Thursday, March 5, 2009

05-Mar-2009 PM clippings

Enjoy:

A New Zealand website is forced to remove public domain works from their site because of S92C allegations from overseas companies:
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/2A5921A699921C67CC25756E006F20D1

Ireland and France are also having blackout days in protest against unfair legislation imposed on the internet by their governments:
http://blackoutireland.com/ http://www.laquadrature.net/en/french-net-blackout-against-graduated-response

Whether people are waking up to what governments are doing or it's becoming fashionable, internet activisim is spreading - to 2nd Life:
http://www.blog.adminet.fr/hadopi-creation-et-internet-le-black-out-se-poursu...-article00405.html

Microsoft Windows 7 is to have IE as an optional extra:
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/03/04/internet-explorer-is-now-an-optional-feature-in-windows-7

Red Hat sued by Software Tree, claiming a patent on exchanging data and commands between an object-oriented system & a relational system:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215800439

The Kindle ebook viewer is now available as an iPhone application, but no voice reader. Oh, and only in the US:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/04/iphone_kindle/

And finally. A number of gadgets designed to look like guns, including several that shouldn't. Ketchup revolver anyone?:
http://www.toxel.com/tech/2009/03/03/gadgets-and-designs-inspired-by-guns/

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