http://www.tgcg4.com More Signal. Less Noise. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:45:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The U.S. Senate passed the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008, sending it to President Bush’s desk for signature two days after the U.S. House of Representatives okayed the bill. The bill allows for SoundExchange, on behalf of copyright owners and performers, to negotiate with Internet radio services through 2015 an ... http://www.tgcg4.com/us-senate-passes-webcaster-settlement-act Trying out the new version of the Flock browser, and it's blogging function Blogged with the Flock Browser http://www.tgcg4.com/testing-blogging-with-flock Hasbro, the owner of Scrabble filed suit Thursday against the developers of Scrabulous, a word game played by millions of Facebook users each month. “We view the Scrabulous application as clear and blatant infringement of our Scrabble intellectual property,” said Barry Nagler, Hasbro’s general counsel. Hasbro also sent a letter ... http://www.tgcg4.com/hasbro-sues-facebook Six of the UK’s biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online. The deal, negotiated by the government, will see hundreds of thousands of letters sent to net users suspected of illegally sharing music. Hard core file-sharers could see their broadband connections slowed, ... http://www.tgcg4.com/blacklist-of-pirates The latest research from Web security company Finjan, released on Tuesday, outlines a pyramid of hackers, data sellers, managers and malicious programmers, all working in a fluid management structure in order to profit from cybercrime. Finjan researchers joined forums where credit card details and other data is sold, knowns as ... http://www.tgcg4.com/credit-card-details-for-15-bucks From the Wordpress Blog: I’m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every ... http://www.tgcg4.com/wordpress-26-released Apple on Thursday launched the App Store for the soon-to-be-released 3G iPhone, making a major push at becoming a key player in what’s expected to be the next generation in computing. The online store coupled with the media player-smart phone hybrid completes the company’s platform for a ubiquitous connection ... http://www.tgcg4.com/iphone-app-store Here is the first six minutes of The Dark Knight.  Not really any spoilers, but very very fucking cool !! http://www.tgcg4.com/dark-knight-preview A really bad news for Second Life: Google is launching a new service today called Lively, a browser based virtual world add-on that lets users create and customize avatars and worlds, interact with other users, and generally have a richer social interaction than is offered by GTalk today. Worlds can ... http://www.tgcg4.com/google-launches-lively According to the study commissioned by Dell, more than 12,000 laptop computers are lost in U.S. airports every week. That’s about 600,000 notebooks per year. What’s more, only 33 percent of the laptops found in airports are ever reclaimed. That’s not surprising if (as the survey found) 16 percent ... http://www.tgcg4.com/12000-laptops-lost-every-month