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...kids, ready to go for the record? The latest version of the free browser Firefox launched at 1 p.m. E.T. today, and organizers are hoping enough people will download it so that Guinness World Records will cite it for "most software downloaded in 24 hours." You can get Firefox 3 from the official "Download Day" site here. However, for the past few hours, Firefox's servers have been down, as a result of a crash caused by the enormous demand for the browser update. The Mozilla folks say service will be restored shortly...
...Apple's marketing boss Phil Schiller told me, will be free to consumers, others won't. Apple will take 30 cents out of every dollar developers make selling their wares at Apple's App Store. Likewise, the more people who buy iPhones, the more folks who will pay to download music and video-despite its power-hungry, high-speed performance, the 3G phone will allegedly give seven hours of video playback and 24 hours of good old-fashioned audio...
Users of iPhone 1.0 will be able to download new software via the iPhone App Store, which will launch with the new phone. But those pioneers won't get the faster speeds or true global positioning due to hardware reasons. The older phone triangulates a user's position via cell-phone towers. The new one has a GPS receiver that can track a user in real time. Jobs showed off the GPS capabilities with a recording that showed a 3G user driving down San Francisco's winding Lombard Street. As a tiny dot appeared on a Google map and slowly...
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Harvard students who download music illegally are already supposed to be accountable to the University, which states in its Computer Rules and Responsibility agreement that the University can terminate the network access of anyone found violating intellectual property. But if something like the anti-piracy bills being considered by state legislatures in Tennessee and Illinois come to Massachusetts, Harvard itself could be accountable to the state for its students’ behavior. The legislation in question would force public and private universities to actively police their networks for illegal sharing of music and movies, and would take action against colleges...