Cody Taylor

Barence was one of several readers to send in word that the UK Home Office checked whether its interpretation of the law suited Phorm, before issuing advice on the legality of the controversial advertising service. The Home Office and Phorm entered a dialogue about the company’s services back in August 2007, at Phorm’s request. In an email sent to Phorm in January 2008, a Home Office official writes: ‘I should be grateful if you would review the attached document, and let me know what you think.’ After Phorm made deletions and amendments to the document, the Home Office sent another email to the company stating: ‘If we agree this, and this becomes our position do you think your clients and their prospective partners will be comforted.’ From the BBC: “Baroness Sue Miller, Liberal Democrat spokeswoman on Home Affairs, told BBC News: ‘My jaw dropped when I saw the Freedom of Information exchanges. … Anything the Home Office now says about Phorm is completely tainted.'”

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The latest version of Ubuntu includes some nifty embellishments to the GNU Screen program. These improvements make some of Screen’s more sophisticated features accessible to users and simplify

The new service will offer download speeds of 101 megabits per second and upload speeds of 15 Mbps for a cost of .95 per month. It will be available May 11 to all 5 million of the people in areas served by Cablevision, mainly in the New York City suburbs. In Japan, J:Com uses the same technology to offer 160 Mbps service for 6,000 yen ()/mo.

Thanks to a new 40nm manufacturing process and GDDR5, ATI manages to bring a lot of performance to the sub-0 price point.

Launching as a private beta on Tue, Vine is designed to keep family and friends in touch when other communication methods are either broken or not particularly efficient. Times of crisis usually involve a breakdown in mobile phone or other key communication infrastructures, and Vine is designed to be as hardy as possible to keep people connected.

A man convicted of swindling more than 9,000 using fraudulent eBay listings and other venues was ordered to serve 52 months in federal prison and pay 2,000 in restitution.

ericatcw writes “Some OpenOffice.org insiders say Oracle’s purchase of Sun is reinvigorating the long-stymied push to spin off the open-source project into a 100% independent foundation. Freeing itself from Sun’s (and soon to be Oracle’s) orbit will attract more developers and more vendor support, two perennial problems due to Sun’s tight grip on the project, say supporters, who wonder which foundation model might work best: Mozilla, Apache or Linux. Others prefer to take their chances under Larry Ellison, saying Oracle’s take-no-prisoners salesforce and grudge against Microsoft could benefit OpenOffice.org. Version 3.0 of the Microsoft Office competitor has garnered 50 million downloads in the last six months.”

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