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Submission + - New Spin on "Big Brother" database for UK

Submitted by POPE Mad Mitch on Sunday January 14, 2007 @03:41AM

POPE Mad Mitch writes: The BBC is reporting that in a move that both the opposition party and the Information Commission have condemned as another step towards a "Big Brother" society, Tony Blair is on monday going to unveil planas to build a single database to pull together and share every piece of personal data from all government departments, the claimed justification for which is to improve public services. Sharing information in this way is currently prohibited by the "over zealous" data protection legislation. An attempt to build a similar database was a key part of the, now severely delayed, ID card scheme.

Journal Journal: All Right Reserved Or Not

Journal by Project_1993 on Sunday January 14, 2007 @02:53AM

Are Your Creations Truly Copyright Protected?

Submission + - Ciraco Electronic Gaming League

Submitted by

Ansell

on Sunday January 14, 2007 @02:08AM

Ansell writes: "CEGL (Ciraco Electronic Gaming League) has announced that sign-ups for Defense of the Ancients Season 1 are now open. Sign ups will be open for two weeks before the first pre-season schedules are put up. Meanwhile, clan leaders are encouraged to create a profile for their clan, this is to ensure that everyone has their profile and line-up updated before the season opens."

Submission + - What Google Giveth, Google Can Taketh Away

Submitted by

Skidge

on Sunday January 14, 2007 @01:37AM

Skidge writes: "With the previous story about the power of Google to effectively make your site "cease to exist", here's a story about how Google can direct its gaze to a small site and give a large boost in ad revenue, only to take it away when it decides the site really isn't worth it. From the article, "Google suddenly started sending search traffic to my pages, boosting my ad revenue by a significant amount. Just as suddenly, the search traffic dried up, sending me back into the gutter with the rest of the low-page-rank bums.""

Submission + - Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs

Submitted by Nrbelex on Sunday January 14, 2007 @01:18AM

Nrbelex writes: Giving David Pogue a break, the Times' Randall Stross makes a fresh and surprisingly accurate review of one of the biggest "features" in the upcoming iPhone and the iPod in general, 'fairplay'. Stross writes, 'If "crippleware" seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple officially calls its own standard "FairPlay," but fair it is not.... You are always going to have to buy Apple stuff. Forever and ever.' Can mainstream media coverage help the battle over DRM or will this warning, like those of the pas, continue to go unnoticed?

Submission + - Inside the iPhone: 3G, ARM, OS X, 3rd Partyware

Submitted by DECS on Sunday January 14, 2007 @12:55AM

DECS writes: After heading off the top ten myths of the iPhone, Daniel Eran of RoughlyDrafted has written a series of articles looking "Inside the iPhone," exploring why Apple didn't target faster 3G networks in EDGE, EVDO, HSUPA, 3G, and WiFi, a substantiated look at how the iPhone is indeed running OS X (contrary to reports that it isn't), what it means to users and developers, and how ARM is involved, in Mac OS X, ARM, and iPod OS X, and why the supposedly "closed system" Apple describes for the iPhone won't preclude third party development in Third Party Software.

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