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Bizarre legal defense after EMI sues over Beatles MP3 sales

BlueBeat.com made waves this week in the music world by selling remastered Beatles tracks for a quarter a piece. Now, hit with a federal copyright lawsuit, the company behind the site has responded… and it says that BlueBeat actually owns the copyright on the works it sells. EMI is not amused.

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It’s one thing to type code that produces a “Hello World” message on your display, but quite another to make the gesture as grandly as one German programmer, who cut a wheat field in Semacode to display the classic message.
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It’s one thing to type code that produces a “Hello World” message on your display, but quite another to make the gesture as grandly as one German programmer, who cut a wheat field in Semacode to display the classic message.

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Droid's debut galvanizes Android app development

What a difference a device makes. With Verizon Wireless scheduled to introduce its first Android smartphone, the Motorola Droid, on Nov. 6, Android application development is exploding—project starts increased 94 percent between September and October according to mobile in-application analytics provider Flurry, a leap attributed to the Droid’s pending launch. “Flurry market data shows that Android continues to gain interest from application developers, and that iPhone is no longer the only game in town,” said Flurry president and chief officer Simon Khalaf in a prepared statement. “Developers who used to develop only for iPhone are now adding Android applications to their lineup in record numbers.”

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Lifestyle Hackers

The insider threat, the bane of computer security and a topic of worried conversation among CSOs, is undergoing significant change. Over the years, the majority of insider threats have carried out attacks in order to line their pockets, punish their colleagues, spy for the enemy or wreak havoc from within. Today’s insider threats may have something much less insidious in mind—multitasking and social networking to get their jobs done.

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Did Congress really give the FCC power to protect the 'Net?

With all the hoopla over the FCC’s new net neutrality proposals, the question of whether the agency has the legal authority to act on this issue still looms.

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Facebook challenges financial regulators: FINRA

Social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn raise “serious new challenges” for financial regulators, the head of the largest U.S. independent securities regulator said on Tuesday.

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A company at a German trade show has attached tiny banner advertisements to flies and set them loose on unsuspecting visitors, in a bizarre yet effective marketing stunt.

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Good morning, you owe us $887,180 dollars and 48 cents

When you are in security long enough, people in your daily life seem to seek you out when they have a problem that may be security related. This morning was one of those times, when a friend showed me her most recent ATM receipt in a panic. She had gone to the bank to confirm that $1,000 transfer she had expected had hit the account. Her savings balance: -$887,180.48.

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Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows 7

With much fanfare and even a few parties, Windows 7 has arrived. In this extensive review, Peter Bright dives deep into Microsoft’s new OS offering to see what’s new, what’s still the same, and whether it’s worth upgrading.

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Nation’s First Open Source Election Software Released

A group working to produce an open and transparent voting system to replace current proprietary systems has published its first batches of code for public review.

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MoD 'how to stop leaks' document is leaked

A Ministry of Defence document giving advice on how to stop documents leaking onto the internet has been leaked onto the internet.

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Irate Android devs aim to replace Google's proprietary bits

Google has angered the Android enthusiast community by sending a cease and desist notice to a third-party developer who is building a popular custom version of the open source platform. Google doesn’t want its proprietary bits included in cooked ROMs.

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Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome

People hate IE6; they’ve made that abundantly clear on the web. Unfortunately, plenty of people are still stuck using it for reasons such as their work not letting them upgrade. So Google is doing something about it.

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FCC To Introduce Net Neutrality Rule

Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a new so-called net neutrality rule Monday that could prevent telecommunications, cable and wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to sources at the agency.

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Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this

So here’s the deal with Wave: If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you’ll miss the boat. And it’s a big boat. If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation. In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture. Maybe the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself. I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but first I wanted to read fully thru and digest the specs and available code. I haven’t done any posts about XMPP for quite a while, but you’re going to start hearing a whole lot about it, and not just from me.

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