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- Things left unsaid, in a recent interview with Sony's CEO When Charlie Rose interviewed Sony CEO Sir Harold Stringer on Wednesday, a few excellent questions were posed -- but a few other should have been.
- EU regulations block Italian ISPs from blocking Pirate Bay In August, Italian courts ordered that local ISPs block popular BitTorrent destination The Pirate Bay, but the decision was later overturned in appeal. This week, we found out why the Court of Bergamo ruled as it did.
- Making it to Apple's App Store by staying out of court Easily, the place to be for iPhone apps is Apple's App Store. But some VoIP software providers are learning that it helps to offer apps that don't require jailbreaking. and which won't land them in the halls of justice.
- Wal-Mart changes its mind, leaves existing DRM servers up In what can only be described as another "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario, faced with the option of thousands of disgruntled customers, Wal-Mart is informing them it's decided to leave its online DRM servers running.
- Hands on: An amateur photographer tests out Adobe's latest Lightroom Digital cameras have changed the photography landscape, enabling amateurs to become what marketers call "prosumers." The latest gear and software tools are now being directed at this group, but is it worthwhile for you to upgrade? Mary Hartney spent a month with Adobe's Lightroom 2 to find out.
- Mobile service providers brace for the economic storm Your cellular-service provider is no more immune to the effects of financial panic than anyone else, and as the economy contracts, certain "unlimited" voice and data plans may, in fact, find themselves limited.
- Apple warns users about bad Nvidia graphics chips In offering free repairs on impacted MacBook Pro laptops, Apple yesterday told users that the symptoms of faulty Nvidia graphics processors include "distorted video or no video."
- New Norton Vista tool trades UAC for online feedback The latest freeware tool from Norton Labs offers to do Vista users a favor by turning off many of those annoying User Access Control prompts. If you're wondering what Symantec wants in return...so were we.
- Verizon Wireless to raise fees for service-related texts Verizon Wireless sent an announcement to partner companies this week that it will add a 3¢ fee for Mobile Terminated (MT) messages on the first of November.
- BlackBerry Bold sales halted in UK Research in Motion's BlackBerry Bold has undergone yet another delay, this time it's been attributed to "software issues" by UK service provider Orange.
- Internet snoop Adzilla vacates the American market US Congressional hearings are one sign. But in another sign that North Americans are getting fed up with Web snooping, Adzilla has shut down its American operations and headed for the less privacy-focused environment of Asia.
- Qualcomm gains an ally in its renewed war with Broadcom The leading provider of chipsets for the world's GPS devices is no longer seen as unchallenged in that department, and in August was handed a crushing defeat at the hands of Broadcom. Now, the enemy of its enemy may be its newest friend.
- First look at latest OpenOffice merits a second Time spent with the fourth and final release candidate of OpenOffice.org for Windows 3.0.0 may finally lead stubborn Microsoft Office users over the great productivity-suite divide.
- The Games for Learning Institute wants to grow a new geek crop Microsoft's partnering with a number of New York colleges and schools to work math- and science-friendly video games into middle-school classrooms. Wait, you say -- don't middle-school kids already have enough love for videogames?
- OpenSource World steps into LinuxWorld's more constrained shoes In announcing this week that a new event, OpenSource World, will now usurp the long-standing, LinuxWorld extravaganza held annually in August, conference organizers IDG World Expo are continuing down a path mapped out back in 2005.
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