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Those who download “free” music from P2P networks are more likely to spend money on legit downloads than those who are squeaky clean, according to a new report out of Norway. The music labels, however, aren’t quite buying that data.

With Sun it tow, Oracle will now finally have its own operating system with Solaris, instead of just its Oracle Enterprise Linuxon Red Hat).Perhaps more importantly with one swift stroke Oracle has effectively cornered even more of the database market than it already owned.

AT&T is testing increased download speeds on its 3G network. The company is also increasing network capacity by adding new cell sites and nearly doubling the total network capacity in most markets via an additional spectrum at 850 MHz.

mask.of.sanity writes “Over a 1000 students were accepted into the fifth year of the program from 70 countries and will work on about 150 open source projects with mentor organisations. The program, created in 2005, has exposed some 2500 students to “real-world” software development and opened employment opportunities within mentor organisations and in fields relevant to their academic study. The United States scored the lion’s share with 212 accepted students; 101 from India; 55 from Germany; 44 from Canada, 43 from Brazil. The Dominican Republic, Iceland, Luxembourg and Nigeria were new entrants to the program each with a single accepted student. Check out the slideshow summary of some project highlights, with hyperlinks back the detailed project pages.”

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suraj.sun writes “Computer spies have broken into the Pentagon’s 0 billion Joint Strike Fighter project — the Defense Department’s costliest weapons program ever — according to current and former government officials familiar with the attacks. Similar incidents have also breached the Air Force’s air-traffic-control system in recent months, these people say. In the case of the fighter-jet program, the intruders were able to copy and siphon off several terabytes of data related to design and electronics systems, officials say, potentially making it easier to defend against the craft”

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Barence writes “BT and other mobile broadband providers are blocking access to The Pirate Bay, as part of a “self-regulation” scheme with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). BT Mobile Broadband users who attempt to access the notorious BitTorrent tracker site are met with a “content blocked” message. The warning page states the page has been blocked in “compliance with a new UK voluntary code”. “This uses a barring and filtering mechanism to restrict access to all WAP and internet sites that are considered to have ‘over 18’ status,” the warning states. It goes on to list a series of categories that are blocked, including adult/sexually explicit content, “criminal skills” and hacking. It’s not stated which category The Pirate Bay breaches, although the site does host links to porn movies.”

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