For now, ‘illegal’ Apple billboard dropped Boston Herald
A controversial Apple billboard has come down, leaving many questions and some large whales in its wake. This weekend, Planet Storage on Traveler Street removed its iPod Touch sign and revealed to drivers on Interstate 93 the ocean-inspired public art. The mural’s corporate cover-up had the city’s blessing. An aide to Mayor Thomas M. Menino and a Boston Redevelopment Authority official told the city’s Inspectional Services Department to allow the sign. But the state’s Outdoor Advertising Board deemed it illegal because it advertised a product the storage business didn’t sell.

Google may lose WSJ, other News Corp. sites CNEt News
Rupert Murdoch, the media tycoon who has long accused Google of ripping off content from his newspapers, said this weekend that his sites may soon disappear from the search engine’s listings. Murdoch is chairman of News Corp., the newspaper, TV, and Internet empire that includes The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, 20th Century Fox, Fox News, and Hulu. He made the comments in an interview late last week with Sky News Australia. (See video below.) After Murdoch accused Google, Microsoft, and others of “stealing” his company’s content, he was asked why he just doesn’t pull his Web sites from Google’s search results. “I think we will,” Murdoch responded. “But that’s when we start charging.” [Also see Time to pay for the net: Rupert Murdoch ]

Wal-mart Sets Off DVD Price War IMDb
Wal-Mart touched off a DVD price war on Friday when it announced a special pre-release price of $10 for many soon-to-be-released titles, including Terminator: Salvation, Angels & Demons, Julie & Julia, and Star Trek. Target quickly followed suit, adding such blockbusters as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, G Force, and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Amazon then joined the fray, and Best Buy was expected to do so as early as today (Monday)

Russia fires police YouTube whistleblower Reuters
A junior Russian policeman was fired on Sunday after making a YouTube appeal to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accusing senior officers of corruption, a claim dismissed by authorities as false, news agencies reported. The policeman from the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk last week posted a seven-minute clip that accused senior officers of forcing him to work weekends and solve imaginary crimes, as well as blocking him from claiming compensation for an injury.

Vanished Persian army said found in desert MSNBC
The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology’s biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers. Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C.

First USB 3.0 flash drive has 10X the speed of previous drives Computerworld
Super Talent Technology today announced what it claimed is the industry’s first USB 3.0 compliant flash drive, which can support data transfer rates of 5Gbit/sec — 10 times faster than current USB 2.0 products. Super Talent’s SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDrive comes in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities. Measuring 3.7 inches by 1.4 inches — and a half inch thick — the SuperSpeed drive plugs directly into any USB port and can deliver data transfer speeds up to 200MB/sec in USB 3.0 ports compared with 480Mbit/sec that USB 2.0 supports. The drive is fully backward compatible with USB 2.0 ports, but it will operate at USB 2.0’s slower I/O speeds.

Deadline in Google book deal extended to Friday Associated Press
A judge has given Google more time to revise a legal settlement that has drawn government scrutiny because it would give the Internet search leader the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. Under a change approved Monday, Google and groups representing U.S. authors and publishers now have until Friday to change an agreement reached more than a year ago. It marked the latest twist in a copyright lawsuit that the authors and publishers filed against Google’s digital book project four years ago. The revisions to the settlement were supposed to be filed by the end of Monday, but Google and its negotiating partners told U.S. District Judge Denny Chin they still needed to address objections raised in September by the U.S. Justice Department. Chin signed off on the extension without comment.

September 2010 for GNOME 3.0, official Heise Onine
The GNOME release team have confirmed that GNOME 3.0 will be released in September 2010, with a GNOME 2.30 release in March 2010. The announcement came from Vincet Untz and the GNOME release team and is a result of feeedback from the GNOME development community. Untz assures users that GNOME 2.30 will not be “less stable as usual” saying that the release should actually be more stable as it will integrate the changes that are ready for 2.30, leaving changes that are “still rough on the edges outside of GNOME… until after 2.30 is out”.

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