It was a drizzly Wednesday afternoon, and the central holding lot at LaGuardia Airport was packed with six dense lines of yellow cabs feeding into the airport taxi line, stopping and starting according to some inscrutable algorithm. Nicole Benman, a thin brunette in a light blue T-shirt...
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The Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) is launching an investigation into Samsung's alleged abuse of its wireless technology patents. Reuters reports that the KFTC is responding to a complaint that Apple filed earlier this year accusing Samsung...
Security experts and privacy groups have long criticised Apple’s decision to have their mobile devices assigned with permanent, unique identifiers called UDIDs. On Tuesday, those critics’ fears came to pass when the Anonymous-aligned hacktivist group AntiSec released a list of 1 million device IDs, allegedly pulled from an unencrypted file found on the laptop of an FBI agent.
AntiSec’s...
The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has filed a lawsuit against Internet Brands (IB), the parent company of travel site Wikitravel, in an attempt to protect two of its volunteers. The suit follows legal action by Internet Brands against the two volunteers, who have worked on Wikitravel but are also involved in setting up a new, non-commercial travel site under the Wikimedia umbrella.
News of the potential site first emerged in July, with the foundation conducting a lengthy request for comments (RFC) process in order to gain the input of the Wikimedia community. Given that Wikitravel's user-contributed content is made available under a Creative Commons license, volunteers working on the new wiki would be free to copy it, providing they offered proper attribution — a possibility which has made Internet Brands...
Mo' wikis, mo' problems
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It is a typical summer day in New York City. One man stops in a midtown Manhattan crosswalk, staring down an endless avenue. All around him, human beings lope along the sidewalks, passing in and out of each other's interpersonal orbits. They flow down the outstretched canyon of concrete and...
According to Bloomberg, a federal judge has approved a settlement offer by publishers in the civil case brought against them by the US for alleged price fixing of ebooks. The offer involves three of the five publishers that were initially targeted...
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