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Heritage Minister James Moore has stirred a hornet’s nest by saying that opponents of his proposed copyright reform bill are “radical extremists.”

Today, the court granted our motion for summary judgment in Viacom’s lawsuit with YouTube. This means that the court has decided that YouTube is protected by the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) against claims of copyright infringement. The decision follows established judicial consensus that online services like YouTube are protected when they work cooperatively with copyright holders to help them manage their rights online.

This is an important victory not just for us, but also for the billions of people around the world who use the web to communicate and share experiences with each other. We’re excited about this decision and look forward to renewing our focus on supporting the incredible variety of ideas and expression that billions of people post and watch on YouTube every day around the world.

UPDATE 2:12PM: This decision also applies to other parties to the lawsuit, including the Premier League.

Posted by Kent Walker, Vice President and General Counsel

The Edmonton Oilers have announced that Tom Renney will take over as head coach, with Pat Quinn to be moved into the position of senior hockey adviser.

Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite blogging platform, we tallied up the nominees for a Hive Five, and now we’re back to highlight the winner and runners-up.
Leading the pack by a landslide was WordPress with 55% of the vote. Following behind was Blogger (17%), Tumblr (13%), Posterous (8%), and SquareSpace (4%). Check out the full Hive Five for more information about each entry or check out the results in graph form below. More »









WordPress – Tools – Publishers – Hive Five – Templates

It’s been long known that Adobe has been working on Flash for the Android platform. In spite of all the drama surrounding their move into the mobile space, Adobe has stood firm in their commitment to providing users with the content they’re accustomed to on their PCs, even when they’re…

Google has added a new feature to their Google Docs platform; OCR for PDF and images files. OCR or optical character recognition will read the the text embedded into a PDF or image so that you can edit the document in a normal text editor.

OCR is not completely accurate though….

In a discovery likely to fan the flames of climate change debate, a team has concluded that the thinning ice on one of Antarctica’s major glaciers is not caused by global warming.

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Jolicloud promises touch support in version 1.0, gives a demo now originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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An Ontario company has won the bidding for the Saskatchewan government’s television network, the province says.

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Today, Toshiba’s Digital Products Division announced an exciting limited edition dual touchscreen netbook/umpc called the Libretto W100.

Specs:

• Intel Pentium U5400 processor (1.2GHz)
• 2GB DDR3 memory
• 62GB Solid State Drive
• Dual 7″ multi-touch displays (1024 x 600)
• 6-mode virtual keyboard with haptic response
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• 1.0 megapixel HD Webcam with Toshiba Face Recognition
• 802.11 b/g/n wireless
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
• MicroSD card slot
• One USB 2.0 port
• 8-cell battery
• 7.95″ x 4.84″ x 1.2″
• 1.8 lbs

Toshiba says this mobile device is just a concept, and will only be available in limited supply in August, both from select retailers and on Toshibadirect.com. Though the company did not state pricing in the device’s announcement today, it is reportedly going to cost $1,099.

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It’s true that iOS4 and Android are the mobile operating systems of the day. But MeeGo, a mash-up of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo OSes, could be a strong contender. Based on this demo, at least. More »









Operating system – Intel – Nokia – Android – Maemo

Saskatchewan RCMP pulled a man’s body from a river just east of the town of Pelly on Sunday afternoon.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders have announced that the CFL club made a record profit of $3.1 million in 2009.

The largest lottery prize pool in Canadian history will be up for grabs in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw.

If you’ve been bragging about your all-encompassing 7.2 surround-sound system to of your friends, prepare for a mighty dose of humble pie. Audi has hand-crafted what it calls the Sound Concept, an in-car sound system so excessive it should be able to cause your soft, fleshy bits to pulsate in new and exciting ways. There are five tweeters scattered across the dash and the doors, five woofers (four in the doors and a monster in the back), and then a whopping 52 mid-range speakers encircling the entire enclosure, creating a package that’s not likely to show up in the options catalog anytime soon. All these have been wedged into the interior of a Q7 SUV in the interests of Wave Field Synthesis, minimizing a user’s ability to hear specific speakers — and blowing Audyssey’s paltry 11-speaker DSX system right out of the water.

Audi’s Sound Concept cabin defines auditory excess: 62 speaker surround-sound originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Anyone can take a hammer and rib-spreader to a new piece of hardware. But it takes someone like Anand Shimpi, the man behind Anandtech who has personally suffered through four out-of-warranty Xbox 360 failures, to bring sage analysis to a teardown of the new Xbox 360. His reluctant sixth Xbox 360 is the new slimster (codename Valhalla) which, for the first time, combines the CPU, GPU, and eDRAM onto a single chip — previous Xbox 360 motherboards featured two discrete packages that split the CPU from the ATI designed Xenos GPU and eDRAM. The design allows for a single heatsink to be cooled by a single, larger fan making the new Xbox “noticeably quieter,” measured at 45dB when idle or 51dB with the 1.5Gbps SATA Hitachi HTS545025B9SA00 with 8MB buffer spinning at 5400RPM — that’s down from 50dB and 54dB, respectively, as measured on late 2008 through 2010 Jasper-class 360s. Regarding power consumption, Anand measured a 50% reduction from the original 2005 Xbox 360 (25% less than Jasper-class rigs at idle, or 20% to 17% less under load) and pulled just 0.6W when “totally off” compared to the 2W of vampire power pulled by older 360s. Anand speculates that Microsoft might finally be using cheaper 40nm components. However, we shouldn’t expect to see a price cut anytime soon as it will take Microsoft awhile to ramp up the material and manufacturing cost savings. Regardless, with Kinect and several new game titles on the horizon, Anand concludes that there’s still plenty of life left in the old Xbox 360 platform for those looking to make the jump.

New Xbox 360 gets a proper teardown analysis: power and noise reductions confirmed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 05:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ever since HP CEO Mark Hurd said he wasn’t interested in smartphones, it’s like the company’s been making up for lost time — first by denying the exec’s predilections, and more recently by actually asking us to speculate wildly. Now Palm’s Developer Relations team has reportedly stepped in to confirm that speculation, telling devs that future devices and a new version of webOS are on the way. While there’s no knowing if those devices are smartphones or when we might see them, we’re told to expect a “very exciting” next year.

Palm confirms new devices, webOS upgrade originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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BP CEO Tony Hayward has told a congressional committee he is “deeply sorry” for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Overshadowed by the introduction of extension sync in today’s Google Chrome developer channel update was another important feature which has been in the works for some time. The same Google and Adobe collaboration which led to the introduction of Chrome’s internal Flash plug-in has finally resulted in an internal plug-in for displaying PDF files as well.