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Righthaven Sues Senate Candidate Sharron Angle

After Righthaven kicked off its mass lawsuits against various websites for reposting some parts of Las Vegas Review Journal articles, some folks wondered if Righthaven would sue US Senate candidate Sharron Angle, since she appeared to be reposting parts of some LVRJ stories on the campaign website. And, it took a little while, but late last week, Sharron Angle was, in fact, sued for copyright infringement over posting those LVRJ articles. Apparently, with Angle, Righthaven is claiming two

Sex-Scandal Embroiled Oracle Co-President Replaced by Mark Hurd

HP s former CEO finds a new home thanks to his friend and colleague Larry Ellison

Samsung Unveils Cortex A9 Dual-core Mobile Processor

Orion will power smartphones and tablets in the first half of 2011

Interactive Doodle Graces Googles Home Page

There is web-wide speculation that the search engine is celebrating its birthday or new HTML5.

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1.3 Released

A new version of the desktop email client Mozilla Thunderbird has been released, raising the version of the client to 3.1.3. The new release is currently distributed to mirror servers to guarantee a rapid deployment for all users once the update notifications are displayed in the email client and on the official website. The release [...]

Texas Attorney General Investigating Google, With Little Basis In Reality

I m beginning to think we need a series

7Conifier, Change Default Icon Set In Windows 7

Microsoft has made slight changes to the icon set in Windows 7. While that looks fine in the default themes that are supplied with the operating system, it may not if users have installed custom themes. Replacing icons one by one is not really something that many users would like to, as it takes lots [...]

And, Of Course, ACTA Leaks: Some Good, Plenty Of Bad

I imagine it will come as little surprise to anyone, but over the weekend, the latest draft of ACTA leaked. You can read it in wiki format over here. While it is "cleaned up" a lot from the last version, and appears close to being done, there are still some pretty big areas of disagreement. Specifically, the EU is still holding out for ACTA to cover patents as well as copyrights and trademarks, while the US doesn t

Hurd Joins Oracle as Co-President

In naming Mark V. Hurd, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, as Oracle s new co-president, Lawrence J. Ellison, Oracle s chief executive and largest shareholder, has put his money where his controversial mouth is. Late on Monday, Oracle announced that Mr. Hurd had joined the company as a president and a director. - Ashlee Vance, NY Times

Tablets may sound death knell for e-readers

Shipments of 3G tablets are expected to grow from 3.65 million this year to 50 million by 2014, according to projections from research firm

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