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Conroy says website attacks juvenileFEDERAL Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has described an attack on federal government websites as "juvenile''.
Australian IT Thursday, September 10, 2009Polo Rugby line launches iPhone app for custom shirtsNEW YORK (Reuters) - Polo Ralph Lauren Corp, the fashion company behind the Polo and Club Monaco brands, said on Thursday its smaller Rugby brand is launching an iPhone application that lets users design their own shirts.
Reuters Thursday, September 10, 2009Google defends book deal as competitive, helpfulWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google's deal to digitize millions of books opens the way for others to enter the online book business,
the company's chief legal officer said in testimony prepared for a congressional hearing on Thursday.
Reuters Thursday, September 10, 2009Business Intelligence Beckons CIOs, IBM Study FindsTo make their organizations leaner and meaner, CIOs are
looking to data mining and data analysis.
Information Week Thursday, September 10, 2009Google moves toward micropayments for newspapersIs it an olive branch for the beleaguered (and Google-bashing) publishing industry, a move to encroach upon Facebook's turf in the micropayment wars, or a bit of both?
CNET Thursday, September 10, 2009Face value: Iliad's warriorThe rise of Xavier Niel, a controversial internet entrepreneur, says a lot about French business“IF I commit suicide, or if I die in a car accident in the next three months or so, you will know the threats were serious, because I am not feeling at all suicidal and I drive very slowly.” Xavier Niel, the founder of Iliad, a young broadband firm which has upended France’s internet-access market and wants to do the same for mobile telephony, says he is prepared for any attempts at intimidation. In 2004 an executive from TF1, a French television firm which was withholding its programming from Iliad’s multimedia packages, reportedly told one of Mr Niel’s colleagues: “I am going to nail you down on the wall in blood.”He may be a bit paranoid, but Mr Niel plans to wreak financial violence on France’s dominant telecoms firms. After years of deliberation and fierce opposition from the big three—Orange, owned by the former monopoly, France Tel
Economist Thursday, September 10, 2009Vietnam's nationalist bloggers: Getting it off your chestA crackdown on online patriotismIN A country as fiercely patriotic as Vietnam, you would expect the government to cheer a plan by citizens to distribute T-shirts bearing nationalistic slogans. However, the T-shirts in question carried messages of hostility towards China, Vietnam’s biggest trading partner. Worse, their pedlars were popular and sometimes critical bloggers.Two well-known bloggers and an online reporter have been detained after the police uncovered an apparent attempt to print T-shirts opposing Chinese investment in a controversial new bauxite-mining project in Vietnam’s Central Highlands and casting doubt on China’s claims to disputed islands in the South China Sea. ...
Economist Thursday, September 10, 2009The trouble with pornography: Hard timesA big industry in northern
los angeles is among the worst hit by the recessionEVEN Nina Hartley, who became a pornographic actress in 1984 and continues to be one of its most sought-after performers at the age of 50, is feeling the recession. “Last year I did a scene a week, this year I do a scene a month,” she says. As a sex celebrity, she has not dropped her fees, charging about $1,200 for a “straight boy-girl” scene. But production has collapsed, and for younger performers so have prices. The adult-film industry is concentrated in the San Fernando Valley—“the Valley” to Angelenos—on the northern edge of
los angeles, so the slump in porn is yet another factor depressing the local economy. Pornography had been immune to previous recessions, so the current downturn has come as a shock. ...
Economist Thursday, September 10, 2009Apple launches iTunes 9, new iPod NanoApple has updated the iPod Nano and iPod Touch product lines as well as launching a new version of iTunes.
Webuser.co.uk Thursday, September 10, 2009U.S. Copyright Office opposes Google book settlementWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Google Inc's plan to digitize millions of books as part of a class action settlement wrongly creates a virtually compulsory license for books, the U.S. register of copyrights said on Thursday.
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