p2pnet headline roundups: Sept 7
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MP3 users ‘risking hearing loss’ – BBC
More than two-thirds of young people who regularly use MP3 players face premature hearing damage because the volume is too high, a charity warns. The Royal National Institute for Deaf People said its findings were alarming, particularly with eight million MP3 players sold last year alone in the UK.
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EU questions Google customers over DoubleClick – Reuters
The European Commission has taken the unusual step of sending questionnaires to Google customers before the company officially seeks permission to take over a rival, two business sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday. Google is expected to file with the European Union’s top antitrust regulator for the $3.1 billion (1.53 billion pounds) purchase of U.S. Web advertising supplier DoubleClick by mid-September, the sources said. “We believe they have taken this step because the Commission believes this will be an unusually complex and contentious merger,” one of the sources said.
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Justice Department opposes ‘Net neutrality’ laws – Associated Press
The Justice Department on Thursday said Internet service providers should be allowed to charge a fee for priority Web traffic. The agency told the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing high-speed Internet practices, that it is opposed to “Net neutrality,” the principle that all Internet sites should be equally accessible to any Web user. Several phone and cable companies, such as AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp., have previously said they want the option to charge some users more money for loading certain content or Web sites faster than others.
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Government backs Trust on iPlayer – BBC
The UK government has responded to an electronic petition that called on it to ensure the BBC’s iPlayer works on non-Windows PCs. More than 16,000 people have signed the petition since it was created. In its response, the government said the BBC Trust had made it a condition of launching the iPlayer that it worked with other operating systems.
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Intel sued over ‘dual-core’ branding – CNET News.com
Intel is being sued in a trademark case over the use of the term “dual core” in its product labeling. The lawsuit was filed last week by California-based ultramobile PC firm DualCor Technologies. The suit accuses Intel of misappropriating the DualCor trademark, with the result being that DualCor has been “deprived of the value of its trademark as a commercial asset.”
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