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• Broadband stimulus and the FCC's Internet policy statement
  This week's hoopla over at the Federal Communications Commission focused on the launching of a Notice of Inquiry that is seeking comment on a National Broadband Plan, which the agency must produce for Congress by February of 2010. "If we do our job well," interim FCC Chair Michael Copps told an Open Commission meeting audience on Wednesday, "this will be the most formative—indeed transformative—proceeding ever in the Commission’s history."

  If that wasn't...

  Via Ars Technica - 7 months 18 days ago
• Profs protest massive P2P damage awards

  Statutory damages in the US can be claimed by copyright holders in lieu of actual damages, and they range from $750 to $30,000 per infringement (or up to $150,000 when the infringement is "willful"). These huge ranges, and the lack of useful guidance on how to implement them, have led to both wildly inconsistent damage awards and huge penalties for small crimes. Here's how two leading copyright professors sum up the problem, drawing on the Jammie Thomas P2P case in...

  Via Ars Technica - 7 months 18 days ago
• Times change: print no longer default MLA citation style

  In my former life, one in which the sermons of Bishop Lancelet Andrewes seemed inestimably important, the Modern Language Association's Handbook for Writers of Research Papers was my secular citation bible. MLA style reigns supreme in literature and various other humanities, so MLA's recent move to ditch its "print-centric" default style last month has been controversial. And URLs for Web content? They're gone too.

  The changes are part of MLA's seventh edition of the Handbook,...

  Via Ars Technica - 7 months 18 days ago
• The problem with push: can small developers afford it?

  Push was the big buzz this past March. That's when Apple finally announced its long awaited push notification support for the iPhone. Push notifications allow third parties to send instant updates to users, even when applications aren't running. CPU-intensive and possibly battery-consuming operations are run on Web-based servers rather than on the unit itself. For all that consumers might win from this approach, moving those operations off phones may create a huge financial burden for small...

  Via Ars Technica - 7 months 18 days ago
• Some stabilizing in weak economy: Fed
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  Via Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com - 7 months 18 days ago
• Chrysler developing electric sports car for 2010
  A battery-powered 268-horsepower two-seat sports car is in line to become Chrysler LLC's first electric car, provided the carmaker lives to see another day.
  Via Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com - 7 months 18 days ago
• 12 startups fight it out for $800,000
  Dozens of aspiring entrepreneurs will vie for a share of $800,000 in seed money at this month's Rice Business Plan Competition. Meet the competitors.
  Via Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com - 7 months 18 days ago
• Investor group interested in GM's Saturn
  An investor group including private equity firm Black Oak Partners has approached General Motors Corp about buying the assets of its Saturn brand and distribution network, the group said Wednesday.
  Via Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com - 7 months 18 days ago
• Sempra to run No. 1 solar farm
  Via Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com - 7 months 18 days ago
• Retirement confidence sinks
  Via Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com - 7 months 18 days ago

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