JUDGE SAYS WIKILEAKS’ ASSANGE CAN BE EXTRADITED
LONDON (AP) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden over sex crimes claims, a judge said Thursday. Assange’s lawyer said he would appeal against the ruling to the High Court. Judge Howard Riddle ruled that the allegations of rape and sexual molestation by two women are extraditable offenses and a Swedish warrant … Read more
Free Trove of Music Scores on Web Hits Sensitive Copyright Note
NY Times By DANIEL J. WAKIN Published: February 21, 2011 Humanity’s musical treasures — Beethovenpiano sonatas, Schubert songs, Mozartsymphonies and the like — come to life in performance. But they truly survive as black marks on a page, otherwise known as scores. Now a Web site founded five years ago by a conservatory student, then … Read more
Facebook Poaches Google’s Top Executive in Latin America
NY Times By MIGUEL HELFT Published: February 21, 2011 The fight for talent betweenGoogle and Facebook — or more precisely, the flow of Google employees to Facebook — is not just a Silicon Valley affair. Facebook has hired Alexandre Hohagen, the top Google executive in Latin America, to be its vice president for sales in … Read more
Workers Sickened at Apple Supplier in China
NY Times By DAVID BARBOZA Published: February 22, 2011 SUZHOU, China — Last week, when Apple released its annual review of labor conditions at its global suppliers, one startling revelation stood out: 137 workers at a factory here had been seriously injured by a toxic chemical used in making the signature slick glass screens of … Read more
NEW EU ANTITRUST COMPLAINT AGAINST GOOGLE
BRUSSELS (AP) – A French creator of specialized search engines on Tuesday filed a new complaint with the European Union about alleged anticompetitive behavior by Google Inc., a reminder of the regulatory hurdles the online search giant faces in the region. The latest claim comes from 1plusV, which runs so-called vertical search engines that specialize … Read more
COURT BARS STREAMING OF TV PROGRAMMING ONLINE
WASHINGTON (AP) – In a key victory for television broadcasters, a federal court has ordered a Seattle start-up called ivi Inc. to stop distributing broadcast signals over the Internet without their consent. The U.S. District Court in New York issued a preliminary injunction against ivi on Tuesday barring the company from streaming copyright-protected broadcast programming … Read more
Tickets, Coupons Among Uses for Tap-To-Pay Phones
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Cell phones are usually used to communicate with people far away. This year, they’ll get the ability to do the opposite: communicate with things that are close enough to touch. It may not sound immediately useful, but phones will get some surprising capabilities with the addition of chips for so-called Near … Read more
Hands-on review: Iomega’s SuperHero backup dock for iPhone
By Ben Pattersonben PattersonFri Feb 18, 11:46 am ET Know anyone who goes for days, weeks, or even months without syncing their iPhone—not to mention all their contacts, photos, and other data—with iTunes? I know I do. Personally, I try to perform a full iPhone sync with iTunes at least two or three times a week, meaning I’d only … Read more
