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Labels pressure Global Gaming for Pirate Bay money
News Trade group says that if Global Gaming acquires The Pirate Bay, it has asked Swedish authorities to order the company to pay the music industry instead of Pirate Bay founders.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, computer, general counsel, copyright law, co-founder, Sweden, File-sharing, founder, record company
Skype founders file copyright suit against Skype
News Joltid, a company founded by Skype's developers, alleges its P2P software is being infringed upon every time someone downloads and uses the popular VoIP service.
Tags: VoIP/IP telephony, VoIP, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Lawsuit, P2P, Northern California, founder, U.S. District Court, spokesman
Amazon's in-cloud database gets MySQL option
News Net retailer's cloud-computing effort is getting more sophisticated with the arrival of a database service with which more people will be familiar.
Tags: Databases, Web services, Database, Google Inc., Information Technology, Amazon.com Inc., Web Service, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services, Server
Macs and PCs found shacking up
News New study finds that the vast majority of those with an Apple computer also own at least one Windows-based PC.
Tags: Personal Computers, Desktops, Notebooks and tablets, Owner, Apple Inc., Computer, Survey, Electronics, Apple Macintosh, GPS
Pub 'fined US$12K' for Wi-Fi copyright infringement
News Companies offering open Wi-Fi access face legal uncertainty following a court case.
Tags: 802.11/Wi-Fi, Network security
Google, bank resolve issue over misfired e-mail
News Google and Rocky Mountain Bank ask court to dismiss a case that stemmed from the bank inadvertently e-mailing customer data to a random Gmail address.
Tags: E-mail servers, Social Security, e-mail, San Jose, U.S. District Court, Google Gmail, E-mail servers
In remembrance: DRMs
Blogs Last week, I was at a WIPO-organized forum on copyright and related rights in Singapore. Several persons spoke about...
Comparing cursor vs. WHILE loop performance in SQL Server 2008
Techguide Tim Chapman discusses your iteration choices in SQL Server 2008 and explains why determining which option performs better depends on the situation.
Tags: Server platforms, Databases, Cursor, Row, Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Cursors Cursors, FORWARD_ONLY, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005
MySQL ex-CEO tells EU to let Oracle buy Sun
News Marten Mickos urges EU antitrust regulators to approve Oracle's Sun acquisition, arguing that delay hurts customers and that Oracle won't sink Sun's MySQL group.
Tags: Open source, Business applications, Acquisitions, Regulations, Open Source, Database, Commission, European Commission, Business applications, MySQL ex-CEO
Pirate Bay founder accused of running Reservella
News BREIN, a Dutch trade group representing copyright owners, claims to have uncovered documents revealing that Fredrik Neij is CEO of Thepiratebay.org's listed owner.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Digital rights management (DRM), Web sites, Web 2.0, Reservella, BREIN, BitTorrent, file-swapping, Europe
Lotus Connections gets Twitter-like updates
News IBM continues integrating social networking into its Lotus business collaboration tool by adding wikis and microblogging features.
Tags: Business applications, Web 2.0, Wiki, IBM Corp., social networking, File-sharing, collaboration, Microsoft SharePoint, Web 2.0
Unnecessary distraction from country's e-polls
Blogs If not for the weird story that President Arroyo underwent a breast implant operation in a local hospital, I'm pretty su...
Former Grokster exec pulls out of Pirate Bay acquisition
News Less than two weeks after being hired to obtain legal content for Global Gaming, Wayne Rosso walks away over "strong doubts" about whether a deal can be completed.
Tags: Content management, Grokster Ltd., attorney, Swedish company, movie, payment, founder, licensing deal, CNET Networks Inc., acquisition
Studios snag Australian piracy victory
News In what is believed to be the first copyright case heard by a jury in Australia, a Sydney store owner is convicted of 15 offenses.
Tags: Piracy, Australia, disc, Sydney, movie, China, director, Piracy
Microsoft snaps up Office.com domain
News It could serve as a handy address for Microsoft's Web-based productivity suite, but the software maker isn't saying just how it will use the domain.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Business applications, Microsoft Windows Live, Domain, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, e-mail, Apple Safari, TechCrunch, Microsoft Office
