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'Where the Wild Things Are' comes alive in video gameIn the video game Where the Wild Things Are, kids continue the "wild rumpus" started in Maurice Sendak's revered book of the ...
USATODAY Friday, October 23, 2009Pizza boy ATM hacker hits paydirtPizza boy computer whiz uses ATM manual to withdraw $30,000 in one hour in central Queensland.
TheAge.com.au Friday, October 23, 2009How an amateur historian rescued D.C.'s Wikipedia pageThe historian largely responsible for summing up Washington, D.C., for millions of Wikipedia readers digs for facts from his tiny bedroom in Dupont Circle. He sits on a chair borrowed from his four-piece dinette set at a desk he bought from Target, footnoting away on an old Dell computer. He is 24...
Washington Post Friday, October 23, 2009FCC votes to draft net neutrality rulesThe Federal Communications
commission voted unanimously Thursday to begin crafting rules to prevent
internet providers from acting as gatekeepers over which services and content are delivered to their customers, the agency's surest step yet
toward regulating the rules of the road online.
Washington Post Friday, October 23, 2009Despite Windows 7, Linux raps harder at company doorsThe
launch of the Windows 7 computer operating system on Thursday
should help Microsoft tighten its grip as the dominant supplier ...
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Amazon Friday, October 23, 2009Google chief favors net neutrality but is wary of government regulation of WebGoogle chief
executive Eric Schmidt favors net neutrality, but only to a point: While the tech player wants to make sure that telecommunications giants don't steer
internet traffic in a way that would favor some devices or services over others, he also believes that it would be a terrible idea for...
Washington Post Friday, October 23, 2009Judge rejects Craigslist prostitution caseOnline classifieds site Craigslist has claimed victory over its detractors after an
american judge dismissed
claims that the site was the largest
source of prostitution in the United States.A high-profile case brought by Thomas Dart, the sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, had alleged that the website - which is one of the world's largest online properties and is visited by more than 50 million people worldwide each month - had profited massively from aiding and abetting the sex
industry.In a lawsuit filed in March, in what he said was an attempt to reclaim the costs of investigations into prostitution via Craigslist inside his jurisdiction - a district which includes Chicago."Missing children, runaways, abused women and women trafficked in from foreign countries are routinely forced to have sex with strangers because they're being pimped on Craigslist," he said at the time.However, US district court judge John Grady said in a ruling that it was far from clear that Craigslist had encoura
Guardian Friday, October 23, 2009Amazon busts through recessionHigh
Street shops may have been struggling to make ends meet during the recession, but online retailer Amazon surprised
financial experts on Thursday with a remarkable increase in profits.Announcing its latest set of results, the
american company stunned Wall Street analysts by recording profits of $199m (£119m) for the last three months - a jump of 68% on the same period last year. Sales, meanwhile, rose by more than a quarter to $5.45bn (£3.27bn). Estimates had suggested that the Seattle-based company was due to rake in
around $5bn in sales for the period ending on September 30.Amazon was particularly buoyed by the
success of its Kindle electronic book reader, which founder Jeff Bezos said was now a mainstay of the Seattle-based
company's strategy."Kindle has become the No1 best-selling item by both unit sales and dollars - not just in our electronic store, but across all product categories on Amazon.com," he said.Much of the growth was due to
international sales, which now account f
Guardian Friday, October 23, 2009In Lawsuit, Nokia Says iPhone Infringes Its PatentsA Nokia
executive says the Finnish cellphone maker sued Apple after failing to reach a licensing deal.
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