Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

News for nerds, stuff that matters

Slashdot Tags

finally
Belgium May Prosecute the Church of Scientology
Jack Thompson Facing Disbarment Trial
SCO Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
SCO Loses
Adobe Opens the FLV and SWF Formats
New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu
Has Ron Paul Quit?
Resolution To Impeach VP Cheney Submitted
New York Times Ends Its Paid Subscription Service
USPTO Rejects Amazon's One-Click Patent
AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development
Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting?
Massachusetts Makes Health Insurance Mandatory
NASA Will Go Metric On the Moon
U.S. Attorney General Resigns
Are Cheap Laptops a Roadblock for Moore's Law?
PHP 4 End of Life Announcement
Supreme Court Weakens Patents
UI Designers Hired by Mozilla
AppleWorks/ClarisWorks Dies Quietly
Class Action Initiated Against RIAA
Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally
Paul Suspends Presidential Campaign, Forms New Org
SCO Bankruptcy "Imminent, Inevitable"
US To Extinguish (Most) Incandescent Bulb Sales By 2012
Firefox 3 May Be More Memory Efficient Than Either IE or Opera
RIAA Accused of Extortion & Conspiracy
Steve Jobs Announces iPhone SDK
35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
AMD Launches New ATI Linux Driver
Blu-ray BD+ Cracked
Canadian Songwriters Propose Collective Licensing
CompUSA Closing More Than 50 Percent of Stores
Etoile Project Releases Mac-Like Environment
Farewell To the Floppy Disk
First Release Candidate of Wine 1.0 Released
Free IMAP On Gmail
Google Begins Blurring Faces In Street View
HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices
ICANN Investigates Insider Domain Name Snatching
Java SE 6 For Mac OS X
Legislation To Overhaul US Patent System
Netscape Finally Put Down
Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers
Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming
RIAA Directed To Pay $68K In Attorneys Fees
RIAA Will Finally Face the Music In Court
Sperm Made From Female Bone Marrow, Men Obsolete?
The Death of Nearly All Software Patents?
TiVoToGo for Mac Announced
Two Major Debian Releases In One Day
Verizon Offers 20/20 Symmetrical FiOS Service
Wireshark 1.0 Released
Nasdaq to Delist SCO Sep 27
Barack Obama Wins Democratic Nomination
Blackberry Network is Down
Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry
Comcast May Face Lawsuits Over BitTorrent Filtering
Courts Force Danish ISP to Block Torrent Tracker
Domain Key Identified Mail vs Phishing
EMI Considers Abandoning DRM on CDs
EMI May Sell Entire Collection as DRM-less MP3s
EU Think Tank Urges Full Windows Unbundling
FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act
FCC Considers Taking Action Against Comcast
Fake Codec is Mac OS X Trojan
First Spammer Convicted Under CAN-SPAM Law
Four Root DNS Servers Go IPv6 On February 4th
Google Docs to support Powerpoint
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement
High-Quality YouTube Videos Coming Soon
Karl Rove Resigning Aug 31
Major Breakthrough in Direct Neural Interface
McCain Backs Nuclear Power
Microsoft Finally Bows to EU Antitrust Measures
Microsoft to Force IE7 Update on February 12th
NASA Plans Probe to the Sun
NYT Security Tip - Choose Non-Microsoft Products
Open Source 'Sage' Takes Aim at High End Math Software
Princeton ESP Lab to Close
Professors To Ban Students From Citing Wikipedia
RMS Steps Down As Emacs Maintainer
Standards For Interconnecting Virtual Worlds
Toshiba Making Funeral Plans for HD DVD
Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD?
Xbox Arm of Microsoft Posts Profit
x86 Linux Flash Player 9 is Final
"Bilski" Case May End Business Method Patents
"Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption
$298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware
$90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative's Best
802.11n Draft 2.0 Approved by Working Group
ACLU Drops Challenge Over Patriot Act
AMD Releases 3D Programming Documentation
AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs
AMD To Open ATI Specs
AT&T Arbitration Clause Ruled Unconscionable
ATI Releases AIGLX Linux Driver
Acer Bets Big On Linux
Airlines Have to Ask Permission to Fly 72 Hours Early
Apple Releases New Touch Screen iPod
Are Marketers Abandoning Second Life?
Bank That Suppressed WikiLeaks Gives It Up
Behind the USPTO's Working With Peer-To-Patent
BitMicro Takes Wraps Off 832 GB Flash Drive
Britain Advises Against Vista, Office 2007 for Schools
California to Start Review of Voting Machines
Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn
Chroot in OpenSSH
Clearance For New Linux Wireless Driver
Court Order Against German T-Mobile iPhone Sales
Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike
Dell Asking ATI For Better Linux Drivers
Democrats Propose Commission To Investigate Spying
EMI May Cut Funding To RIAA, IFPI
Expanding Fair Use To Reform Copyright Law
FCC Chief Says Comcast Violated Internet Rules
FCC To Hold Hearings On Early Termination Fees
FSF Reaches Out to RIAA Victims
Florida Judge Smacks Down RIAA
GIMP 2.4 Released
Gamma Ray Anomaly Could Test String Theory
Geist's Fair Copyright for Canada Principles
Google Launches Powerpoint Competition, Web Ads for Mobile Devices
HD DVD Player Sales Grind To a Halt
HP Exits Media Center Business
HP Skin Patch May Replace Needles
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder
Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous
IBM Asks Court To Declare Linux Non-Infringing
IBM Breaks Patent Record, Wants Reform
ICANN Moves To Disable Domain Tasting
IE8 Will Be Standards-Compliant By Default
Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science"
Italian Parliament To Mistakenly Legalize MP3 P2P
Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law
Linux Gets Completely Fair Scheduler
MD Bill Would Criminalize Theft of Wireless Access
MPAA Committed To Fair Use and DRM
Major PC Vendors Push For Open Source Drivers
Massive Canadian Class-Action Cellphone Suit Is Approved
Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo
Microsoft Brand In Sharp Decline
Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Takeover Offer
Motorola Develops Bare-Bones Phone
Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox
NVIDIA To Buy AGEIA
Nanotechnology-Powered Wiper-Less Windshield
New Blender Released
New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML
Obituary For the Sony Trinitron
OpenDocument Foundation Closes
Optimus Keyboard Starts Shipping
PCI SIG Releases PCIe 2.0
Palm Withdraws Linux-Powered Foleo PC
Pidgin 2.0 Released
Purdue Unveils a Tricorder
Puretracks Music Store Drops DRM
Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents
RIAA Must Divulge Expenses-Per-Download
RIAA Receives Stern Letter, Folds
Researchers Demo Flippable-Page E-book Reader
Senate Hearing On Laptop Seizures At US Border
Some Journals Rejecting Office 2007 Format
States Set to Sue the U.S. Over Greenhouse Gases
Steve Jobs Announces (some) DRM-free iTunes
Submitting Federal Proposals Requires Windows
Subversion 1.5.0 Released
Supreme Court Clears Patent Invalidity Suits
Supreme Court Holds Right to Bear Arms Applies to Individuals
T-Ray Camera Sees Through Clothes, Preserves Privacy
TV Airwaves To Deliver Internet?
Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It
Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 Released
Texas Bill For Open Documents
The Rise of "Hybrid" Vinyl-MP3s
Third Undersea Cable Cut
Tunguska Blast Was a Small Asteroid
UK Report Slams EULAs
US Pennies To Be Worth Five Cents?
US Supreme Court Limits Patent Claims
USPTO Examiner Rejected 1-Click Claims As "Obvious"
USPTO Sued Over "Unqualified Appointment"
Ubuntu Dell Now In UK, France, and Germany
VBA Going Away, Macs Now, PCs Soon
VIA Announces Open Source Driver Initiative
Verizon Wireless To Open Network
Viral Marketing Breeding Cynicism
Vista SP1 Released to Manufacturing
WWDC '08 Sees Slimmer, Improved, 3G iPhone
Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out
Weak US Dollar Means Nintendo Favors Europe For Now
Web Contracts Can't Be Changed Without Notice
With OES 2.0, Novell Moves NetWare To Linux
Writers Strike Officially Over
iPhone's Game Potential As a Threat to Java Phone Games
Peer Review Starts for Software Patents
$25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix
$499 PlayStation 3 Confirmed
AMD Promises Open Source Graphics Drivers