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 NASA Hacker McKinnon looses latest extradition fight
On Wednesday, a 42- year old UFO enthusiast lost his bid in a British court to fight extradition to the US on charges he hacked into several US military bases and even NASA.
CNET News | Detail

 Google’s Openness Before The FCC
Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies’ networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which Google is involved.
ZDNet Blogs | Detail

 Apple Claims MobileMe Back Online
Apple told its MobileMe customers that it finally resolved the issues plaguing its email service in a blog post on its Website Tuesday evening.
CRN | Detail

 Amazon Outsources Its Checkout Cart
Amazon is outsourcing more of its Web-scale software. Yesterday, it beefed up its payment services with the launch of Checkout by Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay.
Washington Post | Detail

 Mystery woman found under van Gogh painting
A previously unknown portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh has been revealed in a high-tech look beneath another of his paintings, it was announced today.
MSNBC | Detail

 Banks to lose IM security tools due to Reuters/FaceTime license fracas
By Jacqueline Emigh, BetaNews Because Thomson Reuters made a licensing payment to FaceTime two weeks late, a US judge has ordered the removal of security and regulatory compliance tools from an instant messaging product used by more than 100 stock ...
BetaNews | Detail

 Comcast plays New York anti-porn game
By Cade Metz in San Francisco → More by this author After a legal threat from New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo, Comcast has joined the grandstanding American politician's quixotic crusade against online child pornography.
Register | Detail

 UPDATE 1-Mediaset sues Google, YouTube; seeks $800 mln
MILAN, July 30 (Reuters) - Italian broadcaster Mediaset (MS.MI: Quote, Profile, Research) has sued Internet search company Google Inc. (GOOG.
Reuters | Detail

 Dell may try to compete with Apple's iPod once again
By Tim Conneally, BetaNews Talk of Dell's movements in handheld technology have been at a high recently, with rumors of a smartphone from the company and now of a new digital music player to compete with Apple's iPod.
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 Dissecting Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment
Last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, something stuck me about Microsoft’s Mojave Experiment that hadn’t clicked when I first watched it.
ZDNet | Detail