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Nintendo seems to be on a losing streak with its fight against patent-holder (and apparent one-man shop) Anascape. With Anascape's patents being so broad, without any actual products on the market, this is a case every one in the gaming industry needs to be watching.

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A House bill would delete the "Rosemary's Baby" of FCC regulations: the infamous "deemed granted" forbearance proceeding rule.

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In a letter to Congress, Embarq says that its NebuAd trial was really about "empowering" people, not selling their surfing and search history to make a quick buck. Its "notification" scheme was two short paragraphs buried in a 5,240-word privacy policy on its web site.

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Rajiv Pant and I talk about the impact of IT consumerization in the enterprise, and about the shifting boundary between the professional and the personal. If you thought that virtualization and SaaS were the answer keeping work and home separate, think again.

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AT&T and DIRECTV tell the FCC to let Hollywood have its selectable output control waiver. Electronics manufacturers, theater owners, and indie studios call the plan a threat to consumers.

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The Public Interest Registry announced today that it will transition .org from the DNS protocol to the secure DNSSEC. DNSSEC was developed to address certain problems in DNS, including the issue of cache poisoning, and should close loopholes that have so far been left open.

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With the Chevy Volt on the way, GM and 34 utility companies have joined forces with the Electric Power Research Institute to build infrastructure for forthcoming plug-in hybrids.

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With the end of the supply of IPv4 addresses in sight and no IPv6 deployment to speak of, the IETF is working on a way to let IPv6 users connect to the IPv4 Internet. This may even involve the dark art of Network Address Translation, which was supposed to be kept out of IPv6.

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A federal court once again struck down the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) today, ruling it unconstitutional, overbroad, and vague. It has been 10 years since the law's introduction and it has yet to be enforced thanks to the courts ruling repeatedly against it, despite the government's continued appeals.

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AMD's plans for a future Atom competitor seem more unclear than ever, thanks to new comments from the company's Chief Marketing Officer. Sort through the muddle, and AMD does appear to be on a reasonable track, with an eye on—but not a major financial commitment to—the netbook market.

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This year's E3 had many great stories and opportunities for coverage, but the presentation and charisma from past shows was missing completely. This is an industry we all love, and we have some thoughts on how the ESA can get back on track.

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Battle lines are being drawn in the EU over a plan to retroactively extend copyrights on music for another 45 years. A group of academics says the idea will only help record labels and aging rockers, but the recording industry thinks it's about simple "fairness."

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TiVo plans to introduce a new feature that will allow TV viewers to buy the products they see during commercials or during their favorite TV shows, right then and there from the couch.

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The founders of online payment service E-Gold have admitted that their service acts as a financial institution, and that its lax controls have allowed it to become a haven for money laundering.

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Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth shared his vision of the future during a presentation to a local technology enthusiast group at a small theater in Portland.

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There's currently no consistent standard governing 3-D display on the small screen, but the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) wants to change that. The group intends to develop a universal standard to handle the broadcast and display of 3-D video, but Hollywood may not be happy to see its newfound cash cow walking out the barn door.

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A security analysis of a number of Java-based open source projects shows that many vulnerabilities persist across several releases of the software. Its author suggests this occurs in part because the projects haven't any structure in place to handle security issues.

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Enterprise, meet your newest and possibly biggest cost center: carbon management. Saving the planet is going to be hard work.

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Silicon Knights' Dennis Dyack is no stranger to controversy, having spoken out against the haters who've trashed his long-awaited title, Too Human. We sit down with Dennis to get a feel for the man behind the flamewars.

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The same research team that released a paper on the "cold boot" disk encryption exploit back in February has now shared the source code that powered the initial discovery. Using such tools, a hacker could read the encryption code for a system directly from its RAM, even after the computer was turned off.

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