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'Public' online spaces don't carry speech, rights (AP)

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AP - Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative.
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WITNESS: Virtual friends in a cancer world (Reuters)

16 hours 7 min ago

Reuters - Janet Guttsman is bureau chief for Reuters in Canada, and has worked for the company in Germany, Russia and the United


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Terra gets Olympic Internet rights (AP)

Sat, 2008-07-05 22:22

AP - Internet company Terra says it has been awarded Internet and mobile rights to transmit the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Latin America.


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Ultra Mobile PC Buyer's Guide (TechWeb)

Sat, 2008-07-05 03:00
TechWeb - InformationWeek - We look at a range of versatile UMPCs and mobile Internet devices (MIDs) from ASUS, Gigabyte, and Samsung, Amtek, OQO, Roan Digital, Vye, and WiBrain.
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Ask.com closes Dictionary.com deal (CNET)

Fri, 2008-07-04 16:52
CNET - Ask.com, the fourth-ranked search engine, has completed its acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com.
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1 euro eBay baby goes home (CNET)

Fri, 2008-07-04 15:37
CNET - The German baby taken from his parents after they put him up for sale on eBay for a euro--apparently as a joke--is back home, according to the Associated Press.
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Lithuania: Attacks Focused on Hosting Company (PC World)

Fri, 2008-07-04 10:10
PC World - A vulnerability in a Web server contributed to the attacks on some 300 Web sites in Lithuania earlier this week, a computer...
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Court orders YouTube to give Viacom video logs (AP)

Fri, 2008-07-04 06:52

AP - Dismissing privacy concerns, a federal judge overseeing a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the popular online video-sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.


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Kate Moss hair extension sells for 805 euros in eBay: report (AFP)

Fri, 2008-07-04 02:54

AFP - A blonde hair extension that British supermodel Kate Moss reputedly lost in Berlin has been auctioned on eBay for 805 euros (1,264 dollars), Bild newspaper said on Friday.


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VeriSign names interim CEO (CNET)

Fri, 2008-07-04 02:02
CNET - VeriSign, which runs the master database for the .com and .net domains, has replaced its CEO and president, who resigned suddenly earlier this week.
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Google ordered to give YouTube user data to Viacom (AFP)

Thu, 2008-07-03 23:54

AFP - A US judge has ordered Google to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube in a decision condemned by the Internet giant and privacy advocates.


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Judge orders Google to give YouTube user data to Viacom (AFP)

Thu, 2008-07-03 18:48

AFP - Google expressed disappointment and privacy groups voiced outrage Thursday after a judge ordered Google to give entertainment giant Viacom details of video-watching habits of visitors to its popular video-sharing website YouTube.


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Apple Drops Price Of MacBook Air (TechWeb)

Thu, 2008-07-03 17:25
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The price reduction appears to be the result of a drop in the price of the 1.8-GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and a reduction in the price of the 64-GB solid-state drive.
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Google Employees Warned Of Data Breach At Benefits Company (TechWeb)

Thu, 2008-07-03 16:55
TechWeb - InformationWeek - As a precautionary measure, the company is offering to enroll affected employees in Kroll's IDTheftSmart identity and credit protection program for a year.
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A Tale of Two City Wi-Fi's (PC World)

Thu, 2008-07-03 16:40
PC World - Different approaches to wireless Internet access in San Francisco and neighboring Silicon Valley are producing very different...
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Interview With 'Net Pioneer Vint Cerf (TechWeb)

Thu, 2008-07-03 16:37
TechWeb - Vint Cerf said this week that he never intended to seriously propose that the U.S. government should nationalize the Internet. But he does think the Internet is seriously broken, with an economic system that discourages competition and innovation and encourages harmful monopolistic practices. He argued that the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which governs Internet service providers, is obsolete and needs to be revised.
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'Containers' Out Perform Virtualization For KV Pharmaceuticals (TechWeb)

Thu, 2008-07-03 16:00
TechWeb - InformationWeek - With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
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Internet addressing agency loses its own addresses (AP)

Thu, 2008-07-03 15:57
AP - This doesn't sound good: The nonprofit agency in charge of the Internet's addresses recently lost track of its own.
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Mobile Music A $7.3 Billion Industry By 2011 (TechWeb)

Thu, 2008-07-03 15:46
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Research firm eMarketer predicts that music sales as a whole will continue to decline, but online and mobile markets will grow rapidly.
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Daily Debrief: Celebrating America's independence, questioning our own online (CNET)

Thu, 2008-07-03 15:44
CNET - A day before the United States celebrates its independence, we continue to question our individual freedoms online. In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and I discuss a federal judge's recent ruling in the ongoing Google-Viacom lawsuit that orders Google to turn over YouTube user activity. This will include videos watched, IP addresses, and usernames as part of an ongoing copyright infringement case.
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