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Who killed Three Strikes for filesharing?

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Andrew Orlowski

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25 July 2008

Rejoice! “Three strikes and you’re out” is dead in the UK. Music file sharers will no longer face the threat of seeing the household broadband connection severed. The plague that is currently endemic in France won’t be jumping the English Channel. Strangely, some people want to keep it alive. Stranger still – this includes the…

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Nokia: Our community is the best money can buy

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Andrew Orlowski

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23 July 2008

Who says there’s no honesty in tech marketing? We beg to differ, and present Nokia product manager Janne Jalkanen as proof to the contrary. Speaking at a marketing website called Nokia “Conversations” (“Stories from around the neighborhood” – it says), Jalkanen gives a very frank overview of the grassroots enthusiasm for Nokia’s S60 platform. “Pretty…

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Google and the Mother of All Antitrust Battles

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Andrew Orlowski

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15 July 2008

The US Senate today embarks on what could become years of antitrust investigations into Google by the IT, telecoms and media industries. The hearing today is just that – a piece of political showboating ordered by antitrust subcommittee chairman Herb Kohl. It’s not a formal investigation, let alone a lawsuit. Yet with the destiny of…

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Wired UK: Our readers design the cover

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Andrew Orlowski

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11 July 2008

WiReD magazine is coming back to the UK. I set Reg readers the task of Photoshopping some covers here. You can see the results in a gallery here. Wonderful stuff.… Read More

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Google – cult or corporation?

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Andrew Orlowski

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10 July 2008

Talks

Fixing the UK’s broadband crisis: Spiked’s Traffic jam debate

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Andrew Orlowski

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10 July 2008

If you throw a rock in the air in London on any day of the working week, chances are it will land on a New Media conference. These are primarily social gatherings for the same group of academics and media hangers-on, and you can bet they’ll be Twittering. (I’m often invited – usually it’s because…