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Internet Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize-> 1

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JoonasD6
JoonasD6 writes "For the first time, an unanimate and abstract object could be winning a Nobel Prize. The Internet was proposed by the Italian version of the Wired magazine, and lately the Internet has indeed provided people around the world the tools to fight for freedom of speech, for democracy and against corruption."
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Google

I Feel the Need for Super High Internet Speed->

Submitted by rsmiller510
rsmiller510 writes "Lost in all the Google Buzz hype today was an announcement Google was making 1 gigabit super high speed fiber channel internet access available to a few lucky communities in the US. This is unheard of speed and I would certainly welcome it in my home town."
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Books

Apple Bans "Project Gutenberg" from iPhone->

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Miracle Jones
Miracle Jones writes "Apple has repeatedly banned an application for the iPhone developed by James Montgomerie called "Eucalyptus" because it allows people to read all the "Project Gutenberg" books for ten dollars, and because one of the books available is Sir Richard Burton's Victorian translation of the 2nd century Sanskrit text known as the "Kama Sutra." Montgomerie intends to manually block the "Kama Sutra" and resubmit his application, but should he have to do this? For instance, the (illustrated) "Kama Sutra" is already available for sale from both Stanza and eReader on the iPhone, so what exactly is Apple's policy here?"
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Government

Pirate Party Being Sabotaged in EU Elections

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JoonasD6
JoonasD6 writes "Sweden's Pirate Party, Piratpartiet, is apparently facing sabotage in its first European Parliament elections. In his blog, Rick Falkvinge mentions reports coming that officials are refusing to accept voting ballots for Piratpartiet. It was even caught on film (in Swedish). The antagonists seem to be the members of the current parties in the Swedish parliament. The pirate movement sure seems to put the governmental and legal systems through a stress test here. Will the pirates end up being more virtuous than the current statesmen?"

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