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IT Blogwatch: RIAA vs. Joel Tenenbaum: $675,000 P2P piracy verdict OK’ed
Federal Judge Nancy Gertner has signed off on a jury’s damages award of $675,000 for illegal file sharing. In her commentary, she excoriates Joel’s defense for its behavior during the trial. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers look on with horror. Not to mention Knife Or Not …
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Seth H. Weintraub: Google unveils Real Time and Goggles search
Google released two big search products today at an event at the Computer History Museum in San Francisco.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: High-Energy Linux: Linux & the Large Hadron Collider
The world’s biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is up and running with Linux in charge.
Preston Gralla: Microsoft-Yahoo MicroHoo deal: Still second fiddle to Google
The search deal that Microsoft and Yahoo just signed is a good deal for both sides, but the truth is, they’re only fighting over leftovers. There’s nothing they can do to catch Google, and it’s not clear they should even try, as today’s Google announcement shows.
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DirectAccess and UAG: Better Together
Here are some of the key reasons why you would want to run Unified Access Gateway with DirectAccess
Seth Weintraub: Boxee D-Link venture is a reminder of what AppleTV could have been
Boxee announced a partnership today with D-Link the network equipment maker. I love this idea and I think that if D-Link holds up their end of the deal and also doesn’t charge too much for the product, they should see some solid sales in 2010.
Preston Gralla: Microsoft to Windows 2000 and XP SP 2 users: Next year, you’re on your own
If you’re one of the millions of XP SP 2 or Windows 2000 users who likes their old operating system just fine, thank you, be prepared to go it alone. As of July 13, 2010 Microsoft will end support for you.
Around the World: Apple tablet and CrunchPad: Do consumers want these things?
All signs point to the launch of slate-like touchscreen computers next year. But given the saturation of mobile phones and laptop computers, particularly in the consumer market, is there a place for the tablet?
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IT News Podcast: Google and others protest clause in UK’s Digital Economy bill
In today’s podcast: Google and others protest clause in UK’s Digital Economy bill; RIM to develop BlackBerry that supports China’s 3G standard; and Google adds real-time results to search results.
Shark Tank: Just our way of saying thanks
Pilot fish takes a job at a big manufacturing plant with big IT problems. But after two years of work, he has everything hammered into shape and is pretty happy with the result — and so are his bosses.
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Computerworld’s Salary Survey: What’s your earning power?
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SHARK BAIT OF THE DAY
Another scanners are down POS story
I worked for a point-of-sale company, and this was right after it had been purchased by someone who had been a National Cash Register Company tech for 25 years. He decided to tag along one day to a customer site …
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