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“French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge.”
Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge | TorrentFreak
Microsoft shows Wave 3 of Live.com. Social networking part of the scheme. Apple will do search? Microsoft search bribery is working. OLPC still lives in England. Valleywag’s demise shows Silicon Valley is not Hollywod.AMD shows new chip and technologies. Dell CTO steps down.
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LG, Sharp and Chunghwa plead guilty for price fixing. TroopTube takes over military vids. It’s run by the military. Go to budget.com/tech to help the podcast. Cisco is cancelling sales conference. Online gambling under review. Mars rover "spirit" getting dusted. Who cares what a phone costs to make? Sun Microsystems all over the news. The company may benefit from the "green" thing. Spammer host shut down. IBM looking at broadband over powerlines.
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Is Apple planning to design its own processor? Some think so. The G-phone is cheaper to build than the iPhone. Why is IBM antsy over Apple taking one of its key people. Apple may be developing a chip. More and more stories appear about the headset magnet magnets and pacemakers. Cray Supercomputer to hit 1.3 petaflops. 25 year anniversary of Windows. Nortel stock goes into the tank.
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Earbuds causing heart problems? Apparently. iPhone number one amongst adults. Seagate selling self-encrypting drives. Obama and the CTO story continues. No MP3 player from Dell before Christmas. Microsoft to turn to Sun Microsystems for marketing help. Laughable story. VMWare wants to virtualize cellphones. Why? Circuit City filed Chapter 11.
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“It was revealed this week that the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain were hacked over the summer. Now, a report has surfaced that the White House has suffered multiple attacks in recent months as well.”
Report: White House e-mail system attacked | Latest Security News - CNET News
“Facebook and its users are having a rough day. A serious Facebook virus is attacking the network’s users.
For the laymen:
If you receive a Facebook message (or a Facebook message alert in your email) with a questionable subject line, DO NOT CLICK THE LINK IN THE BODY!”
“It’s great to be able to log in your computer remotely. It’s convenient, it saves gas, hassle, and most importantly, time. Personally I’ve used Logmein for a long time and loved it.
The company has actually been cooking up an application for the iPhone (and iPod Touch), too, called LogMeIn Ignition. I tried out the preview version of the app on my iPhone 3G and was impressed overall.”
“Sprint Nextel, the third-largest mobile service, posted a quarterly loss and weaker revenue on Friday as customers fled to rival services.
Sprint reported a net loss of $326 million, or 11 cents a share, in contrast to a profit of $64 million, or 2 cents, in the quarter a year ago.”
Sprint Nextel Lost 1.3 Million Customers in Quarter - NYTimes.com
“LOS ANGELES–In a technical session on Thursday afternoon, Microsoft provided the clearest public indication that it is planning on getting Windows 7 completed in time to run on PCs that ship for next year’s holiday buying season.”
Microsoft aims Windows 7 for 2009 holiday season | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News