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YouTube court order fans privacy fears
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge's order to Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Sep 2007 20:01 UTC, submitted by highwayman
"It's over. The magic is gone. The dream is dead. The egg has fallen off the wall and no amount of 'sudo' super glue can put his pieces back together again. I'm referring, of course, to the not-so-recent departure of Con Kolivas from the Linux kernel development community.
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Recent Original Stories
The AutoPatcher project has been asked by Microsoft to stop operations . "Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history.
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Baby video back on ’net
A video that was once yanked from a popular Web site has now reappeared as a part of a news broadcast.
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Barracuda slaps counter-suit on Trend Micro
More heat over patents. Barracuda Networks is counter-suing Trend Micro for infringement of three security patents that Barracuda acquired earlier this year from IBM, the company has announced.
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Opera fixes critical hole in new browser
What's Norwegian for "cock-up 2.0"? Opera Software has patched the newest version of its flagship browser for the first time when it released Opera 9.5.1 to fix several flaws.
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'Rock Band 2' to include new online modes, songs
LOS ANGELES -- "Rock Band" is ready for an encore. A sequel to the play-along music game that redefined the genre last year will be released first for the Xbox 360 in September, according to publisher MTV Games and developer Harmonix.
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Xandros buys Linspire to boost enterprise credibility
Soothe the Windows pain with us. Linux company Xandros has bought Linspire, another open source distributor in a bid to increase its presence in the enterprise, an executive announced.
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Microsoft's Silverlight in patent trouble
More get rich quick nonsense. Video software developer Gotuit Media has sued Microsoft, claiming that its Silverlight multimedia software infringes several of the company's patents.
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Related Games
Bungie has announced that new Halo 3 map Cold Storage will be available on Xbox Live from Monday July 7th. And it won't cost a thing. The same day, Microsoft is cutting 200 Microsoft Points off the price of the Legendary map pack - so it'll cost just 600 points (GBP 5.10 / EUR 7.20). However, you won't get the Bungie Pro Bonus (extra slots for uploading movies and pics to Bungie.net ) for that ...
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IM to overtake email in business
Instant gratification or perfect sense? Instant messaging (IM) is set to overtake email as the preferred form of business communication by the second half of 2010, according to research by IDC.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 2nd Apr 2008 20:53 UTC, submitted by Matthias
KDE 4.0.3 has been released . "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.3, the third bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements.
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Mini-Me actor Verne Troyer fighting release of sex tape
LOS ANGELES -- Verne Troyer successfully shut down the distribution of a sex tape featuring the "Austin Powers" actor and a former girlfriend - for now. The celebrity Web site TMZ posted a 25-second snipped of the video Wednesday, but pulled the clips down Friday evening after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by Troyer's attorneys.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Sep 2007 15:10 UTC
The Ubuntu team has released the beta for Ubuntu 7.10 , Gutsy Gibbon. Highlights include GNOME 2.20, fancy desktop effects through Compiz Fusion, and more.
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MSU prof works on tattoo ID database
EAST LANSING - A state-of-the-art computer program that can identify a suspect through tattoos and other marks is being developed by a Michigan State University professor and a team of researchers.
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Prosecutors: Deception ran deep in Vt. kidnapping
Fri, Jul 4, 2008 (1:03 a.m.) A Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home carefully orchestrated events and e-mails to make it appear she had gone to see someone she met online, prosecutors said Thursday as they charged him with kidnapping.
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Samsung's Instinct delivers on promises
Visual voicemail. GPS. Live television. MP3 player. Internet browser. Stereo Bluetooth. Voice controls. The Samsung Instinct promises much – and generally delivers.The device looks and works pretty much like an iPhone, with some key differences.
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Prosecutors: Deception ran deep in Vt. kidnapping
A Vermont man whose 12-year-old niece was found dead near his home carefully orchestrated events and e-mails to make it appear she had gone to see someone she met online, prosecutors said Thursday as they charged him with kidnapping.
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YouTube court order fans privacy fears
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge's order to Google to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.
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Sprint's WiMax Laundry List
Wireless Internet access -- pure, simple, and cheap -- will be the focus of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S - message board )’s first mobile WiMax deployment in Baltimore, which is due to go commercial in September this year.
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Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge's order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.
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Antitrust review of Google-Yahoo deal no surprise
News reports this week that the US Department of Justice is formally reviewing a proposed advertising deal between Google and Yahoo came as no surprise to some tech trade groups and advocacy groups based in Washington, DC.
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New Web site links students, lenders
His name is Bill, and he needs $7,800 in student loans. Interested in helping?
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The Web Week in Review
From a court ruling in the Viacom/YouTube lawsuit to reports that Microsoft is still eyeing Yahoo, Drama 2.0 found no shortage of drama in the news to attract his interest this week.
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YOUTUBE HANDS PROFILES TO VIACOM
If you've ever watched a video on YouTube, Viacom now has access to your personal user data and viewing habits. Google has been ordered by a New York federal judge to turn over a database of YouTube user logs that includes personal user log-on IDs...
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