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Submission + - YouTube Video Sparks Censorship Debate in Italy

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SeenOnSlash

on Wednesday November 29, 2006 @02:42PM

SeenOnSlash writes: "In one of several recently reported cases in Italy, a bunch of teenagers brutally attacked a disabled person. They made a video of their performance and placed it on YouTube. This incident has become a new pretext for censorship and repression as people blame the Internet for the violence. There's now talk of increasing liability of internet providers for content. Some want to make them automatically accountable for the actions of whoever uses their services. Politicians are demanding or suggesting new laws and regulations, apparently including an obligation to obtain written approval by parents for minors to use the internet. Criminal proceedings have been opened against the Italian representatives of Google Inc., including a police raid of their office in Milan."

Submission + - Mac Sales Up 30%

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SeenOnSlash

on Thursday October 19, 2006 @01:38PM

SeenOnSlash writes: "Apple sold 1.6 million Macs in the fourth quarter, a 30% increase over last year. The company said that more than 50% of people who bought Macs in Apple stores were first-time customers. This is further evidence that the success of the iPod is helping it to win converts in the personal computer market. With Mac sales growing far faster than the rest of the PC market, it's a great year for Apple."

Submission + - Libyan Schoolchildren To Get $100 Laptops

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SeenOnSlash

on Wednesday October 11, 2006 @10:56AM

SeenOnSlash writes: "The government of Libya has reached an agreement with the One Laptop per Child organization to provide inexpensive laptop computers to all of its 1.2 million schoolchildren. The $250 million deal will provide the nation with 1.2 million computers, a server in each school, a team of technical advisers, satellite internet service and other infrastructure. The project, scheduled to be completed by June 2008, could make Libya the first nation to enable all school-age children to connect to the Internet through educational computers."

Submission + - NASA Testing Linux-Based Exploration Robots

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SeenOnSlash.com

on Friday September 15, 2006 @10:59AM

SeenOnSlash.com writes: "This week NASA is testing a Linux-based lunar rover called K-10 in the Arizona desert. To cut costs and promote maintainability the K-10 runs Linux and uses commercial off-the-shelf parts where possible. The robot rover's control and communications system is based on an IBM Thinkpad X31 and attaches to subsystems with standard PC interfaces. Real-time tasks such as fine-grained motor control are offloaded to a distributed network of microcontroller-powered control boards. Maneuvers can be watched through a live webcam."

Submission + - Wikipedia Refuses to Bow to Chinese Censors

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truthsearch

on Monday September 11, 2006 @01:20PM

truthsearch writes: "Jimmy Wales has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive Wikipedia entries. He challenges other internet companies, including Google, to justify their claim that they could do more good than harm by co-operating with Beijing. Wikipedia has been banned from China since last October. Whereas Google, Microsoft and Yahoo went into the country accepting some restrictions on their online content, Wales believes it must be all or nothing for Wikipedia. 'We occupy a position in the culture that I wish Google would take up, which is that we stand for the freedom for information.'"

Submission + - Zend Raises $20 Million

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truthsearch

on Tuesday August 29, 2006 @04:39PM

truthsearch writes: "PHP development and support company Zend Technologies Inc. has raised $20 million in venture capital funding. Andi Gutmans, Zend's co-founder and CTO, said top priorities for the new investment are Eclipse integration, the Zend Framework for web applications, and the company's services organization and European sales force. This is good news for both the independant developer and large corporations who choose PHP."

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