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George Lucas To Quit Movie Business
Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology
Jack Thompson Facing Disbarment Trial
SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
SCO Loses
Government Begins Securing Root Zone File
Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats
BBC Brings DRM-Free Content To Linux Users
Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released
Adobe Releases Preview of 64-bit Flash For Linux
Jack Thompson Disbarred
New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu
Dell to Use AMD Chips in its Servers
Has Ron Paul Quit?
Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted
New York Times Ends Its Paid Subscription Service
USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent
'Final Edition' of Blade Runner to be Released
AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development
Amazon One-Click Patent to be Re-Examined
Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting?
Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode
Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory
NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon
U.S. Attorney General Resigns
Apple Officially Releases Beta Dual Boot Loader
Are Cheap Laptops a Roadblock for Moore's Law?
Barack Obama Wins US Presidency
Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec
Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator
PHP 4 End of Life Announcement
Supreme Court Weakens Patents
UI Designers Hired by Mozilla
Yahoo! Sells, Advocates DRM-Free Music
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Dies Quietly
Caller ID Watches
Class Action Initiated Against RIAA
Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally
Headset Uses Bone-Conduction Technology
Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org
SCO Bankruptcy "Imminent, Inevitable"
The Death of Nearly All Software Patents?
US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012
Classic Star Wars Trilogy Finally on DVD
Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera
RIAA Accused of Extortion & Conspiracy
Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
AMD Launches New ATI Linux Driver
Blu-ray BD+ Cracked
CEO Shawn Hogan Takes on MPAA
Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing
CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores
Creative GPLs X-Fi Sound Card Driver Code
Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment
Farewell To the Floppy Disk
First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released
Free IMAP On Gmail
FreeDOS 1.0 Released
Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View
HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices
Harvard Scientists to Clone Human Embryos
IAU Demotes Pluto to 'Dwarf Planet' Status
ICANN Investigates Insider Domain Name Snatching
Java SE 6 For Mac OS X
Judge Rules NSA Wiretapping Unconstitutional
Legal DVD Burnable Downloads Launched
Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System
Lens That Writes on Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
Linux Now an Equal Flash Player
Netscape Finally Put Down
Network Neutrality — Without Regulation
Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers
Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming
RIAA Directed To Pay $68K In Attorneys Fees
RIAA Will Finally Face the Music In Court
Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete?
Ted "A Series of Tubes" Stevens Found Guilty
The Mighty Mouse Has Lost Its Tail
TiVoToGo for Mac Announced
Two Major Debian Releases In One Day
Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service
Wayland, a New X Server For Linux
Wireshark 1.0 Released
Nasdaq to Delist SCO Sep 27
Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination
Blackberry Network is Down
Cash Lifeline For Bletchley Park
Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry
Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering
Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker
Domain Key Identified Mail vs Phishing
EMI Considers Abandoning DRM on CDs
EMI May Sell Entire Collection as DRM-less MP3s
EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act
FCC Considers Taking Action Against Comcast
FairUse4WM Breaks Windows DRM
Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan
First Spammer Convicted Under CAN-SPAM Law
Four Root DNS Servers Go IPv6 On February 4th
Google Docs to support Powerpoint
Google Terminates Lively
Google and Apple Finally Teaming Up?
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement
High-Quality YouTube Videos Coming Soon
Karl Rove Resigning Aug 31
Major Breakthrough in Direct Neural Interface
McCain Backs Nuclear Power
Microsoft Finally Bows to EU Antitrust Measures
Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability
Microsoft to Force IE7 Update on February 12th
NASA Plans Probe to the Sun
NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products
Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software
Princeton ESP Lab to Close
Professors To Ban Students From Citing Wikipedia
RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer
Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest
Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced
Standards For Interconnecting Virtual Worlds
Sun to Change Java License for Linux
Texas to Provide Online 'Bordercams'
The GIF Format is Finally Patent-Free
Toshiba Making Funeral Plans for HD DVD
U.S. Supreme Court Deals a Blow to Patent Trolls
USPTO to Use Peer to Patent Program
War Declared on Caps Lock Key
Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD?
Will DRM Exterminate Spore?
Xbox Arm of Microsoft Posts Profit
x86 Linux Flash Player 9 is Final
Net Neutrality Bill in Congress
Microsoft to Turn to Driver Quality Ratings System
Official Support For PHP 4 Ends
"Bilski" Case May End Business Method Patents
"Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption
$298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware
$90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative's Best
3M Launches First Pocket Projector
802.11n Draft 2.0 Approved by Working Group
A Magnetic Memory Alternative to Hard Disk
ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act
AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation
AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs
AMD To Open ATI Specs
AOL Subscribers Sue Over Release Of Search Data
AT&T Arbitration Clause Ruled Unconscionable
ATI Releases AIGLX Linux Driver
Acer Bets Big On Linux
Adobe Adds GPU Acceleration To Creative Suite 4
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging"
Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod
Are Marketers Abandoning Second Life?
Asus Launches Touchscreen Eee Desktop
Bacteria Can Build Nanowires
Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up
Behind the USPTO's Working With Peer-To-Patent
BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
Browser Vulnerability Study Unkind to Firefox
CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime
California to Start Review of Voting Machines
Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn
China Getting 'Serious' About Spam?
Chroot in OpenSSH
Circuit City Files For Bankruptcy
Clearance For New Linux Wireless Driver
Court Order Against German T-Mobile iPhone Sales
Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike
Debian to Run on AMD64
Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers
Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying
Doom9 Researchers Break BD+
EMI May Cut Funding To RIAA, IFPI
Expanding Fair Use To Reform Copyright Law
FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules
FCC To Hold Hearings On Early Termination Fees
FSF Reaches Out to RIAA Victims
Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA
Free Nationwide Wireless Internet Access?
FreeDOS Not Dead; 1.0 Release Imminent
GIMP 2.4 Released
Gamma Ray Anomaly Could Test String Theory
Geist's Fair Copyright for Canada Principles
Google Earth v4 Released - Linux Support at Last
Google Launches Powerpoint Competition, Web Ads for Mobile Devices
Google Signs $900m MySpace Deal
Google Unveils Code Search
Google Updates Chrome's Terms of Service
HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt
HP Exits Media Center Business
HP Skin Patch May Replace Needles
Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder
Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous
IBM Asks Court To Declare Linux Non-Infringing
IBM Breaks Patent Record, Wants Reform
ICANN Moves To Disable Domain Tasting