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New Napster revamps hit lists
News Napster has released a new version of its software that allows customers to find many songs that recently disappeared from its file-swapping service.
Man gets 7 years for software piracy
News Owner of software piracy Web site receives the longest sentence ever handed down for software piracy.
Tags: Piracy
Short Take: Motley Fool reduces staff
News Investment information and analysis site Motley Fool says it has cut 45 employees in its US offices amid restructuring.
Damaged undersea cables disrupting service
News Phone and Internet users in parts of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe are affected. How the cables were damaged is unclear.
Tags: Optical networking, Networking technology, Egypt, India, Bloomberg L.P., Europe, Cable, phone, Alexandria, Middle East
Google Books settlement sets geographic, business limits
News Revised settlement allows the scanning of out-of-print works from only English-speaking countries, restricts future business for Google, and gives copyright holders more rights.
Tags: Business development/management, Regulations, Google Inc., revenue, U.S. Department Of Justice, Australia, Settlement, Alexandria, antitrust, Canada
Google's digital book future hangs in the balance
News Google Book Search has the potential to unlock the musty archives of the world's libraries but will it overcome antitrust obstacles and other opposition?
Tags: Search, Web services, Author, Google Inc., U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, Class Action, 3D, Amazon.com Inc., Alexandria
How botnets use 'bullet-proof' domains
News Researchers find clues as to how switching servers behind hard-coded domain names keeps criminals in business.
Tags: Security, Domain names, Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Malware, Domain Name, Domain, ICANN, Bot, Server
States to test ID chips on foreign visitors
News The U.S. Homeland Security Deptartment plan calls for issuing high-tech documents at several border crossings this summer.
Tags: RFID
Incredible undersea cable scenario
Blogs You'd be laughed out of the room if you made up this scenario for a tabletop exercise: At 08:00 on Wednesday morning ...
Making the jump from employee to full-time consultant
Insight If you think that your technological prowess makes you a good candidate for IT consultant, you're only partially correct. You must consider a few nontechnical attributes as well.
An open-source rival to Google's book project
News Digitizing the world's books is too important a job to leave to private ventures, say backers of the Internet Archive.
Tags: Search, Open source
OpenOffice.org is a worthy competitor for Microsoft Office
Insight The OpenOffice.org office suite has come a long way since its inception--so much so that it's now a viable alternative to Microsoft Office. See how this open source application fares against the Goliath Microsoft Office suite.
Copyright treaty draws tech industry criticism
News Unlikely coalition takes aim at a controversial United Nations treaty that would expand copyright law on the Internet.
U.S. Senators: Bloggers may not be true journalists
News Key politicians say that bloggers' "lack of accountability" means they might not deserve protection under a proposed shield law.
Tags: Legal
Online library offers 1.5 million works
News The Universal Digital Library has completed the digitization of 1.5 million books and made them free and publicly available.
Tags: Asset/resource/knowledge management, Global knowledge management, Knowledge management
