Court order on YouTube user data fans privacy fears
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A U.S. judge’s order to Google Inc to turn over YouTube user data to Viacom Inc sparked an outcry on Thursday from privacy advocates in the midst of a legal showdown over video piracy.
Garmin Nav devices run Gnome Linux
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Garmin has posted Linux source code for its Nuvi 8xx and Nuvi 5xxx-series GPS navigation devices. The Nuvi 8xx offers a 4.3-inch, 480×272 display, and appears to be based on a Marvell PXA-3xx processor, Gnome Mobile Linux, and GeoClue location technology.
Dashboard widget: Organized brings the productivity pain
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OS X and its technologies offer a dizzying amount of ways to get productive. Organized is a new Dashboard widget that combines a world clock with Leopard’s events, to-dos, and notes in a handy little package.
NVIDIA - “significant quantities” of laptop GPUs defective
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informed investors that “significant quantities” of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at “higher than normal rates,” and that it’s lowering its Q2 estimates due to pricing pressure.
Indiana Gregg to The Pirate Bay: The Internet Police Are Com
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A little while ago we wrote about the exchange of emails between artist Indiana Gregg and The Pirate Bay. Indiana wanted The Pirate Bay to remove torrents linking to her work, which they refused to do. Now Indiana has a response for The Pirate Bay and file-sharers in general. It doesn’t pull many punches.
Rogers Is Confusing the Canadian Public Even More Now
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Wow, what value!…
Rogers’ spokeswoman Liz Hamilton said consumers can decide what’s best for them.
Hamilton said consumers can pay $30 a month for a lower-use data plan to $100 for six gigabytes, which she noted is for heavy use such things as streaming video.”They don’t have to take the value.
Flash 10-beta2 Linux
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Flash Player 10 beta 2 was released on 7/2/2008 and includes new features and bug fixes.
Apple orders 50 million 8 GB NAND flash chips
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In a move that is believed to help Apple to secure low NAND flash memory prices as well as create artificial shortages for competitors, Apple has ordered 50 million flash memory chips for its iPhones and iPods from Samsung Electronics. Apple huge order is in place to support an increase in iPhone production.
Don’t buy Nvidia’s GTX 200 cards now! Price cut on the way!
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It’s getting better and better. Loosk like ATI’s Radeon 4800 is much better than Nvidia expected.
It’s not the Gates, it’s the bars
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To pay so much attention to Bill Gates’ retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.







