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1. UK will disconnect file pirates

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 28 October 2009

   ... legislation is unlikely to come into effect until spring of 2011.And a general election has to take place in the UK by Spring of next year, meaning that if the UK Labour Party fails to achieve re-election, ...

2. US Copyright Office attacks Google Books deal

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 10 September 2009

   ... which would allow Google to, in effect, become an online global library with millions of books available via a search engine. Google has already scanned in a vast number of volumes.  ...

3. AMD believes life begins at 40

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 29 April 2009

   ... some reason you have to email photographs to Bite PR - this shows just how far the company has come since the days of Jerry Sanders III. He did his own PR, and did it rather more effectually than a warren ...

4. iPhone: Renegade app store opens but Apple wants to kill it

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 09 March 2009

   ... and has prepared for it in advance. When EFF proposed an exemption to the DMCA that would legalize jailbreaking, Apple opposed it. And last month, Apple even filed a 27-page opposition to the proposal with ...

5. Vudu's sleek and sexy set-top box: five years later

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Opinion)

   Monday, 26 January 2009

   ... ago. ISP-capped bandwidth and sluggish speeds limit appeal Entrenched cable and satellite operators still deliver the content most efficiently as they don't have to cope with sluggish broadband speeds ...

6. Offshore drilling approved, clean energy tax credits to be issued

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

   Friday, 19 September 2008

   ... for large oil, and utilizing the money to in turn create new credits for energy efficiency programs, clean coal, and electric-hybrid vehicles. Republicans are upset because the bill was unveiled extremely ...

7. Scientists make giant step towards 3D cloaking devices

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Monday, 11 August 2008

     The secret that allows objects to become completely invisible to the human eye has been one of the big quests of science, but remains a mystery can only be achieved through special effects in ...

8. NCSA: A look inside one of the world's most capable supercomputer facilities

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Sunday, 01 July 2007

   ... the tour, there was so much information being tossed around that I could've literally spent days with them and not received it all. One thing was absolutely clear, however: the effort involved in making ...

9. "Net Neutrality" bill aims to prevent two-tiered Internet traffic

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 02 March 2006

   ... effect on small mom and pop businesses that can't afford the priority lane, leaving these smaller businesses no hope of competing against the Wal-Marts of the world," The details are sparse on how this ...

10. EFF rallies opposition against AOL's pay-for-play email system

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 28 February 2006

    ... can probably afford it, but what about the someone trying to turn a small idea into a big idea," says Pariser. AOL's system isn't the only fee-based email system that has been proposed, so why is the EFF ...

11. World of Warcraft groups give the boot to non-English speaking players

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 06 January 2006

    ... damage to a player, but instead requires her to spend money to repair equipment - money which takes even more time to obtain. Many group leaders say they cannot effectively direct players to do certain ...

12. Progress in negotiations for final AACS copy protection specification for HD discs

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 19 December 2005

    ... region codes altogether, assuming a position previously adopted by the DVD Forum's steering committee that they had proven not only unpopular but ineffective. On paper, it would have appeared opponents ...

13. US House committee approves alternate DTV transition bill with new deadline

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 27 October 2005

    ... outspoken last week in opposition to the extension of the hard date, and whose amendment that would have moved that date forward was soundly defeated, partly due to the efforts of a defiant Stevens to ...

14. EFF battles DOJ on real-time cell phone tracking

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 27 October 2005

    ... the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are rising in opposition. Fighting crime and the war on terror is often a difficult compromise between law enforcement, lawyers and judges. In a recent court ...

15. Congress may act on Internet piracy bill

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 16 November 2004

    ... faces opposition from groups that say it would unfairly punish consumers. The package combines eight bills that the entertainment industry supports as part of a large-scale effort to crack down on the ...

16. Belgian police raid Napster users

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 16 February 2001

    ... in an effort to turn its 60 million users into political activists. A newsletter e-mailed Tuesday asked members to write or call legislators, attend demonstrations and recruit other supporters for the ...