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Canada Opens Wireless Industry to Competition-> 2

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on Wednesday November 28 2007, @07:19PM

FreeKill writes "The Canadian government on Wednesday paved the way for new cellphone companies by announcing new rules for an auction of radio airwaves designed to spur competition in the wireless industry. About 40 per cent of the spectrum will be reserved for new entrants with the remainder open to all bidders, including Canada's big three providers — Rogers, Bell and Telus. The government will also mandate roaming area agreements which will force existing carriers to share their networks with newcomers for five years, plus another five if the new entrants can build up their own networks nationally."
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Google's OpenSocial to Launch Thursday 0

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on Tuesday October 30 2007, @11:31PM

FreeKill writes ""Details emerged today on Google's broad social networking ambitions, first reported here in late September, with a follow up earlier this week. The new project, called OpenSocial (URL will go live on Thursday), goes well beyond what we've previously reported. It is a set of common APIs that application developers can use to create applications that work on any social networks (called "hosts") that choose to participate.""

March is Boycott the RIAA month

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on Wednesday February 28 2007, @10:45PM

FreeKill writes "
Recent aggressive moves by the RIAA have prompted the folks at Gizmodo to declare the month of March as Boycott the RIAA Month complete with an Anti-RIAA manifesto."
From the Article:

"Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label. Without their millions of dollars to throw at lawyers, the RIAA is toothless. They get their money from us, the consumers, and if we don't like the way they're behaving, we can let them know with our wallets.
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