2008-02-18
Main Stories
- Patentability Of Business Model And Software Patents Comes Under Court Scrutiny
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080215/17400926 ... - Toshiba to give up on HD DVD, end format war: source
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL164318 ... - Machines "to match man by 2029"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7248875.stm ... - Wikileaks site for whistleblower documents survives censorship, fire, DDoS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikileaks ... - US to shoot down errant spy satellite
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/16/cost-of-shootin ... - Newspaper ad network shuns Google, Yahoo, Microsoft
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/15/171925 ... - FBI screws up, spies on entire email network instead of single address
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/fbi_email_ ... - European Union rules that printer tracking dots may violate human rights
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/eu-printer-tr ...
Quick News Bytes
- Rush Limbaugh begs Steve Jobs for help with his Mac, bug fixes
http://valleywag.com/356284/rush-limbaugh-begs-ste ... - The iPhone is swept up in a frenzy of global smuggling
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comme ... - RIP analog cellular networks, 1983-2008
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/18/analog-cellular ... - Rock band REM releases new videos under open source license
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rem_releases_ ... - Music has-beens line up to sue The Pirate Bay
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080217-boot ...