Filed under: Laptops Seems that just about anyone insider of Asus is authorized to discuss the Eee PC roadmap judging by the whirlwind of information we always get prior to an official launch. Case in point: an unnamed "company representative" says that a 3G version of the Eee PC will be launching as early as September in Europe. An alternative to the WiMax version already annouced and ...
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