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Senate, Hollywood To Crush Next iPod

Apple will have to think really different if Gordon Smith's (R-Ore) reintroduction of the broadcast flag gains traction in Congress, as fair use stands to be replaced by "customary historic use."

Yahoo Staffer Predicts Google Fall

One diviner of the inscrutable GOOG has peered out from the Yahoo enclave in Sunnyvale and forecast a dire fourth quarter earnings report from Google.

Perl ‘Eval’ for Data Validation

I recently did a little web based Service Schedule. This is something that gets its data from another program: in other words, the details of what will be serviced and when are supplied by that program; this web based app validates things, assigns technicians and does some other things that the first program doesn't.

AOL, IBM Federate Sametime IM

Open federation comes to IBM Lotus Sametime instant messaging, as a new deal with AOL permits Sametime users to IM people on AIM, AOL, Apple's iChat, and ICQ.