Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Various News Stories
MySpace blocked at a Texas community college.
Judge: Worker can't be fired for web-surfing.
New Nokia NSeries phones will have Flickr support.
Microsoft piracy check comes calling
After connections slowed to a crawl, it was discovered that 40% of the school's Internet traffic was devoted to MySpace.
Judge: Worker can't be fired for web-surfing.
"A New York City employee cannot be fired for surfing the Web from the work, an administrative law judge has ruled"
New Nokia NSeries phones will have Flickr support.
"Nokia and Yahoo! have worked together to provide camera phone users with means to upload and add comments to photos directly from their Nokia Nseries to Flickr. Consumers will be able to connect to their online Flickr accounts without the need to download or install any additional applications."
Microsoft piracy check comes calling
MS is rolling out an application that will verify the legitimacy of their products - if you have a pirated copy, you'll get warnings to that effect. They've been requiring this for upgrades & additional downloads for a while; they aren't using the app to target/prosecute the users of counterfeit versions of the software.
