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Charter drops plans to track users’ Web usage - Associated Press
Charter Communications is dropping plans to track the Web usage of some high-speed Internet subscribers, citing concerns raised by customers, the company said today. In May, Charter announced a pilot program in four markets aimed at producing enough information for advertisers to target online ads for individual customers based on their viewing habits. But the St. Louis-based company said in a statement that some customers have raised concerns, so the program will be canceled before it begins. “Our customers are always our first priority,” Charter said. “We will continue to take a thoughtful, deliberate approach with the goal to ultimately structure an advertising service that enhances the Internet experience for our customers and addresses questions and concerns they’ve raised.”
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iPhone 2.0 Golden Master Could Be Complete By This Friday - Gizmodo
According to a sources inside the Cupertino’s iPhone software development effort, it is “highly probable” that the iPhone 2.0 Golden Master will be done this Friday. The final version could arrive to developer hands two weeks before the introduction of the new iPhone 3G and well in time for the promised July 11 release to the public. Update: for some reason, this morning I saw the original “end of June” release date and copy and pasted that as the release date link, rather than the obvious July 11. My apologies. J. The iPhone 2.0 operating system Golden Master will follow the release of build 345, which has seen the activation of two code-signing and encryption features not previously available.
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Opera 9.5 gives Firefox 3 a run for its money - linux.com
Two of the most popular Linux browsers were unveiled this month after years of development — the open source Firefox 3 and the proprietary Opera 9.5. Opera’s launch a week before Firefox was like any other launch, unlike Firefox’s much publicized world record attempt. But Opera 9.5 is no less revolutionary than Firefox, matching its open source rival feature for feature, from security-related enhancements to improved multilingual text rendering. The first thing you notice when you launch Opera 9.5 is that it occupies less desktop real estate than Firefox 3, with less toolbar space and smaller borders, giving you more room to view pages. Opera’s nifty features are tucked away in its power panel. Unlike Firefox’s panel, which displays only bookmarks and history, Opera’s lets you access the built-in file transfer manager, the notes app, widgets (the Web browser equivalent of desktop applets), and other features. You can also see any bookmarked site as a panel as well, or download more Web panels for a variety of tasks, such as browsing news sites or playing games.
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Fremont blogger held in Singapore - Mercury News
In his blog, “Singapore Dissident,” Gopalan Nair describes himself this way: “Determined to find the Truth.” Those words may have come back to haunt the Fremont lawyer, now being held in his native Singapore for using his blog to criticize a judge. Nair, a longtime opposition activist before leaving Singapore for California in 1991, accused Judge Belinda Ang of “prostituting herself” during the defamation trial of another opposition activist. He said by telephone last week that he was merely expressing the free speech allowed under the city-state’s constitution.
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Tracking Tags Could Interfere With Medical Equipment, Researchers Say - Wired Campus
Mechanical ventilators could switch off, syringe pumps could stop, and pacemakers could malfunction in the presence of tracking tags called radio-frequency identification devices, according to a study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The wearable tags, often called RFID’s, are already in use in applications like electronic toll collectors, and colleges have been experimenting with using them all over campus. They could prove useful for tracking medical devices and pills in hospitals and medical schools as well, so Erik Jan van Lieshout, of the University of Amsterdam, and colleagues in the Netherlands and Austria decided to test their effect on critical-care medical equipment.
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FBI question ‘Chinese Democracy’ leak man - NME
Kevin Skwerl, the blogger who last week leaked nine tracks from forthcoming Guns N Roses album ‘Chinese Democracy’, was visited by two FBI agents yesterday (June 23) and questioned about the source of his files. Skwerl last week posted nine songs from the album on his blog Antiquiet, but immediately erased the tracks after Axl Rose’s attorneys got in touch and requested the removal.
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Web sabotage costs $15,000 - Sun Media
Leading Internet users searching for his former employer on the web to a gay porn site has cost a Canmore man $15,000 in damages. That’s the amount Justice Scott Brooker has ordered Ryan Draper to pay to the owners of Inform Cycle Ltd. for his corporate sabotage. Brooker, in a written ruling obtained yesterday by the Calgary Sun, said Draper’s conduct was malicious and warranted punitive damages over and above Inform’s losses.
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June 25th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I commend Charter for their very intelligent decision. It’s nice to know that some corporations are still listening to their customers.
Perhaps Comcast, Rogers, Bell Canada, British Telecom, and Virgin Media will find a clue…
Probably not
SRG