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Submission + - Big Blue Outsources Networking (factiva.com)

Submitted by Kaneda2112
Kaneda2112 writes: Looks like IBM has outsourced several thousand employees to AT&T. Knowing a few people affected, you gotta wonder about company loyalty — why would you feel any loyalty knowing that you could traded away like a baseball card? I feel for those guys — probably around 5,000-7,000 employees.

AT&T gets outsourcing contract with IBM, worth $1B annually for 5 years
2 October 2007
Associated Press Newswires
English
(c) 2007. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T Inc. will provide outsourced telecommunication and networking services to International Business Machines Corp. worth up to $1 billion in additional annual revenue over five years, the company said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday.

AT&T said that the deal is not expected to materially impact its financial results.

Under the deal, AT&T will transition employment of an unspecified number of International Business Machines employees in over 30 countries, AT&T said.
The Internet

Submission + - From Enya to Swedish Death Metal (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by
Kaneda2112
Kaneda2112 writes: "Fight the power!

A group of record companies says Jammie Thomas illegally shared everything from Enya to Swedish death metal online. Tuesday, she will become the first of 26,000 people sued by the recording industry to take the case to trial.

The Brainerd, Minn., resident is accused of illegally sharing 1,702 songs for free on a file-sharing network. Her trial offers the first chance for both sides in the debate over online music sharing to show a jury its version of the facts.

Thomas is accused of violating the song owners' copyrights. Her lawyer says the record companies haven't even proved she shared the songs.

Most of the 26,000 people the record industry group has sued have settled by paying a few thousand dollars.

"We think that speaks to the clarity of the law here," said Jonathan Lamy, a spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America.

But lawyers for the defendants say they've settled because trials cost tens of thousands of dollars. Thomas's lawyer, Brian Toder, said she was determined to fight. He declined to make her available for an interview."
Censorship

Submission + - Demonoid Torrent Tracker Blocking Canadian Users

Submitted by rebmemeR
rebmemeR writes: Demonoid had been offline for the previous 6 days but resumed operations last night. Rumors about the cause of the outage were indeterminate. The site now displays the following note.

"We received a letter from a lawyer represeting [sic] the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and we need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this."

The CRIA (Wikipedia) (Canadian Recording Industry Association) is a lobbying firm backed by international music marketers. Demonoid is held to be the second most popular BitTorrent tracker, after The Pirate Bay.
The Internet

Submission + - Demoniod p2p Site Returns From The Dead (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by Kaneda2112
Kaneda2112 writes: Demonoid is up and running after shutting itself down following a threat the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) to club it to death in the courts. This morning the site was up, but broken, apparently while it made repairs. It is still being hosted by a Canadian ISP, but is blocking all Canadian traffic to avoid trouble with the CRIA.
The Courts

Submission + - Taxman goes browsing on eBay (theglobeandmail.com)

Submitted by
Kaneda2112
Kaneda2112 writes: "Interesting story in the "Globe And Mail" where the Canada Revenue Agency is now trolling eBay Canada for high volume sellers — looking to make sure high volume sellers are reporting their income. The taxman cometh — they certainly don't want anyone making any untaxable income.

"The company also argued that the CRA had not shown enough evidence to prove that it "was conducting a genuine and serious inquiry." Mr. Justice Roger Hughes of the Federal Court of Canada ruled that eBay is legally obliged to turn over the information even if it is located elsewhere."

I was unaware that a Federal Court could demand company records from another country. Can they be compelled to do so?

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070926.wrebay27/BNStory/Technology/home"
The Internet

Submission + - Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA? 1

Submitted by Kaneda2112
Kaneda2112 writes: Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA? The popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is responsible for the downtime. Websites such as TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not sure what happened either.... Is this true? Has Demonoid been taken offline? Is the CRIA able to do this in Canada? http://digg.com/tech_news/Demonoid_Shut_Down_by_the_CRIA
Space

Submission + - the largest non-commercial rocket launch in Europe

Submitted by jaweekes
jaweekes writes: The TV program "Top Gear" recently launched the "largest non-commercial rocket launch in European history" in the form of a rocket-propelled Reliant Robin. From the article http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/show/production_notes /shuttle.shtml "What could possibly be so difficult about building a space shuttle? Quite a lot, as it turns out. This was easily Top Gear's most ambitious film and, while everything didn't go quite according to plan, we're still very proud of the results. Here are just a few of the things that happened when we tried to put an ageing three-wheeler into space."
Google

Submission + - Google to compete with Microsoft, IBM at the Core

Submitted by
Linkin99
Linkin99 writes: "Google is unveiling a product today to compete with Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. in the multibillion-dollar business of providing e-mail, calendar, and other tools on corporate computer desktops.

From the article: "The Web-based product, called Google Apps Premier Edition, also will include word processing and document sharing, instant messaging, and Internet voice capability. Google will offer it to large companies for $50 per employee, host the applications on its own servers, and provide a service guarantee for its customers."

Can Google steal away a large part of the corporate usage market using this pricing scheme? Would you use it if you were a business?"
Space

Submission + - NASA hitch a ride on Virgin Galactic

Submitted by
MattSparkes
MattSparkes writes: "It recently emerged that NASA may have a gap in their launch capability between the retirement of the Shuttle and the introduction of its replacement. Now the effects of this are showing, as it has been announced that astronauts in training will take flights on commercial space flights, in return for technical knowledge from the space agency."
Space

Submission + - New Software Stops Mars Rover Confusion

Submitted by
MattSparkes
MattSparkes writes: "The Mars rover Spirit used to get quite confused when it came upon a rock. Because it could only plan routes of a metre or two it couldn't understand how to navigate around large objects, and frequently used to rock back and forth for hours trying to figure it out. NASA have written new software called D* for the rover Opportunity, which should allow it to autonomously plan routes up to 50 metres long. The new software still won't be able to avoid sand-traps though."
Spam

Submission + - Thwart Spammers Thru Honeylists

Submitted by
Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward writes: "While reading an old post about email address harvesting on Slashdot, I came up with an anti-spam idea. Let's all put a huge list of fake email addresses on our web sites. The list of fake email addresses can be used to automatically block emails sent by spam bots. This is sort of like fighting fire with fire. Would it work?"

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