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Submission + - IWF backs down on Wiki censorship (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by jonbryce on Tuesday December 09, 2008 @04:47PM

jonbryce writes: The Internet Watch Foundation, guardians of the Great Firewall of Britain, have stopped censoring Wikipedia for hosting what they considered to be a child porn image. They had previously threatened to block Amazon for hosting the same image.

Submission + - English courts allow software patents 1

Submitted by jonbryce on Sunday October 12, 2008 @04:21AM

jonbryce writes: The court of appeal in England has ruled that companies should be granted patents for "complex" software products. In this particular case, Symbian had written something that makes mobile phones run faster.

The court case has received very little attention because of the bank crisis, but it can be appealed to the House of Lords and then the European Court of Justice.

Submission + - John McCain invents the blackberry, and wi-fi (guardian.co.uk)

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jonbryce

on Tuesday September 16, 2008 @03:38PM

jonbryce writes: "Following Al Gore's announcement eight years ago that he invented the internet, the Guardian reports that John McCain claims to have invented both the Blackberry (made in Canada) and Wi-Fi."

Submission + - Apple releases Safari for Windows (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by jonbryce on Monday June 11, 2007 @02:47PM

jonbryce writes: The BBC is reporting that Apple has released a beta of their Safari browser for Windows.

I am posting this story using it. The menu text appears to be in Russian, but appart from that, it seems to work.

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