Canadian ISPs lose traffic-shaping case Regulators in Canada have ruled that Bell Canada can continue to manipulate online speeds as they deem necessary.

StoryMill update adds word frequency filtering An update to StoryMill gives authors more control over managing their novel.

Sync 'Em supports Exchange-iCal Sync Sync'Em, the "sync hub" for Mac OS X, now lets you exchange basic calendar data between iCal and Microsoft Exchange servers.

DLO finally releases hi-def iPod video dock 11 months after it was introduced, the DLO HomeDock HD is finally available for purchase.

Survey: U.S. IT spending forecast worst since 2001 US companies are set to slam the brakes even harder on IT spending, according to a new study.

Buckeye Cablesystem Launching 20Mbps Tier - But only to company 'VIP' customers... User uid://862905 writes in: "Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that Toledo-based Buckeye Cablesystem has just announced a new 20Mbps/1.5 Mbps Buckeye Express ("BEX") tier." The addition would come just seven months after the carrier announced their $80 (unbundled) 12Mbps tier . According to the Buckeye website , the new tier is arriving December 8 . The tier is only being offered to "VIP" (video, internet and phone) bundle customers for an additional $10 to whatever they're paying now (see VIP pdf ). Buckeye has also been hinting to the press that DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade announcements should be coming shortly.

Movie Studios Sue Australian ISP For Not Waving Magic Wand And Defeating Piracy A few years ago, after realizing that blaming consumers wasn't a particularly effective strategy in covering up for the entertainment industry's own inability to adapt to a changing market, industry insiders chose a new strategy: blame ISPs . That sent them down a path of trying to force ISPs to do a variety of things, such as installing filters, policing their networks for copyright-infringing material and, of course, kicking users off their networks. In the mind of entertainment industry execs, a failure to do any of these things should be a crime. Note how the industry totally shifts responsibility here. Rather than admitting that they should change with the market, it's always someone else who needs to change to protect the entertainment industry's obsolete business model. While the industry has been able to get some politicians and ISPs to agree (amazingly, often against their own best interests), it's now gone a step further. A bunch of the biggest movie studios (Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Disney Enterprises, and the Seven Network) have teamed up to sue Australia's largest ISP, iiNet , for failing to stop copyright infringement. iiNet, you may recall, is the same ISP that has been mocking the Australian government for requiring filters. So, naturally, it's response to this lawsuit is rather direct. While the studios complain that iiNet isn't doing anything, iiNet responds that this is not true at all. They pass each complaint on to the police, because if there's a crime, then the police should deal with it: They send us a list of IP addresses and say 'this IP address was involved in a breach on this date'. We look at that say 'well what do you want us to do with this? We can't release the person's details to you on the basis of an allegation and we can't go and kick the customer off on the basis of an allegation from someone else'. So we say 'you are alleging the person has broken the law; we're passing it to the police. Let them deal with it'. We are not traffic cops. We can't stand in the middle of it and stop the individual items that might be against the law. These guys are asking us to be judge, jury and executioner. Even better, iiNet's CEO Michael Malone gets to the heart of the matter: I think they genuinely believe that ISPs have a secret magic wand that we are hiding and if we bring it out we can make piracy disappear just by waving it. And it doesn't exist. Indeed, but that might mean that the entertainment industry has to actually take responsibility for their own business model failings, and they can't do that. So they have to blame others. Permalink | Comments | Email This Story

Mozilla says they're set for bad times (and an audit) Lean, not-mean, and sustainable is the way to take on the current economic climate and the Feds too, say Mozilla reps who posted the project's audited financial statements and tax forms for 2007 and gave a glimpse ahead...to today.

MySpace Suicide Case Exposes Legal Gap So far, the testimony in the Lori Drew cyber-bullying trial, which began Wednesday in Los Angeles, has generated headlines for its inherent drama and tragedy: the mother of a teenage daughter, accused of using the MySpace social network to stage an elaborate hoax that ends with the suicide of a troubled 13-year-old classmate, Megan Meier.

Phisher-besieged PayPal directs users to faux log-in page Error.com's missed opportunity PayPal, the online payment service that is a major target of phishers, has been caught sending customer emails that confuse its own login page with a third-party landing site that offers spyware protection and a bevy of other products....

Dear Steve Jobs: Set the music free Look around, Steve. iTunes is the last great refuge of DRM-laden downloads. Is this the image you want for Apple?

YouTube videos go HD with a simple hack Want to host high-definition videos on YouTube? No problem. Just get your copy-and-paste skills ready because all it requires is changing the video's URL!

Google drops Picasa's 'beta' (and pigs fly) Only two months after releasing Picasa 3 beta, Google does the uncharacteristic and commits to a full version release, sans safety net.

Google SearchWiki brings custom search results Company gets a taste for collaborative search: SearchWiki lets people promote Web sites they like, delete ones they don't, and share comments.

CNET News Daily Podcast: Behind Apple's holdout on DRM More than 18 months have passed since Apple signed its only deal to acquire music free of copy-protection software with a major recording company. But that logjam may be about to break.

Better Place plans $1 billion for electric cars in Bay Area Electric car charging startup Better Place is coming to California, as Bay Area leaders launch plans to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles.

Video: Daily Debrief: Devising your Black Friday strategy There's just a week to go before retail outlets reveal their seasonal tech price cuts. But this year's Black Friday is going to be a lot different from previous years, for buyers and sellers alike. On the CNET News Daily Debrief, Charles Cooper and Erica Ogg examine why.

Google Mobile for iPhone breaks App Store rules Google added voice searching technology to its iPhone application by using techniques that are supposed to be off limits to third-party developers, according to a pair of reports.

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Datawatch Looks to SMBs to Expand Business Datawatch is expanding its business intelligence software into the midmarket, with a focus on helping SMBs cut costs by improving data access and analysis efficiency with web-based services. - Datawatch Corporation, a Chelmsford, Mass-based Enterprise Information Management (EMI) company, announced today its Q4 and fiscal 2008 earnings and signaled a commitment to expanding its technology offerings to SMBs. Despite a dip in quarterly and fiscal year earnings, CEO Ken Bero said expansion i...

ChangeWave: Apple iPhone now #2 in U.S. corporate market share Nearly one-in-five respondents say the release of the 3G has made their company More Likely to purchase Apple products in the future...

Apple shares tumble to pre-iPhone levels amidst global credit crisis For nearly two years, since the introduction of the iPhone at the 2007 Macworld show...

Outcome-based model links revenue to service parameters In an interview, Jai Menon, group CIO and director of technology customer service Bharti Airtel, explains how he expects this to change his company as it aims to reach 125 million customers by 2010

PremiumSoft releases Navicat Oracle database administration tool PremiumSoft has announced the first public release of Navicat for Oracle Full Versions supporting Mac OS X and Windows. It's a tool for Oracle administration and development that allows you to create, edit databases, import/ export data, build report, create/run SQL queries and connect to multiple databases and remote Oracl.

Astronauts venture out for second spacewalk Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check all their tethers to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during ...

The Dangers of Airport Wi-Fi Travelers beware: Poorly secured airport Wi-Fi networks are catnip for snoops. AirTight Networks' David King is trying to harden them up

Video Game Without DRM Has Piracy Rates About The Same As DRM'd Games Reader SteveD sent in this story a week ago, but I just got around to looking at the details. Apparently the makers of the video game World of Goo , which ( as mentioned ) was released without DRM, have roughly calculated the rate of piracy on the game to be about 90% . The calculation is certainly a rough one, and people can quibble with the number, but the basic reasoning seems sound. A lot of folks focused on that 90% number, but didn't pay as much attention to the more important comparison: how this compared to a DRM'd game. The game makers noted that it had almost no difference compared to another game released with DRM, showing that adding the DRM did absolutely nothing to prevent piracy. So why do video game companies keep insisting they need DRM? Permalink | Comments | Email This Story

Will iPhone and G1 owners sit still for full-length TV shows? At the "Future of Television Show" in NYC Wednesday night, top brass from NBC and MTV said their companies now plan to stream full-length TV shows to iPhones and G1s. But other speakers argued in favor of shorter clips for phones.

First beta tests of AOL mail synchronization AOL has begun open beta testing of AOL Sync, a feature that allows Outlook contact and calendar updates to be synchronized wirelessly with a user's address book and calendar both in his AOL account and on his mobile device.

Samsung Factories Pump Out Jumbo Solid State Drives Samsung announced Thursday it has begun mass production of a 256 gigabyte solid state drive designed for use in notebook an desktop PCs. The drives round out Samsung's line of SSDs, which includes 8, 16, and 32 GB SSD models for low-density designs and 64 and 128 GB for higher densities, the company said.

eHarmony settles over same-sex dating All's fair in love and court Online dating service eHarmony.com has agreed to create a new website for matching same-sex couples, as part of discrimination settlement with New Jersey's Civil Rights Division....

Certification credited with boosting online confidence Alliance promoting extended certificate validation for Web sites touts the benefits of online shopping survey and new rules by IRS for all 2009 e-filing sites.

Iris mobile browser, just for kicks A beta specimen for all you Windows Mobile browser buffs to try out.

iSuppli cuts forecast for PC market growth Tanking economy is to blame, says industry analyst firm. Company had predicted shipments would rise 11.9 percent next year, but it now says it expects a rise of 4.3 percent.

Microsoft confirms Yahoo hire Software maker says Sean Suchter, who announced his departure from Yahoo on Wednesday, will join its Silicon Valley search center.

Brownbook global business directory lets you get in on the action Brownbook has launched as an online business directory, but it may not provide as much value as it could.

What Recession? Bentley Offers Its Most Opulent Car Ever If the auto industry is tanking, the venerable British carmaker either didn't get the memo or doesn't care. With a perfectly straight face, Bentley unveils its $350,000 Azure T at the L.A. Auto Show.

Experimental Shoe-Print Database Sees the Soles of Criminals Criminals better watch their steps, as a Univerisity of Buffalo computer science professor develops a search engine for shoe prints left at crime scenes. With funding from the Justice Department, professor Sargur Srihari hopes his computational forensics will make life easier for shoe-identification experts, and harder for criminals.

Massive Martian Glaciers May Be Drinkable Buried glaciers discovered on Mars are closer to the planet's equator than any previously known water ice on the planet. The glaciers could be a source of drinking water for future astronauts.

Survey: Amazon Beats Out Google as Best Cloud Provider A recent survey by Appistry and CloudCamp showed that respondents chose Amazon over Google, by a margin of nearly two-to-one, as the company expected to have the largest impact on cloud computing. In addition, security, reliability and scalability emerged as the top three challenges to greater adoption of cloud computing. - Amazon bested Google as the company cloud watchers expect to play the largest role in the future of cloud computing. Appistry and CloudCamp have announced findings from the first in a series of surveys the two organizations are conducting among CloudCamp participants. For the first Appistry/CloudC...