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Oct 26th 1:00am by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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US courts have historically looked on anonymous bloggers and commenters with a sympathetic eye, but there are exceptions. A Tennessee judge denied a blogger's motion to quash a subpoena to reveal his identity last week, and he also denied a motion to...
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Oct 25th 11:00pm by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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In a retro twist on the Google Books idea, HP has announced a partnership with the University of Michigan library to sell physical copies of over 500,000 rare and out-of-print works, while making the digital versions available online for free. HP's...
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Oct 24th 7:59pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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The week's biggest front page stories here at Ars were a reminder that people want to know about 1) Apple, 2) Windows 7, and 3) video games. And we're here to scratch that itch.Apple Q4 2009 conference call liveblog and fiscal results: Apple's fourth...
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Oct 24th 6:38pm by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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What an exciting week for Apple fans! Not only were tons of new products updated—Including desktops, accessories, and other gadgety items—the company also reported another record quarter in sales and revenue. The good news was sprinkled in...
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Oct 24th 6:26pm by caesar@arstechnica.com (Ken Fisher)
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Last week we decided to do something that we've joked about, thought seriously about, and just wanted to try. We announced in advance that we would live blog the Apple earnings call, and as we expected the comments were mostly shock and horror at the...
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Oct 24th 5:30pm by bkuchera@arstechnica.com (Ben Kuchera)
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This week in gaming we reviewed three games, each of which are unique, fun, and extremely high quality. Whether you're into adventure games, online or single-console co-op, or even a entertaining sort of frustration, we have something for you. Here is...
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Oct 24th 4:45pm by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
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Let's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories: Windows 7 is here: At long last, Windows 7 is officially here. Here's what you need to know about the latest and greatest from Microsoft. Windows 7 engineers: how feedback...
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Oct 23rd 11:05pm by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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Forget all this talk about manned missions to Mars; is it time to scale back US space plans and land on an asteroid instead, Armageddon style? Earlier this year, in response to a request from John Holdren, the White House's Director of the Office of...
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Oct 23rd 9:30pm by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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The free-for-all days of Hulu may soon be over. News Corp. executives indicated (again) this week that the free, ad-supported model wasn't bringing home enough bacon and that the company was preparing to start charging users for content as soon as 2010....
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Oct 23rd 7:55pm by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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The Symbian Foundation has liberated the source code of the Symbian platform's EKA2 microkernel. The code base is now available under the terms of the open source Eclipse Public License (EPL). This is a key milestone in the foundation's plan to open up...
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Oct 23rd 6:30pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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The nation's leading business trade association is not a happy camper about a parody site that has rewritten its controversial position on climate change legislation. Attorneys for the United States Chamber of Commerce have issued a Digital Millennium...
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Oct 23rd 4:55pm by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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Freescale, the ailing semiconductor spinoff of Motorola, has announced a licensing deal with E-Ink to integrate controllers for electronic paper displays into its i.MX family of ARM-based system-on-chips (SoC). This new combination of ARM and E-Ink won't...
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Oct 23rd 2:30pm by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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It turns out Nigeria is taking measures to fight Internet scams—law enforcement there has shut down close to a thousand websites and made 18 arrests as part of a new initiative to save the nation's reputation and crack down on Internet scammers....
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Oct 23rd 5:05am by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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Next week, the Environment and Public Works committee is scheduled to begin debate on the Senate's version of a bill intended to begin limiting US greenhouse gas emissions, with a vote scheduled for early November. In advance of that hearing, a...
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Oct 23rd 1:50am by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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The community behind the Fedora Linux distribution has announced the availability of the Fedora 12 beta. Fedora 12, which is codenamed Constantine, is scheduled for official release in November. The new version ships with updated software and adds a...