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European borders fall for music royalties
The European Commission moved Wednesday to break up a system of national monopoly organizations that collect money for composers and song writers when their music is used on radio and television, in nightclubs or over the Internet.
International Herald Tribune |
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EMC Makes Consumer Storage Move
Sophisticated data protection is moving from the enterprise into the consumer market. Iomega, which was acquired by EMC for $213 million earlier this year, is rolling out external hard drives that come bundled with EMC Retrospect Express backup software and EMC’s Mozy online backup service in an attempt to ensure that consumer data is safely stored.
Byte and Switch |
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AdMob: Mobile Web Use Doubled in Past 12 Months
According to the latest data from mobile advertising marketplace AdMob , the mobile web has grown by over 100% in the last 12 months. AdMob's data also shows a 20% increase since May alone. Ad impressions on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch grew by 32% in June, making it the 9th most popular mobile device for online browsing in terms of ad impressions. Of course, all this data is only ...
ReadWriteWeb |
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Painting her son's final images of Iraq
Among Sgt. Joseph Derrick's belongings, sent home to his mother after his death, was a Flash drive full of photos. He was going to narrate their stories for her. Now she translates them to canvas. Suzy Shealy was one of those preppy Southern moms whose artistic streak found expression in what she calls "crafty-type things": cross-stitched towels, Christmas ornaments, knitted scarves.
Los Angeles Times |
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'World's Greatest Dad' Arrested As Predator
A man whose shirt proclaims him as the "world's greatest dad" has been arrested on charges he tried to use the internet to arrange a sexual encounter with a minor. He was caught in one of Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox's cyber stings.
The Kentucky Post |
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BusinessNorth Exclusives ‘Reverse publishing’ hits the Iron Range
VIRGINIA – As most newspapers are struggling with how to reinvent their products on the Web and thus retain readers, one publication on the Iron Range is defining itself online first.
BusinessNorth |
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On The Move Moving community radio to the Internet
KAXE-FM in Grand Rapids is reinventing itself in pursuit of sustainability and a larger audience. Editor’s note: BusinessNorth has a news partnership with Northern Community Radio.
BusinessNorth |
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Atom-based Acer Aspire One makes its American debut
Acer today officially launched US sales for the Aspire One, its stylish, ultra-lightweight notebook with Intel's newest Atom processor built-in, and whose hard drive...is optional.
BetaNews |
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Man, woman charged with insurance fraud
It began with a friendship struck up on an internet chat site, and ended when Ginowan City Police arrested two people on charges of committing insurance fraud.
Japan Update |
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Stoneware, Inc. Announces iPhone Personality for webOS -- Web Desktop Virtualization(TM)
Stoneware, Inc. today announced it will deliver a new webOS virtual desktop for the Apple iPhone 3G in its next product update of webOS. An integrated webOS personality will give organizations a means of providing mobile workers with secure access to their enterprise applications and data, all from their iPhone.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Videogame console giants jockey for throne
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony are waging battle at the Electronics Entertainment Expo, each claiming to be the true king of videogame consoles in a booming multi-billion dollar industry.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony promise more at E3
One word sums up the announcements made by the Big Three gaming companies at the E3 this week: more.
Baltimore Sun |
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Library use grows, but varies by region
WASHINGTON — Each year, more than 1 billion people visit libraries to borrow books or videos, log onto the Internet or participate in various community programs.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Sep 2007 04:14 UTC
Here is an interview with Richard Stallman about a range of free software topics including GPLv3 and comment on the Microsoft patent issue. Stallman has a go at Linus Torvalds even suggesting that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Tue 15th Jul 2008 17:16 UTC
A new Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has arrived, aimed at both Linux newbies and content creators. Boasting "out of the box" multimedia codecs, the freely downloadable PC/OS incorporates the lightweight XFCE desktop, and is said to offer a similar layout to the groundbreaking, but ultimately doomed BeOS.
New Mobile Computing |
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EU moves to free up music rights
A decision by EU regulators is set to break national monopolies on music downloads and performance rights.
BBC News |
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EU moves to free up music rights
A decision by EU regulators is set to break national monopolies on music downloads and performance rights.
BBC News |
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Microsoft Confirms Development Of New 'Halo,' In Multiplayer
LOLHAY. Nice! Confirms that Bungie was announcing a Halo game and not an expansion or new IP.
MTV Music Television |
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New Music: Killer Mike: "10 G's" [Stream]
Like the Clipse, Killer Mike is one of those rappers whose rhyming abilities far outstrip their marketing abilities, though reading recent Jay-Z and Kanye West coverage I wonder whether anyone else even thinks there's a difference. It took three years for Mike's second LP for Sony, Ghetto Extraordinary , to come out-- for free, on the internet. "10 G's", from his forthcoming I Pledge ...
Pitchfork |
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Computer-watching monkeys in attention-grabbing test
Tiny changes in a messenger chemical in the brain acetylcholine can greatly affect powers of attention, according to a paper released on Wednesday by Nature, the London-based weekly journal.
AFP via Yahoo! News |
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World's Leading Internet and TV Home-Shopping Retailers Convene in Monte Carlo at Electronic Home Shopping Conference
More than 350 leading Internet and TV home-shopping retailers from Europe, the U.S., Asia and Latin America gathered in Monte Carlo June 22-24 for the Electronic Home Shopping Conference, hosted by the Electronic Retailing Association -- Europe.
Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Major Sites Fall Victim to Web Hijack
Here's a check to see if your site might have been invisibly rigged by this latest wave to attack visitors.
PC World |
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Why Buy When You Can Build? [Hackintosh]
Apple is suing a company called Psystar for selling computers with OS X installed on non-Apple hardware. While buying a pre-built Hackintosh may not be in the cards, you can still build your own...
Lifehacker |
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Legion Hardware offers advice for building the best Crossfire rig
Filed under: Desktops Choosing the right graphics card / chipset combo to give you the most bang for the buck is always tricky business, and even moreso when you're looking to get the most out of some brand new hardware like AMD's Radeon HD 4000 series cards. Thankfully, the folks at Legion Hardware have now stepped in to help out a bit, although, as is often the case, it's not ...
Engadget |
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Gartner: Cloud Security Will Triple by 2013
Security applications delivered as cloud-based services will more than triple by 2013, according to Gartner. The firm said 20 percent of the revenue of messaging security tools, such as antimalware and antispam services for email and instant messaging, currently comes through the cloud delivery model. But this will jump to 60 percent by 2013.
SYS-CON Media |
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