8/26/2010 Daily Hardware Reviews
DailyTech s roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Thursday
Tesla Hands Back $275K to U.S. Government Due to EPA Fine
The government giveth and the government taketh away
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Bing Up, Yahoo And Google Down
The latest US search engine market share statistics compiled by Nielsen have been released and they confirm a trend that we have predicted for some time now. Microsoft’s Bing search engine managed to grow from 9% to 13.6 in the last twelve months, while Yahoo fell sharply from 17.1% to 14.3 and Google Search moderately [...]
Legal Threat Demands We Shut Down Techdirt
Here at Techdirt, unfortunately, we get an average of about one legal threat per month. The threats are almost always frivolous -- and often made in
Attorneys General Continue Grandstanding Against Craigslist
This is hardly a surprise, given the well-coordinated media campaign against Craigslist, but despite multiple "settlements" with various state attorneys general, it appears that those AGs keep going back to the headline-generating well of demanding Craigslist "fix" things. You may recall that nearly two years ago, after being hounded by some AGs, Craigslist settled with the AGs, despite clearly being protected by Section 230 of the CDA. However, despite it being "settled," some AGs felt it wasn t enough
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USB Stick Led to Worst Cyber Attack on U.S. Military; Russia Suspected
The purposeful attack occurred in 2008 in the Middle East and led to the theft of classified information
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Streaming Video Hosting Firms Look to HD Video for Profits
Netflix pays 3 cents to stream SD movies and 5 cents for HD flicks
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PlayStation 4 Will Have Still Physical Media Capabilities
No PSP Go style download only content for the PS4
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Raising Money To Put Famous Classical Music Recordings Into The Public Domain
Plenty of old school classical music is in
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BMI Appeals Ruling That Lets Venues Route Around BMI, Claiming It Somehow Harms Musicians
At the end of July, we wrote about a court ruling that DMX, a commercial provider of music (a la muzak) to restaurants, bars and the like, had won a lawsuit, which would allow it to deduct money from the blanket license it had to pay collection society BMI if it did licensing deals directly with BMI artists. Not surprisingly, BMI is none too happy about this ruling and it has appealed it. What I find fascinating, of
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