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Blame Canada? Great White North called a spam haven (2)
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The fact that Facebook's recent lawsuit victory over spammer Adam Guerbuez was prosecuted in California rather than Canada sheds light on how weak Canada's antispam laws are—or so some argue. Does our northern neighbor need a CAN-SPAM of its own? Read More...Shared by Michael (53) rebrse (78)Contribute comment -
Ars Awards Top Technology/Product/Stories of 2008 (5)
onArs Technica surveys the year in tech, and separates the losers from the winners. Don't miss the 2008 Ovatio Awards, by the staff of Ars Technica. Read More...Contribute comment
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UK regulators bludgeon Kangaroo video on demand service (1)
onMuch like the popular Hulu, Project Kangaroo was to offer Internet-based "catch-up" access to three major UK TV networks, in addition to archival content, but the Competition Commission today indicated that it has severe worries about the plan. "Remedies" will be coming soon.Read More...Shared by Dan (95)Contribute comment
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Government, EFF spar in court over telecom immunity (5)
onLawyers for the Department of Justice and the Electronic Frontier Foundation clashed Tuesday over the constitutionality of legislation immunizing telecoms for their role in warrantless NSA spying.Read More...Contribute comment
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A Look At All The New Windows Live Wave 3 Web Services (9)
onThe Wave 3 rollout for Windows Live web services is complete. Ars runs down all of the new goodness to be found in Windows Live.Read More...Shared by Avi (240) Chung (49) Clint Maher (159) Dragos Pirvu (149) John Albright (22) Lavelle Mueller (4) Leena (433) Sun Tzu (288) Syng (5)Contribute comment
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YouTube Comes Down Hard on Porn Ads, Suggestive Content (7)
onYouTube has introduced new policies on "sexually suggestive" video clips today, and announced it will take steps to restrict access to clips even when the people involved are (barely) wearing clothes.Read More...Shared by Babychen Mathew (135) Benjamin (224) Claudiu (90) Dragos Pirvu (149) Jason (29) neal (111) Ritu (27)Contribute comment
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Ads come to Battle.Net as Activision monetizes free service (1)
onActivision Blizzard knows how to make money, but gamers may not be happy in the ways the company is planning to monetize its free online gaming service: Battle.Net. Read More...Shared by Jason (29)Contribute comment
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Valve says DRM is stupid, but Microsoft still doesn't get it (6)
onValve's Gabe Newell calls most forms of DRM "stupid," but Microsoft's Randy Milller's response misses the point entirely. The war between PC gamers and publishers seems likely to continue. Read More...Shared by Adam Maldonado (53) Eric (7) Jason (29) Jonathan Bailey (11) ryanshepherd (32) Serrenity (3)Contribute comment
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Hawaii makes electric car part of green power initiative (8)
onGM and its Volt electric vehicle may be in trouble, but another effort to bring electric cars to the market seems to be gathering steam. Hawaii has become the latest government to sign on with an initiative that fits well with its plan to shift to renewable energy.Read More...Shared by adam (256) AmyVernon (259) Lance (182) Mr. BabyMan (85) Munashe (29) Ritu (27) ryanshepherd (32) Sun Tzu (288)Contribute comment
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MPAA: opposition to selectable output control "astonishing" (5)
onEnemies of letting Hollywood limit analog outputs on cable via selectable output control (SOC) are "frozen in time" and against advanced technology, the MPAA warns.Read More...Contribute comment
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Ars how-to: Build a random password generator for the iPhone (4)
onArs author and iPhone hacker Erica Sadun shows you how to build a random password generation app for the iPhone.Read More...Contribute comment
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Moonlight 1.0 beta 1 shines on Linux (6)
onThe first beta version of Moonlight 1.0, an open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight framework, has been released. The developers aim to have alpha-quality Silverlight 2.0 support by March.Read More...Contribute comment
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Getting a grip on Python: six ways to learn online (36)
onGoogle's new App Engine uses Python as its primary programming language. Ars goes in search of the best Python programming resources on the web.Read More...Shared by Adam (19) AmyVernon (259) andrewcsfan (11) arturo.servin (26) Bastien Labelle (4) ben (17) Damian Nicholson (13) Denny (19) dhirender (361) Eric (7) Henry (25) Jaica Kinsman (4) johnynek (5) Josh (2) Lars-Erik Forsberg (1) Leandro Ardissone (5) lisa coultrup (1) Mark (12) Melvin Nez (5) Michael (48) Michael Mior (50) mike (5) Mike Flynn (1) Nicholas Barone (5) Pablo (2) Peter Norris (1) pixelReality.net (3) Richie Rump (6) Rowan Corbett (1) sean (1) Shane (23) Tanath (37) todd (10) Tom (1) Tomi (1) Zak M. (278)
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Flock OpenID support a small step for slow-moving standard (7)
onThrough a partnership that includes MySpace and Vidoop, an alpha extension brings OpenID management to the Flock social browser. It's an interesting approach to boosting awareness, but OpenID is going to need a lot more help than this to gain traction amidst heavy competition.Read More...Shared by Alex Dumitru (117) Andrew Lighten (10) Benjamin (224) John Boitnott (73) Mick (18) Robert (3) Simon Wren (25)Contribute comment
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Report: white knight wants to take Yahoo private (18)
onYahoo is yet again the subject of takeover rumors, this time with a new twist: a former head of AOL is supposedly trying to line up backers for a bid to take the company private. It's scenario that makes sense, but will be tough to pull off given the state of the economy.Read More...Shared by Babychen Mathew (135) Brad Spangler (29) Cubby Brendle (4) Danny (6) digits12 (123) Jason (29) Jason (32) John Albright (22) Leena (433) Munashe (29) Nazia (5) Nirav (23) rony john (97) Ryan (2) Stephen Michael Kellat (6) Trevor Wermund (105) Yatin Vadhia (227) Zach Reitan (15)Contribute comment
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First look: can Songbird 1.0 replace iTunes, WMP? (27)
onAfter two years of development, open-source music player Songbird has finally shipped its 1.0 release. Songbird is based on extensible Mozilla technologies and a love for what the Internet can bring to the music experience. Ars reviews version 1.0.Read More...Shared by Anton Kast (1) Brendon Wadey (72) Brian Veverka (6) chewtoy (7) Damian Nicholson (13) Eric Guanlao (4) FENG (6) Hector Jarquin (19) i80and (20) John Albright (22) koppah (18) Matthew (1) MaXeR (16) mhking (37) mike (5) Mike D. (13) Nirav (23) p@r@noid (255) Ram (16) Randy (3) Rey (7) Sean (14) Toby (4) Troy McClure SF (26) Victor Barrera (241) Z'HuNG Lee (38) Zak M. (278)Contribute comment
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The long tail may be vanishing on the social networks (4)
onWhile fears that a few popular sites might wind up dominating the web appear to be unfounded, a new study appears to suggest that social sites like Digg and YouTube may help initially popular stories dominate. Read More...Contribute comment
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Time for forced updates? Conficker botnet makes us wonder (1)
onNew to the botnet scene is Conficker, a botnet that exploits a critical security vulnerability Microsoft actually patched in late October. It may be time for Microsoft to begin forcing critical security updates upon home users.Read More...Shared by Adam (19)Contribute comment
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Hands-on: KDE 4.2 beta 1 brings impressive improvements (12)
onArs tests the first beta release of KDE 4.2. The new version of the popular Linux desktop environment has lots of new features, including significant improvements to the panel and other Plasma components.Read More...Shared by Benjamin (224) Chanux (6) daniel (16) Gabriel (8) i80and (20) Karol F (26) Muhammad Saleem (141) Myriam Schweingruber (1) Rey (7) Srinidhi Venkatesh (6) Tyson Williams (30) wisher (6)Contribute comment
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Report: Online to be larger piece of shrinking music pie (1)
onOnline music sales, both downloads and subscriptions, will continue to grow throughout the next five years, according to Forrester Research. However, CD sales are still in a decline and online sales will not make up for the loss in physical media sales, leading to an overall shrinking of the music market. Read More...Shared by War-N Harrison (17)Contribute comment
