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NBC plans one-week free episodes
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: New Services

2007-09-20 16:22:08
Fresh from its dummy-spit with Apple's iTunes Store and the subsequent Amazon Unbox hookup, NBC has announced plans for free downloads of episodes of its popular shows - but there are some major catches.


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On content providers, noses and faces
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Commerce

2007-09-18 03:32:08
Apple's success with the iPod family and the iTunes Store has content vendors in a bind.


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SCO, SCO, SCO your boat, gently down the bankruptcy stream
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2007-09-14 21:37:56
There are fireworks going off wherever the Linux community congregates and the champagne is being quaffed in unimaginable quantities.
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iTunes' 99c ringy-dingy surcharge
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2007-09-05 21:56:31
Apple's music-related announcements included the use of iTunes-purchased tracks as ringtones - but at a price.


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YouTube concedes to UK music rights group
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-08-31 03:19:40
YouTube has agreed to license the rights to more than 10 million pieces of music covered by the UK's MCPS-PRS Alliance.


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FSF says Microsoft cannot repudiate GPLv3
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Open Source

2007-08-28 21:23:45
Microsoft "cannot declare itself exempt from the requirements of GPLv3", the Free Software Foundation has asserted.


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TorrentSpy blocks US visitors
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2007-08-27 20:46:03
Well-known torrent search site TorrentSpy is blocking visitors from the US.


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Some progress on webcast royalties
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-08-23 17:29:44
Large webcasters have gained a concession from performance rights agency SoundExchange, but their smaller cousins are still unhappy with what's on offer.


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Wal-Mart offers cheap, DRM-free music
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Commerce

2007-08-21 17:55:32
Joining the trend to DRM-free music, Wal-Mart is selling 256kbps MP3 tracks from EMI and Universal at the bargain price of $US0.94.


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Nokia fires another IPR salvo at Qualcomm
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2007-08-17 02:42:28
Embattled Qualcomm has copped another intellectual property challenge from Nokia, a company with which it has been waging IPR battles on several fronts for a number of years.


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AllofMP3 principal acquitted
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Commerce

2007-08-16 17:20:14
Denis Kvasov, the head of the company behind Russian music download site AllofMP3.com, has been acquitted by a Moscow district court in a copyright infringement case.


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Darl McBride, where are you?
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2007-08-12 22:23:05
Nearly 54 months ago, when the SCO Group launched its legal action against IBM, there were a number of cheerleaders - both SCO personnel and outsiders - who contributed a great deal to the debate.


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SCO falls flat on its face
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2007-08-11 21:16:12
The SCO Group may face financial ruin after a ruling in the US that it does not own the IP rights to UNIX. Novell has been ruled to own the IP.


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Ban on Qualcomm handsets to stay, Qualcomm to appeal
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: International

2007-08-06 21:17:09
Qualcomm says it will appeal the ban imposed on the import to the US of handsets containing it chips - imposed by the International Trade Commission in response to Qualcomm infringing Broadcom's intellectual property - after the US trade representative declined to overturn the ban.
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Mod chip suppliers raided
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Consoles

2007-08-02 17:36:27
US authorities have raided homes and businesses in 16 states in a crackdown on suppliers of mod chips for game consoles.


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ShoreTel countersues Mitel
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Industry

2007-08-02 01:07:26
IP telephony specialist ShoreTel has denied Mitel Networks' claims of patent infringement, and has launched its own patent case against the rival company.


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Eminem publisher sues Apple
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Commerce

2007-07-31 18:01:09
Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, Eminem's music publisher and copyright manager, have launched a lawsuit against Apple claiming the company is not authorised to offer the performer's recordings for download from the iTunes Store.


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YouTube copyright filter by September? Will it matter?
Written By: Stan Beer
Section: Beerfiles

Category: IT blog

2007-07-29 05:53:29
Last week, a US court heard that YouTube "hoped" to have its long awaited copyrighted content filtering system by September, according to an Associated Press report. The key questions are will Google once again fudge its self imposed deadline and, more importantly, could YouTube survive with such a system in place.


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GPL: fear is the key
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2007-07-15 20:02:09
The third revision of the General Public Licence has been out for just short of three weeks but plenty of people are already questioning why take-up has been so slow.


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Australian patents now on the web, in full
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2007-07-12 00:57:25
For the first time, the full text of Australian patents can be searched, viewed and printed at no cost, by anyone, thanks to Cambia, a non-profit international organisation based in Canberra.


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