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August 28, 2008
4:59
BBC fixes BT Home Hub auto-vomit bug
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Olympic delay for iPlayer tweak
BBC engineers have solved a mysterious, long-running bug in the BT Home Hub that has meant iPlayer and live TV streams have frequently prompted the UK's most common router to reset itself.…
August 27, 2008
15:48
Feds cuff blogger for Guns N' Roses leak
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Chinese Democracy, American Extremism
The FBI has arrested a 27-year-old American blogger for leaking some unreleased Guns N' Roses tunes to the internet.…
August 26, 2008
20:55
UK etailer punts bovine coitus thumb drive
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'A niche market'
An army of online deal seekers has called for a boycott of Boffer.co.uk, after the "daily deal" site fooled them into coveting a non-existent bovine sex device.…
13:45
China pardons iTunes (but not Sting)
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Music store returns - minus 'Songs for Tibet'
The People's Republic has pardoned iTunes after access to the online music store was apparently blocked in reaction to selling a new Tibet-themed album during the Olympic games.…
9:40
Amazon goes on Shelfari
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Acquires facebooky wooky start-up?
Amazon.com is buying Shelfari – that is, according to the Seattle social networking start-up, but for now the online retail giant is keeping mum about the deal.…
8:11
Kindle fails to set light to unsold e-book pile
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Rumours of death of paper greatly exaggerated
The humble paper-based book isn't burnt just yet. Amazon is keeping schtum as to how many e-books it has sold, but evidence is mounting that predictions of iPod-grade sales and billion-dollar revenues were a smidge optimistic.…
August 25, 2008
20:37
Breakup with Sadville lion ends in kidnap plot, duct-taped dog
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Happiness is a warm laser sighted taser
In Sadville, they were close. But in our world, the relationship quickly took a turn for the worse. He dumped her. She walked into his office with a gun and tried to kidnap him. And when that failed, she broke into his apartment with handcuffs, some duct tape, a taser, a BB gun, and a dog named Gogi, shining some sort of "laser beam" onto his chest before he fled the scene and called the cops.…
19:10
Amazon sending Kindle to college
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What price bong waterproofing?
Amazon is planning a new student-friendly version of its Kindle e-book reader, according to McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Bueneman.…
August 22, 2008
10:08
Judge bans European-wide online music rights
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PRS versus Dutch Buma
The UK's Performing Right Society has won a court case over its Dutch equivalent, Buma, preventing the issuing of a Europe-wide licence for online rights.…
7:54
iTunes, and Sting, banned from China
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Athletes blamed for rocking out to Tibetan protest songs
The Chinese government has blocked access to Apple's iTunes store.…

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