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• MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  MPAA to FCC: critics of video blocking proposals are lying : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . The movie studios have a new Holy Grail, it seems: Federal Communications Commission permission to cable companies to shut down the analog streams on video-on-demand movie programming. As Ars readers know, ...
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• Swedes start buying music; are anti-P2P laws working?

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Is Sweden, the only country to have sent a member of the Pirate Party to the European Parliament, finally giving up its swashbuckling ways? When Swedens IPRED anti-piracy law went into effect earlier this year, Internet traffic across the country plummeted overnight—a sign that P2P users, fearing exposure at ...
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• "Godfather of Spam" goes to prison for four years

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 507
  "Godfather of Spam" goes to prison for four years : Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica . Alan Ralsky, the so-called "Godfather of spam" was yesterday sentenced by a federal judge in Detroit to spend the next 51 months of his life in prison for wire fraud, mail fraud, and violations of the CAN-SPAM act. ...
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• When less is more: the basics of physicalization

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  The word " physicalization " is ten months old. This January, Rackable Systems launched a strange line of servers which defied all the conventional wisdom of server design by disaggregating larger servers into many smaller ones based on consumer parts, and in the process lowering power and performance density. Ars, ...
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• EMI manages to compete with free after all

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  As digital downloads have disaggregated the album and restored the single to prominence, "unit sales" at the Big Four major labels have increased even as revenues have dropped. But new data out from EMI shows that labels can do more than just resign themselves to hugely decreased revenues as they sell bazillions of ...
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• Schiller’s spin on App Store issues ignores real complaints

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Phil Schiller, Apples senior vice president of worldwide marketing, has made another attempt to address numerous complaints about the precarious iPhone App Store approval process that have circulated in the media recently. Schillers point of view is that the approval process is valuable to developers and consumers, ...
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• End of the line for IBM’s Cell

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  In an interview with Heise.de, IBMs VP of Deep Computing, David Turek, confirmed that the Cell processor has reached the end of the line. Turek then put a more positive spin on the news by stating the obvious truth that heterogeneous multiprocessors, of which Cell was the first mass-market example of, are here to ...
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• Gift Guide: High-Tech Happiness for $100 or Less - New York Times

  
  Nintendo Wii Game and Accessories Review — Authority: 160
  Gift Guide: High-Tech Happiness for $100 or Less New York Times For many families, Wii Sports, the game thats been bundled with the Nintendo Wii since its 2006 launch, remains a favorite. By letting people swing a ... Wii Energizer 4X Charging Station Review: Induction Into The Hall Of Fame ...
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• Scam busters turn the tables on those running the Nigerian scam

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 714
  Filed under: Banks , Fraud , Recession , Recession Diaries , Consumer Ally Beloved One, I have the Courage to Crave Indulgence for this most opportune business venture... Look familiar? A day doesnt go by day that I dont receive an e-mail from people with names like Dr. Fortunate Goodpence or Mrs. Pius ...
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• Ars Technica on The Modern Warfare 2 Review Day

  
  Negative Gamer — Authority: 590
  If you wanted to play Modern Warfare 2 early you were in trouble. You had to accept a free flight to Santa Barbara , be put up in a nice hotel for a couple of days and play the game with your journalist buddies. It’s hard sometimes. Ars Technica have an interesting article up about the review day and some of the ...
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• Beatles piracy fixation gets stranger with huge FLAC release

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  EMI recently scored an epic victory  against the US website that tried to sell Beatles tracks online for a quarter, but the whole incident raised a familiar question: why, exactly, isnt The Beatles music legally available online? The answer isnt hard to find—as everyone knows, The Beatles own music company, Apple ...
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• Weird Science is desperate to shift the blame to somebody… anybody

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Blamestorming spreads like the plague: Its a typical experience in a large organization: a project has gone bad, and everybody involved looks to find ways to shift responsibility. But that practice is  almost certainly self-defeating , according to a paper entitled, "Blame contagion: The automatic transmission ...
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• Week in gaming: New Super Mario Bros. and DJ Hero death

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  This week has been filled with games that are worth your time and money. Classically trained gamers will enjoy the newly multiplayer-enhanced New Super Mario Bros. Wii, while Left 4 Dead 2 is a great entry into the co-operative gaming space, and the God of War Collection is a great look back at games that feel ...
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• Week in tech: good karma for koalas, not so good for pirates

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, was officially released last month. In a comprehensive review, Ars takes you under the surface for an in-depth look at the new features and major architectural changes. The wiki crops up in many companies internal discussions about process improvements and efficient ...
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• Week in Apple: Developers leaving iPhone, Psystar screwed

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  What would a week in Apple be if it didnt involve some developer drama, Google, and Psystar? Thats all included in this weeks top Apple news, as well as a few major software tidbits and rumors about Apple building more first-party iPhone games. Read on: Respected developers begin fleeing from App Store platform : ...
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• Hacked Darwin kernel available for 10.6.2 on Atom netbooks

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  First the 10.6.2 update to Snow Leopard wasnt compatible with Intel Atom processors. Then it was . Then it wasnt again when it was finally released to the masses. Fortunately for the netbook-loving Mac OS X fans out there, the OSx86 scene is only too happy to offer a patched version of mach_kernel to enable ...
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• Week in Microsoft: Windows 7 meets the GPL, MinWin, FUD

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Lets look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories: Inside "MinWin": the Windows 7 kernel slims down : Back in 2003, Microsoft assembled a team of engineers to rethink the lowest levels of Windows, so that the OS could be more easily slimmed down and secured to run in servers and ...
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• As Microsoft Moves to MinWin, Servers Gain, Desktops May Lose

  
  WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSS — Authority: 138
  As Microsoft Moves to MinWin, Servers Gain, Desktops May Lose That does not sound quite right, does it? How can a change that makes an operating system lighter be a bad thing for the individual user? However, that certainly is the way it is described in an article on Ars Technica.The article gives us some history ...
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• Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Thats certainly expected—ACTA contains a host of goodies for Hollywood and the recording ...
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• Computerized medicine: good for quality, but not costs

  
  Worlds Tech News — Authority: 162
  Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT has come from the top, with President Obama extolling its virtues and his administration making funding for ...
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