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La commission européenne a voté l'unification des régimes de sociétés d'auteur et l'allongement des droits voisins à 95 ans.

Google's Open Source Android OS Will Free the Wireless Web By Daniel Roth 06.23.08 Google wants to bring the coolest bits of the Web to your cell phone. Illustration: Christian Montenegro "Is this interesting to Google?" That's what Andy Rubin was asking Larry Page. It was a spring day in 2005, and the two were in a conference room just off the main lobby at Google's headquarters. A simple yes and Rubin would have walked ...

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After a year’s hiatus, the Google Librarian Newsletter has returned! We mentioned last summer we were taking a break to think about the best ways to communicate with you and keep you updated on what's happening with Google. We began our librarian outreach with the intention of sharing information with the librarian community about Google. This information includes our library partnerships, products that could be useful to librarians and more details about the way Google ...

The White House apologised for what it called "sloppy work" and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it.

WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final approval on Wednesday to a major expansion of the government’s surveillance powers, handing President Bush one more victory in a series of hard-fought clashes with Democrats over national security issues.

So I'm making a conscious decision. I'm going to go Slow on E-Mail.I'm going to treat it as an addiction, like drinking too much coffee.There doesn't seem to be a simple, prescriptive or descriptiveclassification of addiction treatment akin to the seven stages ofgrief; much of the on-line material about treating addiction is ratherdisturbing and possibly borderline dangerous (and, mark me, there's amegachurch out there somewhere that is going to make a killing offfaith-based treatments for ...

The "likely consequence" of growing numbers of Chineselearning English without "enough quality spoken practice" means that"more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese."Already, non-native speakers far outnumber native speakers, and in thenext decade, native speakers will make up only 15 percent of those whouse the language.

If anyone out there wonder why Aaron Seigo’s blog is down, the reason is pretty simple… Its author got burnt out because of some of the poisonous people in our project. The story started several weeks ago (probably even months ago) with constant bashing of some of the decisions taken in the Plasma project (which is not a one person project by the way). It culminated last week with very rude and useless mail threads ...

A football-loving parrot - who sings You'll Never Walk Alone - goes missing from a Liverpool fan's home.

Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition. They are the children of the Petabyte Age.

Beeswax is an information management system inspired by Lotus Agenda. It aimsto recreate Agenda's flexibility and efficiency in a clutter-free, text-based(ncursesw) user interfacewith vi key bindings. Beeswax views &reports will have specifications for sections, columns, filtering, andsorting.Release v0.2.0 is asomewhat stable base of functionality on which the remaining features will bebuilt. Since columns and custom views are not yet included, it is essentiallyBeeswax with just a single hierarchical view of all items.The concept is that ...