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Google mentor Rajeev Motwan found dead

Stanford professor Rajeev Motwan, mentor to Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has been found dead in the swimming pool of his California home. Friends said Motwani couldn’t swim, “and was...

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Monday, June 8th, 2009 Net News No Comments

Conference Board of Canada Ex-Employee Counters CEO Claims Over IP Reports

We’ve been following the Conference Board of Canada’s IP report fiasco for a while and new developments have surfaced recently. Already, the CEO was, not too long ago, doing damage control over the...

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Thursday, June 4th, 2009 Net News No Comments

Green Party on ‘copyright problems’

In an email, Andrej Chudy says he’s been, “looking around” to decide who to vote for in the EU parliamentary elections . When he asked the Slovak Green Party for its views...

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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Net News No Comments

Guantanamo, The Game

Oh! What fun! A Scottish firm is turning the George W. Bush prison on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a game! “Guantanamo will be closed,” said The Guardian in January, going on, “The secret CIA...

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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 Net News No Comments

Obama Cybersecurity Report Addresses Critical Infrastructure and Privacy Issues

A cybersecurity report published by the White House on Friday provides a list of wide-ranging guidelines advising President Barack Obama on how the government should proceed in its national plan to secure cyberspace....

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Friday, May 29th, 2009 Net News No Comments