This restriction makes Amazon the prime market for book publishers. How can they resist giving over their entire catalog to a store that attracts so many eager, captive shoppers? Publishers' acquiescence in turn increases the Kindle's appeal to new buyers. If you're in the market for an e-book reader, you'll probably choose the one that offers the most books, and that means Kindle.

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For three centuries, the publishing industry has been working very hard to obscure copyright's true origins, and to promote the myth that it was invented by writers and artists. Even today, they continue to campaign for ever stronger laws against sharing, for international treaties that compel all nations to conform to the copyright policies of the strictest, and most of all to make sure the public never asks exactly who this system is meant to help.

Nästa generations strider om immaterialrätten kommer att bli av en helt annan kaliber än de som rasar nu. Forskare hävdar att upphovsrätt och patent i framtiden riskerar att kriminalisera lärandet och att fördelarna är mycket mindre än skadorna de kan orsaka.

Indeed, Stair represents a new wave of AI, one that integrates learning, vision, navigation, manipulation, planning, reasoning, speech and natural-language processing. It also marks a transition of AI from narrow, carefully defined domains to real-world situations in which systems learn to deal with complex data and adapt to uncertainty.

The project's aim is to provide a self contained pure Java (platform independent) common infrastructure for developers of trading systems. Some of the aspects which should be addressed are to provide a common SQL92 compliant database schema for storing financial data, common Java interfaces for how to interchange data between different modules, visualisation of raw financial data and trading signals and several other common aspects needed to create a final trading system.

Although Nintendo's handheld is something of a cash-cow for the industry veteran, its success has resulted in one particularly unwelcome side-effect. The distribution of pirate DS games is rife, thanks to two vital factors: the proliferation of cheap 'pass-through' cartridges and the evolution of the internet.

Next month, New Zealand is scheduled to implement Section 92 of the Copyright Amendment Act. The controversial act provides ‘Guilt Upon Accusation’, which means that if a file-sharer is simply accused of copyright infringement, they are immediately guilty. The punishment - summary Internet disconnection.

Remote searches of suspect computers will form part of an EU plan to tackle hi-tech crime.

We have seen the future of botnets, and it is a distributed, low-key affair. Are sites running free software finally becoming malware targets?