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Hollywood in showdown over DVD 'ripper' (AP)

AP - Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market более...

Former Facebook exec Van Natta to be MySpace CEO (AP)

AP - With MySpace falling behind Facebook as the world's largest online social network, MySpace tapped a former Facebook executive as its new CEO on Friday. более...

Charities see potential, risk with social networks (AP)

AP - Meredith Bowen was getting tired of requests from Facebook friends to exchange make-believe pansies, daffodils and tiny cartoon characters for her "(Lil) Green Patch," a virtual garden that sprouted on her social-networking page about a year ago. более...

Macintosh botnet on the march (Yahoo! Tech)

Yahoo! Tech -

A common refrain when I post about Windows security vulnerabilities like Conficker is "Get a Mac!" thanks to their long history of being comparatively secure next to Windows PCs.

Those days may be about to change. Already this year a более...

Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying (AP)

AP - Hollywood calls it "rent, rip and return" and contends it's one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry's annual $20 billion DVD market более...

New Google Search Tools Announced (PC World)

PC World - The version of the story "New Google search tools announced" that was posted to the wire Friday should be removed from Web sites. The story was mislabeled and inadvertently duplicate posted. This story was posted on Tuesday and attributed to the correct publication. The story came from Computerworld (US), not CIO (UK). более...

Cell phone vital, air conditioning not so much (Reuters)

Reuters - What would you give up first, air conditioning or your cell phone? более...

Finland allocates new 4G mobile frequencies (AFP)

AFP - The Finnish government said Friday it has allocated extra frequencies to telecom firms TeliaSonera, Elisa and DNA to run the country's new, faster fourth-generation (4G) mobile network.

Trial Under Way for RealDVD Copying Software (NewsFactor)

NewsFactor - Late last year, RealNetworks released RealDVD, which allowed users to make a personal backup copy of their DVDs. The software was only available for a few days before the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed a copyright-infringement suit, alleging that RealDVD violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by allowing consumers to bypass DVD content-scrambling systems. более...

Facebook democracy debuts to low voter turnout (AFP)

AFP - Facebook members have approved new terms of use in a low-turnout debut of a democratic model of decision-making at the world's most popular social-networking website.

'Madden NFL 10' to cover Polamalu, Fitzgerald (AP)

AP - For the first time in its storied (some say cursed) history, the cover of EA Sports' "Madden NFL" video game will feature two cover athletes: Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu and Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald.

Pixelmator a great, inexpensive image editor (Macworld.com)

Macworld.com - Whenever a company releases a new image editor, people immediately classify it as a "Photoshop alternative". I think that's an unfair comparison to both Adobe Photoshop and the application people are comparing it to. более...

Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts (Reuters)

Reuters - A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said. более...

Canonical Optimizes Linux Distribution for Netbooks (PC World)

PC World - Canonical on Thursday released a Linux distribution optimized for netbooks with features to improve battery life and rapidly access programs. более...

YouTube lets users see what friends are watching (AFP)

AFP - YouTube unveiled a test version of a service that tells people which videos their friends are watching.