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The Linux Collaboration Summit, which took place last week in San Francisco, brought together key members of the Linux community and broadly facilitated discussion on a wide range of topics. Among the most engaging aspects of the event are its numerous discussion panels, which consist of moderated dialogue between prominent figures in the open source software ecosystem and the broader technology industry. Summit attendees participated by asking questions that partially guided the direction...
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The market for e-book readers has generally been viewed as a two-horse race, with book-selling giant Amazon facing off against consumer electronics giant Sony. Each of their products has a unique twist—touchscreen for Sony, always-on wireless for Amazon—and incompatible DRM schemes. But both devices are built around a screen that uses E Ink technology to enable their extended battery life, and the company behind those screens will happily sell them to anyone. Now, it looks...
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Google, under increasing attack for devastating the newspaper business, now finds itself pilloried in the UK for killing music. The company's YouTube subsidiary has not renewed its music video deals in the UK and in Germany, claiming that the licenses now cost far too much money, but musicians aren't buying it. They want Google to put their videos back up and then start paying more—a lot more.
At a recent press conference in London, the cowriter of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna...
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Update: Sony has just confirmed the story with a statement to Ars Technica. The statement reads:
"We're considering a digital only format for the Patapon 2 release as a one time test case as we continue to explore consumer preferences for digital content," Patrick Seybold, Senior Director of Corporate Communications at SCEA said. "The downloadable game will be available on May 5th at both retail and via the PlayStation Store. We remain focused on providing superior games and...Via Ars Technica - 7 months 18 days ago -
A call has gone out over the Web to boycott Amazon as a result of what looks like a change in its book ranking policy. First starting out as a Twitter meme (check out the search for #amazonfail), authors have called for the public to send feedback to Amazon and stop purchasing anything from the company until the rank issue is remedied. However, the "change" was likely a system "glitch" that was caused by a landslide of nefariously targeted user feedback on the site.
Here's the...
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The Linux Collaboration Summit—which took place last week in San Francisco—primarily focused on the Linux platform, but one of the most vigorous discussions that took place during the event looked beyond the confines of the kernel and gave participants some insight into Linux's relationship with the broader operating system market.
The operating system roundtable discussion, which was called "Why Can't We All Just Get Along," included Linux Foundation executive director...
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Update: Despite the statement posted on wikileaks.org, the disappearance of wikileaks.de appears to be the result of nothing more than a terminated contract. The contract to host wikileaks.de ended at the end of 2008 (heise.de, via Slashdot), and the site was taken offline after a three-month window during which the registrant could have moved it elsewhere.
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Germany and Wikileaks may be going at it again. The latest kerfuffle comes courtesy of German registration...
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Time Warner Cable's Internet usage caps, rolled out to more test markets last week, aren't just generating controversy among the geekerati. With nearly unbelievable speed, in fact, the issue packed its bags and moved to Washington, DC. On Friday, freshman Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) pledged to introduce a bill called the "Broadband Internet Fairness Act" that would, in his words, "prevent job killing broadband internet downloading caps."
The reek of HadesIn a recent article on...
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Goldman Sachs has bigger things to worry about in this economy than a conspiracy theory-filled gripe site, but that's what it has focused its efforts on in an attempt to bully Goldmansachs666.com into shutting down. The investment bank has sent a cease and desist letter to Goldmansachs666 blogger Mike Morgan, claiming that his site has violated Goldman Sachs' intellectual property and trademarks, provides unfair competition, and could confuse consumers.
A quick visit to...
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The popular VoIP service Skype started out as an independent company, and it may soon end up the same way. Skype's founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, are reportedly looking for ways to buy the company back from eBay, after having sold it to the auction giant in 2005. eBay may be open to such a deal too, as the two companies have had trouble meshing right from the start.
Zennstrom and Friis sold Skype to eBay in 2005 for US$2.6 billion in cash and stock, with the...
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