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Zennstrom and Friis, through Swedish-based Joltid, claim the agreement that permitted eBay to use the peer-to-peer technology that powers Skype was terminated in March 2009. They have filed suits in Britain and the U.S. seeking damages of more than $75 million...
...same nature?" TIME's managing editor, Rick Stengel, asked the question again, and this time the response was thin defiance - "If I were Mr. Obama's adviser, I would definitely ask him to refrain from making this statement, because it is definitely a mistake" - followed by the standard claim that Iran was in full compliance with the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that it had signed - "We have no secrecy, and we work within the framework of the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency]." (Watch a video of TIME's interview with Ahmadinejad...
...last claim is palpably untrue. Iran has refused to provide all the information required under the treaty, which is why it is the subject of U.N. sanctions. The Qum facility may not be a smoking gun - it hasn't even been loaded yet - but it is a covert operation of some sort, perhaps a bomb-making facility, perhaps a research-and-development shop. It is the latest evidence in Iran's history of attempting to hoodwink the rest of the world about its nuclear program. A similar game was played with the uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, which was exposed...
...Russian officials were quick to claim that the report cleared them of culpability. "Who started the war? On that question the report gives an unequivocal answer," says Vladimir Chizhov, Russia's ambassador to the E.U. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...appears to have been the highest for a generation. Likewise, it is not an issue unique to the U.S. Many of the world’s largest and wealthiest democracies have seen a similar gradual decline in voter turnout. This needs to be addressed so that future governments can claim with conviction that they truly are acting on behalf of the people when enacting major reforms, whether that is reform related to health-care or carbon emissions...