The Brits are downloading more free music than ever before and are less concerned about getting caught than they were last year. Why are they going to download even more next year? 91% say: “Because it’s free!”
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When the RIAA filed a file-sharing lawsuit against a sergeant in the US Army earlier this year, it included thousands of files containing pornography that had nothing to do with the case. The Sgt. decided to fight back, by filing a counterclaim accusing the RIAA of violating his privacy.
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The head of the open-source group that will decide whether to certify Microsoft Corp.’s “shared source” software licenses as open-source licenses said that more than half of Redmond’s licenses appear to automatically fail the group’s rules. Problem: Microsoft’s shared-source licenses restrict source code to running only on Windows.
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PLAYSTATION 3 has apparently reached 6 million in worldwide sales..
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There is a lot of technology in the Wii Remotes that we regularly wiggle around. While we were busy aiming for headshots and curveballs, one clever auto enthusiast figured out a way to use the Wii Remote to calculate G-forces and acceleration times.
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It turns out that creating new GUI iPhone apps is both harder and easier than you expect.
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Thomas Dullien, a prominent security researcher who has been a fixture at the annual Black Hat security conference, has been denied entry into the U.S. to attend and conduct training at this year’s confab.
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Drivers would have to prepay their tolls, based on the estimated number of miles they expected to drive. Those who drove fewer miles than estimated would get no refund; those who drove more would be charged for the overage at a higher rate. The AT&T-approved Apple iCar would be limited to a top speed of 30 mph.
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Here’s an advertisement from a reputed hardware website. Acer is offering laptops based on Ubuntu. Coming of age finally?
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Monopoly of google as the largest search engine in the world is under severe threat by the plan of Wikipedia to launch community based search engine
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The newest version of ColdFusion has been released.
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Who wants Viva Pinata on the DS? Microsoft do. Announced at Comic Con yesterday, Viva Pinata DS will see the original game concept (ie not the party game) ported over to the DS, with the main changes a new top-down perspective and what I’d guess is an improved control scheme.
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