Stories about: Library of Congress

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    Belarus said to restrict access to foreign websites 03/01/2012 17:04:27

    Belarus has introduced a law that imposes restrictions on citizens and residents in the country visiting or using foreign websites, according to Global Legal Monitor, an online publication of the Law Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
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    Online scrapbook site collects World War II memories 12/11/2011 10:45:16

    An online family scrapbook company in San Francisco, 1000memories, is collecting oral histories from World War II veterans in Yountville, California, to share with the Library of Congress.
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    Facebook moves 30-petabyte Hadoop cluster to new data center 30/07/2011 05:42:00

    As the world's largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year.
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    Protect online privacy without reading the fine print 01/04/2011 01:23:00

    Your personal data is out there. Every thought you tap out on Twitter, every status update you post on Facebook, and even the last credit card purchase you made is accessible via the Internet.
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    US Senate begins debate on patent reform 02/03/2011 04:25:16

    The U.S. Senate is debating an overhaul of the nation's patent system this week, but several technology groups have opposed the bill, saying it would hurt innovation and overload the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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    Senators explore new website seizure options 17/02/2011 07:48:00

    U.S senators will introduce legislation this year targeting websites that traffic in digital piracy or counterfeited goods, said the primary sponsor of a controversial bill proposed in 2010 that would give government agencies more authority to shut down those sites.
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    RIP, AltaVista and Google Wave; we hardly knew ye 18/12/2010 09:52:00

    Today a lot of people are mourning the possible loss of Delicious (or, as it used to be known, del.icio.us), following news that Yahoo is planning to sell or otherwise dispose of the popular Web bookmarking service five years after acquiring it.
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    US senators propose changes to website takedown bill 30/09/2010 07:13:00

    Leaders of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee have circulated proposed changes to a controversial bill that would force domain name registrars to shut down websites that allegedly infringe copyright, but the tweaks don't go far enough for some critics.
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    CDT protests bill requiring registrars to enforce copyright 29/09/2010 04:20:00

    New legislation that seeks to curb copyright infringement by requiring domain-name registrars to shut down websites suspected of hosting infringing materials raises serious free-speech concerns, a civil liberties group said Tuesday.
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    Will Legal iPhone Jailbreaking Spur X-Rated Apps? 28/07/2010 02:30:00

    Apple's well-documented control over the iPhone and apps took a major blow this week when the U.S. Library of Congress ruled that people who "jailbreak" phones to add non-Apple approved apps should be exempt from prosecution.
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    'Jailbreaking' iPhones now legal 27/07/2010 10:36:00

    US copyright law was modified on Monday to make it legal to hack smartphones such as iPhones to switch telecom service providers or install applications without Apple's approval.
 
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