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  • TV giants lock horns with Microsoft and Google over white space wireless play

    'God made those airwaves for us'

    The heads of America's four largest television networks have joined forces to oppose a plan that would stream high-speed internet access over unused TV airwaves. And in doing so, they're taking aim at one of the great oddities of the modern tech industry: a partnership between Google and Microsoft. A coalition of big-name …

    Telecoms 13 Oct 2007, 00:03

  • Boing Boing dinged for Commons abuse

    Don't ask an expert

    Science Fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin has given the anti-copyright fanatics at the Boing Boing weblog a quick refresher in authors' rights. The blog posted a short piece by Le Guin, erroneously slapping a Creative Commons license on it. "This is incorrect," wrote her representative. "Ms. Le Guin has not placed this work …

    Law 13 Oct 2007, 00:05

  • Oracle readies mega-update patching 51 security holes

    Fixes span hundreds of products

    Oracle is to release updates on Tuesday that patches 51 security vulnerabilities across hundreds of products. The update will fix 27 bugs in the Oracle database, the company's flagship product. Five of them can be exploited over a network without the need for a username and password. None of the fixes are applicable to client- …

    Enterprise Security 13 Oct 2007, 00:07

  • Google phone, Google phone OS, Google apps – or just Google Ads

    Which is it?

    It becomes increasingly hard to work out where the control point in handset design is. Once we all thought it was the hardware, then it was the operating system, and just as we start to think that it’s the service layers above the operating system, then it’s all in the network, an finally Apple comes along and tells us it’s the …

    Mobile 13 Oct 2007, 12:02

  • Freedom loving lawyers prime primer on open source code

    Penguin army forms in India

    The Software Freedom Law Center will soon reveal the culmination of a year and half of steady revision and editing: a legal primer for free software projects, designed to make complex issues understandable to the layman. The primer, which will be disgorged on the Law Center’s web site on Monday, walks through issues such as the …

    Applications 13 Oct 2007, 16:49

  • Dutch Consumer Association declares war on Vista

    Mountain out of a molehill?

    The Dutch Consumers Association has called for a boycott of Windows Vista, after the software giant refused to offer free copies of Windows XP to users who are having problems with Vista. A spokesman for the Consumentenbond says that the product has many teething problems, and "is just not ready". The association claims it …

    Channel Register 13 Oct 2007, 22:19