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The ruling which demands Google to hand over the YouTube access logs, which are to show the actual extent of copyright infringement going on the popular site, has sparked outrage from privacy groups, which are now questioning both the court order and Google's practice of retaining such sensitive data for a long time or permanently. The access data that Google needs to make available to Viacom will be airtight sealed, and not even Viacom will be able to go through it directly. YouTube's logs are protected by a special provision which triggers contempt of court charges if the data is used for...
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The matter between Viacom and Google’s YouTube goes beyond
the copyright infringement accusations, as a court order compels Google to hand
over user activity data and raises serious privacy issues.
According to the court order, Viacom gets the right to
access usernames, IP addresses and videos watched by YouTube users, in order to
prove that videos that infringe copyrights are the most watched, and that
YouTube is a website that deliberately supports copyright infringement.
One day after the court order, Google decided to respond to
it, by asking Viacom to respect users’ privacy...
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Microsoft has launched the long-rumored subscription service to an all-in-one software suite, which combines Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Office Live Workspace, Windows Live OneCare, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, and Windows Live Photo Gallery. Formerly codenamed Albany, the new offering is a direct take on Google Docs and is now called Equipt. The subscription costs $70 per year. Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 is around $150, and new versions of Office get released about once every four years. This means that you eventually pay $280 for a $150 program which...
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A new study released by Net Applications have shown that
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is starting to lose market share in favor of its
two biggest competitors, Mozilla’s Firefox, and Apple’s Safari. But the Redmond
based company can still take pride in the fact that about 1.1 billion people,
the approximate equivalent of a 73.01 percent market share, still use IE for
their internet browsing experience.
Looking at last year’s statistics, the Internet Explorer
browser had an approximate 79 percent market share. However, during the last
few months, it has seen a steep fall down, while...
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On Sunday, Microsoft officials announced the
company’s plans to acquire the remaining 50.1% of MSN Israel Ltd. from its
partner, Internet Gold Ltd.
MSN Israel was founded back in 2000 as part of
Microsoft’s portal network, operating in no less than 44 countries.
According to Danny Yamin, general manager of
Microsoft Israel, the upcoming deal will have both companies deepen their
"impact on the Israeli market." MSN Israel brought in about 3% of
Internet Gold's total revenue for 2007 ($360 million).
Internet Gold is a Petach Tikva, Israel group
working with...
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After last week, Yahoo announced the acquisition of BuzzTracker,
today the Web giant announced a...
Social networking sites or multi-player computer games have
become a source of malicious threats...
According to a report from the Associated Press, the
officials behind the OLPC project revealed...
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devices won’t be cool, but subject to a...
Why should you pirate the music when you can download it free
and legal? This is the philosophy...
In the last five years the social networking sites, online
places where a user can create a...
Earlier this month Netscape Director Tom Drapeau wrote on
the company’s blog about the...
Intel's involvement in the
gaming-industry is no mystery to anyone these days, but apparently...
Next week Apple plans to hold a press conference on
September 18 in London and the rumors are...
Verizon Wireless sues the Federal Communications Commission for accepting a condition imposed by...
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