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    The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is the new keeper of the specification for a popular Web log tool.

  • Six steps to publishing your own material

    Are you an IT professional in need of a secondary revenue stream? Have you considered packaging and publishing what you know about the industry? Here are some helpful hints to get you started.

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    Copyright controversies have plagued the Internet since the early days of Napster, but what is the current state of play, and can the issues ever be resolved?

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    If you ran a software company and an independent security researcher contacted you with proof that your product contains security vulnerabilities, how would you react?

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  • Open-source Mambo project faces rift

    Backers of Mambo are deeply divided over how to govern the open-source project.

  • Six steps to publishing your own material

    Are you an IT professional in need of a secondary revenue stream? Have you considered packaging and publishing what you know about the industry? Here are some helpful hints to get you started.

  • Why open source is bad for Australia

    Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Additional reading: Why one Norwegian city switched to Linux

  • IP in IT: Property values

    In the battle to protect intellectual property, are those in ICT doing the best they can to guide the organisations they serve?

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

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  • Free music: Why not?

    One sure way to stop pirates is to make music free. Distributors could pick up the tab and get their investment back from marketers and advertisers.

  • Roxio taps Fanning for Napster take two

    Former file-swapping wunderkind Sean Fanning has signed up to help CD-burning technology company Roxio build a reborn Napster service--but with a difference.

  • Tech Guide: Speed up Windows XP

    If getting in and out of XP has you drumming your fingers, check out our tips to make starting and stopping your system a much faster process.

  • Pre-paid market drives AU mobile boom

    Australia's mobile telecommunications market grew by more than 12 per cent in 2002/03, driven by a continuing surge in pre-paid services.

  • Who do you work for again?

    Somehow it seems to me that the naming game is just getting a bit too ridiculous.

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