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AP - In one high-tech thriller after another, the hero attaches a tiny tracking device on the villain and follows him as blinking dot on a computer screen.

InfoWorld - SpringSource, the keepers of the popular Spring Framework for Java application development, this week introduced Spring Integration, a framework to ease enterprise integration.

Reuters - A Canadian oil-field worker, stunned to
get a C$85,000 ($83,700) cell phone bill, has had the charges
reduced to C$3,400, but is still fighting them.

AP - The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software ? freely distributed programs that anyone can modify ? the Netherlands Economic Affairs Ministry said Thursday.

InfoWorld - Adobe Systems is announcing on Thursday plans to release source code for its high-performance remoting and messaging technology via an open source product called BlazeDS.

“There is a letter from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) to ICANN concerning the use of their sTLD .post that may well have important implications for the future evolution of the domain name system.”

“The 11 suffixes now under review will read “test” in Arabic, Persian, simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Greek, Korean, Yiddish, Japanese and Tamil.”

“In a crucial legal victory for record labels and other copyright owners, a federal jury yesterday found a Minnesota woman liable for copyright infringement for sharing music online and imposed a penalty of $222,000 in damages.”

“Four months later, she and her family are in Federal District Court in Dallas suing for damages.”

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