December 12, 2003
News.Com: Canada deems P2P downloading legal.
In a ruling released Friday, copyright regulators in Canada said downloading copyrighted music from peer-to-peer networks appears to be legal under Canadian law but that uploading is still prohibited. In the same decision, the Copyright
Board of Canada imposed a government fee of as much as $25 on iPod-like MP3 players...
NY Times: Conjuring a Superphone, With 3 Formulas to Choose.
In any case, the most visible battleground for OS dominance, after computers, is the cellphone. Microsoft, Palm and a European alliance called Symbian have each devised a software engine that's supposed to manage all the functions of the modern superphone...
News.Com: Google delivers parcel search.
The new "Search by Number" feature, announced Friday, also brings up information linked to other kinds of numbers, such as patent numbers, equipment identification numbers issued by the Federal Communications Commission, and airplane registration numbers from the Federal Aviation Administration.
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