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Submission + - No anonymity for Colorado P2P defendants (internetcases.com)

Submitted by

Pablo Saga

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @01:04AM

Pablo Saga writes: "From Internet Cases: Finding that the RIAA and other record companies might not get access to precious data including the names, addresses and MAC address of unknown defendants in a new file sharing case, a federal court in Colorado has allowed the service of a special subpoena on Qwest so that the defendants can be tracked down. Colorado file sharers beware!"

Submission + - Linspire and MS enter a new major partnership (microsoft.com)

Submitted by

XdevXnull

on Thursday June 14, 2007 @01:01AM

XdevXnull writes: "Microsoft has put up a page on their website outlining some details of their major new partnership agreement with Linspire. On the surface, it appears to be very much similar to the Novell agreement, but includes some interesting developments for the future of Linspire's eponymous distribution: Ms-compatible voice messaging for Pidgin (formerly gaim), Windows Media 10 (DRM anyone?), True Type font support, enhanced OOo/MS Office interoperability, and Microsoft's Live Search will be the default web search engine. The first three will be available in the commercial version of Linspire 5 with purchase of a "patent SKU".

This latest news will likely raise a lot of controversy, but my guess is that to anyone who would really be upset about these things, the Linspire distribution is largely irrelevant in any case."

Submission + - Broadband providers impose bandwidth limits

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12, 2007 @05:40PM

An anonymous reader writes: Interesting article in today's Boston Globe regarding treatment of "high-bandwidth users" by local broadband providers.
(http://www.boston.com/business/personaltech/artic les/2007/03/12/not_so_fast_broadband_providers_tel l_big_users?page=full)
It appears that your acceptable-use policy can be interpreted in unexpected ways.

Submission + - Google assists Indian goverment censorship

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 12, 2007 @05:35PM

An anonymous reader writes: Google's Orkut has made a deal to provide IP addresses of posters of content deemed objectionable by Bombay police. They object to, among others, posts against certain Indian personalities, young women admiring Indian mobsters, and, amazingly, "anti-Indian words" (!).

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by norequest on Monday March 12, 2007 @05:33PM

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Submission + - Main UK opposition party talking OSS

Submitted by

twofish

on Monday March 12, 2007 @02:38PM

twofish writes: "The user of open source software in European government got another boost recently when shadow Chancellor George Osborne told the Royal Society of Arts he wanted to create a level playing field for open source software in the UK. He has estimated that the British government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more open source software, according to this short article on the BBC website."

Is it Time for Open Office? 449

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 19, 2007 @07:45PM from the opportunity-for-adoption dept.

lazyron asks: "I've been using Open Office a bit more lately, and got to thinking: this is much more like my current version of Microsoft Office than Office 2007 will be. Could it be time to try Open Office in the workplace, especially since there is still some time left before Office 2007 will be forced on us by the demands of the product cycle? Are there any IT admins out there thinking about trying Open Office, either with a few users or all of them?"

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