Comment Re:Your next mission, should you choose to accept (Score 1) 327
I've been over there a few times, but am sick of reading about how his football team is doing. I love the series but am getting tired of waiting.
Google Sued Over Deceptive Search Results 246
biggles266 writes "Internet goliath Google claims to rank search results by relevance, but the search engine engages in deceptive conduct by selling off the top positions to commercial partners, a Sydney court has heard.
The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) is taking world-first legal action in the Federal Court against Google Inc over allegedly deceptive conduct related to sponsored links on its websites.
The ACCC has brought a two-pronged case against Trading Post and Google — including subsidiaries Google Australia and Google Ireland — for potentially misleading consumers.
The consumer watchdog alleges Google does not do enough to differentiate "organic" search results — those ranked by relevance — from sponsored links which appear at the top of the results page."
Submission + - Beatles Compleat on iTMS Tomorrow
MartinB writes: "Neil Aspinall, head of Apple Corps, is reported as saying that the entire Beatles back catalogue will be available on the iTunes Store soon, possibly as early as Valentine's Day. However, the Fab Four aren't just sticking their toe in the download market — the catalogue will be available on all services."
Submission + - Kansas Still Has Questions About Evolution
ericrost writes: This Reuters story shows that Kansas is still backward enough to have questions on the Governmental level about the validity of Evolution. At least it is moving in the right direction.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN134242 9920070213
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Google Loses Cache-Copyright Lawsuit in Belgium 340
acroyear writes "A court in Belgium has found that Google's website caching policies are a violation of that nation's copyright laws. The finding is that Google's cache offers effectively free access to articles that, while free initially, are archived and charged for via subscriptions. Google claims that they only store short extracts, but the court determined that's still a violation. From the court's ruling: 'It would be up to copyright owners to get in touch with Google by e-mail to complain if the site was posting content that belonged to them. Google would then have 24 hours to withdraw the content or face a daily fine of 1,000 euros ($1,295 U.S.).'"
Submission + - Wikipedia Founder Introduces Open Source Wiki Mags
KingJawa writes: Wikipedia blew away Encyclopedia Brittanica, but can the model be used to upset the magazine industry? Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, thinks so. His company, Wikia, today announced three open-source magazine-style sites where users can write about news, opinion and gossip — one magazine wiki each for politics, entertainment, and local interests. Each open-source magazine hands total editorial control to the readers, allowing them to read, write, edit, and dictate the editorial feel for each topic.
Submission + - Google Loses Belgian Copyright Case
Christian Engstrom writes: "A court on Tuesday ruled in favour of Belgian newspapers claiming that Google News infringes copyright laws. Google said it was disappointed with the ruling and will appeal. "We believe that Google News is entirely legal," the company said in a statement. "We only ever show the headlines and a few snippets of text and small thumbnail images. If people want to read the entire story they have to click through to the newspaper's website.""
Submission + - Microsoft and Novell sketch out interop roadmap
Rob writes: Microsoft and Novell continue to drip-feed details of their interoperability agreement,
sketching out virtualization, management and compatibility plans for 2007, while Novell
has announced that it can now run Windows unmodified on Linux. While the patent deal has
proved controversial and the reseller deal has seen Microsoft distributing Linux support
vouchers, the interoperability element has received less attention. Looking to rectify
that situation, the two companies have outlined a "roadmap" for
joint development, although delivery dates and technical details are still thin on the
ground.
Submission + - 50 000 GNOME Linux desktops in Brazil
An anonymous reader writes: BitWay Computadores, EnabledPeople and IMTECH Brazil companies today announced that they made large PC desktops deployments for Computers for All Brazil federal government program. Ready PC solution provided by Bitway includes preinstalled Linux XP Desktop operating system developed by EnabledPeople and supported by IMTECH. Estimated month deployment is about 10000 desktops with 50000 desktops already delivered.
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