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THE number of mortgages granted to first-time buyers more than halved in January as the end of the temporary stamp duty concession brought the property market revival to an ab (source: Scotsman) – RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
Music and film industry groups express a sigh of relief after the ruling in the Pirate Bay case and voice hope for new legal download services. (source: CNET) – RSS feeds and Stock Market News on .
A Swedish judge has found four men involved in a file-sharing Web site guilty of collaborating to violate copyright law and sentenced each one to a year in prison and 30 million kronor ($3.6 million) in damages. (source: CNN) – Tech Newss and RSS feeds on .
The fear of exposing future product plans to competitors now seems to outweigh the drive to give customers the information they need to develop thought-out plans for IT deployments. (source: Information Week) – RSS feeds and Stock Market News on .
Don’t Shoot the Prognosticator"After the Crash" [Perspectives] places part of the blame for the current financial crisis on the software models created by the physics and math specialists whom Wall Street refers to as quants to police investment … (source: Scientific American) – and Stock Market News on .
President Obama said Thursday that the United States remains committed to fighting drug trafficking fueled in part by the American appetite for narcotics. But he said he would urge enforcement of existing laws banning the transfer of guns across the border… (source: NPR) – RSS widgets and RSS feeds on .
Lawmakers have come to a decision in Sweden’s landmark copyright case, finding the four men behind one of the world’s most popular file-sharing sites, The Pirate Bay guilty of collaborating to violate copyright law and jailing them for a year. (source: CNN) – Tech Newss and RSS feeds on .
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama meets his counterparts in Latin America and the Caribbean on Friday, offering practical cooperation over the ideological differences that have strained U.S. ties with the region. (source: Reuters) – RSS feeds and Stock Market News on .
Pirate Bay also ordered to pay $3.6-million in damages to entertainment companies (source: The Globe and Mail) – RSS and Tech News on .
Swedish court sentences four co-founders of notorious download site The Pirate Bay to a year in jail and a $3.6m fineThe four co-founders of website The Pirate Bay have been found guilty of assisting the distribution of illegal content online by a Swedish … (source: Guardian) – and Stock Market News on .
Stockholm – Four men were convicted Friday by a Swedish district court of operating a website which allows illegal file sharing, and sentenced to year-long jail terms. The Stockholm district court also ruled that the four should pay damages of some 3… (source: Earth Times) – Tech Newss and RSS feeds on .
