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Torrent legality study 'horribly wrong', says TorrentFreak

...has ridiculed the veracity of a University of Ballarat study on the legality of BitTorrent usage, labelling some of its claims "horribly wrong" and saying... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Renai LeMay

SOCA: Police can monitor file download histories

...to go into SOCA's "techniques and methodology" could hinder the investigation.Legality questionedCybersecurity expert Peter Sommer said the legality of SOCA's monitoring depends... Read more

16 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Inkscape, now with printing marks

...drawing program with a passion that is trembling on the edge of legality. It takes the apogee of Adobe Illustrator’s development (that’s Illustrator... Read more

25 June, 2010

Google Drive: Latest player in the great internet paradox

...data between yourself and any number of your friends, regardless of the legality. All this underlines the basic paradox of the internet and copyright: for... Read more

24 April, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Europe rubber stamps data-sharing agreement with US

...the new agreement to the European Court of Justice to test its legality were scuppered by the 'Yes' vote. "The EU-US Passenger Name Record... Read more

20 April, 2012

Court rules Swedish ISPs can hand over customer data

...of entertainment.Those on both sides of the argument have debated the legality of sharing IP addresses with copyright holders since 2009, when the so... Read more

20 April, 2012 by Don Reisinger

Four-strong team builds digital TV revolution

...to other processor architectures. There are still some issues about content and legality: although Promise TV is sure that it's no more illicit than... Read more

25 March, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Microsoft: OnLive's Windows-for-iPad tool breaks rules

...Licensing 'risks' Before Matz's post, Microsoft had stayed quiet on the legality of OnLive's service. Analyst firm Gartner, on the other hand, said... Read more

9 March, 2012 by David Meyer

Government seeks savings through licence shuffle

...the legality of the proposed scheme. Microsoft has not pursued the matter of legality... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

GoDaddy strikes name from SOPA supporters list

...domain registrar, GoDaddy sits at the crossroads of the debate over the legality of the act. Unfortunately for GoDaddy, however, many of its customers feel... Read more

28 December, 2011 by Don Reisinger

Can I be the first to say the 'social network' is dead?

...for sharing of messages, content and services, pushing the boundaries of both legality and acceptability along the way. And meanwhile meanwhile, everybody and their dog... Read more

27 October, 2011
Songsterr Plus 1.3

Songsterr Plus 1.3

...by song title or artist name. Favorites. Quickly access your favorite tabs. Legality. Music creators get paid.Coming soon via free updates: Favorites, Multitrack playback... Read more

10 September, 2011

Home Office meets social networks over blocking plans

Twitter, Facebook and RIM are meeting home secretary Theresa May to discuss government proposals to crack down on social networks in times of unrest Read more

25 August, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Facebook riot posts lead to four-year jail terms

The sentences for the two young men from the North West of England 'recognise how technology can be abused to incite criminal activity', Cheshire Police have said Read more

17 August, 2011 by David Meyer

Police say Twitter and BBM gave riot 'intelligence'

...the riots, it backed away from such a plan, citing questions over legality."The legality of that is very questionable and additionally it is also... Read more

17 August, 2011 by Jo Best

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

18 minutes ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

3 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

5 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

5 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

6 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

9 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

10 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

13 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

19 hours ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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