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Youtube to hand over all user histories and IP addresses!

blog.wired.com — Due to a recent judge ruling, google will be forced to turn over every record of ever video watched by youtube users, including user's names, and IP addresses to viacom.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Digg Recommendation Engine Rolling Out This Week (VIDEO!)

blog.digg.com — "We’re launching the Digg Recommendation Engine beginning this week. The feature will be in beta and presented to registered Digg users first, based on a random sampling of logged-in users."More… (Tech Industry News)

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Tesla to produce sub $30k electric car!

engadget.com — Tesla is becoming affordable to the "average" consumer.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Voicemail is Dead. Please Tell Everyone to stop Using it

techcrunch.com — Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it. When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. But now an increasing number of people are just plain avoiding voicemail. It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it. More… (Tech Industry News)

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Leaked Screen Shots Of Mythical Digg Recommendation Engine

techcrunch.com — Digg has been talking up a new Recommendation Engine that intelligently suggests new stories to users for almost a year. TC has some details and a couple of leaked screen shots, which may or may not be real More… (Tech Industry News)

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PDF now is an ISO standard.

appleinsider.com — Adobe has relinquished control of the Portable Document Format (PDF) to the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), which will now assume developmental control of the format as an industry standard.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Inconvenient Truths of the Digg Front Page

looklinklove.com — People don't want to believe the truth when it comes to social networking sites. There are two ways to get an article to the front of digg. The article must either be from a website that has a well established reputation with Digg users, or the submitter must have a profile lavished with friends and be In the Know of the Digg systematics...More… (Tech Industry News)

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No Google source code for Viacom, just 12TB of YouTube data

arstechnica.com — As part of the discovery process in its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, Viacom asked for an astonishing array of information: the source code for the search functions that power Google and YouTube, the source code for YouTube's new "Video ID" program, a complete set of every video ever removed from the site, databases containing information on More… (Tech Industry News)

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Google, Yahoo spiders can now crawl through Flash sites

arstechnica.com — Adobe has announced that it is working with Google and Yahoo to finally ensure that Flash SWF files are indexable by search engines. Google has already gotten a jump start on this feature that designers have been asking for since the late 90s, too.More… (Tech Industry News)

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BitTorrent Seed Farmer found guilty, faces 10 years in jail

arstechnica.com — A jury has convicted EliteTorrents admin Daniel Dove of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement. Since the MPAA supplied much of the evidence for the case (saving law enforcement time and labor), both parties are likely to continue "collaborating" to take file sharers down.More… (Tech Industry News)

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Mozilla sets Guinness World Record with Firefox 3 launch

arstechnica.com — The launch of the open source Firefox 3 web browser has set the new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. Mozilla's mirrors served 8,002,530 complete, individual downloads during the download day event following the official release of Firefox 3 last month.More… (Tech Industry News)

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RIAA Says Proof is Not Necessary To Sue For Infringement

blog.wired.com — The RIAA echoed its sister lobbying group, the MPAA, by telling the Jammie Thomas judge that solely making available copyrighted works on a peer-to-peer network is enough to prove unauthorized distribution with fines of up to $150,000 per violation. Any higher standard of actual proof would "cripple" copyright enforcement in the digital age.More… (Tech Industry News)

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How The FBI Dismantled a BitTorrent Community

torrentfreak.com — On June 25th 2005, the homepage of the EliteTorrents.org tracker displayed an ominous message. Thousands of members trying to log in to get a sneak peak at a leaked copy of Star Wars: Episode 3 were surprised and confused in equal numbers. Had the FBI really raided one of the largest BitTorrent communities and put up a badly made Word document, or More… (Tech Industry News)

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Will the QC kill the PC?

telegraph.co.uk — Quantum computers could become a reality very soon, opening up some fantastic possibilities - including teleportation...These machines would have the ability to perform calculations that would take normal computers millions of years, while carrying out a vast number of tasks simultaneously. They promise to make as big an impact on information More… (Tech Industry News)

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