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Communications, Internet, Finance

Iliad Punished for Good Results

French Internet provider's shares drop despite a 30 percent rise in revenue.
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Computers, Communications, Internet

Global Briefs: France's Free Tackles Mobile, Iphone's "Misleading" Ads, China's Gymnasts Under Scrutiny

Lower Mobile Costs in France, Apple's Ads Slapped in UK, Chasing China Gymnasts' Ages
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Media, Communications, Internet

Cheaper Broadband?

U.S. residents pay far higher rates for cable and broadband services than in many other countries. That could change this week if the FCC ends a monopoly.
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Computers

Vista is Bad for You, FSF Says

The Free Software Foundation launches BadVista.org to trash Microsoft’s largest product launch.
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Finance

Bank Offers Free Online Trades

Bank of America launches a free online stock trading service; it’s not alone.
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General news

Linus Torvalds on the GPL Fight

Exclusive Q&A: Linux kernel creator speaks out about the current controversy over an update to the key open-source license.
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Computers, Internet

AOL’s Spyware Gaffe

AOL 9.0, called ‘badware’ by a consumer protection initiative, comes after its privacy breach.
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Computers, General news, Finance

Open-Source Guru: Time for ‘Compromises’

Open-source advocate Eric Raymond on winning over the iPod generation, and why now is the time for Linux advocates to gun for Microsoft on the desktop.
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Internet

Spoke Frees Up Its Database

Online business contact provider gives free access to its database of 30 million contacts.
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Biosciences

Botox’ New Rival

  Cosmetics maker Medicis acquires a product designed to erase wrinkles.
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General news, Internet

Acting as China's Web Cops

Is going along with repressive regimes, as Google, Yahoo, and other tech icons are doing, ultimately bad for business?
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General news, Internet

DOJ: Google Shouldn’t Worry

The U.S. Justice Department says concerns about privacy are unfounded, but experts question the government's intent.
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Media, Communications

TiVos for Free? Sort of.

Digital video recording service hopes to woo customers with deals on its set-top boxes.
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Computers

IBM Releases Free Database

Big Blue aims to give licensed database users less reason to shift to open source.
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Computers

Sun Makes Some Software Free

To court developers and customers, Sun will make more software available for free.
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Archives, Magazine

Free us from our wired bondage!

Free us from our wired bondage!
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Archives, Magazine

Free the Spectrum!

Free the Spectrum!
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Archives

Communications Watch: Radio-free America

Tech Soundings: The battle over radio spectrum in the States takes two steps forward and four steps back.
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Archives, Magazine

Wireless advertising's home of the free

Singapore Telecommunications is experimenting with a way to make wireless advertising work: give away minutes.
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Archives

Does information want to be free?

Investors are feeling information underloaded as small firms grapple with disclosure rules.
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