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• Ubuntu 10.10 Beta Released

  RandyDownes sends word that Canonical has released the beta version of Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). The release announcement boasts faster boot times, GNOME 2.31, and a speedier version of Evolution. In addition, "The Ubuntu Software Center has an updated look and feel, including the new 'Featured' and 'What's New' views...

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  September 4, 2010, 7:40 am| Read full article

• Spammers Attack Apple's Ping Social Network

  An anonymous reader writes "Scammers and spammers have deluged the new Ping musical social network, created by Apple and built into the new version of iTunes. Sophos researchers have found that Ping is being overrun by scams and spam messages. 'Apple seems to have anticipated a certain degree of malfeasance,...

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  September 4, 2010, 6:38 am| Read full article

• Texas Opens Inquiry Into Google Search Rankings

  Hugh Pickens writes "The AP reports that Texas' attorney general, Greg Abbott, has opened an anti-trust investigation against Google spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as the Internet's dominant search engine. The review appears to be focused on whether Google is manipulating its search results to...

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  September 4, 2010, 5:27 am| Read full article

• Australia Adopts EU's Geographical Indicator System For Wine

  onreserve writes with an excerpt from a site dedicated to laws affecting wine: "[L]ast week, Australia signed an agreement with the European Union to comply with the geographical indicator (GI) system of the EU. The new agreement replaces an agreement signed in 1994 between the two wine powers and protects...

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  September 4, 2010, 3:14 am| Read full article

• Craigslist Removes Its Controversial Adult Section

  Cyrus writes "The online classified website Craigslist has removed its controversial Adult Services portion of its website. Technology blog TechCrunch was the first to report the section had been blacked out with the word 'Censored.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

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  September 3, 2010, 11:46 pm| Read full article

• Google Wave To Live On As 'Wave In a Box'

  snydeq writes "Google Wave will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, according to a blog post by Google Wave engineer Alex North. 'We will expand upon the 200K lines of code we've already open sourced (detailed at waveprotocol.org) to flesh out the existing example Wave server and Web...

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  September 3, 2010, 8:47 pm| Read full article

• NASA Preps Closest-Ever Sun Mission

  coondoggie writes "NASA today said it had picked five experiments that will ride aboard one of its most ambitious space missions to explore the Sun. The Solar Probe, a car-sized spacecraft, is scheduled to launch no later than 2018 and will fly closer to the Sun's surface than any other...

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  September 3, 2010, 5:52 pm| Read full article

• Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler?

  An anonymous reader writes "I have an 18-month-old who loves bright screens (TV and computer), loves loud noises, and loves to mash buttons. He targets my laptop with the button-mashing, and I sort of hate having to tell him 'no' when he wants to explore a computer. I was wondering...

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  September 3, 2010, 4:46 pm| Read full article

• Brazil Considering Legalizing File Sharing

  An anonymous reader writes "It looks like Brazil may be the country to watch if you're interested in much more consumer-friendly copyright laws (assuming US diplomatic pressure doesn't interfere). As that country goes through a copyright reform process, among the proposals is one that would create fines not just for...

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  September 3, 2010, 4:07 pm| Read full article

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