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At Your Fingers, an Oxford DonWith one-to-one learning, the 16th-century tutorial gets new life online.
New York Times domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009'Athens' on the NetInternet democracy is a work in progress. (Don't text-message your dissent.)
International Herald Tribune domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009A Legal Battle: Online Attitude vs. Rules of the BarLawyers, whose freedom to criticize courts is limited by conduct codes, face special risks when using social media.
New York Times domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009Boston City Government Discovers Email RetentionAn anonymous reader writes "The Boston Globe, covering a battle to unseat the 16-year incumbent mayor, has found out that the city has no email retention policy. A city official who receives hundreds of emails a day was found to have only 18 emails in his mailbox. The city has enabled journaling on its Exchange server in response. The Globe also notes that they had to curtail requests for emails under the Open Records law because for each mailbox, 'City officials estimated they would charge $5,000 for six months worth of email.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009Trust an Insurance Company's ''Drive-Cam?''ramen99 writes "Our new car insurance company offered us discounts for our teenage driver if we agree to install a 'drive-cam' that records driving habits and wirelessly transmits video footage to a 'neutral driving coach' for evaluation and comment. While this might be great to monitor a new teen driver, it will also monitor other adult drivers. The insurance company claims that they would never use any information obtained to consider changes in insurance rates, but that really sounds unbelievable. Would you give up your privacy to save some dough? Installation is free, and the camera mounts just under the rear-view mirror. Something seems fishy about this..." Especially when, according to a British insurance firm,
computer engineers are most likely to crash (sent in by antdude).Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Slashdot domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009Verdict spares Microsoft $358M in patent damagesSEATTLE (AP) -- A federal appeals court said Friday that
microsoft Corp. does not have to pay Alcatel-Lucent $358 million for patent infringement because of problems with how the damages were calculated....
The Arizona Republic domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009Apple iPhone Will Remain Exclusive to ATandT, Says ReportWhen AT T's exclusive U.S. ownership of the
iphone expires in April 2010, many are expecting Verizon to get on board. Researcher iSuppli, however, expects Apple to renew with AT T and perhaps join up with Verizon on another device, such as the tablet Apple that is rumored to be developing. - AT amp;T has been the exclusive U.S. carrier of the iPhone since it first debuted in June 2007. When AT amp;Ts contract expires in 2010, many have speculated that Verizon will raise its hand for a CDMA version of the device. A new report from iSuppli, however, suggests that Apple may actual...
eWEEK domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009''Green revolution'' Nobel winner Norman Borlaug diesAgricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating ...
USATODAY domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009Microsoft Windows 7 Ramp-Up Continues, Despite Legal BattlesMicrosoft's week was one of legal maneuvers, featuring briefs submitted by Redmond in both its patent-infringement case against i4i and the
google Book Search settlement. Despite much of its news being dominated by court proceedings,
microsoft also continues to take steps in its long ramp-up to the
release of Windows 7, its new operating system upon which it has pinned many of its corporate hopes. -
microsoft's week could be described in one word: litigious. The ongoing patent-infringement battle against i4i, the small Canadian company that argued successfully before an East Texas court that Microsoft Word violated its X M L-related patent, entered yet another round on Sept. 8. On that da...
eWEEK domingo, 13 de septiembre de 2009Agronomist Borlaug dies at 95New York City - Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and agricultural scientist whose work helped feed millions of the world's people, died at the age of 95, US media reported on Sunday. Borlaug, who suffered from cancer, died Saturday evening ...
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