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Virgin-Universal Deal Offers Unlimited Music, Goes After File Sharers 254

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 15, 2009 @06:03PM from the something-for-something dept.

suraj.sun writes "The UK's Virgin Media could start suspending persistent file sharers on a temporary basis, using information provided to it by Universal Music. The ISP announced on Monday that it would, before Christmas, launch an all-you-can-eat music download service for its users, based on a monthly subscription fee. The tracks will all be DRM-free. 'In parallel, the two companies will be working together to protect Universal Music's intellectual property and drive a material reduction in the unauthorized distribution of its repertoire across Virgin Media's network,' a statement read. 'This will involve implementing a range of different strategies to educate file sharers about online piracy and to raise awareness of legal alternatives. They include, as a last resort for persistent offenders, a temporary suspension of internet access.' DTecNet has already been working with UK content companies for some time to do much the same thing, and is also working with RIAA in the United States."

Microsoft Adding jQuery To Visual Studio 67

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 06, 2008 @10:14AM from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Tim Anderson writes "Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of the .NET developer division, announced that the open source jQuery Javascript library will be integrated into Visual Studio, the main Windows development tool. Further, Microsoft will treat jQuery as a supported product within technical support contracts, and will use jQuery to build new controls for ASP.NET, its web platform."

Comment Look at the screens: gmail or another mail app (Score 1) 546

by Arleo on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @04:20PM (#25126557) Attached to: Google Unveils First Android Phone

Engadget has a couple of screens:
The applications screen shows an email client next to GMail. This screen shows the email setup wizard. So it seems like there is an alternative to gmail.

Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs? 184

Posted by Zonk on Friday January 04, 2008 @02:25PM from the big-and-little dept.

Ponca City, We Love You writes "Asteroid impacts, massive volcanic flows, and now biting, disease-carrying insects have been put forward as an important contributor to the demise of the dinosaurs. In the Late Cretaceous the world was covered with warm-temperate to tropical areas that swarmed with blood-sucking insects. A theory explored by researchers at Oregon State suggests these bugs carried leishmania, malaria, intestinal parasites, arboviruses and other pathogens. Repeated epidemics may have slowly-but-surely worn down dinosaur populations while ticks, mites, lice and biting flies tormented and weakened them. 'After many millions of years of evolution, mammals, birds and reptiles have evolved some resistance to these diseases,' says Researcher George Poinar. 'But back in the Cretaceous, these diseases were new and invasive, and vertebrates had little or no natural or acquired immunity to them.' The confluence of new insect-spread diseases, loss of traditional food sources, and competition for plants by insect pests could all have provided a lingering, debilitating condition that dinosaurs were ultimately unable to overcome."

Journal Journal: For the 31st straight year its snowed on my birthday... 9

Journal by SiliconJesus on Wednesday February 07, 2007 @08:53AM

Its weird. Every birthday of mine it snowed or there's been snow on the ground (significant) from a previous snowfall. I only went to school on my birthday my senior year (and we were 2 hours late). I'm deciding whether or not to go into work today. On one hand, its a nice day to not drive into work and deal with yahoos on the road in the H2's thinking that because they have it in 4WD they don't have to slow down, but on the other hand my present is getting delivered to the office today (

MS Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind 736

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 06, 2006 @04:37AM from the one-office-to-rule-them-all dept.

greengrass writes "In a recent interview with IT Wire, general manager of business strategy for the Information Worker Group at Microsoft, Alan Yates expressed the opinion that Open Office is at the same level that MS office was around 10 years ago. Supposedly only suitable for the single desktop, isolated user. After all, it doesn't even have an e-mail client!"

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